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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window A scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database providing indexing and abstracts for thousands of journals and other publications.
Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America This link opens in a new window Indexes books, articles and government documents covering all aspects of native North American culture, history and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, governance, legend, and literacy.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Follow the Google Scholar directions to configure Google Scholar to get the full text of articles to which College of the Rockies' Library subscribes.
Indigenous Studies Portal This link opens in a new window iPortal is a full-text database of free & licensed articles, books etc for scholar, student & community focused primarily on Aboriginals & First Nations of Canada. Effective, June 2024: The I-Portal search now includes the option to filter by Indigenous creator. This filter makes it easier for I-Portal users to include Indigenous voices and perspectives in their work.
Native Health Database This link opens in a new window The Native Health Database contains bibliographic information and abstracts of health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of Canadian First Nations.

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There are many e-journals available on a wide variety of topics in this area. Below are a select few.

Canadian Journal of Native Studies
Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society solicits any work purposefully engaged in the decolonization process, regardless of discipline or field, encouraging work that actively seeks undisciplinary connections that work both against and beyond the Western academy. We recognize that this is a wide net to cast but feel strongly that decolonization must happen at all levels, in all fields, and all locations; decolonization seeks to explore the relationships between knowledges and tears down the artificial disciplinary demarcations of dominant ways of knowing and being. Colonial power affects all areas of life and thought - this journal seeks to engage and confront that power at every level.
First Nations Perspectives Journal Provides the province’s leading education, administration, technology, language and culture services to First Nations schools in Manitoba.
First Peoples Child & Family Review Twenty years after publishing its first issue, it is with deep gratitude to all the authors, editors, contributors and readers that we announce that the First Peoples Child & Family Review is no longer publishing. In the very first issue of the FPCFR published in 2004, Dr. Cindy Blackstock wrote in the foreword: "There can be no more important knowledge than that which guides the care of our children. Precious always, perhaps even more precious now because together, as Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples, we have before us the responsibility to create a relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children based on respectful coexistence as distinct and valued peoples." This precious knowledge graciously shared with the FPCFR formed the journal’s mission: to centre Indigenous knowledges, perspectives and voices that promoted innovation in matters affecting First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children, families, and communities. This work may have been unexpected in other academic journals, but it ultimately created space in the academic world for the knowledge, perspectives, and voices of Indigenous peoples. While the FPCFR is no longer publishing, issues will remain available to view and download. History and Mission Founded in 2003, the First Peoples Child & Family Review is an open-access, interdisciplinary, and peer-reviewed journal honouring the voices and perspectives of First peoples and non-Indigenous allies and supporters. Our mission is to promote research, critical analysis, stories, standpoints, and educational resources which advance innovation within child, family, and community based-matters for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit, as well as Indigenous peoples abroad.
Indigenous Studies and Cultural Diversity Our journal intends to publish research papers on the global and regional issues of Indigenous people and on topics related to the nature of cultural diversity and Indigenous communities. We will publish articles exploring a variety of wide-ranging themes: Indigeneity; Indigenous 1. Editor’s Welcome Joe E. WATKINS, Designated Campus Colleague, School of Anthropology, University of Arizona 4 heritage; human ecology and global health; culture, ethnicity, minorities, and adaptation; government policy impacting Indigenous people; and other research areas that relate to Indigenous people and cultural diversity. We welcome the opportunity to look at the intersections of these topics through contemporary research.
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies Please note, the International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies is no longer accepting submissions. We are very pleased to let you know that all published publications and issues are still available to view and download. The Carumba Institute at QUT is, regrettably, unable to continue to support the Journal and the final issue was published in 2022. Thank you to all involved for your contributions and service since the Journal’s inception in 2008. For all queries related to the Journal, please contact the Office for Scholarly Communications, QUT Library osc@qut.edu.au ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies disseminates scholarship across the Humanities, Social Sciences, Health Sciences, Law and Education in the field of Indigenous Studies. Indigenous scholars from around the world share common experiences of colonisation. Our collective politics have been shaped by our intellectual traditions which inform our work within the academy. As Critical Indigenous Studies is a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field the journal's epistemological framework encompasses but is not restricted to Sociology, Law, Literature, Psychology, Education, Anthropology, History, Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Visual and Performing Arts, Cultural studies, Queer studies, Feminism, Human Geography, Environmentalism, Postcolonial studies and Race studies. The journal brings together emergent and ground breaking research in the field of Indigenous studies within the global community offering scope for critical international engagement and debate. As a fully peer-reviewed journal with distinguished members across a range of disciplines on the editorial board, the quality of accepted submissions is of the highest standard. The journal brings together emergent and ground breaking research in the field of Indigenous studies within the global community offering scope for critical international engagement and debate. We publish twice a year and all issues can be downloaded. There are no submission or processing costs associated with the Journal however, all manuscripts must be submitted online. We welcome contributions and potential contributors should read our guidelines for contributors and legal statements before submitting your articles for consideration. All articles will be archived using the CLOCKSS archival system. We have applied for repository services with Sherpa/Romeo. Please also note that all production decisions are made by the Editors of the International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies. Decisions of the Editors are final and not subject to review or appeal.
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