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Pjila'si - Welcome!

The Dalhousie Libraries' Indigenous Studies library guide provides links to sources for articles, books, documents, websites and other resources related to Canadian Indigenous history, socioeconomic and health issues, and cultural studies.

--- The Dalhousie Libraries are located in Mi'kma'ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq. We are all Treaty people.

Reclaiming power and place : executive summary of the final report / National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
Published by the Privy Council Office, 2019.
National Film Board - Indigenous Languages Playlist
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has declared 2019 the International Year of Indigenous Languages (IY2019) —“in order to raise awareness of them, not only to benefit the people that speak these languages, but also for others to appreciate the important contribution they make to our world’s rich cultural diversity” (UNESCO IYIL2019 website).
First Nations, Metis and Inuit – Indigenous Ontologies (FNMIIO)
The FNMI Ontology is released through the National Indigenous Knowledge and Language Alliance (NIKLA) and represents an initial effort to improve the representation of Indigenous peoples and communities in libraries, archives and other cultural memory institutions. (NIKLA website)
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Published by National Indigenous Knowledge and Language Alliance (NIKLA) /Alliance nationale des connaissances et langues autochtones (ANCLA), June 21, 2019.
Indigenous Statistics Portal - Statistics Canada
The Indigenous Statistics Portal provides data on Indigenous communities, children and families, health and well-being, education, work and many other topics, in one convenient location.

Users can also quickly find information on recently released products and view data from the 2016 Census.
- Statistics Canada
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Released June 21, 2019

Scholarships/Educational Funding

ARL Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce (IRDW)
"...a program designed to recruit master of library and information science (MLIS) students from historically underrepresented ethnic and racial minority groups into careers in research libraries and archives. Benefits of the IRDW include: A stipend of up to $10,000 over two years in support of MLIS education..."

First Nations, Métis, and Inuit students who have been accepted to a library / information science graduate program or have completed their first year of such a program are eligible to apply.

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