Indigenous Resource List

A PDF version of this list can be downloaded here.

Archives and Museums

• Yukon Council of Archives, Indigenous Archives & RIM Issues Resource: https://www.yukoncouncilofarchives.ca/indigenous-archival-rim-resources

• International Council on Archives: Expert Group on Indigenous Matters – EGIM: https://www.ica.org/en/our-professional-programme/expert-groups/expert-group-on-indigenous-matters-egim

• Response to the Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Taskforce: https://archives2026.com/response-to-the-report-of-the-truth-and-reconciliation-commission-taskforce/

• “Ten Books to Contextualize Reconciliation in Archives, Museums, and Public History” by Krista McCracken, Active History, October 17, 2016: http://activehistory.ca/2016/10/ten-books-to-contextualize-reconciliation-in-archives-museums-and-public-history/

• “The Importance of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples & the Truth & Reconciliation Commission to Museums”:https://saskmuseums.org/files/WEB_-_The_Importance_of_the_UNDRIP_and_the_TRC_to_Museums_v_2.pdf

Being an Ally

• “When Being An Ally Turns Into Being An Appropriator (Settler Conduct and Self Check)” Warrior Publications:https://warriorpublications.wordpress.com/2015/04/03/when-being-an-ally-turns-into-being-an-appropriator-settler-conduct-and-self-check-pdf/

• “Indigenous Ally Toolkit” Montreal Urban Aboriginal Community Strategy Network: https://gallery.mailchimp.com/86d28ccd43d4be0cfc11c71a1/files/102bf040-e221-4953-a9ef-9f0c5efc3458/Ally_email.pdf

• “How to Be an Ally of Indigenous-led Conservation” Land Needs Guardians: https://landneedsguardians.ca/how-to-be-an-ally

• “Being an Informed Indigenous Ally” Women Warriors Newsletter:https://www.womenwarriors.club/being-an-informed-indigenous-ally/ 

• Groundwork For Change:http://www.groundworkforchange.org/  This website contains many links for further information.

• What non-Indigenous Canadians need to know, TVO, Apr 2, 2019:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1E-3Hb1-WA

City of Winnipeg Indigenous Accord

• Indigenous Accord, Indigenous Relations Division:https://winnipeg.ca/indigenous/WIA/

• Become an Accord partner:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ3VzdJ2ioU

• 2018 Signing Ceremony:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7IoLT1H22E

• “Winnipeg’s Indigenous Accord celebrates 200 partners” by Simon Stones, CTVNews, Sept 09, 2021:https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg-s-indigenous-accord-celebrates-200-partners-1.5578863

Indigenous organizations

• Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami: https://www.itk.ca/  The National Representational Organization Protecting and Advancing the Rights and Interests of Inuit in Canada

• Assembly of First Nations: https://www.afn.ca/

• Métis Nation: https://www2.metisnation.ca/

• Manitoba Metis Federation:https://www.manitobametis.com/

• Native Women’s Association of Canada: https://www.nwac.ca/

• Idle No More: https://idlenomore.ca/

Indigenous rights (international)

• United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP): https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples.html   

• United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP): https://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/DRIPS_en.pdf

• “Indigenous law expert explains how UNDRIP advances the law of consultation and consent” by Aidan Macnab, Canadian Lawyer, June 12, 2020: https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/practice-areas/indigenous/indigenous-law-expert-explains-how-undrip-advances-the-law-of-consultation-and-consent/330496

• “UNDRIP will be implemented in Canada no matter political party in power says economic analyst” APTN News, April 1, 2021: https://www.aptnnews.ca/nation-to-nation/undrip-will-be-implemented-in-canada-no-matter-political-party-in-power-says-economic-analyst/ 

Land acknowledgements

•  “What are land acknowledgements and why do they matter?” by Selena Mills, Locallove.ca, (2019): https://locallove.ca/issues/what-are-land-acknowledgements-and-why-do-they-matter/#.X58HuohKhhH

• Whose Land website: https://www.whose.land/en/# Note: Search the website by location for a land acknowledgement example.

• “Why Acknowledge?”: https://www.whose.land/en/whyacknowledge

• “Whose Land Frequently Asked Questions”: https://www.whose.land/en/faq

• Native Land, “Territory Acknowledgement,” (2020): https://native-land.ca/resources/territory-acknowledgement/ Note their advice for learning how to correctly pronounce a nation’s name.

•  “Reconciliation more than land acknowledgments, Indigenous groups say," by Maija Kappler, CBC.ca, January 14, 2017: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/reconciliation-more-than-land-acknowledgments-indigenous-groups-say-1.3936171

•  “'I regret it': Hayden King on writing Ryerson University's territorial acknowledgement,” Unreserved, CBC.ca, January 18, 2019: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/redrawing-the-lines-1.4973363/i-regret-it-hayden-king-on-writing-ryerson-university-s-territorial-acknowledgement-1.4973371

• “Canada’s Impossible Acknowledgment,” by Stephen Marche, NewYorker.com, September 7, 2017: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/canadas-impossible-acknowledgment

• “Acknowledging the Traditional Lands of the Indigenous Peoples of Manitoba,” Manitoba Association of Parent Councils (MAPC), 2017:https://mapc.mb.ca/files/Treaty-Land-Acknowledgement-Document.pdf.  This document lists land acknowledgements for every school division in Manitoba in English, French and several Indigenous languages.

