Recommended Reads

Red Rising Magazine
"Red Rising is a nonprofit Indigenous collective from Winnipeg, Manitoba. We produce an annual magazine that is unfiltered, uncensored, and is able to tell a story about what is happening right now, and what is about to happen next in our communities."

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

Living in Indigenous Sovereignty, Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara  with Gladys Rowe  

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 House and 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. 

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