Donor Resources
The following resources (books, music, podcasts, art, film, poetry, websites and events) are listed for your information, and are meant to assist in furthering your understanding of the rich culture & history of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. Please note that these resources have not been endorsed by Indspire, however, they will be updated periodically.
Authors
Jacqueline Guest
Laureate 2013
Richard Wagamese
Laureate 2012
Thomas King
Laureate 2003
Tanya Talaga
Bob Joseph
Laureate 2016
Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson
Laureate 2019
Maria Campbell
Laureate 1996
Lee Maracle
Leanne Betasamoske Simpson
Taiaiake (Gerald) Alfred
Laureate 2006
Basil Johnston
Laureate 2004
Emma LaRocque
Laureate 2005
Katherena Vermette
Cherie Dimaline
Waubgeshig Rice
Alicia Elliott
Jesse Wente
Books
Birdie
By Tracey Lindberg
Learning from a Kindergarten Dropout
By William Commanda
The Winter We Danced
By the Kino-nda-niimi Collective
The Education of Augie Merasty
By Joseph Auguste Merasty
Up Ghost River
By Edmund Metatawabin with Alexandra Shimo
From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way
By Jesse Thistle
The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel’s People, the Métis Nation
By Jean Teillet
Indians on Vacation
By Thomas King
Jonny Appleseed
By Joshua Whitehead
There There
By Tommy Orange
All Our Relations
By Tanya Talaga
Heart Berries: A Memoir
By Terese Marie Mailhot
Son of a Trickster
By Eden Robinson
Monkey Beach
By Eden Robinson
The Inconvenient Indian
By Thomas King
The Strangers
By Katherena Vermette
True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change
By Jody Wilson-Raybould
Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing
By Clayton Thomas-Müller
Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools
By Theodore Fontaine
Five Little Indians
By Michelle Good
Moon of the Crusted Snow
By Waubgeshig Rice
And Grandma Said… Iroquois Teachings as Passed Down Through the Oral Tradition
By Tom Porter
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
By Alicia Elliott
Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection
By Hope Nicholson
The Clay We Are Made Of
By Susan M. Hill
I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism
By Lee Maracle
Split Tooth
By Tanya Tagaq
Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance
By Jesse Wente
Two Indians
By Falen Johnson
Beyond Blood: Rethinking Indigenous Identity
By Dr. Pam Palmater
Indigenous Relations – Insights, Tips and Suggestions to make Reconciliation a Reality
By Bob Joseph
Laureate 2016
Young Adult Books
Firekeeper’s Daughter
By Angeline Boulley
The Marrow Thieves
By Cherie Dimaline
Hunting By Stars
By Cherie Dimaline
This Place: 150 Years Retold Collection
A Girl Called Echo Graphic Novel Series
By Katherena Vermette
Children’s Books
Phyllis’s Orange Shirt
By Phyllis Webstad
We Are Water Protectors
By Carole Lindstrom
Stolen Words
By Melanie Florence
On the Trapline
By David A. Robertson
When We Were Alone
By David Alexander Robertson
Not My Girl
By Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
When I Was Eight
By Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
A Stranger at Home
By Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
I Am Not A Number
By Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer
The Day I Became Number 54
By Lorrie Gallant
Academic Books
Urban Aboriginal Communities in Canada: Complexities, Challenges, Opportunities,
Co Authored by Peter Dinsdale (Laureate 2019) and Jerry P. White
Taking Back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy and Healing
By Dr. Jo-Ann Episkenew
Laureate 2016
Infested Blankets: Canada’s Constitution – Genocide of Indian Nations
By Eric William Robinson
Laureate 2010
A Knock on the Door
By Phil Fontaine (Laureate 1996), Aimee Craft and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Why Indigenous Literatures Matter
By Daniel Health Justice
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of the Plants
By Robin Wall Kimmerer
A New History of Aboriginal – White Relations
By John Sutton Lutz
Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
By The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Canadian Geographic’s Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada
Gathering Moss
By Robin Wall Kimmerer
Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Metis and Inuit Issues in Canada
By Chelsea Vowel
Music
Kelly Fraser
Laureate 2019
Maggie Paul
Laureate 2014
Danny Beaton
Laureate 2010
John Arcand
Laureate 2003
Robbie Robertson
Laureate 2003
Buffy Sainte- Marie
Laureate 1998
Tom Jackson
Laureate 1996
Susan Aglukark
Laureate 1994
Indigenous Music
The Halluci Nation (formerly A Tribe Called Red)
Northern Cree
Eagle and Hawk
Iskwe
Spirit Sands Singers
Christie Lee Charles
Jeremy Dutcher
Fawn Wood
Cris Derksen
N’we Jinan
Digging Roots
Willie Thrasher
Frank Waln
