Atlases & Maps

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Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq First Nations [Map]

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nova Scotia Aboriginal Affairs
Description
Shows communities and whether they are affiliated with the Confederacy of Mainland Mi'kmaq or the Union of Nova Scotia Indians and provides statistics on Band populations from 2006.
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On the Nature of Sea Ice Around Igloolik

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Aipilik Inuksuk
Canadian Geographer, vol. 55, no. 1, Geographies of Inuit Sea Ice Use, Spring, 2011, p. 36–41
Description
Interview by Paul Irngaut with Aipilik Inuksuk on his knowledge of sea ice.
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Pan Inuit Trails

Alternate Title
The Northwest Passage and the Construction of Inuit Pan-Arctic Identities
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Claudio Aporta
Michael Bravo
Fraser Taylor
Description
Atlas focuses on Eastern and Central Canadian Arctic and provides synoptic view of "Inuit mobility and occupancy of Arctic waters, coasts and lands, including its icescapes, as documented in written historical records (maps of trails and place names)".
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"Plan of Cumberland Indian Reserve"

Images » Photographs
Description
Plan of Cumberland Reserve, showing Chiefs Island and part of Cumberland Island.

Historical note:

The Cumberland House Cree signed an adhesion to Treaty 5 in September 1876, and a reserve was surveyed for them in 1883. This initial survey included an island (named Chief's Island) on which the chief, a councilor, and a number of the band's members resided.
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Pocahontas

Alternate Title
[North American Indian Thought and Culture]
[Civilization of the American Indian series ; v. 93]
E-Books
Author/Creator
Grace Steele Woodward
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Premières Nations au Canada = First Nations in Canada [Map, 2012]

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Geomatics Services
[Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC)]
Description
Shows locations and whether community is under the Indian Act, Land Management Act or is self-governing. Insets for certain areas of British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Ontario.
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Premières Nations au Canada = First Nations in Canada [Map, 2013]

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Geomatics Services
[Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC)]
Description
Shows locations and whether community is under the Indian Act, Land Management Act or is self-governing. Insets for certain areas of British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Ontario.
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Rations, Coexistence, and the Colonisation of Aboriginal Labour in the South Australian Pastoral Industry, 1860-1911

Alternate Title
Rations, Coexistence, and the Colonization of Aboriginal Labour in the South Australian Pastoral Industry, 1860-1911
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert Foster
Aboriginal History, vol. 24, 2000, pp. [1]-26
Description
Looks at the systematic distribution of rations and the protection of Aboriginal customary rights on pastoral lands.
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[Recensions/Book Reviews]

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Frédéric Laugrand
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 33, no. 1-2, Education and Transmission of Inuit Knowledge in Canada, 2009, pp. 272-273
Description
Review of the map, Carte Inuktitun Inuit Nunanginni Kanatami=The Inuit Language in Inuit Communities in Canada=La Lange Inuit dans les Communauté Inuit au Canada by Natascha Sontag. Review in French.
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Residential Schools Land Memory Atlas

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
D. R. F. Taylor
Stephanie Pyne
Description
Project involves mapping the schools themselves, as well as survivors' gatherings and reunions, exhibitions, survivor stories, and news stories, and creating digital records for images, videos, and other related content.
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Review Essay: American Indian Reference Works of 1986: Some of the Best

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
G. Edward Evans
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 10, no. 1, 1986, pp. 43-52
Description
Book reviews of: Reference Encyclopedia of the American Indian edited by Barry T. Klein. Atlas of Ancient America by Michael Coe, Dean Snow and Elizabeth Benson. American Indian and Alaska Native Newspapers and Periodicals, 1925-1970 edited by Daniel F. Littlefield Jr. and James W. Parins. American Indian and Alaska Native Newspapers and Periodical, 1971-1985 edited by Daniel F. Littlefield Jr. and James W.
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A Review of the Northern Ecosystem Initiative in Arctic Canada: Facilitating Arctic Ecosystem Research Through Traditional and Novel Approaches

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mark L. Mallory
Carey Ogilvie
H. Grant Gilchrist
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, vol. 113, no. 1-3, 2006, pp. 19-29
Description
An evaluation of the Northern Ecosystem Initiative that supports partnership-based approaches important to the conservation, protection, and restoration of northern ecosystems and sustainability of northern communities.
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Riel Rebellion Period Newspapers

Articles » General
Description
A series of 1885 newspapers with articles covering the Saskatchewan Uprising. Includes The Penny Illustrated Paper and Illustrated Times of May 16, 1885, the Montreal Daily Herald and the Daily Commercial Gazette of July 8, 1885. Papers cover the battles of Batoche and Cut Knife Hill.
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Saving David Thompson

Articles » General
Author/Creator
D'Arcy Jenish
Canada's History, vol. 90, no. 2, 2010, pp. 41-44
Description
Brief profile of David Thompson's work as a trader, explorer, map-maker and writer and discussion of the latest, affordable editions of his writings.
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The Seri Indians Today

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David Burckhalter
Journal of the Southwest, vol. 42, no. 3, Autumn, 2000, pp. 384-402
Description
Discusses the social life and customs of the Seri Indians of Sonora, Mexico.
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Shifting Perspectives on Shifting Ice: Documenting and Representing Inuit Use of the Sea Ice

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Claudio Aporta
Canadian Geographer, vol. 55, no. 1, Geographies of Inuit Sea Ice Use, Spring, 2011, p. 6–19
Description
Overview of an initiative to document and map Inuit sea ice use in Nunavut and Nunavik communities, with a discussion of how Inuit knowledge of sea ice is important to the climatic changes and the cultural and social changes in the Arctic regions.
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Sixteenth-Century Tusayan

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Henry F. Dobyns
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 2, Spring, 1991, pp. 187-200
Description
Author examines multiple archival sources to develop a more accurate understanding of Hopi communities in the mid 1500s. See also: Albert H. Schroeder's critique: "Comments on Henry Dobyns' 'Sixteenth-Century Tusayan'." Henry F. Dobyns's response: " Superhuman Hearing, Superhorses, and Miraculous Maize."
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