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    • Wet'suwet'en Strong
    • #LoveforTina - Information & Solidarity Resources
    • #justiceforColten
    • ARCHIVED - Standing Rock Solidarity - WPG
  • TERMS & CONCEPTS
    • What is settler colonialism?
    • What about racism and forms of racism?
    • What is an "ally"?
    • What does "settler" mean?
    • What is White privilege? White fragility?
    • Does reverse racism exist? What about being "colour blind"?
    • What is decolonization?
    • What is meant by Indigenous sovereignty?
    • Have a question about other terms?
  • SOME BASICS
    • Terminology
    • Urban Indigenous Peoples-Winnipeg focus
    • First Nations Communities in Manitoba
    • The Inuit
    • Two-Spirit
    • The Métis
    • Treaties
    • The Indian Act
    • The Royal Proclamation; The Constitution; The Charter of Rights and Freedoms
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    • The Sixties Scoop
    • Missing and Murdered Women, Girls and Two-Spirit
    • Taxation, Funding & Myths
    • Child Welfare Systems
    • Aboriginal Title; Land and Water Rights
    • Treaty Land Entitlement; Urban Reserves
    • Cultural Appropriation
    • On settler claims to Indigenous identity
    • Rooster Town
    • Shoal Lake Water
    • On the International Stage
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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
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