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Connexions Archive seeks a new home
2009-11-18
Connexions Information Sharing Services
The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.

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Aborigines & Activisim
Race, Aborigines & the Coming of the Sixties to Australia
Clark, Jennifer
Book
2008
University of Western Australia Press
Argentina Replaces Columbus Statue with Indigenous Heroine
teleSUR
Article
2015
Aletho News
Bolivian President Evo Morales’ visit to his Argentina counterpart Cristina Fernandez Wednesday will focus not only on bilateral agreements between the two nations, but also South America's independen...
Aztec tower of Human Skulls Uncovered in Mexico City
Article
2017
BBC News
Archeologists discover 676 skulls from Aztec archeological site, in Mexico City.
Banned Love: Trump, Pocahantas and the Lovings
Rosen, David
Article
2017
Counterpunch
The author looks at the history of interracial relationships, from thier legalization 50 years ago, to their future during the Trump administration.
Beothuk
Wikipedia article
Article
The Beothuk were an indigenous people based on the island of Newfoundland.
Big Bear
Connexipedia Article
Article
Cree leader who was involved in the North-West Resistance and subsequently imprisoned. (1825-1888).
The Bone Collectors
A Brutal Chapter in Australia's Past
Daley, Paul
Article
2014
The Guardian
The remains of hundreds of Aboriginal people, dug up from sacred ground and once displayed in museums all over the world, are now stored in a Canberra warehouse. When will they be given a national res...
Canada's Other Red Scare
Rights, Decolonization, and Indigenious Political Protest in the Global Sixties
Rutherford, Scott
Article
2011
PhD Thesis, Queen's University, 2011
Connexions Library: History Focus Page
Website
2009
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, documents and other resources on historical topics.
Connexions Library: Oral History Focus Page
Website
2009
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on oral history.
Deganawida (The Great Peacemaker)
Connexipedia Article
Article
The founder of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy.
Demasduit
Wikipedia article
Article
Demasduit (c. 1796 – January 8, 1820) was a Beothuk woman, one of the last of her people on the island of Newfoundland, Canada.
41 Years Since Jumping Bull (But 500 Years of Trauma)
Peltier, Leonard
Article
2016
CounterPunch
Leonard Peltier writes about his own case and about the 500 years of violence and injustice directed at indigenous peoples.
Great Law of Peace
Connexipedia Article
Article
The oral constitution that created the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederacy.
How American History Erases Mass Killings Against Native Americans
Article
2017
The Indigenous American
In the wake of recent American mass killings, the author reminds us of mass murders of indigenous people in American history.
The Koori History Website Project
Website
information on Black Australia's 240 year struggle for justice.
1904-1924: 'The North American Indian'
One man's vision of a continent of cultures
Arbuckle, Alex Q
Photo/Image/Poster
2015
Mashable
With J. P. Morgan's funding, Edward Sheriff Curtis spent more than 20 years crisscrossing North America, creating over 40,000 images of more than 80 different tribes. They conceived a 20-volume series...
North-West Rebellion
Connexipedia Article
Article
A brief and unsuccessful uprising by the Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel against the Dominion of Canada, which they believed had failed to address their concerns for the ...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 31, 2014
Truth, justice and reconciliation
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2014
Connexions
Articles on truth, justice and reconciliation efforts in countries affected by civil war or internal conflict; Bone Collectors: the fate of the remains of Australian aboriginal people stolen from thei...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 29, 2015
Land seizures and land take-overs
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2015
Connexions
This issue of Other Voices focuses on the issue of land seizures and land take-overs. Also included: Greece's solidarity movement, and the challenges and opportunities it faces after the election of a...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 5, 2015
Residential schools
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Rickwood, Darien Yawching (production)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2015
Connexions
This issue of Other Voices focuses on residential schools. As documented by the just-released report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, residential schools were set up to forcibly 'assim...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 2, 2016
Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Article
2016
Connexions
Brexit, the British vote to leave the European Union, has thrown the political elites into turmoil and confusion. The referendum was supposed to be a safe political manoeuvre, a way to produce an appe...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 23, 2016
Workers and Climate Change
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2016
Connexions
Working people -- and most of us are workers -- are affected by climate change in every aspect of our lives. As climate change worsens, our lives will worsen. If we are successful in bringing about th...
Pemulwuy
Article
2016
Wikipedia
Pemulwuy (aka Pimbloy, Pemulvoy, Pemulwoy, Pemulwye) (c1750 - 2 June 1802) was an Aboriginal Australian man born around 1750 in the area of Botany Bay in New South Wales. He is noted for his resistanc...
Preservation or plunder? The battle over the British Museum's Indigenous Australian show
Daley,Paul
Article
2015
The Guardian
Indigenous Australians are calling for the objects on show at the British Museum's new exhibition to be returned.
Pueblo Revolt
Connexipedia Article
Article
An uprising of many pueblos of the Pueblo people against Spanish colonization of the Americas in the New Spain province of New Mexico in 1680.
Quotes from Indigenous Peoples
Unclassified
Connexions
Seeds of Fire
A People's Chronology
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2012
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
Shanawdithit
Wikipedia article
Article
Shanawdithit (ca. 1801 – June 6, 1829), was the last known living member of the Beothuk people of Newfoundland.
Spend time honouring Indigenous heroes rather than debating Macdonald: Murray Sinclair
Article
2017
CBC News
Senator Murray Sinclair, the former chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, says that removing tributes that are considered offensive to Indigenous Peoples would be 'counterproductive' an...
Stolen Lives
The 'sisters' who are challenging Australia to admit to its forced separation of Aboriginal families
Campbell, Beatrix
Article
2001
Guardian Weekly
The issue of Austaralia's stolen children.
Tasmania's Black War: a tragic case of lest we remember
Clements, Nicholas
Article
2017
Green Left Weekly
Tasmania’s Black War (1824-31) was the most intense frontier conflict in Australia's history. It was a clash between the most culturally and technologically dissimilar humans to have ever come into co...
Tecumseh
Connexipedia Article
Article
Shawnee chief who attempted to form an alliance of tribes to combat American territorial ambitions and tried to rally the tribes in a common defence against the Americans. (1768-1813).

