Resources

Below you will find many additional learning opportunities to help guide you on your journey of Reconciliation.

Learning Resources

Learning the Truth

On the journey of reconciliation, it is important to understand the truth. Learning about the history and colonization of Indigenous Peoples and Residential Schools can be difficult. Please watch, read, participate and learn with care.

About the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) was created from the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA)- an agreement and settlement package intended to compensate survivors for the harms they suffered in residential schools, and to work towards a more just and equitable future for Indigenous peoples.

The TRC spent six years travelling to all parts of Canada and heard from more than 6,500 witnesses creating a historical record of the residential school system. The final report, Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future (2015), documents the tragic experiences of approximately 150,000 Canadian residential school students.

The 6-volume final report includes 94 "calls to action"(or recommendations) to further reconciliation between Canadians and Indigenous Peoples. All Canadians are encouraged to read the summary or the final report to learn more about the legacy of Indian Residential Schools.

TRC Specific Reports (online)

National Centre for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission:
https://nctr.ca/

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Calls to Action:
https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=https://education.afn.ca/afntoolkit/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Executive-Summary-Calls-to-Action-PDF.pdf

Government of Canada TRC website:
https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1450124405592/1529106060525

#ReadTheTRCReport – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxPr_RIsvg9JJWoiRx2kl2v24r_pu7JbR

The City of Calgary's White Goose Flying Report: Calls to Action:
https://www.calgary.ca/communities/indigenous/white-goose-flying-report.html

TRC Specific Books

A Knock on the Door: The Essential History of Residential Schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Edited and Abridged
https://calgarylibrary.cantookstation.com/resources/5bf33ce42357944608d2ea57

Canada's Residential Schools: the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume 1: The History, Part 2, 1939 to 2000 by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2015/trc/IR4-9-1-1-2015-eng.pdf

Canada's Residential Schools: The History, Part 2; 1939 to 2000 by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
https://nctr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Volume_1_History_Part_2_English_Web.pdf

Canada's Residential Schools: The Inuit and Northern Experience by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2018/trc/IR4-9-2-2015-1-eng.pdf

Canada's Residential Schools: The Métis Experience by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
https://archives.nctr.ca/NCTR-EDU-003-001-011

Canada's Residential Schools: The Legacy by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future: Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

The Survivors Speak: a Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
https://irsi.ubc.ca/sites/default/files/inline-files/Executive_Summary_English_Web.pdf

Reports Online

National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls:
https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/final-report/?mc_cid=eead59f872&mc_eid=7340ee6e08

Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples:
https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/aboriginal-heritage/royal-commission-aboriginal-peoples/Pages/final-report.aspx

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples:
https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=https://education.afn.ca/afntoolkit/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/United-Nations-Declaration-on-the-Rights-of-Indigenous-Peoples-PDF-1.pdf

Online Courses

alliedFutures Project: A journey from Truth to Reconciliation and Beyond:
https://www.alliedfuturesproject.com/

Indigenous Canada, University of Alberta:
https://www.ualberta.ca/admissions-programs/online-courses/indigenous-canada/index.html

Indigenous Relations Training Program, University of Calgary:
https://www.ucalgary.ca/student-services/writing-symbols/community/indigenous-relations

Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education, University of British Columbia:
https://pdce.educ.ubc.ca/reconciliation/

Participate and Learn

Kairos Blanket Exercise:
https://www.kairosblanketexercise.org/

Returning to Spirit Reconciliation Workshops:
https://www.returningtospirit.org/

Online Resources

150 Acts of Reconciliation for Canada’s 150:
http://activehistory.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/150acts.pdf

Addictive Behaviours Among Aboriginal People in Canada
https://nctr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/addictive-behaviours.pdf

A Path to Reconciliation, Alberta Community Support Network:
https://ecvo.ca/blog/a-path-to-reconciliation/?mc_cid=bf2f52ec36&mc_eid=334af262ac

Beyond 94, CBC:
https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/beyond-94

Do you live near a Residential School? CBC:
https://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/beyond-94-residential-school-map/

Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre:
https://collections.irshdc.ubc.ca/index.php

Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada:
https://indigenouspeoplesatlasofcanada.ca/ (may be free and accessible with your local library)

Making Treaty 7 Cultural Society Educational Resources:
https://www.makingtreaty7.com/educational-resources

