Welcome to the new NWAC Online Library Version 1.0!

Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) received funding from the Government of Canada (Canadian Heritage) to create this online library and its companion physical library at the National Headquarters of NWAC -- the Social, Cultural, and Economic Innovation Centre -- in Gatineau, QC.

This online library provides access to hundreds of resources produced by the NWAC and other Indigenous-led organizations, as well as links to e-publications housed in other collaborating libraries or publishing houses.

The NWAC is a national Indigenous organization representing political voices of Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit, Transgender, and Gender-Diverse+ (WG2STGD+) People in Canada. NWAC is inclusive of First Nations—on- and off-reserve, status, non-status, and disenfranchised—Inuit, and Métis. An aggregate of Indigenous women’s organizations from across the country, NWAC was founded on a collective goal to enhance, promote, and foster social, economic, cultural, and political well-being of IndigenousWG2STGD+ people in their respective communities and Canadian societies.

These libraries provide a platform to access knowledge on Indigenous cultures and languages, beginning with Michif, Algonquian, and Inuktitut, as well as on Violence prevention topics such as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

NWAC hopes to obtain additional funding to keep expanding the library over the coming years by subscription to digital warehouses and by creating LibGuides on topics such as Violence Prevention, Indigenous Languages, Indigenous Research, Residential schools, Gender Equality and more.

Enjoy!