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Working Together

Explore the link below to learn more about the Working Together Indigenization Plan and its progress 

Resources

What are educational spaces around the world doing to decolonize? 

Suggested Reading for an Intrinsic Decolonial Journey 

  • Unsettling Canada  |  Arthur Manuel

  • The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy | Arthur Manuel

  • Indigenous Writes  | Chelsea Vowel

  • Indigenous Nationhood: Empowering Grassroots Citizens | Pam Palmater

  • The Winter We Danced: Voices from Past, Future, and Idle No More  | The Kino-nda-niimi Collective 

  • Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto | Taiaiake Alfred

  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | Dee Brown

  • Medicine Unbundled | Gary Geddes

  • As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance |  Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

  • Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition |  Glen Sean Coulthard

  • Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling | Paulette Regan

  • Memory Serves | Lee Maracle

  • My Conversations with Canadians | Lee Maracle

  • Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and Loss of Aboriginal Life | James Daschuk

  • Restoring the balance : First Nations women, community, and culture | Gail Valaskakis

  • Maps and Dreams | Hugh Brody

  • Chaos Inside Thunderstorms | Garry Gottfriedson

  • In The Rapids: Navigating the Future of First Nations | Ovide Mercredi

  • We are the Dreamers | Rita Joe

  • Inconvenient Indian: a Curious Account of Native People in North America | Thomas King

  • Comparing Mythologies | Tomson Highway

  • Settler: Identity and Colonialism in 21st Century Canada | Emma Lowman, Adam Barker

  • Surviving Canada: Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal | Myra Tait

  • The right relationship : reimagining the implementation of historical treaties | John Borrows

  • Returning To the Teachings: Exploring Aboriginal Justice  | Rupert Ross

  • Decolonizing Education: Nourishing the Learning Spirit | Marie Battiste

  • Alliances: Re/Envisioning Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relationships | Lynne Davis

  • Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies | Joanne Barker

  • Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination | Mark Rifkin

  • What We Have Learned: Principles of Truth and Reconciliation | Murray Sinclair

  • Price Paid: The Fight for First Nations Survival | Bev Sellars

  • The Second Long Walk: The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute | Jerry Kammer

  • The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book | Gord Hill

  • 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance | Gord Hill

  • Canada’s First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Times  | Olive Dickason

  • As Long as This Land Shall Last: A History of Treaty 8 and 11 | Rene Fumoleau

  • The Fourth World George Manuel, Michael Posluns A Narrow Vision: Duncan Campbell Scott and Admin of Indian Affairs In Canada | Brian Titley

  • Our Elders Understand Our Rights: Exploring Int. Law Re: Indigenous Rights | Sharon Venne

  • All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life | Winona LaDuke

  • The Winona LaDuke Chronicles | Winona LaDuke

  • First Peoples Law | Bruce McIvor

  • Whose Land Is It Anyway? A Manual for Decolonization | Peter McFarlane, Nicole Schabus

  • A Tortured People: The Politics of Colonialism | Howard Adams

  • Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide | Ward Churchill

  • Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of Residential Schools | Ward Churchill

  • The Imaginary Indian: The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture | Daniel Francis

  • Entering the War Zone: A Mohawk Perspective on Resisting Invasions |Donna Goodleaf

  • In Defense of Mohawk Land: Ethnopolitical Conflict in North America | Linda Pertusati

  • Accounting for Genocide: Canada’s Bureaucratic Assault on Aboriginal Peoples Dean Neu, | Richard Therrien

  • Gustafsen Lake Under Siege | Janice Switlo

  • Blood of the Land: The Government and Corporate War Against First Nations | Rex Weyler

  • People of the Pines: The Warriors and the Legacy of Oka Geoffrey York, | Loreen Pindera

  • Being Salmon, Being Human | Martin Lee Mueller

  • The Land We Are: Artists and Writers Unsettle the Politics of Reconciliation | Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill

  • Policing Indigenous Movements : Dissent and the Security State | Andrew Crosby

  • Land Education: Rethinking Pedagogies of Place | Kate McCoy, Eve Tuck

  • Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States | Audra Simpson

  • Unsettled Expectations: Uncertainty, Land and Settler Decolonization | Eva Mackey

  • For Indigenous Eyes Only: A Decolonization Handbook | Waziyatawin

  • For Indigenous Minds Only: A Decolonization Handbook | Waziyatawin

  • Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City | Tanya Talaga

  • The Haida Gwaii Lesson: A Strategic Playbook for Indigenous Sovereignty | Mark Dowie

  • Freedom and Indigenous Constitutionalism | John Borrows

  • Resurgence & Reconciliation: Indigenous-Settler Relations & Earth Teachings | Michael Asch

  • Making space for Indigenous feminism | Joyce Green

  • Nation to Nation, Aboriginal sovereignty and the future of Canada Bird, Land, | McAdam

  • The Truth About Stories | Thomas King

  • Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography | Chester Brown

  • Islands of Decolonial Love | Leanne Simpson

  • Young Water Protectors: A Story About Standing Rock | Aslan Tudor

  • No surrender : The Land Remains Indigenous | Sheldon Krasowski

  • Policing Indigenous Movements: Dissent and the Security State | A. Crosby,  Jeffrey Monaghan 

  • Braiding Sweetgrass | Robin Wall Kimmerer

  • Decolonizing Methodologies | Linda Tuhiwai Smith

Do you have resources to share? Email them to emma.courtney@nic.bc.ca 

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