All of the resources listed below can be found in the SMU Library, or online.
Films |
Gord Downie’s Secret Path in concert [CBC Curio video] |
Indian Horse [Criterion On Demand] |
Idle no more: A protest for Aboriginal rights [CBC Curio video] |
We Were Children [NFB] |
Books |
Emotions, Remembering and Feeling Better |
Colonial genocide in Indigenous North America |
The Inconvenient Indian |
Indigenous nationals, Canadian citizens |
Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada |
Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-up Call |
Pathways of Reconciliation |
Resurgence and Reconciliation |
From Where I Stand |
#IDLENOMORE and the remaking of Canada |
The Sleeping Giant Awakens: Genocide, Indian Residential Schools, and the Challenge of Conciliation |
From Truth to Reconciliation / Aboriginal Healing Foundation |
From Truth to Reconciliation / Aboriginal Healing Foundation |
From Truth to Reconciliation / Aboriginal Healing Foundation |
Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Residential schools: The Devastating Impact on Canada’s Indigenous Peoples and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Findings and Calls for Action |
Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools: A Memoir |
Finding my Talk: How Fourteen Native women Reclaimed their Lives after Residential School |
Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School |
The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir |
Residential Schools and Reconciliation: Canada Confronts Its History [on loan to September 30, 2021] |
Truth and Indignation: Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian residential schools |
Unsettling the settler within Indian residential schools, truth telling, and reconciliation in Canada |
Canada’s Residential Schools: The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada v.1: pt.1 |
Canada’s Residential Schools: The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada v.1: pt.2 |
Canada’s Residential Schools: The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada v.2 |
Canada’s Residential Schools: The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada v.3 |
Canada’s Residential Schools: The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada v.4 |
Canada’s Residential Schools: The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada v.5 |
Canada’s Residential Schools: The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada v.6 |
A Knock on the Door: The Essential History of Residential Schools |
Indian School Road: Legacies of the Shubenacadie Residential School |
Children of the Broken Treaty |
Creating Indigenous Property |
Let the People Speak: Oppression in a Time of Reconciliation |
#Not your Princess: Voices of Native American Women |
Metis History and Experience and Residential Schools in Canada |
Out of the Depths [2001 edition] |
My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell |
Entangled Territorialities |
Highway of Tears |
Violence against Indigenous women |
Our Story: Aboriginal voices on Canada’s past |
A Really Good Brown Girl |
Indian Horse |
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Thank you for your commitment to sharing valuable resources and fostering understanding on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Your blog post serves as an important guide for individuals seeking to deepen their knowledge and engage in meaningful dialogue. I would like to ask if you have any suggestions for how individuals can actively engage in promoting reconciliation beyond reading and educating themselves. Are there specific actions or initiatives that you would recommend for those who want to support Indigenous communities and contribute to positive change?
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