Library Guides: Education Subject Guide: Native Languages

Ontario Curriculum

Native Languages
Ontario elementary curriculum document for Native Languages
Native Langes (I/S)
Ontario secondary curriculum document for Native Languages

Books In the Library

If you are looking for a dictionary in the Library Catalogue try searching by keyword using the name of the indigenous language and the term dictionary. For example, Cree dictionary. Below are some examples of such dictionaries in the Library.

Eastern James Bay Cree Dictionary: Cree - English : Southern Dialect by Ella Neeposh et al. (eds.)
Call Number: PM 988 .E375 2004 REF V.1
ISBN: 1894843320
Publication Date: 2004
Eastern James Bay Cree dictionary : Cree - English : northern dialect by Luci Bobbish-Salt et al. (eds.)
Call Number: PM 988 .E37 2004 REF V.1
ISBN: 1894843312
Publication Date: 2004
N¯ehiuyaw¯ewin : itw¯ewina = Cree : words : a Cree-English Dictionary by Arok Wolvengrey
Call Number: PM 988 .W658 2001 REF (2 volumes)
The student's dictionary of literary Plains Cree : based on contemporary texts by Christoph H. Wolfart
Call Number: PM 988 .W65 1998 REF
A Dictionary of the Ojibway Language by Frederic Baraga; John D. Nichols (Foreword by)
Call Number: PM 853 .B28 1992 REF
ISBN: 0873512812
Publication Date: 1992-11-15
English-Mohawk dictionary by Nancy Bonvillain
Call Number: PM 1883 .B66 REF
Publication Date: [S.l.] : Mohawk Tribal Council and S. Regis Band, 1971.
Manitoba aboriginal medical glossary : in Cree, Dakota, Dene, Island Lake Dialect and Ojibwe
Call Number: PM 1021 .M36 1993
ISBN: 0969433123
Ojibwe Language Dictionary by Irene Snache
Call Number: PM 853 .S63 2005 REF
ISBN: 189463201X
Publication Date: 2005
Dictionary of the language of the Micmac Indians, who reside in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton, and Newfoundland by Silas Tertius Rand
Call Number: PM 1793 .R3 1972
Publication Date: 1972

Language Websites

First Peoples' Language Map of BC
Use this map to locate the various languages of First Peoples in BC.
First Voices
FirstVoices is a suite of web-based tools and services designed to support Aboriginal people engaged in language archiving, language teaching & culture revitalization. The FirstVoices Language Archive contains thousands of text entries in many diverse Aboriginal writing systems, enhanced with sounds, pictures and videos.
Canadian First Nations by Province
Part of Native Languages of the Americas: Preserving and Promoting American Indian Languages

Associations and Societies

Aboriginal Languages of Manitoba
CILLDI
Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute
SSILA
The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas