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

Learning Outcomes

Searching as Strategic Exploration

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.

Key Resources

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) This link opens in a new window
Citations to journal articles, books, reviews, and chapters in the fields of anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology.
ARTstor This link opens in a new window
Use this database to find images by keyword to support your research topic.
Indigenous Studies Portal This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles, ebooks, theses, and government publications, with a primary focus on Indigenous peoples of Canada and a secondary focus on North American materials and beyond.

Related Guides

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

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