Elisapie
Tanya Tagaq
Black Belt Eagle Scout
Iskwew Singers
Eastern Owl
Snotty Nose Rez Kids
Shawnee Kish
William Prince
Supaman
Derek Miller
Lacey Hill
Elsa Jayne
Crystal Shawanda
Redbone
Drezus
Nick Sherman
Brendt Thomas Diabo
Leela Gilday
The Jerry Cans
Don Amero
Indian City
Mob Bounce
Rosary Spence
George Leach
Leonard Sumner
Wolf Saga
Riit
Beatrice Deer
DJ Shub
Jayli Wolf
Chuck Copenace
G.R. Gritt
Dakota Bear
Radio/ Podcasts
APTN Infocus with Melissa Ridgen
APTN Nation to Nation with Todd Lamirande
APTN Face to Face with Dennis Ward
APTN Investigates
Missing and Murdered with Connie Walker
The Henceforward
This Land hosted by Rebecca Nagle
Canadian Indigenous Peoples Radio
Thunder Bay by Canadaland
Stories from the Land
All My Relations
Métis in Space
Matriarch Movement with host Shayla Oulette (Laureate 2022)
The Road to Your Name by Aboriginal Legal Services with host Lisa Vanevery
This Place
Telling Our Twisted Histories
Coffee with my Ma
New Fire with Lisa Charleyboy
Stolen: The Search for Jermain
BUFFY hosted by Falen Johnson
Warrior Life with host Pam Palmater
Art
Rebecca Belmore
Faye Heavyshield
Shelley Niro
Maria Hupfield
Bonnie Devine
Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory
Carl Beam
Barry Ace
Jackson Beardy
Jordan Bennett
Lisa Myers
Ruth Cuthand
Carl Ray
Eddy Cobiness
David General
Joi T. Arcand
Nico Williams
Marianne Nicolson
Jeffrey Gibson
Catherine Blackburn
Kablusiak Nasogaluak-Carpenter
Christi Belcourt
R.G. Miller
Arnold Jacobs
Anong Migwans Beam
Kelly Greene
Benjamin Chee Chee
Elizabeth Doxtater
Hannah Claus
Brenda Mitten
Santee Smith
Steve Smith
James Luna
Chief Lady Bird
Deron Ahsén:nase Douglas
Hawlii Pichette
Quinn Smallboy
Jason Baerg
Thomas V. Hill
Nadia Myre
Annie Pootoogook
Jerry Whitehead
Steven Paul Judd
Andy Everson
Justine Woods
Amy Malbeuf
Fashion Arts
Michel Dumont
Qaulluq
Niio Perkins Designs
Tracy Toulouse
Livia Manywounds
Kadusné
D’arcy Moses
Janelle Wawia
Margaret Jacobs
Anne Mulaire
Bibi Chemnitz
Arctic Luxe
Mobilize Waskawewin
Section 35
Victoria’s Arctic Fashion
Sho Sho Esquiro
Manitobah Mukluks
Angela deMontigny
Born In The North
She Native
Films
Bee Nation
Colonization Road
Edge of the Knife
The Grizzlies
Monkey Beach
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
Before Tomorrow
One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk
Kayak to Klemtu
The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw
Shadow of Dumont
Inconvenient Indian
Slash/Back
Rhymes for Young Ghouls
Beans
We Were Children
Run Woman Run
The Road Forward
Rumble: Indians Who Rocked the World
Night Raiders
Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy
Bootlegger
Mashkawi-Manidoo Bimaadiziwin Spirit to Soar
Blood Quantum
Wildhood
Her Water Drum
Along the Water’s Edge
Our People Will Be Healed
Rustic Oracle
Angry Inuk
nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up
Reel Injun
Six Miles Deep
CBQM
First Stories: Two-Spirited
Lumaajuuq
Nimmikaage
Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child
by Richard Cardinal
NFB Indigenous Cinema
TV
Reservation Dogs
Rutherford Falls
Echo
Amplify
First Contact
1491: The Untold Story of the Americas Before Columbus (eight-part docu-drama series)
by Barbara Hager
Laureate 2019
8th Fire: Wabs Walk Through History
Trickster
Stories from the Land
Future History
Molly of Denali
Mohawk Girls
Poets
Poetry Books
Calling Down the Sky
by Rosanna Deerchild
Totem Poles and Railroads
by Janet Rogers
Witness, I am
by Gregory Scofield
Passage
by Gwen Benaway
Burning in this Midnight Dream
by Louise Bernice Halfe
Injun
by Jordan Abel
Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent
by Liz Howard
Bent Box
by Lee Maracle
Scars and Stars
By Jesse Thistle
I Am A Body of Land
By Shannon Webb-Campbell
Disintegrate Dissociate
By Arielle Twist
Hope Matters
By Lee Maracle, Columpa Bobb, Tania Carter
Ego of a Nation
By Janet Rogers
First Nations Drum
ONWA
Niigaan Sinclair
CBC Unreserved
Other Websites and Shareable Documents
https://reconciliationcanada.ca/resources/shareable-documents/
- Indigenous (CBC News)
- National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
- Reconciliation Canada
- CBC (for kids)
- Celebrating Indigenous Peoples in Canada, Learning and Activity Guide (Government of Canada)
- KAIROS Blanket Exercise
- First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada
- Indigenization Guide: Decolonization and Reconciliation
- Native Appropriations (blog)
- ImagineNative Film Festival
- APTN Lumi App
Events
- Pow Wows throughout Canada
- Indigenous Events throughout Canada
- Native Canadian Center of Toronto
- Imaginative Film Festival Toronto
- Indigenous events in Toronto
- Indigenous Events in Alberta
- Pow Wows in Quebec
- Pow Wows in Ottawa
- Pow Wows in BC
- Pow Wows in Saskatchewan
- Pow Wows in Manitoba
- Aboriginal Music Week in Manitoba
- Pow Wows in the East Coast
- Pow Wows in New Brunswick
