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Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3C3
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Indigenous Canada MOOC

Indigenous Canada is a 12-lesson Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) from the University of Alberta. Want to learn about Canadian history and contemporary issues from an Indigenous perspective? This is a great place to get started. This course explores key issues facing Indigenous peoples today from a historical and critical perspective highlighting national and local Indigenous-settler relations. Sign up now: https://www.coursera.org/learn/indigenous-canada

Pjila'si! Welcome!

Saint Mary's University is in Mi'kma'ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq.

This guide is a resource for research and study in the interdisciplinary aspects of Indigenous studies.It particularly focuses on Nova Scotia and Atlantic Canada.

These images of petroglyphs in Kejmkujik National Park are part of the Mi’kmaq Portraits Collection at the Nova Scotia Museum (MP0002, MP0007, MP0005)

Featured Books

Unreconciled by Jesse Wente
Part memoir and part manifesto, Unreconciled is a stirring call to arms to put truth over the flawed concept of reconciliation, and to build a new, respectful relationship between the nation of Canada and Indigenous peoples.
Living in Indigenous Sovereignty by Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara; Gladys Rowe
This book advances the concept of living in Indigenous sovereignty as an ontological and relational framework for settlers, particularly white settlers, who wish to initiate or deepen their decolonial/anti-colonial work while living on Indigenous lands occupied by the Canadian state.
Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future by Katherine Graham (Editor); David Newhouse (Editor)
"Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future" looks to both the past and the future as it examines the foundational work of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) and the legacy of its 1996 report. It assesses the Commission's influence on subsequent milestones in Indigenous-Canada relations and considers our prospects for a constructive future.
Writing Their Bodies by Sarah Klotz
Between 1879 and 1918, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School housed over 10,000 students and served as a prototype for boarding schools on and off reservations across the continent. Writing Their Bodies analyzes pedagogical philosophies and curricular materials through the perspective of written and visual student texts created during the school's first three-year term.