The BCIT Library welcomes suggestions from faculty, staff and students; if you have any recommendations for books or other materials you would like to see purchased, please fill out this form.
Books can be found through the BCIT Library Catalogue.
Before you start your search, keep in mind that over the years various names have been used to refer to Indigenous Peoples in Canada and throughout the world. As a result, any of the following terms could be useful in your search:
Indians of North America - the standard subject heading still used by libraries when cataloguing books and other library items
Native peoples, Native Canadians
First peoples
Aboriginal peoples - popularized in Australia, and frequently used in British Columbia
Indigenous peoples - popularized by international organizations and generally used in an international context
First Nations / Inuit / Metis - legal designations for separate, distinct Indigenous groups within Canada
"Classification systems organize library collections into subject-related categories, so similar topics will be grouped together on the shelf." (From the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library).
"When Indigenous frames of reference are not built into a system of classification, the accessibility of resources for Indigenous library users is reduced. More broadly, the widespread adoption of dominant classification systems like LCC [Library of Congress] means that local and traditional epistemologies and knowledge systems are being crowded out, and might even be eliminated altogether." (From A Case Study in Indigenous Classification by Cherry & Mukunda).
BC First Nations subject headings - A working document from the Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia.