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  1. Aboriginal Ontario
    Historical Perspectives on the First Nations
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Essays on the history of Ontario's native people.
  2. Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
  3. Big Bear
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Cree leader who was involved in the North-West Resistance and subsequently imprisonedt. (1825-1888).
  4. Big Bear
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Cree leader who was involved in the North-West Resistance and subsequently imprisonedt. (1825-1888).
  5. Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
    An Indian History of the American West
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    A well documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian.
  6. The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    Broad surveys of fiction, drama, and poetry, Aboriginal writings, Francophone writings, autobiography, literary criticism, writing by women, urban writing, nature writing, travel writing, and short fiction.
  7. Canada Rediscovered
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  8. Children of Aataentsic
    A History of the Huron People to 1660
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
  9. Christopher Who? -- Discovering the Americas
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
    Columbus seen as a conqueror.
  10. Columbus: His Enterprise
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    The traditional view of Christopher Columbus was as a single-minded, courageous visionary whose navigational skills led him to "discover" the Americas. Hans Koning gives us a different history of Columbus# life and voyages.
  11. Commonwealth of Thieves
    The Improbable Birth of Australia
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    A history of the first four years of the convict settlement in Australia, examining the interplay of soldiers, convicts, and Aborigines.
  12. Connexions Archive seeks a new home
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
  13. Continuing Poundmaker and Riel's Quest
    Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    This book focuses on the criminal justice system and outlines self-government as the means for Aboriginal Peoples to achieve justice.
  14. The Cypress Hills
    The Land and its People
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    This book relates the history of the plateau, once a gathering place for Aboriginal Peoples, and how it has been changed through settlement.
  15. Dakota War of 1862
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An armed conflict between the United States and several bands of the eastern Sioux or Dakota.
  16. Deganawida (The Great Peacemaker)
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The founder of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy.
  17. Discovery in the North Atlantic
    From the 6th to 17th Century
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  18. Early Days on the Great Lakes
    The Art of William Armstrong
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  19. The Eternal Frontier
    An Ecological History of North America and its People
    Resource Type: Book
  20. Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance
    Vol. 8: 1492-1992
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    A collection of poems and essays giving various perspectives on resistance to imperialism and capitalism.
  21. Great Law of Peace
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The oral constitution that created the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederacy.
  22. Harvest of Devastation
    The Industrialization of Agriculture and its Human and Environmental Consequences
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Explains how western farming practices being imposed in other countries harm peasant communities, indigenous cultures, and the ecology.
  23. A History of Canadian Wealth
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  24. The History of Costa Rica
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
  25. The History of the Saugeen Indians
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
  26. The Hudson's Bay Company and The Fur Trude: 1670-1870
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  27. I Have Lived Here Since the World Began
    An Illustrated History of Canada's Native People
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    Ray shows that Native culture played an important -- and largely unrecognized -- part in Canada's economic development. Rather than being "civilized" by European explorers, the indigenous people were already accomplished traders, artisans, farmers and hunters.
  28. In 1492, What Did Columbus Really Do?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
    A summary of various resistance movements then being organized to protest celebrating the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' first landing in the Carribbean.
  29. In Search of Ancient North America
    An Archaelogical Journey to Forgotten Cultures
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  30. Indian Giver
    A Legacy of North American Native Peoples
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
  31. The Iroquois in the War of 1812
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
  32. Journey to the Ice Age
    Discovering an Ancient World
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
  33. A Long and Terrible Shadow
    White Values, Native Rights in the Americas 1492-1992
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Against the odds, Native peoples have waged a tenacious struggle to survive and the re-emerge as distinct cultures.
  34. Lore
    Capturing Traditional Environmental Knowledge
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  35. Manifest Destiny? A Native Perspective on 1992
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
    1992 will be a year of mourning for North American Indians; a mourning for the fragmentation and loss of our traditional way of life.
  36. George Manuel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
    Obituary in the Connexions Digest
  37. Marshall, Donald, Jr
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Accused of murder, Marshall, a 16-year old Micmac, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. After he had served 11 years in a penitentiary, a re-examination of the case found him innocent. (1953-2009).
  38. Metacomet (Metacomb)
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A war chief of the Wampanoag Indians and their leader in King Philip's War. (Died 1676).
