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Aboriginal Topics

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Key Books to Start your Research

Toronto aboriginal research project
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2011
Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
Call Number: E77 .K566 2012
ISBN: 9780385664219
Publication Date: 2012
Children of the broken treaty : Canada's lost promise and one girl's dream by Charlie Angus.
Call Number: E96.65.O56 A54 2015 (6th floor)
ISBN: 9780889774018
Publication Date: 2015
Unsettling the settler within : Indian residential schools, truth telling, and reconciliation in Canada by Paulette Regan
Call Number: E96.5 .R44 2010
ISBN: 9780774817776
Publication Date: 2010
Defamiliarizing the Aboriginal by Julia V. Emberley; Julia Emberley
Call Number: NX652.I53 E42 2007
ISBN: 9780802091512
Publication Date: 2007
Decolonizing education : nourishing the learning spirit by Marie Battiste
Call Number: E96.2 .B355 2013
ISBN: 9781895830774
Publication Date: 2013
Indigenous Research Methodologies by Bagele Chilisa
Call Number: GN380 .C494 2012 (6th Floor)
ISBN: 9781412958820
Publication Date: 2012

New Video in the Collection

Hidden legacies : a film by Lisa Jackson
Call Number: E96.5 .H537 2014
Publication Date: 2014

Profiles young people whose parents and grandparents attended government-initiated, church-run, Indian Residential Schools. In their own words, these inter-generational survivors -- a rapper, a mother, a boxer, a social work student, and others -- share their stories of struggle, resistance and resilience. They show how land, spiritual practice, and family have been sources of strength and transformation.

We have more videos on First Nation Topics

Key Journals for Aboriginal research

Canadian Journal of Native Studies

First Peoples Child & Family Review

Northern Public Affairs

Wicazo sa review: a journal of Native American studies

Aboriginal policy studies

Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database (CBCA)
This database, with 600 full text titles, is the most comprehensive Canadian reference collection available today. Accessible to readers and researchers at every level, CBCA Complete features a highly-respected, diversified mix of publications, including scholarly journals, trade publications, dissertations, books, newspapers and magazines.
CPI.Q Canadian Periodicals Index
CPI.Q is Gale’s award-winning full-text resource specifically designed to provide instant access to the most requested Canadian reference materials. Covering a wide range of disciplines, CPI.Q is the perfect one-stop resource for researchers in need of information from Canadian-focused journals, magazines, newspapers and reference sources.

CPI.Q features a wealth of Canadian and international periodicals, Canada’s national
newspaper The Globe and Mail, Maclean’s weekly magazine and Canadian News Facts
as well as comprehensive encyclopedic reference material.
Frontier Life : Borderlands, Settlement & Colonial Encounters
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This digital collection of primary source documents helps us to understand existence on the edges of the anglophone world from 1650-1920. Discover the various European and colonial frontier regions of North America, Africa and Australasia through documents that reveal the lives of settlers and indigenous peoples in these areas.
Informit Indigenous Collection
A unique platform for Indigenous worldviews and research from Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, North America and The Pacific. Interdisciplinary research : anthropology, community development, cultural studies, economics, education, health, history, human geography, law and land rights, literature, politics and policymaking, (post)colonial studies, psychology, race studies, sociology and visual and performing arts.
North American Indian Thought and Culture
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This is an American focused Database with some Canadian content.
ProQuest Research Library
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This is a multi-Purpose Database that contains Peer Reviewed Articles. It has articles, reports and newspaper articles from a large range of subject areas such as Business, Nursing, History, Politics, Social Work etc.,
America : History & Life
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This is a history database that contains Peer Reviewed Articles for both Canada and the USA.
Sociological Abstracts
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This database contains Peer Reviewed articles that cover socio-cultural topics related to Aboriginal studies such as women, justice, community, children, etc.
Social Services Abstracts
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Provides current Peer Reviewed research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development
Canadian Newsstream
Access to newspapers from across Canada.

Government and Community Reports and Statistics

Government of Canada Reports

Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada - Publication Catalogue

Health Canada First Nations & Métis - Reports and Publications

Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (including Final Report)

National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation - University of Manitoba, includes reports, photos and witness statements

Residential Schools: A Sad Chapter in Canadian History - From CBC.ca Curio, includes reports, witness statements and photos.

Statistics

Statistics Canada - Aboriginal Peoples

Data and statistical reports from the Government of Canada, including the:

Aboriginal People at a Glance

Community and Organization Reports

Aboriginal Community Organizations

Aboriginal Healing Foundation - Publications

Assembly of First Nations

Centre for First Nation Governance - Reports and Publications

First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada - Reports and Publications

National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health

Political Think-Tanks

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Aboriginal Issues - Publications and Studies

Fraser Institute - Aboriginal Policy

Current Reports (2015)

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (2015). Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.

The Jordan’s Principle Working Group (2015) Without denial, delay, or disruption: Ensuring First Nations children’s access to equitable services through Jordan’s Principle. Ottawa, ON: Assembly of First Nations.

Allan, B. & Smylie, J. (2015). First People, Second Class Treatment: The role of racism in the health and well-being of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Toronto, ON: the Wellesley Institute.

Works by Ryerson Researchers

Current publications 2015

Journey to healing: Aboriginal people with addictions and mental health issues.
By Peter Menzies., & Lynn F Lavallée. (2014)
Toronto: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Grannies, Elders, and Friends: Aging Aboriginal Women in Toronto
Cyndy Baskin , Caitlin J. Davey

Journal of Gerontological Social Work Vol. 58, Iss. 1, 2015

Ryerson Authors and their Works

Cyndy Baskin (Social Work)

Hayden King (Politics and Public Administration)

Lynn F Lavallée (Social Work )

Pamela Palmater (Politics and Public Administration)

Academic and personal support for students

Ryerson Aboriginal Student Services

Student Learning Support

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