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• Truth Telling :

  Seven Conversations About Indigenous Life in Canada /

  Good, Michelle,

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  Truth Telling is a collection of essays about the contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada. From resistance and reconciliation to the resurgence and reclamation of Indigenous power, Michelle Good explores the issues through a series of personal…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unreconciled

  Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance

  Wente, Jesse

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  A prominent Indigenous voice uncovers the lies and myths that affect relations between white and Indigenous peoples and the power of narrative to emphasize truth over comfort. Part memoir and part manifesto, Unreconciled is a stirring call to put…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unsettling the Settler Within

  Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada

  Regan, Paulette, 1949-

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  Unsettling the Settler Within is a call to action for non-Indigenous Canadians who do not see a need to take part in a truth-telling and reconciliation process. It makes a compelling argument for why they should care about the history of the IRS…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Knock on the Door

  The Essential History of Residential Schools From the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

  Canada, Truth and Reconciliation Commission of,

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  A Knock on the Door, published in collaboration with the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR), gathers material from the TRC reports to present the essential history and legacy of residential schools and inform the journey to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Volume One

  Summary : Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future

  Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

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  This is the Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Indigenous youth and the legacy of these schools. This summary volume of the report includes the history of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Fire Still Burns

  Life in and After Residential School

  George, Sam (Samuel James),

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  Set in the Vancouver area in the late 1940s and through to the present day, this unflinching account follows Sam from his idyllic childhood on the Eslhá7an (Mission) reserve to the confines of St. Paul’s Indian Residential School, and then into a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Canada's Residential Schools

  the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

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• Call Me Indian :

  From the Trauma of Residential School to Becoming the NHL's First Treaty Indigenous Player /

  Sasakamoose, Fred, 1933-

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  Ayahkokopawiwiyin or Fred Sasakamoose was born in 1933 on what is now called Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. A residential school Survivor, Fred is known as the first Indigenous player with Treaty status to play in the NHL. After retiring…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kâ-pî-isi-kiskisiyân

  The Way I Remember

  Ratt, Solomon

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  A residential school survivor finds his way back to his language and culture through his family’s traditional stories. When reflecting on forces that have shaped his life, Solomon Ratt says his education was interrupted by his schooling. Torn from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Namwayut :

  We Are All One : a Pathway to Reconciliation /

  Joseph, Robert, 1939-

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  Reconciliation belongs to everyone. In this profound book, Chief Robert Joseph, globally recognized peacebuilder and Hereditary Chief of the Gwawaenuk People, traces his journey from his childhood surviving residential school to his present-day role…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tsqelmucwílc :

  the Kamloops Indian Residential School--resistance and a Reckoning /

  Haig-Brown, Celia

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  "Tsqelmucwilc" (pronounced cha-CAL-mux-weel) is a Secwepemc phrase loosely translated as "We return to being human again." Tsqelmucwilc is the story of those who survived the Kamloops Indian Residential School, based on the 1988 book Resistance and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bear Bones & Feathers /

  Halfe, Louise B., 1953-

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  Employing Indigenous spirituality, black comedy, and the memories of her own childhood as healing arts, celebrated poet Louise B. Halfe – Sky Dancer finds an irrepressible source of strength and dignity in her people. Bear Bones and Feathers offers…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Standoff

  Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It

  McIvor, Bruce,

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  In this series of concise and thoughtful essays, lawyer and historian Bruce McIvor explains why reconciliation with Indigenous peoples is failing and what needs to be done to fix it. McIvor’s message is consistent and powerful: if Canadians are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Life in the City of Dirty Water :

  a Memoir of Healing /

  Thomas-Müller, Clayton,

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  A gritty and inspiring memoir from renowned Cree environmental activist Clayton Thomas-Muller, who escaped the world of drugs and gang life to take up the warrior’s fight against the assault on Indigenous peoples’ lands—and eventually the warrior’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Genocidal Love

  a Life After Residential School

  Fox, Bevann, 1968-

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  A powerful confirmation of the long-lasting consequences of residential school violence —and a moving story of finding a path towards healing.

• Nishga /

  Abel, Jordan

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  From Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jordan Abel comes a groundbreaking, deeply personal, and devastating autobiographical meditation that attempts to address the complicated legacies of Canada's residential school system and contemporary Indigenous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• From Where I Stand :

  Rebuilding Indigenous Nations for a Stronger Canada /

  Wilson-Raybould, Jody, 1971-

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  In this powerful book, drawn from Wilson-Raybould’s speeches and other writings, she urges all Canadians – both Indigenous and non-Indigenous – to build upon the momentum already gained in the reconciliation process or risk hard-won progress being…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Indigenous Relations

  Insights, Tips & Suggestions to Make Reconciliation a Reality

  Joseph, Robert P. C., 1963-

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  We are all treaty people. But what are the everyday impacts of treaties, and how can we effectively work toward reconciliation if we're worried our words and actions will unintentionally cause harm? Hereditary chief and leading Indigenous relations…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Aki-wayn-zih

  a Person as Worthy as the Earth

  Baxter, Eli

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  Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth is a memoir written by Canadian writer Eli Baxter and folows one man’s story of growing up in the hunting and gathering society of the Ojibways and surviving the residential school system, woven together…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Gatherings

  Reimagining Indigenous-settler Relations

  Hager, Shirley N., 1952-

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  In a world that requires knowledge and wisdom to address developing crises around us, The Gatherings shows how Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples can come together to create meaningful and lasting relationships. Thirty years ago, in Wabanaki…Read moreRead more of this annotation