Making Treaty 7 Cultural Society Keeping up with Calls to Action:
https://www.makingtreaty7.com/calls-to-action

Non-Indigenous people — here’s what you can do, right now, IndigiNews:
https://indiginews.com/okanagan/non-indigenous-people-heres-what-you-can-do-in-wake-of-kirs-news?mc_cid=bf2f52ec36&mc_eid=334af262ac

On Canada Project Settlers Take Action:
https://oncanadaproject.ca/settlerstakeaction

Sacred Blackfoot Sites with Rebecca Many Grey Horses:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVCLsAyGNOI

The intergenerational effects of Indian Residential Schools - Implications for the concept of historical trauma:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4232330/

The Kainai Stolen Children Era:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMIPaYpx1po

Tiffany Prete: Understanding the trauma from residential school systems:
https://qonaskamkuk.com/tiffany-prete-understanding-the-trauma-from-residential-school-systems/

Uneducation, A Coloring Experience:
https://www.eaglespeaker.com/uneducation-coloring-freebie

Voices of the Land:
https://voicesoftheland.org/

Watch and Learn Online

8th Fire – CBC:
https://www.cbc.ca/firsthand/blog/8th-fire-wabs-walk-through-history

A Mother's Voice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip3yGEKGCX4&t=13s&ab_channel=STORYHIVE

Beyond Red Dress Day: Seven calls to action for Indigenous allies:
https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/beyond-red-dress-day-7-calls-to-action-for-indigenous-allies/

Calls To Action Accountability: A 2020 Status Update On Reconciliation Executive Summary, Yellowhead Institute:
https://yellowheadinstitute.org/2020/12/17/calls-to-action-accountability-a-2020-status-update-on-reconciliation/

Casey Eaglespeaker Part 1- Residential Schools, Centre for Newcomers:
https://www.centrefornewcomers.ca/post/casey-eaglespeaker-part-i-residential-schools

Century of Genocide in the Americas:
https://vimeo.com/36847324

Clearing the Plains - Presented by James Daschuk - February 21, 2018:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2IUCd4yX6E

Home Fire- Ending the Cycle of Family Violence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmstyXc6FnI

Inendi
https://gem.cbc.ca/inendi/s01e01

Little Moccasins:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MA_7Iiie9E

Narcisse Blood Last Dance: Learning From Place
https://www.google.com/search?q=learning+from+place+narcisse+bllod&rlz=1C1CHZN_enCA1037CA1037&oq=learning+from+place+narcisse+bllod&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIJCAEQIRgKGKABMgkIAhAhGAoYoAHSAQg2ODI3ajBqNKgCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:e270f619,vid:eX_Z5W1R2r8

Secret Path:
https://www.secretpath.ca/

Stolen Children:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdR9HcmiXLA

Strombo: Soap Box with Wab Kinew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlkuRCXdu5A&ab_channel=Strombo

The Pass System:
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thepasssystemfilm

Two generations, two truths:
https://calgaryunitedway.org/truth-and-reconciliation/

Water the Sacred Relationship:
https://www.sacredrelationship.ca/

We Can’t Make the Same Mistake Twice:
https://www.nfb.ca/film/we_can_t_make_the_same_mistake_twice/?fbclid=IwAR3YYJePX7Abq5WqyROzeAQ5FDM1upgbpZisqlIFH026yvR1k6vrwi5CYXA

We Were Children:
https://www.nfb.ca/distribution/film/we_were_children

Movies/ Videos (some may be available online or on streaming platforms)

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Cowboy Smithx: "Resilience, Empowerment, Discourse and a Silent 'x"
Elder in the Making
In Jesus' Name: Shattering the Silence of St. Anne's Residential School
Indian Horse
Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy
Little Bird
Muffins for Granny
National Film Board of Canada
Night Raiders
Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii
Truth & Reconciliation the Legacy of Residential Schools in Canada

Common Myths or Misconceptions about Indigenous Peoples

Explore a few of the links below to debunk myths that are commonly associated with and believed to be true.

