ABSTRACT
Terminology used to define and describe groups of people changes over time due to new social norms and shifting perspectives of naming conventions. To locate accurate historical research materials related to Indigenous populations, researchers must understand that differing conventional terms have been used to describe collective groups of people, and organise information about them, at varied points throughout history. Brief definitions are provided here as background because the current chapter uses legal indexes and case digests to examine subject headings relating to Indigenous populations in Canada. Researchers must use multiple terms in full-text and controlled vocabulary database searches to ensure they find the most relevant results to their research. The foundation for researching Canadian library cataloguing practices of materials related to Indigenous Peoples should flow from recommendations found in the 2017 CFLA report.
