Global Coverage of Indigenous Populations

Indigenous Studies Source provides full-text content central to the study of Indigenous peoples worldwide. The database contains articles, books, and media covering the 50 largest Indigenous groups across North America, Asia, South America, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. 

Features & Functionality

  • Offers a clean, easy-to-use and intuitive user experience
  • Displays options to browse by topic
  • Includes an expansive thesaurus with 6,200 terms

The Highest Quality Subject Indexing

EBSCO has the premier and most highly regarded scholarly vocabularies curated by subject matter experts, covering all disciplines and major publishers. 

EBSCO believes in breaking down barriers to information through Enhanced Subject Precision (ESP) mapping, bridging the gap between content and end users through inclusion of natural languages.   

EBSCO databases support all learning types through textual and visual subject browse and information literacy training through subject access points in more than 30 languages. Watch video to learn more.

Subjects Include:

  • Cultural preservation
  • Education
  • Ethnohistory
  • Health
  • Indigenous knowledge systems (IKS)
  • Indigenous women
  • Land tenure
  • Language documentation
  • Language revitalization
  • Legal status
  • Mental health services
  • Politics and government
  • Postcolonialism
  • Reconciliation
  • Repatriation of cultural property
  • Sovereignty
  • Tribal government