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Contact info
For Library research help, please contact Moninder Lalli, Librarian for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies by email (moninder_lalli@sfu.ca) or Ask a librarian.
You may also wish to consult the following guides: Indigenous Policy
Research process
Start Your Research Here - This page gives you an overview of the research process, or in other words how to find materials for your essay.
Selected handbooks and encyclopedias
For an overview of a topic or to identify key authors, books, journal articles, debates or theories, start with the encyclopedias listed below.
- Canadian Encyclopedia: Indigenous Peoples. Examples of entries include: Idle No More, Indigenous Women's Issues in Canada, and The White Paper, 1969.
- Encyclopedia of British Columbia [online or print]
Under subjects look for articles titled: "First Nations of BC", "Art, Northwest Coast Aboriginal"; under index look for articles on " aboriginal demography",
"aboriginal rights", "First Nations Languages", or names of individual groups, e.g. Bella Coola First Nation, Haida, etc. - Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples
- Handbook of indigenous peoples rights
- Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History
- Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies
- Routledge international handbook of Indigenous resilience
- Routledge Handbook on Native American Justice Issues
Databases for journal articles
Search for journal articles on your topic using the databases, below. For tips on search techniques, please consult: How to find journal articles guide. Use the "Get@SFU" icon will to find copies of articles which are not full-text within the database or to request the article through Inter-Library Loans.
- Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America - Academic articles and Indigenous news sources. Covers all aspects of Native North American culture, history, and life from the sixteenth century to the present.
- Use subject terms: "Native Americans", First Nations
- Women's Studies International -- For issues related to gender, sexuality and women's studies
- ProQuest Sociology Collection - for issues related to class, gender, racism, indigenous, sexuality and sexism and theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and policy science. For information on immigrants, racism, society, structural barriers, etc.
- Academic Search Premier. Multidisciplinary index to academic & popular journals.
Selected journals
Find books
The Library Catalogue provides access to books, journal articles, videos, government documents and much more. To limit the search results to "books", use the filter (left-hand column in search results) to "resource type" of "books."
Library Catalogue search guide
Search the SFU Library Catalogue, either the Basic or the Advanced search
Note: In the searches below, search results can been limited to "Resource type" of "Books" and selected "Subjects"
- Indigenous feminist activism - results limited by selected subjects
- (aborig* OR indigenous*) AND (feminis* OR "women's rights")
- (Indigen* OR aborig* OR native*) AND (global OR international) AND politic* AND (justice OR rights)
- (Indigen* OR aborig* OR native*) AND (global OR international) AND (colonial* OR decolonial*)
- (black OR afric*) AND indigen*" AND feminis*
- colonial* OR anti-colon* OR post-colon* OR decolon*
- (colonial* OR anti-colon* OR post-colon* OR decolon*) AND (indigen* OR abori*) AND femini*
Combine different concepts using AND
Combine same concepts using OR
Use quotation marks to search for a phrase
Use brackets for synonyms
Use asterisk (*) for different endings of words
Note: For Catalogue Search, when combining concepts, use CAPITAL letters ( "OR", "AND")
TIP: Use "subject headings" found within the library record of relevant titles to find other useful book titles.
Selected books
- Adornment, Masquerade and African Femininity
- After One Hundred Winters : In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands
- Apartheid in Palestine
- Beyond Alterity : Destabilizing the Indigenous Other in Mexico
- Chihera in Zimbabwe A Radical African Feminist Principle
- Cooperation without submission : indigenous jurisdictions in native nation-US engagements
- Critical indigenous rights studies
- Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
- Cultural and social division in contemporary Japan : rethinking discourses of inclusion and exclusion
- Decentralization and Adat Revivalism in Indonesia: The Politics of Becoming Indigenous
- Divided peoples : policy, activism, and indigenous identities on the U.S.-Mexico border [print]
- Emergence of Indigenous Peoples
- Fourth world : an indigenous perspective on feminism and aboriginal women's activism
- Frontiers of citizenship : a Black and Indigenous history of postcolonial Brazil
- Global Indigenous Politics: A subtle revolution
- Indigenous struggle at the heart of Brazil state policy, frontier expansion, and the Xavante Indians, 1937-1988
- In good relation : history, gender, and kinship in indigenous feminisms
- Indigeneity and decolonial resistance : alternatives to colonial thinking and practice
- Indigenous Mexico engages the 21st century : a multimedia-enabled text
- Indigenous peoples and globalization : resistance and revitalization
- Indigenous peoples rise up : the global ascendency of social media activism [print]
- Indigenous Places and Colonial Spaces: The Politics of Intertwined Relations
- Indigenous Women’s Movements in Latin America: Gender and Ethnicity in Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia
- Indigenous Women’s Voices: 20 Years on from Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s Decolonizing Methodologies
- Japan's Ainu minority in Tokyo : diasporic indigeneity and urban politics
- Making space for Indigenous feminism [print]
- Neoliberal Indigenous Policy: Settler Colonialism and the ?Post-Welfare? State
- Not Sacred, Not Squaws : Indigenous Feminism Redefined
- Organizing at the Margins Theorizing Organizations of Struggle in the Global South
- Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century
- Politics, identity, and Mexico's indigenous rights movements
- Politics of indigeneity : dialogues and reflections on indigenous activism
- Red nation rising : from bordertown violence to native liberation
- Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement
- Strong Hearts, Native Lands: The Cultural and Political Landscape of Anishinaabe Anti-Clearcutting Activism
- Structures of Indifference: An Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City
- Unsettled Borders: The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land
- Vernacular Sovereignties: Indigenous Women Challenging World Politics
- Violence Against Indigenous Women : Literature, Activism, Resistance
- Weaving Solidarity : Decolonial Perspectives on Transnational Advocacy of and with the Mapuche
Browse search
NOTE: SFU Library recognizes that the term “Indians,” used in subject headings such as “Indians of North America,” is harmful in its use outside of legal contexts. Although we currently maintain these headings to adhere to descriptive standards used by libraries worldwide, we and other Canadian libraries are working to replace them with ones that are accurate and respectful to Indigenous Peoples.
Choose: Browse tab, change "title" to "subject"
Some useful subject headings for this course:
- Indians of North America -- Government relations
- Indians of North America -- Canada
- Indians of North America -- Canada -- Government relations
- Indians of North America -- Canada -- Politics and government
- Indians of South America -- Brazil -- Government relations
- Indigenous peoples
- Indigenous peoples -- [geographic region]
- Indigenous women
- Indigenous women -- Canada
Selected books on Instagram, search by subjects:
Podcasting
For information on how to search for podcasts or to create podcasts, check SFU Library's guide for GSWS 411/831, section: All about podcasting
Library guides
- Library Research Tutorials. Animated tutorials on search techniques for finding books and journal articles.
- Annotated bibliographies
- Evaluating sources
- How to find journal articles
- Library Catalogue search guide
- What is a scholarly (or peer-reviewed) journal?
- What is plagiarism? Guide to common forms of plagiarism and how to avoid them
Writing help
Student Learning Commons provides assistance and numerous, helpful guides.