Indigenous Knowledges and Perspectives

Use the academic search tool, Omni, to locate and discover books on your topic. 

For general search tips, refer to Omni Search Tips and Ebooks at Queen's guides.

Keyword searching

When you are conducting searches to discover what resources are available for your topic (rather than to locate a specific/known title), use Boolean operators such as AND, OR, NOT to ensure you are searching efficiently and effectively.

Refer to the Terminology section of this guide to help you identify terminology to use when searching for Indigenous topics and for further search tips. 

Examples:

• Use OR to get results with at least one of the terms you have entered:
  • Indigenous OR  "First Nations" OR Aboriginal OR Native OR Inuit OR Métis OR [Nation Name] 
     
• Use AND to connect different concepts
  • Concept 1: Indigenous OR  "First Nations" OR Aboriginal OR Native OR Inuit OR Métis OR [Nation Name] 
    AND
  • Concept 2: language OR "language revitalization" OR "language reclamation"

Subject headings

Note: Offensive language continues to be a part of the controlled vocabulary which is used to find information. Refer to the "search terms" section of the Terminology page for more information about the colonial history of classification in libraries.

Examples of subject headings that you can use to find materials about Indigenous Peoples in the library catalogue:

• Indigenous Peoples
• Indians of North America
• Indians of North America -- Canada
• First Nations
• Inuit
• Métis