Indigenous Studies: Photographs & Images

Thematic index of photographic materials, including prints, negatives, slides, and transparencies, relating to Aboriginal and Metis studies, held by Saskatoon and area archives. Includes selected digitized images.

Over 79,000 historical photographs from the Glenbow Museum documenting the people, landscape, and development of the Canadian West. Images include good coverage of Treaties 7 and 8.

Access to thousands of images, many of Aboriginal people, held on the websites of participating Canadian cultural institutions.

Images from Library and Archives Canada's Rare Book Collection; many were taken from exploration or missionary narratives published prior to 1800.

175,000 historical photographs, paintings, drawings and prints depicting a wide range of subjects relating to British Columbia's history and culture.

The Nova Scotia Museum's collection of 1,100 portraits and illustrations of the Mi'kmaq of Atlantic Canada and New England.

One of the most significant and controversial representations of Native North American culture ever produced. Over 1500 illustrations and 700 portfolio plates taken between 1907 and 1930.

Digital collection of 2,300 photographs and text relating to the Aboriginal people living along the Northwest Coast and neighbouring Plateau cultural areas.

Over 30,000 images from the Denver Public Library, including many intended to document the lives of Native Americans from more than forty tribes living west of the Mississippi River

This database contains "material relating to First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples, found in Saskatchewan cultural and heritage collections". To search for photographs specifically, click on Archives, then Format, then Photographs.

Aboriginal Research Resources brings together inter-disciplinary sources and information relating to Indigenous Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. Images of artifacts from the Dept.'s of Anthropology and Archaeology and artwork from the University art collection are included.