The Water Walker by Anishinaabe author, illustrator and water protection activist Joanne Robertson tells the true story of Josephine Mandamin, an Ojibwe grandmother who walks to protect Nibi (water) for future generations.
Assembly of Seven Generations is an Indigenous owned and youth-led, non-profit organization focused on cultural support and empowerment programs/policies for Indigenous youth while being led by traditional knowledge and Elder guidance. Learn more about their work of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
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#ExploreCan was a program created by Canadian Geography Education with a year of virtual events and learning resources exploring Canada, science, environmental stewardship largely focused on truth and reconciliation.
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The Water Is Life learning package is a series of four lessons plans that draw on on land-based learning, centered on women’s teachings about, for, and from Mother Earth, with a specific focus on water and its connection to land and the Indigenous Peoples living on Turtle Island.
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Google Earth Voyager Stories is an interactive Google map that aims to enhance understanding of Indigenous history.
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Canadian Geographic and its publisher the Royal Canadian Geographic Society, created an interactive website, re: Location, as part of a larger initiative dedicated to highlighting community relocations n Canada. Learn about communities (historic and modern) that have been forced to relocate.
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The First Nations Education Steering Committee created resources to support teachers in including Indigenous teachings and perspectives in courses – like the Math First Peoples Teacher Resource Guide.
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The REDress Project focuses on the issue of missing or murdered Aboriginal women across Canada. It is an installation art project based on an aesthetic response to this critical national issue. The project has been installed in public spaces throughout Canada and the United States as a visual reminder of the staggering number of women who are no longer with us.
Listen to this episode of the Beyond podcast, featuring Chief Robert Joseph the Ambassador for Reconciliation Canada, and a member of the National Assembly of First Nations Elders Council. He talks about the revelations of 2021 in Canada, and our country’s long-delayed awakening to the truth of residential schools, and our growing commitment to reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians.
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For ten years, the Cree Literacy Network has been promoting the work of lifelong language warriors. They use their blog to honour and support the commitment they share to retain, reclaim, revitalize and restore the language that is a birthright for themselves and their communities.
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Podcast hosts Charlotte Ross and Andrea Custer are both strong advocates for language revitalization. Through Cree and Coffee with the Crazy Crees, they discuss many topics including the importance of language, Silent Speakers, and further education.
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The Canadian Reconciliation Barometer was designed for Understanding, Tracking, and Promoting Reconciliation in Canada. It’s a set of questions that Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canada complete through a large online survey.
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Learn about the history and culture of Indigenous communities in Canada, the history of residential schools, and treaties around the country in Four Seasons of Reconciliation, a three-hour multimedia course delivered online by First Nations University of Canada.
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Janell Stick teaches Cree. She shared her syllabic chart teaching video with the Cree Literacy Network, which shows the characters and sounds together. Find more of Janell’s teaching presentations via FaceBook on her page, nêhiyâwêwin for the Soul, or on YouTube as Cree for the Soul.
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The work of decolonization requires readers, young and old, to diversify the stories they consume. IndigiNews created this list for Decolonizing your teen’s bookshelf and this one for Decolonizing your child’s bookshelf.
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Artist Ruth Cuthand was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, of plains Cree, Scottish and Irish ancestry. Her creative practice ranges from printmaking, painting, drawing, photography, and beadwork and influenced by her childhood experiences of diseases, settler/Native relationships and living conditions of Indigenous peoples.
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Our Native Land, a weekly society and culture podcast, hosted by Tchadas Leo explores all things Indigenous and First Nations. It features interviews and compelling discussions about Indigenous cuisine, culture, heritage, and more from Vancouver Island and around the world. Visit them on Facebook, and Twitter
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The podcast All My Relations, hosted by Matika Wilbur and Adrienne Keene, explores relationships — to land, to creatural relatives, and to one another. Each episode invites guests to delve into a different topic facing Indigenous Peoples today – they play games, laugh, and even cry sometimes.
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Mi’kmaq lawyer Dr. Pam Palmater hosts Warrior Life, an Indigenous podcast focusing on a lifestyle that focuses on decolonizing our minds, bodies and spirits while at the same time revitalizing our cultures, traditions, laws and governing practices. She interviews grassroots activists, Indigenous leaders, and knowledge keepers.
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Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) is a national organization representing Indigenous women, girls, and gender diverse people in Canada and working create an inclusive world for women and families of Indigenous nations. Follow them on Insatgram, Facebook, and Twitter.
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Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) works to improve the health and wellbeing of Inuit through research, advocacy, public outreach, and education by serving as a national voice for the 51 Inuit communities. Learn more. Visit ITK on Facebook, and follow on Twitter and Instagram
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Learn about the Moose Hide Campaign, an Indigenous-led grassroots movement of men, boys and all Canadians, take action and stand up to end violence towards women and children. Find them on Facebook and Twitter.
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Learn about Authentic Engagement of First Nations and Métis Traditional Knowledge Keepers in this guide created by the Wîcihitowin Conference Committee.
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Irma school created the video, Eagle Feather, Sweetgrass and Indigenous Learning, detailing the journey of their students who have had the opportunity to be gifted the knowledge from Elder Clifford Cardinal.
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Every year Prairie Rivers Reconciliation Committee hosts a conference, you can watch some of the sessions from this year’s event ē-nīso pimohtēyahk/Walking Forward Together. Topics available include nation building, the importance of beading, youth perspectives, and working together.
