Resources Page

Thank you for taking the time and initiative to explore these resources on your own. This list is not exhaustive, and would ideally supplement our training, but is a useful starting point on its own.

Doctrine of Discovery:

https://www.afn.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/18-01-22-Dismantling-the-Doctrine-of-Discovery-EN.pdf

Indian Act

Indian Act (justice.gc.ca)

Indigenous Dispossession Map:

https://www.cjpmefoundation.org/indigenous_dispossession_map?fbclid=IwAR0Dvn6ZN4FyIW8VTETZlMAX7RJgJOzlm12Qfa6S1anq5CIxP5j8TJ8xANU

Colonialism Definition:

https://www.bing.com/search?q=colonialism&cvid=f68103d112b94afca3a5274ad428630e&aqs=edge.1.69i57j0l6.4164j0j4&FORM=ANAB01&PC=HCTS

What is Decolonization/Indigenization

https://www.queensu.ca/ctl/teaching-support/decolonizing-and-indigenizing/what-decolonizationindigenization

Land Acknowledgements

What Land are you on – Global. Provides maps of treaties and traditional territories

https://native-land.ca/

Indigenous Health

4 Diseases Impacting Health on First Nations in Canada – Aetonix

The Failure of Federal Indigenous Healthcare Policy in Canada - Yellowhead Institute

Healing racism in Canadian health care (hfam.ca)

Child welfare

Bill C-92: Recognizing Indigenous Authority Over Child And Family Services - Indigenous Peoples - Canada (mondaq.com)

Sixties Scoop and Millennium Scoop - Indigenous Studies - LibGuides at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (kpu.ca)

Truth and Reconciliation: Child Welfare and Education – Indigenizing Curriculum – Spring 2018 (wordpress.com)

Taxation

Canadian Misconceptions About Indians Living Off “Taxpayer Monies” « whitespottedhorse.com

Indian-Trust-Fund-FAQs-Yellowhead-Institute-5.2021.pdf (yellowheadinstitute.org)

Next Steps (justice.gc.ca)

Reconciliation and learning

Book a Learning Experience through Reconciliation Canada

https://reconciliationcanada.ca/resources/toolkits/

Take the “Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education” online course offered through the UBC

Or the “Indigenous Canada” online course offered through the University of Alberta

Read the TRC Summary Findings Report

Read the 94 TRC Calls to Action, and ACTION what you can do for yourself and what your employer can do

View and research the Resources available on the TRC website

Videos from presentations

Canadian Federal Government Apology to First Nations – YouTube

Written Copy of the Residential School Apology

Sen. Murray Sinclair: How can Canadians work toward reconciliation – YouTube

Justice Murray Sinclair talks about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission – YouTube

How Senator Murray Sinclair responds to why don’t residential school survivors just ‘get over it’ | CBC Radio

Women

https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/marginalization_of_aboriginal_women/

Recommended Reading/Audio Books

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Seven Truths by Tanya Talaga (goodreads.com)

Indigenous or Aboriginal Rights

Study on the implementation of Mi’kmaq Treaty Fishing Rights to support a Moderate Livelihood

https://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/transparency-transparence/briefing-breffage/2021/livelihood-subsistance-eng.htm