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Resources
We compiled this resource as a way for our audience members who may be interested in being better informed about Indigenous peoples and their history on this land. This is not an exhaustive list by any means, but we believe it provides useful information, particularly to those who may not be familiar with Indigenous peoples’ historical relationship with Canada.
Useful links
United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)
Truth & Reconciliation Commission - About
Truth & Reconciliation Report – 94 Calls to Action
Truth & Reconciliation Report – Complete
Truth & Reconciliation Report – Executive Summary
Truth & Reconciliation - Update on Calls to Action
Rights of Indigenous peoples in Canada
The importance of land to Indigenous peoples
Recommended books
The following is a list of books that have been either been recommended to us by Indigenous authors and scholars or those we have come across in our study, which can be useful in understanding the historical and present-day circumstances of Indigenous peoples of Canada.
(Non-fiction)
The Comeback – John Ralston Saul
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City - Tanya Talaga
Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography - Chester Brown
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Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the colonial politics of recognition – Glen Coulthard
The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir by Joseph Augie Merasty
A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879 to 1986 - John S. Milloy
The Winter We Danced: Voices from the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movement - The Kino-Nda-Niimi Collective
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The Inconvenient Indian – Thomas King
Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto – Taiaiake Alfred
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Unsettled Expectations: Uncertainty, Land and Settler Decolonization - Eva Mackey
Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History -by Edmund Metawabin
Dancing on our turtle’s back - Leanne Simpson
The Indigenous and Northern Affairs Ministry’s reading list on Inuit people.
(Fiction)
Glass Beads - Dawn Dumont
Stolen Words - by Melanie Florence
Those who Run in the Sky - Aviaq Johnston
An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature - Daniel David Moses, Terry Goldie and Armand Garnet Ruffo
Algonquin Sunset - Rick Revelle
The Water Walker - Joanne Robertson
Take Us to Your Chief: And Other Stories - Drew Hayden Taylor
Akilak’s Adventure - Deborah Kigjugalik Webster
Kiss of the fur queen - Tomson Highway