The following page is dedicated to providing a list of resources held by the Library that may be useful in your work related to and to address the calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. It is not exhaustive, so please feel free to email any suggestions of works that should be added.
If you are interested in listening and watching others read the TRC Report and the calls to action, you can view people reading out the TRC's Executive Summary on YouTube.
Warrior Life: Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence (book).
Framing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Process in Canada: A Media Analysis of Settler Colonial Rhetoric and Colonial Denial, 2003-2016 (journal article)
Land Back: A meta narrative to help indigenous people show up as movement leaders (journal article)
Keeping 'our'land: Property, agriculture and tensions between Indigenous and settler visions of food sovereignty in Canada (journal article)
Our history is the future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the long tradition of Indigenous resistance (print book)
As we have always done: Indigenous freedom through radical resistance (print and ebook)
Indigenous Motherhood and Indian Hospitals: Exploring the Impact on Generational Indigenous Mothering Using Feminist Ethnography as a Decolonial Practice (journal article)
The Journey of a Ts' msyen Residential School Survivor: Resiliency, Healing, and Citizenship (journal article)
An Indian Residential School Survivor's Journey with Truth and Reconciliation (dissertation)
Research has and is being conducted on the health implications of the residential school system in Canada. This is a sample of studies looking at this question, as well as several articles that look critically at how this research is being conducted and interpreted.
Coverage from the CBC
Two residential school survivors from Saskatchewan share their stories.
Coverage from the CBC
Animated film tells the story of Chanie Wenjack, who died trying to return home from Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School
Feature film on residential schools from the NFB
Fontaine, Theodore. Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools: A Memoir.
Joe, Rita with Lynn Henry. Song of Rita Joe: Autobiography of a Mi’kmaq Poet
King, Cecil. The Boy from Buzwah: A Life in Indian Education
Merasty, Joseph Auguste. The Education of Augie Merasty (ebook)
Slipperjack, Ruby. These Are My Words: The Residential School Diary of Violet Pesheens