DOCUMENTATION || LEARNING || PODCASTS || VIDEO || ARTICLES || BOOKS || SUPPORT/DONATE
#FellowSettlers #TrustBeforeTruth #TruthAndReconciliation #MMIWG #UNDRIP #LandBack
WHAT IS THIS?
I recognize the privilege I have as a settler living, working, playing and creating on Treaty 7 land, and the responsibility I have to learn, listen, and take action to make Canada a better place for Indigenous Peoples and all Canadians. So, I got to work: listening and learning and gathering as much information as I could.
This by-no-means-complete list contains (mostly FREE) resources I have found on my own journey to learning and understanding. These resources are mainly for non-Indigenous people who genuinely want to learn, unlearn, relearn and work towards real action in making transformative change that benefits ALL Canadians.
“Our home on Native land”
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DISCLAIMER
Resources are added here as I find them, in no particular order, as is and with no affiliation.
Please direct any concerns with accessibility of any resources listed here to the source themselves
(unless the link is broken, in which case, let me know on Mastodon).
Some documentation or video resources may contain triggering content.
I do not claim to speak for any Indigenous Person/People.
LISTEN/LEARN **BE UNCOMFORTABLE** TAKE ACTION
DOCUMENTATION/RESOURCES
- National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation – the entire site is a useful resource
- National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation – Reports
- National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation – Map
- National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation – Calls to Action
- Government of Canada – Delivering on Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action
- The Yellowhead Institute – Calls to Action Accountability Report
- Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls – Reclaiming Power and Place
- Final Report of MMIWG – Volume 1a
- Final Report of MMIWG – Volume 1b (Calls for Justice pages 179-221, Calls to Justice for every Canadian 15.1-15.8)
- Government of Canada – What the Government of Canada is doing to end the tragedy of MMIWG
- UNDRIP – United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- UNDRIP – PDF download
- Government of Canada – The Indian Act
- The White Goose Flying Report – Calgary Aboriginal Urban Affairs Committee | The Report
- Government of Canada – Indigenous Services Canada
If you know someone who is struggling or in crisis, there is help:
National Indian Residential School Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419
Kids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868
First Nations and Inuit Hope for Wellness Help Line: 1-855-242-3310
Native Youth Crisis Hotline: 1-877-209-1266
LEARNING
Home on Native Land (Free lessons)
University of Alberta – Indigenous Canada (Free course)
PODCASTS
Also check with your preferred podcast provider
- Media Indigena
- Missing and Murdered
- The Secret Life of Canada
- Historica Canada: Residential Schools Podcast
- Unreserved
- Native Calgarian
- Telling Our Twisted Histories
- CBC Radio Columnist Kyle Muzyka: Indigenous Children in Care episodes: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
- Land Back
- Kuper Island
- Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s
- Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
VIDEO
*NOTE: Some resources listed here may require free or paid subscription in order to access
CBC/CBC GEM
— Collections/Series
- Truth and Reconciliation Collection
- 12 docs on Indigenous life in Canada
- Keep Calm and Decolonize
- Mashkawi-Manidoo Bimaadiziwin Spirit to Soar (English Version)
- Mashkawi-Manidoo Bimaadiziwin Spirit to Soar (Anishinaabemowin version)
- Taken: The Series
— Movies
NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA
- Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance
- These Are My People…
- Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger
- Search the NFB archives for Indigenous content
APTN
News/Movies/Shows/Documentaries
LUMI
APTN LUMI streaming service
YOUTUBE
- My Auntie survived residential school. I need to gather her stories before she’s gone | Inendi
- Canadians have been breaking their promises to Indigenous people
- 21 Things you Didn’t Know About the Indian Act Presentation
- The Indian Act Explained
- Residential Schools in Canada: A Timeline
- Namwayut: we are all one. Truth and reconciliation in Canada | Canada is …
- Phyllis Webstad – On Orange Shirt Day.
- Every Child Matters: Truth – Act One
- Every Child Matters: Reconciliation – Act Two
- The Word Indigenous – explained | CBC Kids News
- Stolen Children | Residential School survivors speak out
- Surviving the Kamloops Indian Residential School and the struggle for a settlement | APTN N2N
- Crimes against children at residential school: The truth about St. Anne’s – The Fifth Estate
- Land Acknowledgement (full captioned)
- Territorial Acknowledgements: Going Beyond the Script
- How to talk about Indigenous people
ARTICLES
- Residential schools
- Residential Schools in Canada
- Truth before reconciliation: 8 ways to identify and confront Residential School denialism
- ‘Cultural genocide’: the shameful history of Canada’s residential schools – mapped
- Explore Schools Timeline
- ‘The Story of a National Crime’
- Alberta Residential Schools
- Edmonton Indian Residential School
- Indian hospitals
- 60s Scoop
- Jordan’s Principle
- Truth and Reconciliation
- Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit
- Treaties
- Indian Act
- The Pass System
- Indian Status
- UNDRIP
- How to be an ally
- Terminology/Misconceptions
- Language/Culture
- Languages and Culture
- Indigenous Languages in Canada
- Indigenous Languages in Canada (chart)
- FirstVoices
- Language
- The Aboriginal languages of First Nations people, Métis and Inuit (Government of Canada statistics 2016)
- Indigenous Languages in Canada (PDF)
- Regalia
- Activism/Advocacy
- Land Back
BOOKS
SUPPORT/DONATE
Support Indigenous arts/services, contribute/donate to Indigenous-led causes
- Orange Shirt Day
- Donate to Indigenous Charities (324 charities listed here)
- Indian Residential School Survivors Society
- Native Women’s Association of Canada
- Aboriginal Friendship Centre of Calgary
- Spirit North
- USAY (Urban Society for Aboriginal Youth)
- Awo Taan Healing Lodge Society
- Nii’kinaaganaa Foundation
- Gidimt’ten Yintah Access
INDIGENOUS ARTISTS/SERVICES
- Christi Belcourt
- Jason Carter
- Kalum Teke Dan
- Bearclaw Gallery
- Indigenous Arts Collective of Canada
- Okema
- Bryson Syliboy
SUPPORT/OUTREACH FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
Please share these support resources with anyone who needs a hand up
OTHER RESOURCES
Contact your elected officials at all levels of government. Ask them what they are doing to move forward on the TRC’s 94 Calls to Action, 231 Calls for Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and eliminating other persistent issues and barriers in which Indigenous people still face today.
- Find your MP here
- In Alberta, find your MLA here
- In Calgary, find your city councillor here
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