Indigenous Studies Resources Guide

AMMSA is the news archive website for our family of Indigenous news publications. It is a news and communications society dedicated to serving the news and information needs of Indigenous people across Canada. - AMMSA

A refereed interdisciplinary journal of the history, anthropology, literature and the arts of Native American Indians, book reviews and lists of recently published books.

Anishinabek News is published by the Communications Unit of the Union of Ontario Indians

The Knowledge Portal, a database and related links that provides access to a variety of education resources, information sheets, annotated literature reviews, reports, guides, films, booklets, studies, journal articles and presentations all related to Aboriginal children and families in Canada and similar countries. The Caring Society follows OCAP principles and provides open access to all the documents included here.

We are Canada’s largest Aboriginal newspaper, reaching communities all across the country. Designed to inform and entertain our readers while strengthening understanding between the Native and non-Native residents, the First Nations Drum deals exclusively with news and information relevant to Native communities and lifestyles. From politics to music, from culture to sports, as well as profiles on successful Native-run business. - FND
We are no longer publishing. This is being retained for reference. | April 24, 2024

The four volume encyclopedia is also available in the library.

ITT is a free biweekly publication designed to share breaking news, interesting research, best practices, and policy developments regarding First Nations, Métis, and Inuit education in Canada. - Academica Group

Produced by the Métis Nation of Ontario to serve all of Ontario with its tabloid newspaper and activities to bring the Métis Nation together.
We subscribe to the print version as well.

Introduces the citation templates for Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers created in partnership with the staff of the NorQuest Indigenous Student Centre. These citation templates have been adopted/linked to by twenty-five institutions across Canada and the United States. They represent an attempt to formalize something that Indigenous scholars have been doing for decades: fighting to find a better way to acknowledge our voices and knowledges within academia.

Muskrat is an online Indigenous arts and culture magazine that honours the connection between humans and our traditional ecological knowledge by exhibiting original works and critical commentary. MUSKRAT embraces both rural and urban settings and uses media arts, the Internet, and wireless technology to investigate and disseminate traditional knowledge in ways that inspire their reclamation. - Muskrat

Discusses Indigenous social work practices & theories. Artwork by Elder, Leland Bell.

For over 30 years, Northern Ontario Business has been the only integrated media outlet dedicated to the business community across the North. It provides vital news and relevant business information and events for the region’s most influential business leaders and decision makers.
We subscribe to the print version as well.

University of Winnipeg's open-access journal is the first “nation-specific journal in Canada.” It is dedicated to uplifting Métis voices through stories, poetry, visual culture, book reviews, and scholarly papers. The name Pawaatamihk was gifted by Métis Elder Verna DeMontigny; translated from Michif and Ininimowin, it signifies “a group of people dreaming.”

In the words of its publisher and owner, Jonathan Garlow, “the goal of the Two Row Times is to provide timely and relevant news and information to Native communities as well as to serve as a bridge between all nations by promoting and demonstrating the values of the Two Row Wampum.” Based out of Six Nations of the Grand River Country, the Two Row Times is a free weekly news publication aimed at reaching the Ontario-wide Native market as well as Haudenosaunee communities in the United States.

Turtle Island News bring you news, features, and events from Indigenous communities across the country. This weekly newspaper is published on the Grand River Territory of the Six Nations in Southern Ontario. It is a politically independent newspaper that is wholly owned and operated by Aboriginal People. We subscribe to the print version as well.

Published by Wawatay Native Communications Society since 1974, the monthly newspaper features Aboriginal news, people, culture and language. It is the only newspaper that publishes stories in English and the Aboriginal languages of Northern Ontario – Ojibway, OjiCree and Cree.
We subscribe to the print version as well.

Windspeaker—which celebrated four decades of publishing in March 2023—is owned and operated by the Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta. Each year, Windspeaker.com publishes hundreds of news articles focused on Indigenous peoples, their issues and concerns, and the work they are undertaking to build a better future for themselves, their children and the children as yet unborn. Through our reporting, Windspeaker seeks out knowledgeable sources and experts on a wide variety of important topics critical to understanding Indigenous Nation building and rebuilding within the country called Canada. We seek to provide the greater lessons to be learned on these topics from the Indigenous perspective and worldview, and we strive to widen readers’ awareness, even if it’s incrementally, with each article published.