The University of Alberta is offering the online course, Indigenous Canada, and it is free to audit. The course explores Indigenous histories and contemporary issues in Canada. Topics include the fur trade, land claims and environmental impacts, political conflicts and alliances, and contemporary Indigenous art.
Genealogists with Indigenous ancestry and fur traders in their family tree may be especially interested.
This beginner-level course lasts 12 weeks, requiring three to five hours per week. Each module includes video lectures, course notes, and required and recommended reading.
The instructor is Paul L. Gareau, a Métis and assistant professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta,
Registration is now open.
Thanks to historian and blogger Andrea Eidenger for sharing info about this course in her weekly Canadian History Roundup.
