Indigenous Resource List
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Archives and Museums
Being an Ally
City of Winnipeg Indigenous
Accord
Indigenous digital
collections
Indigenous organizations
Indigenous
rights (international)
Land acknowledgements
- NEW I HATE LAND
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS!!! TikTok by yllwhrse1: https://www.tiktok.com/@yllwhrse1/video/7117750819167980805?_r=1&_t=8TugfAzDVfq&is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7117750819167980805
- Whose Land website.: https://www.whose.land/en/# Note: Search the website by location for a
land acknowledgement example.
- See also the following pages:
- “Why Acknowledge?”: https://www.whose.land/en/whyacknowledge
- and “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.
- “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
Podcasts
NEW Repatriation and reparation
Research principles and methodologies
NEW Theses by Archival Studies M.A. students (University
of Manitoba/University of Winnipeg Joint Master’s program)
- “Archival Harm Reduction: Utilizing Public
Health Harm Reduction Concepts for Reconciliatory Power Shifts in Archives.”
(by Krystal Payne) 2021: https://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/xmlui/handle/1993/35762
- “The Role of Archives in Indigenous
Language Maintenance and Resurgence.” (by Samantha Booth) 2020: https://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/xmlui/handle/1993/34927
- "Archives of the North, by the North,
for the North: The Meaning, Value, and Challenges of Creating, Keeping and
Running Archives in the Canadian Territories." (by Jason Carrie) 2020: https://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/xmlui/handle/1993/34783
- “Building Bridges: Dismantling Eurocentrism
in Archives and Respecting Indigenous Ways of Doing It Right,” (by Carmen
Miedema) 2019: https://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/xmlui/handle/1993/34497
- “Giving Life to the Truth: Indigenous Art as a Pathway to Archival
Decolonization,” (by Petra Lundy) 2018: https://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/xmlui/handle/1993/33702
- “Decolonizing Provenance: An Examination of Types of Provenance and
Their Role in Archiving Indigenous Records in Canada,” (by Leesha Cowan), 2018: https://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/handle/1993/33429
- “Offering our Gifts, Partnering for Change:
Decolonizing Experimentation in Winnipeg-based Settler Archives,” (by Sarah
Story), 2017: https://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/xmlui/handle/1993/32497
- “The National Centre for Truth and
Reconciliation and the Pursuit of Archival Decolonization,” (by Jesse Boiteau),
2017: https://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/handle/1993/32225
- “The Advocate’s Archive: Walter Rudnicki
and the Fight for Indigenous Rights in Canada, 1955-2010,” (by Amanda Linden),
2016: https://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/handle/1993/31730
- "Archives, Willard Ireland, Regina v.
White and Bob, and Calder v. the Attorney General of British Columbia,
1963-1973, and the Expansion of Aboriginal Rights in Canada," (by Anne
Lindsay), 2011: https://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/handle/1993/4874
- "Participatory Archiving: Exploring a
Collaborative Approach to Aboriginal Societal Provenance" (by Michelle
Rydz), 2010: https://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/handle/1993/4247
- "Coming Full Circle?: Aboriginal
Archives in B.C. in Canadian and International Perspective" (by
Rita-Sophia Mogyorosi), 2008: https://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/handle/1993/3118
- "'An Administered People': A Contextual
Approach to the Study of Bureaucracy, Records-Keeping, and Records in the
Canadian Department of Indian Affairs, 1755-1950" (by Brian Hubner), 2000: https://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/handle/1993/2381
Treaties in Manitoba
Truth and reconciliation
TRC Calls to Action