6 Common Myths about Treaties in Canada:
https://indigenousstudies.utoronto.ca/news/treaty-myths/

Exposing Five Myths About Indigenous Peoples:
https://www.ualberta.ca/newtrail/people/exposing-five-myths.html

Implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Myths and Misrepresentations:
https://www.afn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/UNDRIP_Implementation_ENG.pdf

Indigenous 101: Exploring myths and stereotypes (part one):
https://www.norquest.ca/about-us/news-and-events/stories/indigenous-101-exploring-myths-and-stereotypes-(part-one).aspx

Indigenous 101: Exploring myths and stereotypes (part two):
https://www.norquest.ca/about-us/news-and-events/stories/indigenous-101-exploring-myths-and-stereotypes-(part-two).aspx

Indigenous 101: Exploring myths and stereotypes (part three):
https://www.norquest.ca/about-us/news-and-events/stories/indigenous-101-exploring-myths-and-stereotypes-(part-three).aspx

Insight on 10 myths about Indigenous Peoples:
https://www.ictinc.ca/blog/insight-on-10-myths-about-indigenous-peoples

Myth or Fact?:
https://opentextbc.ca/indigenizationfoundations/back-matter/appendix-c-myth-or-fact/

Residential Schools: Busting myths and misconceptions:
http://www.otc.ca/public/uploads/resource_photo/OTC_-_Myth_Busting-_Residential_Schools.pdf

Treaty Money:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhUVy6EU1CQ

Local Authors and Books (Books by Indigenous authors are in Orange)

Indigenous Stories from Treaty 7 Authors, Calgary Public Library:
https://calgarylibrary.ca/connect/indigenous-services/treaty-7-language-books/
My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell by Arthur Bear Chief
My Name is Shield Woman: A hard road to healing, vision, and leadership by Ruth Scalp Lock, Jim Pritchard
My Suitcase: Nii Sookayis by Christina Fox
NAPI- the Trixter: A Blackfoot Graphic Novel by Jason EagleSpeaker
Siksikaitsitapi, Stories Of The Blackfoot People by Payne Many Guns
The Story of the Blackfoot People: Nitsitapiisinni
The True Spirit and Original Intent of Treaty 7 by the Treaty 7 Elders and Tribal Council
These Mountains are Our Sacred Places: The Story of the Stoney People by Chief John Snow
UNeducation: A Residential School Graphic Novel, Volume 1 by Jason EagleSpeaker
UNeducation, Volume 2. Book One: The Side of Society You Don't See on TV by Jason EagleSpeaker
We Are Coming Home: Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence by Gerald T. Conaty (Ed.)

Books (Adult)

Calgary Public Library (staff created list): First Peoples’ Stories https://calgary.bibliocommons.com/list/share/374593088_nicholle_p/657239428_first_peoples_stories

21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph

1491 (Second Edition): New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann

A Canadian Shame: The Indian Act and Residential Schools by Darren Grimes

A Cultural Sociology of Anglican Mission and the Indian Residential Schools in Canada: The Long Road to Apology by Eric Taylor Woods

"A National Crime": the Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879-1986 by John S. Milloy

A Public Apology to Siksika Nation by AA Bronson
Aboriginal Peoples: Building for the Future by Kevin Reed

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

Children of the Broken Treaty: Canada's Lost Promise and One Girl's Dream by Charlie Angus

Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life by James Daschuk Ph.D., Elizabeth A. Fenn, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair

Dancing On Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence by Leanne Simpson

Did You See Us?: Reunion, Remembrance, and Reclamation at An Urban Indian Residential School by Survivors of the Assiniboia Indian Residential School

From Truth Comes Reconciliation: Assessing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report by Rodney Clifton, Mark DeWolf

Genocidal Love: a Life After Residential School by Bevann Fox

#IdleNoMore: And the Remaking of Canada by Ken Coates

In This Together: Fifteen Stories of Truth and Reconciliation by Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail

Indian School Road: Legacies of the Shubenacadie Residential School by Chris Benjamin

Indigenous Healing by Rupert Ross

Indigenous Relations: Insights, Tips & Suggestions to Make Reconciliation a Reality by Bob Joseph with Cynthia F. Joseph

Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis, & Inuit Issues in Canada by Chelsea Vowe

“Métis”: Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood by Chris Andersen

Mnidoo Bemaasing Bemaadiziwin: Reclaiming, Reconnecting, and Demystifying Resiliency as Life Force Energy for Residential School Survivors by Theresa Turmel

Pathways of Reconciliation: Indigenous and Settler Approaches to Implementing the TRC's Calls to Action by Aimée Craft, Paulette Regan

