Indigenous Histories in Canada

This website provides general information on Indigenous peoples who lived in Canada before and during colonization.

This article provides a historical overview of the Indian Act, it's context, amendments, and proposed reforms

This article explores the relationships between Indigenous peoples and the French colonists in the period prior to Confederation.

Indigenous histories have been twisted by centuries of colonization. Host Kaniehti:io Horn brings us together to decolonize our minds– one word, one concept, one story at a time.

An overview of the life, accomplishments, and possible motivations of Samuel de Champlain.

This resource from Manitoba Education explores the history of the relationships between Indigenous peoples and French settlers in North America prior to 1763.

This article discusses contacts between Europeans and Indigenous peoples in the territory that became Newfoundland.

A rich resource of more than 200 videos gathered by the NCCI that pertain to more than twenty First Nations, Métis, and Inuit ways of knowing and being from across Canada.

Olive Patricia Dickason changed the way that Canadians think about their history and Indigenous history in Canada

The Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) concerns government policy with respect to the original historical nations of this country. Those nations are important to Canada, and how Canada relates to them defines in large measure its sense of justice and its image in its own eyes and before the world.

This online community provides a venue for Indigenous historians to gather and share their ideas or works in progress. Shekon Neechie is entirely Indigenous conceived, created, and controlled.

In Canada close to 30,000 official place names are, or may be, of Indigenous origin. This map offers a small sample of official geographical names selected by the federal, provincial and territorial naming authorities of the Geographical Names Board of Canada.

An article that examines the relationships between Indigenous peoples and French colonists during France's expansionist period prior to Confederation.