Aboriginal Literature on display

• Moshiyogusa 藻汐草. Call Number: PL495.4.U3 1792

Documentation on Classical Ainu language is scarce as a result of the language not being reflected in written script. However, travellers to the Ainu regions in the late Edo period created modest dictionaries reproduced here.

• Ainu no kenchiku bunka saikō アイヌの建築文化再考 (Reconsideration on architectural culture of the Ainu). Call Number: DS832.K595 2010
• Ainugo chimei to gen Nihonjinアイヌ語地名と原日本人. Call Number: DS894.22. M36 1983

• Ainu, kaze no shōzōアイヌ、風の肖像 (Ainu portrait: Asir Rera). Call Number: DS832 .U37 2011

The Ainu are an indigenous people that once lived in a large area of Japan, from the Tohoku region to Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and the Kurile Islands. Currently, most Ainu live in Hokkaido.

• Yasahii Ainugo やさしいアイヌ語. Call Number: PL495 .K39 1989

• Ainu minzoku shashin アイヌ民族写真 (Festival of Aynu). Call Number DS832 .A63 1995 (vol 1 & 3)

• Gujjara kabīle dā loka sāhita.Call Number: GR305.7 G84 S45 2003

Study on the folk literature of Gujars, from Punjab, India.

• Ādivāsī loka. Call Number: GR305.7 A38 A35 2006

Contributed articles on folklore of Adivasis in India.

• Janajātīya loka sāhitya: Vāgaṛa Pradeśa ke viśesha sandarbha meṃ. Call Number: GR305.5 V34 D33 2007

Study on Wagdi folk literature and social life, customs of the tribes of Vagda Reign, India.

• Kumāūm̐ ke saṃskāra gīta. Call Number: GR305.7 K86 K8 2003

Selection of Kumauni or Kumaoni folk songs. Kumauni are people from Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, India.

• Ākhyāna : Goṇḍa janajāti ke kathā itihāsa kā sākshya. Call Number: GR305.7 G66 A55 2006

Folk tales of Gondi or Gond people who are the largest tribe in Central India.

• 原真之美: 陳澄晴先生珍藏臺灣原住民藝術文物(Aboriginal arts in Taiwan: the collection of Chen Cheng-ching). Call Number: N7349.8 Y83 1997

Catalog of “Aboriginal arts in Taiwan” exhibition, National Museum of History, 1997.

• 吴春明 《中国东南土著民族历史与文化的考古学观察. Zhongguo dong nan tu zhu min zu li shi yu wen hua de kao gu xue guan cha. Call Number: DS793.s644 W78 1999

An archeological study on the history and culture of indigenous people in Southeast China.

•  Smash: International Indigenous Weaving. Call Number: E98 T35 S63 2010.
• Interventions: Native American Art for Far Flung Territories. Call Number: N6538 A4 O88 2009
• Medicine Paint: the Art of Dale Auger. Call Number: ND249 A945 A4 2009
• Honouring Tradition: Reframing Native Art. Call Number: N6538 A4 H66 2008
• Tanya Harnett: Persona Grata. Call Number: TR647 H3726 2007
• Robert Houle: Troubling Abstraction. Call Number: N6549 H68 A4 2007
• Decolonize me = Décolonisez-moi. Call Number: N6549.5 A54 I35 2012
• Annie Pootoogook: Kinngait Compositions. Call Number: NC143 P65 A4 2011
• O SIYAM: Aboriginal Art Inspired by the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Call Number: E98.A7 O15 2009
• Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years. Call Number: N6549.5.A54 C56 2011
• Rebecca Belmore: Rising to the Occasion. Call Number: N6549 B445 A4 2008
• Shuvinai Ashoona Drawings. Call Number: NC143 A83 A4 2012 (AArP Canadian Exhibitions)
• Digital Natives / Other Sights for Artists’ Projects. Call Number: N6547 V3 D53 2011
• No Reservations: Native American History and Culture in Contemporary Art. Call Number: N6538.A4 N67 2006
• Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong. Call Number: E98.C89 S64 2009
• Tania Willard: Claiming Space. Call Number: N6549.W544 A4 2009
• Kwah I:ken Tsi Iroquois/Oh So Iroquois, Tellement Iroquois. Call Number: E99.I7 K83 2008
• Making a Noise!: Aboriginal Perspectives on Art, Art History, Critical Writing and Community. Call Number: N6549.5.A54 M34 2004 
• Mary Anne Barkhouse: Boreal Baroque. Call Number: NB249.B365 A4 2007
• Action and Agency: Advancing the Dialogue on Native Performance Art. Call Number: NX513.3.A4 A29 2008

