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A resource for the Let's Talk Sermon on Racism. Compiled by Jo Bird. 

Aboriginal 101

Terminology 

http://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/?id=7400

Aboriginal Peoples cultural areas

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/aboriginal-people/

A really nice brief overview of significant historical moments (Gov Canada)

https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100013778/1100100013779

Indigenous Issues 101

http://apihtawikosisan.com/aboriginal-issue-primers/

A helpful timeline, but focused on BC

http://www.bigsisters.bc.ca/site-bbbs/media/bclowermainland/first_nations_bc_history.pdf

8 Things Newcomers to Canada Should Know about Aboriginal People ☺

http://canadianimmigrant.ca/slider/8-things-newcomers-should-know-about-aboriginal-culture-and-history

Videos from 8th Fire on CBC (the Aboriginal 101 section has some great short ones)

http://www.cbc.ca/8thfire/aboriginal101.html 

http://www.cbc.ca/8thfire/2012/01/wab-kinews-walk-through-history.html 

Myths about Aboriginal people

http://tricitiesecd.ca/files/4013/3599/2965/FACTSandMisconceptions.pdf 


Treaties

Office of the Treaty Commissioner, SK (lots of education resources and videos; I like “We are all treaty people”)

http://www.otc.ca/ 

Overview of the numbered treaties

https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1360948213124/1360948312708

 

Residential Schools

Residential school survivors speak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdR9HcmiXLA

Justice Murray Sinclair was the head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=justice+murray+sinclair

Online exhibit about residential schools

http://wherearethechildren.ca/ 

 

Recommended Websites

Indigenous Foundations (UBC) - http://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/ 

This blog: http://apihtawikosisan.com/aboriginal-issue-primers/ 

 

Recommended Non-fiction Books

Clearing the Plains by James Daschuk - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/book-reviews/first-nations-history-should-make-us-question-what-it-means-to-be-canadian/article14578889/

Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens: A History of Indian-White Relations in Canada by J. R. Miller

Shingwauk’s Vision by J. R. Miller (history of residential schools)

Any of these books: http://activehistory.ca/2013/01/ten-books-to-contextualize-idle-no-more/

Canada’s First Nations by Olive Dickason

An Illustrative History of Canada’s Native Peoples by Arthur J. Ray

 

Recommended Fiction Books (authors who help articulate the experience Indigenous people)

One Good Story, That One by Thomas King

A Short History of Indians in Canada by Thomas King