Indigenous Resources

Booklist for Kids and Teens

1. 7 Generations Graphic Novels by David Robertson
2. A Girl Called Echo, Vol 4: Road Allowance Era by Katherena Vermette
3. A Stranger at Home by Christy Jordan-Fenton
4. Amik Loves School: A Story of Wisdom by Katherena Vermette and Irene Kuziw
5. As Long as the Rivers Flow by Larry Loyie
6. Fatty Legs by Christy Jordan-Fenton
7. Harry Okpik, Determined Musher by Maren Vsetula, Harry Okpik and Ali Hinch
8. I Am Not a Number by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer
9. I Lost My Talk by Rita Joe and Pauline Young
10. I’m Finding My Talk by Rebecca Thomas and Pauline Young
11. Making a Whole Person by Monica Ittusardjuat
12. My Name is Seepeetza by Shirley Sterling
13. On the Side of the Angels by Jose Amaujaq Kusugak & Hwei Lim
14. Phyllis’s Orange Shirt by Phyllis Webstad, Brock Nicol, and Allison Parker
15. Reflections from them days by Nellie Winters
16. Residential Schools by Heather Hudak
17. Righting Canada’s Wrings: Residential Schools by Melanie Florence
18. Secret Path by God Downie
19. Sugar Falls by David Robertson
20. Stolen Words by Melanie Florence
21. Speaking our Truth by Monique Gray Smith
22. The Orange Shirt Story by Phyllis Webstad, Brock Nicol, and Emma Bullen
23. The Train by Jodie Callaghan
24. This Place: 150 Years Retold
25. Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow by Aimee Craft and Luke Swinson
26. When We Were Alone by David Robertson and Julie Flett

Booklist for Adults

1. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act by Bob Joseph
2. A Knock on the Door: The Essential History of Residential Schools
3. A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
4. Betty by David Robertson
5. Broken Circle by Theodore Fontaine
6. Call Me Indian by Fred Saskamoose
7. Disintegrate/dissociate by Arielle Twist
8. Fighting for a hand to hold by Samir Shaheen-Hussain
9. Five Little Indians by Michelle Good
10. From Bear Rock Mountain by Antoine Mountain
11. Genocidal Love by Bevann Fox
12. Highway of Tears by Jessica McDiarmid
13. In my Own Moccasins by Helen Knott
14. Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
15. Indigenous Wrotes by Chelsea Vowel
16. Legacy by Suzanne Methot
17. Mamaskatch by Darrel McLeod
18. Nishga by Jordan Abel
19. Red River Girl by Joanna Jolly
20. Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga
21. The Education of Augie Merasty by Joseph Auguste Merasty
22. The Narrows of Fear by Carol Rose GoldenEagle
23. They Called Me Number One by Bev Sellars
24. Truth & Reconciliation Commission Reports
25. Up Ghost River by Edmund Metatawabin with Alexandra Shimo

Keep Learning

• Beyond 94: https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform-single/beyond-94?&cta=1
• Discussing Residential Schools and Indigenous Issues from The Canadian Children’s Book Centre: https://bookcentre.ca/resources-discussing-residential-schools-indigenous-issues
• Google Earth Voyager: Canada’s Residential Schools: https://earth.google.com/web/@43.127456,-80.240846,200.63860771a,4500000d,35y,0h,45t,0r/data=CkYSRBIgYTBlNWFkNDVhMjBiMTFlN2IzZmQzZjBhY2YwNDZiOWEiIGVmZWVkX3JjZ3NfcmVzaWRlbnRpYWxfc2Nob29sc18w
• Ground Work for Change: http://www.groundworkforchange.org/
• Indian Residential School System in Canada from X̱wi7x̱wa Library of UBC: https://guides.library.ubc.ca/irss
• Indigenous Canada MOOC Course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/indigenous-canada
• It’s Our Time Learning Modules from Assembly of First Nations: https://education.afn.ca/afntoolkit/learning-modules/
• National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation: https://nctr.ca/
• Orange Shirt Day: https://www.orangeshirtday.org/
• The Children Remembered: Residential School Archives Project: https://thechildrenremembered.ca/

Videos

• Indigenous Cinema from the National Film Board: https://www.nfb.ca/indigenous-cinema
• Treaty Talk: Sharing the River of Life: https://www.treatytalk.com/
• Treaty Walk: A Journey for Common Ground: https://www.treatytalk.com/treatywalkajourneyforcommonground

Podcasts

• Finding Cleo: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/findingcleo
• Indigenous 150: https://goodinfluencefilms.com/podcasts
• Kiwew: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/425-kiwew
• Muddied Water: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/371-muddied-water
• The Secret Life of Canada: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/203-the-secret-life-of-canada
• The Truth Sharing Podcast: https://www.sacredmmiwg.ca/?fbclid=IwAR0dYSGmhx3OC015fP8UXTlunsUY2BT2PrVAgigKDNk8EwkXunZAhtMYv2Y
• This Place: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1020-this-place
• Unreserved: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-105-unreserved

 Language Learning

• Indigenous Language Apps & Websites – Canadian Language Museum: https://www.languagemuseum.ca/indigenous-language-apps-websites
• Transparent Languages: https://library.transparent.com/peacelibrarysystemab/

Support

• National Indian Residential School Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419
  The Indian Residential Schools Crisis Line is available 24-hours a day for anyone experiencing pain or distress as a result of his or her Residential school experience.

• National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation: Survivors: https://nctr.ca/contact/survivors/
• Hope for Wellness Help line: 1-855-242-3310 or chat online at https://www.hopeforwellness.ca/
• CRISIS SERVICES CANADA: 1-833-456-4566 English or 1-866-APPELLE (277-3553) French
• KIDS HELP PHONE. 1-800-668-6868
• GOOD2TALK POST SECONDARY CRISIS LINE 1-866-925-5454
• LGBT YOUTH LINE LGBTQQ22SI peer support. Call 1-800-268-9688 or Text 647-694-4275