Sources Bookshelf

Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History
Tanner, Helen Hornbeck (ed): Cartography by Miklos Pinther
Book
1987
Focuses on the Great Lakes Region, in both Canada and the United States.
The Broken Spears
The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
Leon-Portilla, Migueal (ed.)
Book
1962
Translated selections of Nahuatl-language accounts of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature
Kröller, Eva-Marie
Book
2004
Broad surveys of fiction, drama, and poetry, Aboriginal writings, Francophone writings, autobiography, literary criticism, writing by women, urban writing, nature writing, travel writing, and short fi...
Canada Rediscovered
McGhee, Robert
Book
1991
Robert McGhee descirbes wat we know about early European explorations of what is now Canada - Irish, Norse, English Portuguese, French, Spanish - as well as the early Europeans' interactions with the ...
The Conquest of the Incas
Hemming, John
Book
1970
This work of history removes the Incas from the realm of legend and shows the reality of their struggles against the Spanish invasion.
A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk
Marshall, Ingeborg
Book
1996
The Beothuk, the aboriginal inhabitants of Newfoundland, were hunters, gatherers, and fishers who moved seasonally between the coast and the interior. With the influx of European settlements and fishe...
Legacy
The Natural History of Ontario
Theberge, John B.
Book
1989
A comprehensive, extensively illustrated natural history of Ontario, covering bedrock, soils, birds, mammals, insects, wildflowers, forests, prehistoric life, and much more.
The Ojibwa of Southern Ontario
Schmalz, Peter S.
Book
1991
A history of the Ojibwa in Southern Ontario.
The Ojibway: A Critical Bibliography
Tanner, Helen Hornbeck
Book
1976
Pictures Bring Us Messages
Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa. Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation
Brown, Alison, K., Peers, Laura, with members of the Kainai Nation
Book
2006
An example of museum professionals working with member of an aboriginal community to explore photographs taken of members of that community many decades earlier.
Seeds of Fire
A People's Chronology
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2012
Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
An Unauthorized Biography of the World
Oral History on the Front Lines
Riordon, Michael
Book
2004
This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New ...

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