• Essential song : three decades of northern Cree music. ML3563.9 .W55 2007
• Indigenous religious musics. Call Number: ML2900 .I53 2000
• Music of the first nations tradition and innovation in native North America. Call Number: ML3557 .M87 2009 
• Native American music in eastern North America : experiencing music, expressing culture. ML3550 .D53 2008 
• Northern Haida songs. Call Number: ML3563 .E57 1996 
• Opera indigene : re/presenting First Nations and indigenous cultures. Call Number: ML1700 .O67 2011
• Stability and variation in Hopi song. Call Number: ML3557.L57 S7 1993
• The art of the Native American flute. Call Number: MT340 .N27 1996
• The crooked stovepipe : Athapaskan fiddle music and square dancing in Northeast Alaska and Northwest Canada. Call Number: ML3557.M6 C7 1993

• Aboriginal music in contemporary Canada: echoes and exchanges. Call Number: WM H64 A36 2012
• American Indian performing arts: critical directions. Call Number: WG41 A44 2010
• Chinook winds : aboriginal dance project. Call Number: WM E48 C45 1997 
• Meet a music industry professional: Alan Greyeyes. Call Number: ETS C37 v.4 2009
• Meet a musician: Derek Miller. Call Number: ETS C37 v.3 2007
• The Indians’ book: an offering by the American Indians of Indian lore, musical and narrative, to form a record of the songs and legends of their race. Call Number: YG C87 I535 1987
• The people have never stopped dancing: Native American modern dance histories. Call Number: WM M87 P46 2007
• Visions of sound: musical instruments of First Nations communities in Northeastern America. Call Number: WM D53 V57 1994 
• Over a century of moving to the drum: the Salish powwow tradition on the Flathead Indian Reservation. Call Number: WM A75 V47 1998
• Pacific Northwest Coast Indians: music, instruments, legends. Call Number: WM B83 p3 1980
• Recording culture: Powwow music and the Aboriginal recording industry on the Northern Plains Song within my heart. Call Number: YUA B68 S66 2002
• Take it away, Bear Creek!. Call Number: ET E45 T35 2002
• Red Power: a graphic novel. Call Number: YF W74 R43 2011 
• Red: A Haida manga. Call Number: WA Y34 R43 2009
• The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book. Call Number: CX H55 A50 2010
• Colonialism on trial: indigenous land rights and the Gitksan Wet’suwet’en sovereignty case. Call Number: MBC M65 1992
• The Anti-Capitalist Resistance Comic Book. Call Number: CX H55 A58 2012 
• Raven Tales: DVDs and books (books available in Tech Services; DVDs at DVD YUC R38 v.1 – 26)
• Raven Tales: Teacher’s Guide (available in Tech Services)
• 7 Generations series: Stone, Scars, Ends/Begins, The Pact (available in Tech Services)
• Sugar Falls: a residential school story. Call Number: YUC R63 S84 2011 
• Fatty Legs. Call Number: ER P65 F38 2010
• Shi-shi-etko. Call Number: YUA C36 S55 2005 
• Shin-chi’s Canoe. Call Number: YUA C36 S55 2008 
• Back Talk. Call Number: W C885 K54 2012EX
• Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art. Call Number: W H55 S25 2013EX
• Louis Riel: A Comic Strip Biography. Call Number: CM B76 L65 2003 
• The Life of Helen Betty Osborne (available in Tech Services)
• Native Americans in Comic Books: A Critical Study (available in Tech Services)
• Aboriginality. Call Number: DVD PY K45 A26 2008 
• Stories of our People: A Métis Graphic Novel Anthology (available in Tech Services)
• Rabbit and Bear Paws – Sacred Seven series: Courage, Truth, Honesty, Love, Respect, Humility, Wisdom (available in Tech Services).