UBCIC Digital Collections

The UBCIC's Digital Collections offer a variety of research and informational materials.  The collections include three research databases, as well as a series of collections created with digitized materials from the UBCIC Archives that document the history of the UBCIC and First Nations politics in British Columbia.  All of the collections can be accessed through the links below.  If you have any comments about the collections, please contact the Resource Centre.

UBCIC Research Collections


First Nations Digital Document Source (FNDDS) is a collection of electronic documents supporting First Nations land rights research


Federal and Provincial Collections of Minutes of Decision, Correspondence, and Sketches are materials produced by the Joint Indian Reserve Commission and the Indian Reserve Commission, 1876-1910


Our Homes Are Bleeding is a multimedia collection focused on the cut-off lands in BC including the records of the McKenna McBride Royal Commission, 1913-1916

UBCIC Archival Digital Collections

UBCIC Periodicals:

Unity, UBCIC's first newsletter published 1970-1971

Nesika, newsletter published 1972-1977

UBCIC News, newsletter published 1977-1980



Indian World, newsletter published 1979-1983



Various UBCIC newsletters published 1984-2002


Information bulletins issued by the UBCIC 1978-1996

UBCIC Images:

Images from the UBCIC Archives

Virtual exhibit of posters published by the Union of BC Indian Chiefs

UBCIC Moving Images:



Video footage from the historic Seventh Annual General Assembly where the UBCIC rejected all funding from the federal government


View selected archival video on UBCIC's YouTube channel

UBCIC Multimedia Collections:

Constitution Express Digital Collection

Indian Child Caravan Digital Collection