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This page has been created for parents, guardians, families and community members to access resources to help guide their own learning and research from a Canadian Indigenous Lens. These resources may be used to help have conversations with your children and/or to support your own learning.
Edmonton Public Schools Land Acknowledgment
Edmonton Public Schools Land Acknowledgment
Education
Education
University of Alberta teachers guide to Indigenous Education: has many links to books, podcasts, videos, etc.
Education is Our Buffalo: “Education is our buffalo” is a phrase often used by First Nations elders to signify the importance of education to their communities (Christensen 2000). As one Treaty 7 member stated (Alberta Education 2002). With the support of the Alberta Teachers Association, Alberta School Councils, Alberta Education and many Indigenous members in Alberta, this document has been created to help further expand Indigenous Education in Alberta.
University of Alberta Indigenous Canada Coursera: Free course created by the University of Alberta. Can be taken by module and at your own pace or in cohorts.
ATA Stepping Stones Series: Education for Reconciliation
Resources
Resources
Edmonton Public Library Indigenous Catalogue of Resources
Alberta School Councils Association Indigenous Awareness Resources
Government of Canada: National Indigenous People's Day: this site also links to many other Government of Canada resources around Indigenous Education
Metis Nation of Alberta: excellent resource to read, learn and hear more about Metis in Alberta
Empowering the Spirit: this site has been created as an educational resource to foundational knowledge, sacred teachings, classroom resource and to further education in reconciliation.
Voices of the Land: A space created to support community and celebrate Indigenous content online.
Reading
Reading
Children to Adult
Children to Adult
CBC list of 48 books to understand Residential Schools: list tells about the book, author and many are Kinder to adult appropriate.
Empowering the Spirit Literacy Seed Kit: This is a list of fiction and non-fiction books compiled by Northland School Division, Edmonton Public School Division and Alberta Education to support students and teachers in the classroom.
Teen to Adult:
Teen to Adult:
Capilano University list of Non-Fiction Indigenous Reading
Calgary Public Library Indigenous Reading List: Truth and Reconciliation
University of Alberta teachers guide to Indigenous Education: has many links to books, podcasts, videos, etc.
Books for children and teens:
Shin-chi’s canoe by Nicola I. Campbell
The Mask that Sang by Susan Currie
A Stranger at Home: A true Story by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
The Orange Shirt Story by Phyllis Webstad
When We Were Alone by David A. Robertson
Sixties Scoop by Inez Cook
Mwâkwa talks to the loon by Dale Auger
My heart fills with happiness by Monique Gray Smith
Mama do you love me by Barbara M. Joosse
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
Books for adults:
A Knock on The Door: The Essential History of Residential Schools from the Truth and Reconciliation of Canada
Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Volume One: Summary Honouring the Truth Reconciling the Future
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell by Arthur Bear Chief
The education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir by Joseph Auguste Merasty
They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School by Bev Sellars
The Secret Path by Gord Downie and Jeff Lemire
Seven fallen feathers by Tanya Talaga
Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by Jessica McDiarmid
Red River Girl: The life and Death of Tina Fontaine by Joanna Jolly
All Our Relations: Finding our Way Forward by Tanya Talaga
From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way by Jesse Thistle
This accident of Being Lost: Songs and Stories by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations by Richard Wagamese
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography by Andrea Warner
Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
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