•  “Guide to Acknowledging First Peoples & Traditional Territory,” Canadian Association of University Teachers/Association Canadienne des professeurs d’université, 2017: https://www.caut.ca/sites/default/files/caut-guide-to-acknowledging-first-peoples-and-traditional-territory-2017-09.pdf

• “Starting from the Heart: Going Beyond Land Acknowledgement” Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO), (2019): https://etfofnmi.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Going-Beyond-A-Land-Acknowledgement-FINAL-VERSION.pdf.  Although this publication comes from Ontario, it contains useful information and ideas for education.

• “Indigenous prof critical of U of M land acknowledgement” by Ty Brass, The Manitoban, October 11, 2018:http://www.themanitoban.com/2018/10/indigenous-prof-critical-of-u-of-m-land-acknowledgement/35407/

• “Traditional Land Acknowledgements: More than Just a Gesture” by Karen Sawatsky, Manitoba Law Library, Inc., Law Society of Manitoba, (2018). [Reprinted from the August 2018 edition of Communiqué, by Alissa Schacter, Equity Officer and Policy Counsel at the Law Society of Manitoba.]: https://lawlibrary.ca/2018/08/30/traditional-land-acknowledgements-more-than-just-a-gesture/

Land Back movement

• NDN Collective: Land Back Campaign: https://landback.org/

• “Until Canada gives Indigenous people their land back, there can never be reconciliation” by Art Manuel, Rabble.ca, January 18, 2017 [reprinted with permission from First Nations Strategic Bulletin]: https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2017/01/until-canada-gives-indigenous-people-their-land-back-there-ca

• “Land Back Q and A: In conversation with four Indigenous leaders on the ‘Land Back’ movement” by Shantal Otchere, Feminist Shift, September 13, 2020: https://thefeministshift.ca/landbackqa/

• “What is Land Back? A Settler FAQ” by David Gray-Donald, Briarpatch, September 10, 2020: https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/what-is-land-back-a-settler-faq

• “Land Back: A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper”: https://redpaper.yellowheadinstitute.org/

• Land Reparations & Indigenous Solidarity Toolkit: https://resourcegeneration.org/land-reparations-indigenous-solidarity-action-guide/

Missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls

• National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/

• Native Women’s Association of Canada: https://www.nwac.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Fact_Sheet_Missing_and_Murdered_Aboriginal_Women_and_Girls.pdf

• “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)” The University of British Columbia Library: https://guides.library.ubc.ca/mmiwg.  This page provides links to many resources for more information.

• “Missing & Murdered: The Unsolved Cases of Indigenous Women and Girls” CBC.ca: https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/

Research principles and methodologies

• OCAP®: https://fnigc.ca/ocap-training/

• TCPS 2 (2018) – Chapter 9: Research Involving the First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples of Canada: https://ethics.gc.ca/eng/tcps2-eptc2_2018_chapter9-chapitre9.html

• “First Nations Ethics First Nations Ethics Guide on Research Research and Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge” Assembly of First Nations: https://www.afn.ca/uploads/files/fn_ethics_guide_on_research_and_atk.pdf

• “Indigenous Research Methodologies” The University of British Columbia Library: https://guides.library.ubc.ca/IndigResearch/researchethics.  This page provides links to many resources for more information.

• Indigenous Research Ethics Institute, Carleton University: https://carleton.ca/indigenousresearchethics/resources/.  This page provides links to many resources for more information.

Treaties in Manitoba

• “Treaties in Manitoba” Treaties Relation Commission of Manitoba: http://www.trcm.ca/treaties/treaties-in-manitoba/

• Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, “Treaties in Manitoba,”: https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1418853369350/1418854433358

• “Treaty Areas” Travel Manitoba: https://www.travelmanitoba.com/places/treaty-areas/

• Treaty Land Entitlement, Indigenous and Northern Relations, Government of Manitoba: https://www.gov.mb.ca/inr/major-initiatives/treaty-land-entitlement.html

• “Treaties” Winnipeg Public Library: https://guides.wpl.winnipeg.ca/treaties.  This resource page provides links to many websites, publications and videos.

Truth and reconciliation

• National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation: http://nctr.ca 

• Practicing Active Allyship in the TRC's Calls to Action, Webinar October 7, 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFRR_OvipxQ

• “Truth and Reconciliation” TEDx talk by Kevin Lamoureux, January 3, 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FG8SXalxTg

• “What is reconciliation? Indigenous educators have their say” TVO Docs, April 5, 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE_08EQbWRI  

• “Residential Schools in Canada: A Timeline” Historica Canada, Mar 2, 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFgNI1lfe0A

TRC Calls to Action

• Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action: http://trc.ca/assets/pdf/Calls_to_Action_English2.pdf

• Government of Canada: Museums and Archives: https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1524504831027/1557513782811

• Indigenous Watchdog: https://indigenouswatchdog.org/