  39. A National Crime
    The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879-1986
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
  40. Native Rights in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    A report on the legal rights of the natives of Canada.
  41. 1992 The Theology of Self-Discovery Offers Hope
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
    The Self-Discovery campaign does not confine itself to the struggles of Indigenous People but addresses the concerns of all social and racial groups who have experienced social/cultural destruction under the yoke of colonialism.
  42. 1992: A White Christian Perspective
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
    I would hope that we can enter into a very sober 1992 event, so that native Christians might be able to retrieve those symbols that will give them new strength. I would hope that God is acting now as a kind of psychoanalyst, fresh dialogue might continue between the Church and native groups not within its "fold".
  43. North-West Rebellion
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A brief and unsuccessful uprising by the Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel against the Dominion of Canada, which they believed had failed to address their concerns for the survival of their people.
  44. Occupied Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    An autobiography of Robert Calihoo, a native Canadian activist who struggled to regain the reserve that his father had sold out to the Canadian government.
  45. The Ojibwa of Southern Ontario
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  46. The Only Good Indian
    Essays by Canadian Indians
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  47. Opchanacanough
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A tribal chief of the Powhatan Confederacy. (Died 1646).
  48. Osceola
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    War chief of the Seminole in Florida who led a small band of warriors in the Seminole resistance when the United States tried to remove the Seminoles from their lands. (1804-1838).
  49. People of Terra Nullius
    Betrayal and Rebirth in Aboriginal Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  50. Pictures Bring Us Messages
    Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa. Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    An example of museum professionals working with member of an aboriginal community to explore photographs taken of members of that community many decades earlier.
  51. The Polar Passion
    The Quest for the North Pole (Volume 2 of the Top of the World triology)
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
  52. Pontiac
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An Ottawa chief who led Pontiac's Rebellion. (1763#1766).
  53. Pontiac's Rebellion
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A war launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes primarily from the Great Lakes region, the Illinois Country, and Ohio Country who were dissatisfied with British policies in the Great Lakes region after the British victory in the French and Indian War.
  54. Pueblo Revolt
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An uprising of many pueblos of the Pueblo people against Spanish colonization of the Americas in the New Spain province of New Mexico in 1680.
  55. Reservations Are For Indians
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Describes the vicious circle of dependence created by government policies which ensnare aboriginal Canadians, combining an account of life in four reserve communities with a history of government policies and programmes.
  56. Royal BC Museum
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  57. Shanawdithit's People
    The Archaeology of the Beothuks
    Resource Type: Book
  58. Stolen Continents
    The "New World" Through Indian Eyes
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    The history of the Americas through Native eyes.
  59. Tecumseh
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Shawnee chief who attempted to form an alliance of tribes to combat American territorial ambitions and tried to rally the tribes in a common defence against the Americans. (1768-1813).
  60. Tecumseh
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Shawnee chief who attempted to form an alliance of tribes to combat American territorial ambitions and tried to rally the tribes in a common defence against the Americans. (1768-1813).
  61. This Land Is Not For Sale
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    Examination of Native land claims and development in Canada's north.
  62. Túpac Amaru II
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The leader of an indigenous uprising in 1780 against the Spanish occupation of Peru. (1742-1781).
  63. An Unauthorized Biography of the World
    Oral History on the Front Lines
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New York City, Cleveland, Israel, and other places. Riordon's concept is about telling stories, celebrating diversity, and making connections between people.
  64. Underhanded History of the USA
    Radical America - Volumer 7 No.3
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  65. The Unjust Society
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Attacks Canada's governments for their treatment of Native People and calls for just solutions.
  66. The Wars of the Iroquois
    A Study in Intertribal Trade Relations
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
  67. Who owns knowledge?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    The resurgence of a Romantic view of culture poses a real menace to the free flow of knowledge and threatens to corral it into intellectual Bantustans. The ideas of free speech and open debate become meaningless if we fail to defend a universalist concept of knowledge or if we accept the notion of science as but a local view whose factual claims must defer to cultural and political needs. If scientific debate is constrained to express only sentiments with which people feel comfortable, culturally and politically, then science dies as the line between knowledge and myth becomes eroded.
  68. The World Without Us
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
  69. Year 501
    The Conquest Continues
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.
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