Here is a list of resources for people interested in rethinking both what and how we teach in our law schools. This list is, of course, non-exhaustive. Please let us know if you have any other recommendations that we can add to this list.
Books
- They Called Me Number One, by Bev Sellars
- Review available here
- The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America, by Thomas King
- Review available here
- Resource Rulers: Fortune and Folly on Canada’s Road to Resources, by Bill Gallagher
- Review available here
- The Circle Game: Shadows and Substance in the Indian Residential Experience in Canada, by Roland Chrisjohn, Sherri Young, and Michael Maraun
- Fatty Legs: A True Story, by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
- Review available here
- Stolen From Our Embrace, by Ernie Crey
- Review available here
- A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879 to 1986, by John Milloy
- Review available here
- Shingwauk’s Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools, 1996, by Jim Miller
- Review available here
- Saqiyuq: Stories from the Lives of Three Women, by Nancy Wachowich
- Review available here
- On Being Here to Stay, by Michael Asch
- Review available here
Children’s Books
- An on-line CBC news article on Books to read with your kids: here
Video and Film
- Carey Newman’s Witness Blanket Project
- Short video available here
- #ReadTheTRCReport, videos of TRC recommendations read aloud
- Blanket Exercise, video here
- Tunniit: Retracing the Lines of Inuit Tattoos, by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril
- Link to video here
- National Film Board Indigenous Films
- Link to website here
Reports
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Calls to Action
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Executive Summary
- Study on Treaties, Agreements, and Other Constructive Arrangements between States and Indigenous Populations, by Miguel Alfonso Martinez, for the UN Working Group on Indigenous Peoples
- Report available here
Articles
- Introduction to the Residential School System by UBC Indigenous Foundations
- Art + Reconciliation – Imaginary Spaces of Conciliation and Reconciliation, by David Garneau
- First came truth. Now comes the hard part. by Joseph Boyden
- Breaking the cycle: Inside a high school that is reimagining indigenous education, by Madeleine White
Other
- CBC 8th Fire: Aboriginal Peoples, Canada, and The Way Forward
- Canadaland Show: Podcast on TRC + Residential Schools
- Carey Newman’s Witness Blanket Project
- Video available here
- Apihtawikosisan Website, by Chelsea Vowel
- Where Are The Children, Reading List and resources
- Poetry of Rita Joe
- https://www.cle.bc.ca/butiwaswearingasuit/
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