Peace Pipe Dreams: The Truth about Lies about Indians by Darrell Dennis

Power Through Testimony: Reframing Residential Schools in the Age of Reconciliation by Brieg Capitaine, Karine Vanthuyne

Price Paid: The Fight for First Nations Survival by Bev Sellars

Reconciling and Rehumanizing Indigenous–Settler Relations: An Applied Anthropological Perspective by Nadia Ferrara

Research and Reconciliation by Shawn Wilson, Andrea V. Breen, Lindsay DuPré

Residential Schools and Reconciliation: Canada Confronts Its History by J.R. Miller

Resurgence and Reconciliation: Indigenous-Settler Relations and Earth Teachings by Michael Asch, John Borrows, James Tully

Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga

Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience by Kent Monkman, Barbara Fischer, Lucy Lippard

Shingwauk's Vision: a History of Native Residential Schools by J.R. Miller

Standoff: Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It by Bruce McIvor

Suffer the Little Children: Genocide, Indigenous Nations and the Canadian State by Tamara Starblanket

Surviving Canada: Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal by Myra Tait (Ed.)

The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill

The Gatherings: Reimagining Indigenous-Settler Relations by Shirley Hage, Mawopiyane

The Inconvenient Indian, The: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King

The Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada by The Royal Canadian Geographical Society/Canadian Geographic

The Knowing by Tanya Talaga

The Metis: Memorable Events and Memorable Personalities by George and Terry Goulet

The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy by Arthur Manuel, Ronald Derrickson, Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson, Naomi Klein

The Sleeping Giant Awakens: Genocide, Indian Residential Schools, and the Challenge of Conciliation by David Bruce MacDonald

The Story of a National Crime: Being An Appeal for Justice to the Indians of Canada : the Wards of the Nation, Our Allies in the Revolutionary War, Our Brothers-in-arms in the Great War by P. H. (Peter Henderson) Bryce

This Place: 150 Years Retold by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Sonny Assu , Brandon Mitchell, Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley, Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley, David A. Robertson, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Jen Storm, Richard Van Camp, Katherena Vermette, Chelsea Vowel, Alicia Elliott, Tara Audibert, Kyle Charles, GMB Chomichuk, Natasha Donovan, Scott B. Henderson, Andrew Lodwick, Scott A. Ford, Donovan Yaciuk, Ryan Howe

Those Who Know: Profiles of Alberta's Native Elders by Dianne Meili

Troubling Truth and Reconciliation in Canadian Education: Critical Perspectives by Sandra D. Styres, Arlo Kempf

Truth and Indignation: Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools by Ronald Niezen

Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-up Call by Arthur Manuel

Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada by Paulette Regan

Victims of Benevolence: The Dark Legacy of the Williams Lake Residential School by Elizabeth Furniss

Working Effectively with Indigenous Peoples by Bob Joseph and Cynthia F. Joseph

Books (Children and Youth)

7 Generations: a Plains Cree Saga by David Robertson

Amik Loves School: a Story of Wisdom by Katherena Vermette

A Native American Thought of It: Amazing Inventions and Innovations by Rocky Landon, David MacDonald

Apple: Skin to the Core: a Memoir in Words and Pictures by Eric L. Gansworth

Jim Thorpe- Original All-American: a Novel by Joseph Bruchac

Killing the Wittigo by Suzanne Methot

Looks Like Daylight: Voices of Indigenous Kids by Deborah Ellis

Muinji'j Asks Why: the Story of the Mi'kmaq and the Shubenacadie Residential School by Muinji'j MacEachern

Shi-shi-etko by Nicola I. Campbell

Stolen Words by Melanie Florence

The Journey Forward: Novellas on Reconciliation by Richard Van Camp, Monique Gray Smith

You Hold Me Up by Monique Gray Smith

Stories and Memoir (Adult)

A Really Good Brown Girl by Marilyn Dumont

Betty: The Helen Betty Osborne Story (Graphic Novel) by David A Robertson

Birdie by Tracey Lindberg

Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools: a Memoir by Theodore Fontaine

Burning in This Midnight Dream by Louise Bernice Halfe

Call Me Indian: From the Trauma of Residential School to Becoming the NHL's First Treaty Indigenous Player by Fred Sasakamoose

Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations by Richard Wagamese

Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong by Paul Chaat Smith

Finding My Talk: How Fourteen Native Women Reclaimed Their Lives After Residential School by Agnes Grant

