Canadian Literature & Poetry
in English
Indigenous Literatures
Digital Collections
Indigenous Peoples of North America
Primary sources reflecting the impact of invasion and
colonization on Indigenous Peoples in North America, and the intersection of Indigenous and
European histories and systems of knowledge in manuscripts, books, newspapers, photographs,
motion pictures, images of artwork, and more.
Includes Native stories, legends, and mysteries recorded by
white settlers and scholars and published in books and journals.
Bibliography of Native North Americans
A bibliographic database containing citations for books, essays,
journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada, covering all
aspects of Indigenous cultures, history, and life.
Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement & Colonial Encounters
A digital collection containing documents associated with the
existence and the consequences on the various frontiers that arose from the movements of
Europeans to North America (as well as Africa and Australasia).
Primary sources represented in the collection are memoirs,
speeches, books, pamphlets, and others from the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives Library
and other repositories.
Early Canadiana Online
A digital collection of rare books published in fourteen
different Indigenous languages: Algonquian languages (including Siksika), Chipewyan, Choctaw,
Cree, Dakota, Delaware, Gwich’in, Inuktitut, Iroquoian languages, Mi’kmaq, Mohawk,
Ojibway, and Tsimshian.
It also includes colonial, provincial and federal
government publications, Jesuit relations texts, and an English Canadian literature collection
with over 800 works of drama, poetry and fiction, biography and exploration written before
1900.
It also contains early dailies, weeklies, specialized journals
and mass-market magazines published up to 1930.
Omushkego Oral History Project
A library of recordings of legends, mystery stories, and oral
history of the Omushkegowak or “Swampy Cree” people of the Hudson and James Bay
Lowlands of northern Manitoba and Ontario.
Digital Archive Database
Métis historical documents, genealogical information, Hudson’s
Bay Company records, Church missionary records, and personal Métis accounts.
The digital collection is a result of collaboration between
scholars Brenda Macdougall and Nicole St-Onge (University of Ottawa), Michael Evans
(University of British Columbia Okanagan), Chris Andersen (University of Alberta), and Ramon
Lawrence (University of British Columbia).
The Virtual Museum of Métis History and Culture
Chronicles traditional Métis history and culture on the
Internet and contains a wealth of primary documents—oral history interviews, photographs
and various archival documents—in visual, audio and video files.
The digital collection was created by the Gabriel Dumont
Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research.
American Indian Newspapers
A primary source collection of print journalism from Indigenous
Peoples of the United States and Canada dating from 1828 to 2016.
Items include national periodicals, local community news,
student publications, and bilingual and Indigenous-language editions in Hawaiian, Cherokee and
Navajo languages and others.
Topics covered
include the self-determination era and American Indian Movement, education, local news
coverage, environmentalism, land rights and cultural representation from an Indigenous
perspective. Also included are a photo feature gallery and a series of essays and video
interviews.
Indigenous Digital Collections
An annotated list of online libraries housing digitized
materials related to Indigenous Peoples of North America, organized geographically.
It contains links to collections not listed in this guide.
reviewed & updated 3 June 2021 | compiled by Agatha Barc, MI