Indigenous Studies: Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
Encyclopedias
- The Canadian EncyclopediaMultimedia encyclopedia of Canadian history available in English and French. It is home to more than 40,000 articles, 6,000 interactive maps, graphs, photographs and animations. Includes the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada.
- Encyclopaedia Britannica Online: Academic EditionComprehensive reference work including content from several resources: Encyclopaedia Britannica and Britannica Concise Encyclopedia articles as well as media, web sites, and videos. Magazines and journals are also available. Also includes dictionary and thesaurus as well as notable quotations from Merriam-Webster's Dictionary & Thesaurus.
Access Note: Mobile app with limited access available for iOS.
- Encyclopedia of the Great Plains IndiansA reference work edited by David J. Wishart (2007) covering "the peoples, places, processes, and events that have shaped lives of the Indians of the Great Plains from the beginnings of human habitation to the present."
- Native Peoples of the WorldAn Encyclopedia covering "the world’s Indigenous peoples, their societies and cultures, the countries in which they reside, and the issues that affect their ways of life. It also highlights the complex relationships between Native groups and the natural environments in which they live."
Dictionaries & Gazetteer
- Columbia Gazetteer of the WorldA comprehensive gazetteer or encyclopedia of over 170,000 geographical places in the world and features, including names, descriptions, and characteristics.
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography
1000 to 1930. Biographies of people who played an important role in the formation of what is now Canada, and died between the years 1000 and 1930.
- Oxford English Dictionary (OED Online)The "accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words past and present from across the English-speaking world. As a historical dictionary, the OED is very different from those of current English, in which the focus is on present-day meanings. You'll still find these in the OED, but you'll also find the history of individual words, and of the language traced through 3 million quotations, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to films scripts and cookery books."