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Indigenous Studies

is a membership alliance dedicated to building Canada’s digital preservation infrastructure and providing the broadest possible access to Canadian documentary heritage. The organizations works closely with major memory institutions to identify, catalogue, digitize and store documentary heritage—books, newspapers, periodicals, images and nationally-significant archival materials—in specialized research databases. There are a number of online collections currently available including Early Official Publications, Jesuit Relations, and Native Studies. Their website also has several links to other resources and institutions.

is a website dedicated to the Innu nation in which elders pass on their skills and knowledge to younger generations. It has several short videos which guide users on a journey to develop an understanding of this culture.

is a collection of primary source testimony about the history of the Red River settlement, Manitoba, the prairie provinces, and Canada. John Norquay, Bungee/English-speaking premier of Manitoba 1878–1887, was a central figure in the era when Canadian and immigrant arrivals took over the lands of prairie Canada. When he died suddenly in 1889, he left in his office copies of hundreds of letters written by him and thousands of letters to him that were bundled into a trunk and given to his family. The trunk and its contents arrived in the Archives of Manitoba a century later. These documents contain a multitude of stories about Manitoba and Canada in the 1870s and 1880s. The site contains transcripts of most of the letters and bills and other documents in the Norquay Premier’s Papers and the Executive Council Premier’s Office papers. A  takes out of the larger collection many documents that may have been written by Norquay, an extensive interview with Norquay’s wife, and the many letters to Norquay written by Bungee/English speaking Métis, people whom he and others called his “countrymen”.  contains many documents related to the role of the Church of England in Red River and in Norquay’s education.