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.

• A knock on the door: The essential history of residential schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (ebook)

• Canada's residential schools: The final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (print book and ebook)

• Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to action (ebook)

#ReadTheTRCReport

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. 

White Goose Flying: A Report to Calgary City Council on the Indian Residential School Calls to Action

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.

• Do discrimination, residential school attendance and cultural disruption add to individual-level diabetes risk among Aboriginal people in Canada? (2015)

• Impact of residential schooling and of child abuse on substance use problem in Indigenous Peoples (2015)

• The lifetime effect of residential school attendance on Indigenous health status (2014)

• The mental health of Indigenous peoples in Canada: A critical review of research (2017)

• Residential schools and the effects on Indigenous health and well-being in Canada—a scoping review (2016)

• Suicide ideation and attempts among First Nations peoples living on-reserve in Canada: The intergenerational and cumulative effects of Indian residential schools (2017)

• Trauma and suicide behaviour histories among a Canadian Indigenous population: An empirical exploration of the potential role of Canada's residential school system (2012)

Canada is #IdleNoMore: exploring dynamics of Indigenous political and civic protest in the Twitterverse (journal article)

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)

• Canada's residential school apology (2008)

  Coverage from the CBC

• It had to be done (2008)

  Two residential school survivors from Saskatchewan share their stories.

• Residential school shame: The TRC report (2015)

  Coverage from the CBC

• The secret path (2016)

  Animated film tells the story of Chanie Wenjack, who died trying to return home from Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School

• Stolen children (The National, 2008)

• Where the Spirit Lives (1989)

• We were children (2010)

  Feature film on residential schools from the NFB

• Indian Horse (2017)

• Barman, Jean and Jan Hare, Good Intentions Gone Awry: Emma Crosby and the Methodist Mission on the Northwest Coast

• Chartrand, Larry N., Tricia E. Logan and Judy D. Daniels. Métis History and Experience and Residential Schools in Canada/Histoire et expériences des Métis et les pensionnats au Canada

• Grant, Agnes. No End of Grief: Indian Residential Schools in Canada

• Huel, Raymond J.A. Proclaiming the Gospel to the Indians and Métis

• King, David. A Brief Report of the Federal Government of Canada’s Residential School System for Inuit/ Bref compte-rendu du Régime du pensionnats pour les Inuit du gouvernement fédéral du Canada

• Miller, J.R., Shingwauk’s Vision: A History of Native residential schools.

• Milloy, John S. A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879 to 1986

• Young-Ing, Gregory, Jonathan Dewar and Mike De Gagne, eds., Response, Responsibility, and Renewal: Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Journey/ Réponse, responsabilité et renouveau. Cheminement du Canada vers la vérité et la réconciliation

• Ahenakew, Edward. Voices of the Plains Cree

• Apakark Thrasher, Anthony. Skid Row Eskimo

• Blondine-Perrin, Alice. My Heart Shook Like a Drum

• Brass, Eleanor. I Walk in Two Worlds

• Fontaine, Theodore. Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools: A Memoir.

• French, Alice. My Name is Masak

• Joe, Rita with Lynn Henry. Song of Rita Joe: Autobiography of a Mi’kmaq Poet

• Johnston, Basil H., Indian School Days

• Kennedy, Dan. Recollections of an Assiniboine Chief

• Knockwood, Isabelle. Out of the Depths: The Experiences of Mi’kmaw Children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, N.S.

• Merasty, Joseph Auguste. The Education of Augie Merasty (ebook)

• Moran, Bridget. Stoney Creek Woman: The Story of Mary John

• Slipperjack, Ruby. These Are My Words: The Residential School Diary of Violet Pesheens

• Willis, Jane. Geniesh: An Indian Girlhood

• Battiste, Marie and Jean Barman, eds. First Nations Education in Canada: The Circle Unfolds

• Crey, Ernie and Suzanne Fournier. Stolen From Our Embrace: Abduction of First Nation Children and the Restoration of Aboriginal Communities

• Castellano, Marlene Brant, Linda Archibald, and Mike De Gagne, eds. From Truth to Reconciliation: Transforming the Legacy of Residential Schools/De la vérité à la réconciliation - Transformer l’héritage des pensionnats.

• Chrisjohn, Roland and Sherri Young. The Circle Game: Shadows and Substance in the Indian Residential School Experience

• Regan, Paulette. Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada

• Schissel, Bernard and Terry Wotherspoon, The Legacy of School for Aboriginal People: Education, Oppression, and Emancipation

• Talaga, Tanya, Seven Fallen Feathers (non-fiction)

• Wadden, Marie. Where the Pavement Ends: Canada’s Aboriginal Recovery Movement and the Urgent Need for Reconciliation

• Alexie, Robert Arthur. Porcupines and China Dolls (print book)

• Bird-Wilson, Lisa. The Red Files (print book/poetry)

• Good, Michelle.  Five Litte Indians (print book)

• Dimaline, Cherie. The Marrow Thieves (print book)

• Highway, Thomson. Kiss of the Fur Queen (print book)

• Mosionier, Beatrice. In Search of April Raintree (print book)

• Simon, Lorne Joseph. Stones and Switches (print book)