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JIH366: Indigenous Histories of the Great Lakes, 1815 to the Present

Annotated Primary Source Collections

(Print and electronic) Cobb, Daniel M. Say We Are Nations : Documents of Politics and Protest in Indigenous America since 1887. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
(Print and electronic) Smith, Keith D. (Keith Douglas), ed. Strange Visitors : Documents in Indigenous-Settler Relations in Canada from 1876. North York, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 2014.
(Print and electronic) Johnston, Charles M. The Valley of the Six Nations: A Collection of Documents on the Indian Lands of the Grand River. Ontario: Champlain Society for the Government of Ontario by University of Toronto, 1964.
(Print and electronic) Kelm, Mary-Ellen, and Keith D. (Keith Douglas) Smith. Talking Back to the Indian Act : Critical Reading in Settler Colonial Histories. Toronto ; University of Toronto Press, 2018.
(Print and electronic) Martinez, Donna, and Donna Martinez. Documents of American Indian Removal. 1st ed. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2023.
(Print and electronic) Morin, Jean-Pierre. Solemn Words and Foundational Documents : An Annotated Discussion of Indigenous-Crown Treaties in Canada, 1752-1923. Toronto ; University of Toronto Press, 2018.

Government Policies and Reports

Newsletters

Online Archives/Digitized Archival Content

Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development fonds at Library and Archives Canada (esp. the transcribed/digitized year-end reports)
Complete digitized collection of Indians News, 1954-1982 (a newsletter produced by the Department of Indian Affairs)
The History of Rights Online Archive has a section dedicated to Indigenous submissions to the Special Joint Committee on the Constitution (1980-1981)
Note: Submissions by First Nations and Indigenous organizations are listed under ‘Submissions’ including the Native Women’s Association of Canada, the National Indian Brotherhood, Anishnabek Nations, and the Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians.

Historical Documentary Films

Microfiche Collections at Robarts Library

Vermeer, B. Archive of the Fourth Russell Tribunal on the Rights of the Indians of the Americas = Archivo Del Cuarto Tribunal Russell Sobre Los Derechos de Los Pueblos Indígenas de Las Américas. Zug, Switzerland: IDC, 1985.
Note: The Fourth Russell Tribunal was part of the 1970s-1980s rise of international Indigenous organizing. JIH366 students may find the submissions from Ontario First Nations and the Haudenosaunee of New York especially of interest.

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