The Prairie Indigenous eBook Collection brings together over 200 titles from publishers in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. This significant addition to the Alberta eBooks repository increases access to stories by Indigenous authors and writings about Indigenous culture, serving as the first of its kind in Canada.
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Cantook Libraries eBooks
Cantook Libraries is the home of the Read Alberta Collection and the Prairie Indigenous eBook Collection.
Frontier Life
Frontier Life includes primary source material from 1650 to 1920 on movement by Europeans to Africa, Australasia and North America and the resulting consequences for frontier regions. Canadian history covering the Hudson’s Bay Company, Archives of Manitoba and the Glenbow Museum are included in the archives. This resource will appeal to history buffs, genealogical researchers, teachers and students.
Indigenous Peoples of North America
An historical collection of newspapers, manuscripts, drawings and sketches, photographs, maps, periodicals, monographs, reports, legal materials, organizational records, and population census records. It is sourced from both American and Canadian Institutions, as well as direct-from-source from newspapers from various nations and related organizations. The collection also features Indigenous language materials, including dictionaries, Bibles, and primers.
Prairie Indigenous eBook Collection eBooks
The Prairie Indigenous eBook Collection brings together over 200 titles from publishers in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. This significant addition to the Alberta eBooks repository increases access to stories by Indigenous authors and writings about Indigenous culture, serving as the first of its kind in Canada.
Voices of the Land
This resource is the Voices of the Land platform, an Indigenous digital public space hosted by Edmonton Public Library and created to support cultural storytelling and language revitalization across Alberta. This site provides a central platform for communities to create, share and discover unique and localized Indigenous perspectives. Voices of the Land recognizes that Indigenous stories are dynamic and may take different forms. Therefore, stories can be video, audio, text, or images.
Take the Introduction to Voices of the Land online training to learn more about this resource.
Please contact voicesofamiskwaciy@epl.ca or your local community librarian for more information on how to respectfully participate with Voices Of The Land.