Indigenous Resources Links – compiled by a group of OCAPG members
Content warning: A National Indian Residential School 24-hour Crisis Line is available to provide support for anyone who needs it: 1-866-925-4419.
General Resources
How to be an ally: https://www.ellecanada.com/culture/society/heres-how-you-can-be-a-genuine-ally-to-indigenous-communities-in-canada
Terminology: https://www.ictinc.ca/blog/indigenous-peoples-terminology-guidelines-for-usage
Podcast episode on history of the Métis Nation https://champlainsociety.utpjournals.press/podcast/wty/a-history-of-the-m%C3%A9tis-nation
Book lists
https://www.ictinc.ca/blog/reading-for-reconciliation-6-books-on-residential-schools
https://www.savvymom.ca/article/books-about-residential-schools-for-kids-of-all-ages/
Written Resources
https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/srsc/
https://www.embassyculturalhouse.ca/name-the-children.html
http://www.trc.ca/about-us/trc-findings.html
Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFgNI1lfe0A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdR9HcmiXLA
https://projectofheart.ca/filmsvideos/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBrk-h4UF5w
Documentaries about Dr. Peter Bryce’s work to expose conditions at residential schools:
Finding Heart (for young people, free): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1NQ_tgR_oA
Finding Peter Bryce (for adults, on-demand with a fee): https://vimeo.com/ondemand/peterbryce
Radio
TBA
Organizations
https://algomau.ca/research/shingwauk-residential-schools-centre/
https://woodlandculturalcentre.ca/
Indian Act
https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/i-5/
https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/the_indian_act/
https://www.ictinc.ca/blog/21-things-you-may-not-have-known-about-the-indian-act-
The Canadian Encyclopedia. Timeline of the Indian Act. The Canadian Encyclopedia. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/timeline/the-indian-act
Bryce Report
Summary by First Nations Education Steering Committee http://www.fnesc.ca/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/IRSR11-12-DE-1906-1910.pdf
Bryce, P. H., M. A., M.D. The Story of a National Crime: Being an Appeal for Justice to the Indians of Canada. 1923. James Hope & Sons, Ottawa, Canada
https://ehprnh2mwo3.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/National-Crime.pdf
Training
Reconciliation Education
https://www.reconciliationeducation.ca/
Indigenous Corporate Training Inc.
Facing History Facing Ourselves https://www.facinghistory.org/books-borrowing/stolen-lives-indigenous-peoples-canada-and-indian-residential-schools