Research Guides: GGRD49: Land and Land Conflicts in the America: Home

Learning Outcomes

You will explore different resource tools and identify what resource tool(s) will help you find the type of information you need. and then search and explore that tool.

You will explore a resource tool using keyword search strategies, and refine your search based on search results and your information need.

Scholarship as a Conversation

You will identify the contribution a particular source (you find in a research tool) makes to disciplinary knowledge and course content.

Information Creation as a Process

You will complete a module on podcasting or digital storytelling to help you get started on creating a digital essay audio or visual.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)

Citations to journal articles, books, reviews, and chapters in the fields of anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology.

Indigenous Studies Portal
Provides access to digital Indigenous studies resources including sources focused on Indigenous authors, drama, humour, oral traditions, poetry, personal narratives and interviews, and traditional stories
JSTOR
Multidisciplinary full text database that allows you to search for articles from scholars across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. It also gives you access to a major collection of ebooks, primary sources, and images.

Indigenous Governance Websites
From GGRC28: Indigenous Peoples, the Environment and Justice
Example Topic Resource Management in BC
From GGRC26: Geographies of Environmental Governance
Mi'kmaw Fisheries Resources
From GGRB21 Political Ecology: Nature, Society and Environmental Change