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Alanis Obomsawin is an acclaimed director and activist filmmaker. Obomsawin always focuses on the importance of her roots and intergenerational bonds in preserving First Nations culture. Her works are driven by the desire to give Canada’s first peoples a voice.
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Sheila Watt-Cloutier, born in Kuujjuaq, Nunavik, Québec, is a Canadian Inuit activist. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 for her advocacy work on the impacts of global climate change on human rights – especially in the Arctic. Her book The Right to Be Cold, about the effects of climate change on Inuit communities, was published in 2015.
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Dr. Stabley Vollant is the first Innu surgeon in Quebec. In 2010 he walked 6,000 km from Labrador through Quebec and Ontario speaking at schools and bringing elders together. From this he founded Puamun Meshkenu (path of thousand dreams) in 2016 to inspire and support Indigenous individuals to develop their full mental, spiritual, physical, and emotional potential.
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Ta’Kaiya Blaney is a teen activist from Tla’min First Nation. She has taken a stand against the destruction of her people’s land and become a champion of environmental causes by teaching Canadian youth about environmental exploitation and the climate crisis. Follow her on Instagram
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Shina Novalinga is an Inuit throat singer. In the early 20th century, Christian missionaries banned throat singing, and much was lost. Shina along with her mother uses Tik Tok and Instagram to preserve throat singing and celebrate Inuit culture. Follow her on TikTok
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Autumn Peltier, from Wikwemikong First Nation, is advocating for the preservation of water for First Nations people in Canada. She has spoken about the realities of water pollution before prime minister Justin Trudeau and the United Nations General Assembly. Follow her on Instagram.
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Generation Power is an Indigenous youth clean energy and career training program. It was developed by and for Indigenous youth, by engaging a holistic, strength-based approach positioning Indigenous leadership as essential to advancing a more sustainable and equitable energy future.
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We Matter believes Indigenous youth are healers and changemakers, and with the right support and resources, can be the ones to inspire and uplift other Indigenous youth and their communities! Visit the website to watch videos from Indigenous role models, check out resources, and engagement in activities.
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Cando Youth Connect is a platform for Indigenous youths (18-35) across Turtle Island to virtually participate to discuss topics such as Economic Development, Lands Management, and Entrepreneurship.
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The rights of First Nations children take centre stage in We Can’t Make the Same Mistake Twice. The documentary follows the historic court case filed by the Assembly of First Nations and the Child and Family Caring Society of Canada against the federal government, and filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin exposes generations of injustices endured by First Nations children living on reserves and their families.
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The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation saw the creation of the The Survivors’ Flag as an expression of remembrance, meant to honour residential school Survivors and all the lives and communities impacted by the residential school system in Canada. Each element depicted on the flag was carefully selected by Survivors from across Canada, who were consulted in the flag’s creation.
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The Reconciliation Canada Reconciliation Dialogue Workshop aims to create a safe environment that brings diverse participants together to start a meaningful conversation and relationship building. They provide an opportunity for sharing stories of resilience. The Reconciliation Dialogue Workshop guide provides a brief introduction and outlines injustices in Canadian history including residential schools, the Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act, the Japanese-Canadian Internment, and the Komagata Maru Incident.
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Reconciliation Canada created a step-by-step instructional guide for student leaders who want to contribute to the reconciliation movement and start a conversation on reconciliation within their school, family, and social networks.
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Kitchen Table Dialogues are a do-it-yourself guide for Canadians to start a conversation on reconciliation. Reconciliation Canada created toolkits for municipal leadership, and individuals, communities and organizations.
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Honouring Her Spark by Aboriginal Friendship Centres of Saskatchewan is a framework that focuses on Indigenous women, to increase awareness and understanding of the barriers they face, exploring their passions and providing support to succeed. Follow Honouring Her Spark Facebook to stay updated about their latest podcast episodes, workshops, and informational sessions.
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Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre sees how racism occurs at all levels of society and that anti-racism is an active way of seeing and being in the world, in order to transform it. To this end the ACLRC offers anti-racism training and resources through a learning toolkit with Calgary Anti-Racism Education
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YES! Magazine tackles the concept of white privilege and lays out examples of what it looks like in everyday life in their article, 10 Examples That Prove White Privilege Exists in Every Aspect Imaginable
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Recognizing white privilege begins only with understand of what the term means. Learning for Justice breaks it down in an easy to understand way and explains the impact of systemic racism and bias in their article, ‘What is White Privilege, Really?’
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The Centre for Suicide Prevention created a toolkit, Indigenous people, trauma, and suicide prevention that looks at how to prevent suicides and promote life.
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Understanding intergenerational trauma is important to address well-being in Indigenous communities. This paper, Aboriginal Peoples and Historic Trauma: The process of intergenerational transmission, by the National Collaboration Centre for Aboriginal Health introduces Trauma Theory and how it is transmitted through generations.
Read MoreThe New Brunswick Community College (NBCC) has put together a public list of articles and video resources to learn more about the Intergenerational Trauma.
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This article on the Local Love website looks at how the trauma from residential schools can impact individuals and communities today. It looks at how intergenerational trauma has mental and physical effects and how to stop the cycle of intergenerational trauma and how can on heal from it.
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