• Aboriginal Documentary Heritage: Historical Collections of the Canadian Government
This web exhibition recounts first-hand information illustrating the complex and often contentious relationship between the Canadian government and Canada's Aboriginal people from the late 1700s to the mid-20th century. The website presents three thematic sections that include essays and selected documents: the Red and Black Series (the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs' administrative records from 1872 to the 1950s); Treaties, Surrenders and Agreements; and Aboriginal Soldiers in the First World War.
• Canada in the Making
This website is organized into three broad thematic narratives: Canada's Constitutional History (Pre-Contact to 2002), Aboriginals: Treaties and Relations (Pre-Contact to 2003), and Pioneers and Immigrants (1497-1914). Aboriginals: Treaties and Relations traces the course of relations between Aboriginals and Europeans, particularly the laws and treaties, and the events that preceded and followed these changes. This website is built around government documents from the Early Canadiana Online collection, and integrates narrative text with links to primary source text, images and maps.
• Canada in the Making: Specific Events and Topics
Beyond the three broad themes (described above) the Canada in the Making website also includes a number of topics of specific interest that allow the viewer to dig more deeply into specific topics in Canadian history. Topics relevant to Aboriginal history include Numbered Treaty Overview, Motivations Behind the Numbered Treaties, Aboriginal Political Agitation, Aboriginal Problems with Prairie Settlement, Aboriginal Women’s Issues, Aboriginal Residential Schools, the Métis, and the Riel Rebellions. These topics feature narrative text integrated with links to primary source text, images and maps.
• Canada’s First Nations
This multimedia tutorial from the University of Calgary is almost entirely text-based and does not include a wide selection of other primary and secondary sources; however it provides a solid overview of the history of Canada’s First Nations. It focuses on the histories of Canada's First Nations peoples from ancient times to the nineteenth century; more specifically it focuses on the following topics: examples of creation myths and the scientific theories of when and how people migrated to the North American continent, profiles of the cultures and languages of the Native groups inhabiting the northern lands of this continent; examinations of the economic, political, and social impact of European contact; and discussion of the reasons the First Nations and the Government of Canada negotiated and signed treaties, the terms of these treaties, and how all parties reacted to them.
• Canadian Inuit History
A teacher resource from the Museum of Civilization offers a narrative of the origin and history of the Inuit in Canada and includes many photographs, art and artefacts from the museum collection to supplement the text.
• CBC Digital Archives: Native Issues
The CBC/Radio-Canada Digital Archives website project has collected thousands of CBC radio and television clips from the past seven decades into hundreds of topics that can be viewed or listened to on the website. The array of different topics can be searched for via keyword or category (10 broad categories with further sub-categories). Possible topics of interest for teaching about Aboriginal Issues include A Lost Heritage: Canada’s Residential Schools, The Oka Crisis, George Erasmus: A Native Rights Crusader, A Celebration of Aboriginal Heritage, and the Battle For Aboriginal Treaty Rights.
• Discover the Collection: Aboriginal Peoples
The Aboriginal Resources and Services Portal provides a window to collections of resources created by or about Aboriginal peoples in Canada from private and government sources, digital copies of these works, virtual exhibitions, finding aids, and other tools to locate materials. The site is organized into the following three sections: Databases, Research Aids, and Virtual Exhibitions.
• First Nations in British Columbia: From the BC Archives Time Machine
This First Nations gallery includes aboriginal accounts as well as European ethnographic collections of stories in an attempt to describe certain historical aspects of British Columbia.The First Nations created no written records. Instead their beliefs, customs and history are recorded in their own oral traditions, the first hand descriptions of early European explorers and settlers, and in the archaeological record. This gallery is organized into a variety of sections that include narrative text combined with photographs, maps and artwork of the First Nations People of British Columbia. The different sections include Cultural Areas, People of the Northwest Coast, People of the Interior, European Contact, Confederation to Present, West Coast Moving Image Gallery, Interior Moving Image Gallery, and a Teacher’s Corner.
• Gateway to Aboriginal Heritage
This online exhibit from the Canadian Museum of Civilization is an excellent resource for investigating the histories and cultures of the Aboriginal Peoples in Canada. The website features a selection of historical and contemporary objects, images, and documents drawn from the Museum's artefact and archival collections to express the cultural diversity as well as the creativity, resourcefulness, and endurance of Canada’s First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples.
• Images Canada: First Nations
http://www.imagescanada.ca/r1-116-e.php?trail=trail16View 154 images (photographs, drawings, paintings) of First Nations people from the Images Canada Database.
• The Making of Treaty 8 in Canada’s Northwest
This bilingual virtual exhibition from the Virtual Museum of Canada features oral histories and archival material that commemorates the signing of Treaty 8 in the 19th century. The site is broken into four sections: The Treaty, The Setting, The People—Their Places, and 1899 and After and considers the complex issues relating to past, present, and future First Nations treaty negotiations in Canada.
• Postcard Views of Indigenous People
This online collection of images is drawn from the collection of early Western Canadian postcards developed by the Special Collections Department of the University of Saskatchewan Library. Most of the postcards were produced in the first two decades of the 20th century. The collection includes posed studio portraits as well as depictions of camps, powwows, parades, totem poles and residential schools that can be viewed online.
• Pride and Dignity
This is an exhibition of over 60 photographic reproductions (c.1846 - c.1960) taken from the original exhibition Aboriginal Portraits from the National Archives of Canada exhibited at Library and Archives Canada during the spring and summer of 1996. The exhibition is designed to break down some of the common stereotypes surrounding Aboriginal society by revealing the humanity of the people in these portraits.
• Three First Nations Artists in British Columbia: An Exhibition
The BC Archives holds a collection of 10,000 paintings, drawings and prints from 1782 to the 1960s. These art works were created by artists who lived in or travelled through British Columbia and sketched or painted views of the landscape, peoples and activities. While other agencies, such as the Royal BC Museum, have collections that focus on the vast range of carvings, totem poles, jewelery, basketry, and other art forms created by Native people, the BC Archives collection of documentary art includes only a few works by Native artists in the form of paintings, drawings, and prints. This exhibition focuses on three First Nations Artists from British Columbia: Judith Morgan, Francis Batiste, and George Clutesi.
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