Recommended Reads
This is by no means a complete list.
Red Rising Magazine
Magazine started by Indigenous youth in Winnipeg. Launched October, 2015. Web and print (print subscriptions available).
Alliances: Re/Envisioning Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relationships Edited by Lynne Davis
Aqueduct: Colonialism, Resources, and the Histories We Remember by Adele Perry
Breathing Life Into the Stone Fort Treaty: An Anishnabe Understanding of Treaty One by Aimée Craft
Leanne Simpson's article "Liberated Peoples, Liberated Lands", in Buffalo Shout, Salmon Cry, Edited by Steve Heinrichs
Clearing the Plains by James Daschuk
Distant Relations: How My Ancestors Colonized North America by Victoria Freeman
The Inconvenient Indian. A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King
Indigenous Writes. A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada by Chelsea Vowel
Lighting the Eighth Fire, Edited by Leanne Simpson
Manitowapow, Edited by Niigaanwewidam Sinclair and Warren Cariou
Merging Fires by Rick Wallace
Nationhood Interrupted: Revitalizing Nêhiyaw Legal Systems by Sylvia McAdam (Saysewahum)
Indigenous Nationhood by Pamela Palmater
Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition by Glen Sean Coulthard
Settler: Identity and Colonialism in 21st Century Canada by Emma Battell Lowman and Adam J. Barker
Stolen City: Racial Capitalism and the Making of Winnipeg by Owen Toews
Undoing Border Imperialism by Harsha Walia
Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call by Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson
Unsettling the Settler Within by Paulette Regan
Wasase: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom by Taiaiake Alfred
The Winter We Danced, Edited by the Kino-nda-niimi Collective
Rooster Town: The History of an Urban Métis Community Evelyn Peters, Matthew Stock , Adrian Werner
Book Lists
American Indians in Children's Literature site - by Debbie Reese
Debbie Reese is a member of Nambe Owing and "is a founding member of the Native American Houseand American Indian Studies program at the University of Illinois. She is on the Literature Advisory Board for Reading is Fundamental and the Advisory Board for Reach Out and Read American Indian/Alaska Native." She extensively reviews children's and young adult titles.
Suggested Reading - CBC's 8th Fire
15 Books to Read for Indigenous Book Club Month 2016 - CBC
12 Book by Indigenous Women You Should Read - CBC
15 Memoirs by Indigenous Writers You Need to Read - CBC
10 Book about Residential Schools to read with your children - CBC
A Reconciliation Reading List: 15 must-read books - CBC
A Reconciliation Reading List for Young Readers - CBC
Red Rising Magazine
Magazine started by Indigenous youth in Winnipeg. Launched October, 2015. Web and print (print subscriptions available).
Alliances: Re/Envisioning Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relationships Edited by Lynne Davis
Aqueduct: Colonialism, Resources, and the Histories We Remember by Adele Perry
Breathing Life Into the Stone Fort Treaty: An Anishnabe Understanding of Treaty One by Aimée Craft
Leanne Simpson's article "Liberated Peoples, Liberated Lands", in Buffalo Shout, Salmon Cry, Edited by Steve Heinrichs
Clearing the Plains by James Daschuk
Distant Relations: How My Ancestors Colonized North America by Victoria Freeman
The Inconvenient Indian. A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King
Indigenous Writes. A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada by Chelsea Vowel
Lighting the Eighth Fire, Edited by Leanne Simpson
Manitowapow, Edited by Niigaanwewidam Sinclair and Warren Cariou
Merging Fires by Rick Wallace
Nationhood Interrupted: Revitalizing Nêhiyaw Legal Systems by Sylvia McAdam (Saysewahum)
Indigenous Nationhood by Pamela Palmater
Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition by Glen Sean Coulthard
Settler: Identity and Colonialism in 21st Century Canada by Emma Battell Lowman and Adam J. Barker
Stolen City: Racial Capitalism and the Making of Winnipeg by Owen Toews
Undoing Border Imperialism by Harsha Walia
Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call by Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson
Unsettling the Settler Within by Paulette Regan
Wasase: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom by Taiaiake Alfred
The Winter We Danced, Edited by the Kino-nda-niimi Collective
Rooster Town: The History of an Urban Métis Community Evelyn Peters, Matthew Stock , Adrian Werner
Book Lists
American Indians in Children's Literature site - by Debbie Reese
Debbie Reese is a member of Nambe Owing and "is a founding member of the Native American Houseand American Indian Studies program at the University of Illinois. She is on the Literature Advisory Board for Reading is Fundamental and the Advisory Board for Reach Out and Read American Indian/Alaska Native." She extensively reviews children's and young adult titles.
Suggested Reading - CBC's 8th Fire
15 Books to Read for Indigenous Book Club Month 2016 - CBC
12 Book by Indigenous Women You Should Read - CBC
15 Memoirs by Indigenous Writers You Need to Read - CBC
10 Book about Residential Schools to read with your children - CBC
A Reconciliation Reading List: 15 must-read books - CBC
A Reconciliation Reading List for Young Readers - CBC
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