Five Little Indians by Michelle Good

From Bear Rock Mountain: the Life and Times of a Dene Residential School Survivor by Antoine Mountain

From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle

Inconvenient Skin/ nayêhtâwan wasakay by Shane L. Koyczan

Indian Horse, a Novel by Richard Wagamese

Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway

Life in the City of Dirty Water: a Memoir of Healing by Clayton Thomas-Müller

Morningstar, a Warrior's Spirit by Morningstar Mercredi

NISHGA by Jordan Abel

On the Goose: a Labrador Métis Woman Remembers by Josie Penny

Our Story: Aboriginal Voices on Canada's Past by Various Authors

Out of the Depths: The Experiences of Mi'kmaw Children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia (3rd Edition) by Isabelle Knockwood

Pipestone: My Life in An Indian Boarding School by Adam Fortunate Eagle

Porcupines and China Dolls by Robert Arthur Alexie

Residential Schools: With the Words and Images of Survivors by Larry Loyie

Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School by Celia Haig-Brown

Resolve: The Story of the Chelsea Family and a First Nation Community's Will to Heal by Carolyn Parks Mintz

Remembering Will Have to Do: The Life and Times of Louise (Trottier) Moine by Louise Moine

Rez Dog Blues & The Haiku: A Savage Life in Bits and Pieces by William George Lindsay

Secret Path by Gordon Downie

Speaking My Truth: Reflections on Reconciliation & Residential School by Shelagh Rogers, Mike DeGagné, Jonathan Dewar, Aboriginal Healing Foundation (Canada)

Spirit of the Grassroots People: Seeking Justice for Indigenous Survivors of Canada's Colonial Education System by Raymond Mason

St. Michael's Residential School: Lament & Legacy by Nancy Dyson

The Education of Augie Merasty a Residential School Memoir by Joseph Auguste Merasty

The Good, the Bad and the Innocent: The Tragic Reality Behind Residential Schools by Albert Etzerza

The Outside Circle: A Graphic Novel by Patti Laboucane-Benso

The Reason You Walk: A Memoir by Wab Kinew

The Red Files by Lisa Bird-Wilson

They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at An Indian Residential School by Bev Sellars

Thou Shalt Not Be An Indian: A Residential School Survivor's Story by Robert Kakakaway

Unreconciled by Jesse Wente

Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History by Edmund Metatawabin

Wenjack by Joseph Boyden

Xwist Memin Kin "I Want to Go Home": Memories of Kamloops Residential School and Joeyaska Ranch by Mary Jane Joe

Stories and Memoir (Children and Youth)

A Stranger at Home: A True Story by Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton

Aggie and Mudgy: the Journey of Two Kaska Dena Children by Wendy Proverbs

As Long as the Rivers Flow: A Last Summer before Residential School by Larry Loyie, Constance Brissenden, Heather Holmlund

Beyond the Orange Shirt Story: A collection of stories from family and friends of Webstad before, during and after their Residential School experiences by Phyllis Webstad

Dear Canada: These Are My Words: The Residential School Diary of Violet Pesheens By Ruby Slipperjack

Fatty Legs: A True Story by Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton

Goodbye Buffalo Bay by Loyie Larry, Constance Brissenden

I Am Not a Number by Jenny Kay Dupuis, Kathy Kacer, Gillian Newland

I Lost My Talk by Rita Joe

I'm Finding My Talk by Rebecca Thomas

Looks Like Daylight: Voices of Indigenous Kids by Deborah Ellis

My Name Is Seepeetza by Shirley Sterling

No Time to Say Goodbye: Children's Stories of Kuper Island Residential School by Sylvia Olsen, Rita Morris, Ann Sam

Not My Girl by Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton

Orange Shirt Day: September 30th by Orange Orange Shirt Society, Phyllis Webstad, Joan Sorley

Phyllis’s Orange Shirt by Phyllis Webstad

Picking Up the Pieces: Residential School Memories and the Making of the Witness Blanket by Carey Newman, Kirstie Hudson

Reflections From Them Days: a Residential School Memoir From Nunatsiavut by Nellie Winters

Shin-Chi's Canoe by Nicola Campbell, Kim Lafave

Speaking Our Truth: a Journey of Reconciliation by Monique Gray Smith

Spirit Bear- Honouring Memories, Planting Dreams: Based on a True Story by Cindy Blackstock

Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story by David Alexander Robertson

Sweetgrass Basket by Marlene Carvell

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

The Orange Shirt Story: The True Story of Orange Shirt Day by Phyllis Webstad, Emma Bullen, Brock Nicol

The Train by Jodie Callaghan

The Witness Blanket: Truth, Art and Reconciliation by Carey Newman

Urban Tribes: Native Americans in the City by Lisa Charleyboy (Author), Mary Beth Leatherdale

When I Was Eight by Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton

When We Were Alone by David Alexander Robertson, Julie Flett

White Raven by Teoni Spathelfer

With Our Orange Hearts by Phyllis Webstad, Emily Kewageshig

Teacher Resources Online

Alberta Teachers’ Association Resources:
https://legacy.teachers.ab.ca/For%20Members/Professional%20Development/IndigenousEducationandWalkingTogether/Pages/Resources.aspx

Caretakers of the Land: Teaching Indigenous histories and cultures to grades K-6 (Calgary Public Library):
https://calgarylibrary.ca/connect/students/educators-and-teachers/caretakers-of-the-land/

Education is Our New Buffalo, A Teachers’ Resource for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Education in Alberta (2008):
https://ied.sd61.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/112/2019/02/Education_is_Our_Buffalo_FN_Metis_Inuit_Education_in_Alberta.pdf

Education is Our Buffalo: A Teachers' Resource for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Education in Alberta (Rev. 2016):
https://www.albertaschoolcouncils.ca/public/download/documents/55705

Empowering the Spirit, Educational Resource to Support Reconciliation:
https://empoweringthespirit.ca/

Four Directions Learning Activities:
https://fourdirectionsteachings.com/blackfoot_jr.pdf

Guiding Voices: A Curriculum Development Tool for Inclusion of First Nation, Métis and Inuit Perspectives Throughout Curriculum:
https://fourdirectionsteachings.com/Teacher_Resource_Kit.html

Qinuisaarniq Teaching Guides, Inhabit Education:
https://inhabiteducationbooks.com/pages/teaching-guides

Learn more about First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples across Canada, Government of Canada:
https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1621447127773/1621447157184

Making Treaty 7 Cultural Society, Educational Resources:
https://www.makingtreaty7.com/educational-resources

National Centre for Collaboration in Indigenous Education, Teaching Resource Centre:
https://www.nccie.ca/teaching-resource-centre/

Native Counseling Services of Alberta and RHSW Workers:
https://www.ncsa.ca/programs/residential-school-health-support

Niitsitapiisini our way of life: Traditional Stories (Glenbow Museum):
https://www.glenbow.org/blackfoot/EN/html/traditional_stories.htm

Niitsitapiisini Teacher Toolkit (Glenbow Museum):
https://www.glenbow.org/blackfoot/teacher_toolkit/index.html

Orange Shirt Society Teacher Resources:
https://www.orangeshirtday.org/teacher-resources.html

Water the Sacred Relationship:
https://www.sacredrelationship.ca/grade-5/index.html

Werklund School of Education Indigenous Education Resources:
https://werklund.ucalgary.ca/teaching-learning/indigenous-education-resources

Teacher Resource Books

Truth and Reconciliation in Canadian Schools by Pamela Rose Toulouse

Residential Schools: The Devastating Impact on Canada's Indigenous Peoples and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Findings and Calls for Action by Melanie Florence

Podcasts - Indigenous Voice

2 Crees in a Pod:
https://open.spotify.com/show/1qKExfEtwCCEyW82nmk7kn

All my Relations:
https://www.allmyrelationspodcast.com/

Go Smudge Yourself:
https://open.spotify.com/show/1ZsaRZQK48KhnZYsvf2Lre

Indigenous Action:
https://www.indigenousaction.org/podcast/

Keeping it Riel with the MNA:
https://open.spotify.com/show/3zrxmY55OiPBBANSPZlMXm

Media Indigena:
https://mediaindigena.com/

Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo:
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/148-missing-murdered-finding-cleo

Nation to Nation (and other APTN podcasts):
https://www.aptnnews.ca/podcasts/

Native Calgarian with Red Thunderwoman:
https://www.nativecalgarian.com/

Red Man Laughing:
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/red-man-laughing/id581403701

The Secret Life of Canada:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/secretlifeofcanada