Indigenous Resource List

A PDF version of this list can be downloaded here.

Archives and Museums

• Yukon Council of Archives, Indigenous Archives & RIM Issues Resource: https://www.yukoncouncilofarchives.ca/indigenous-archival-rim-resources
• International Council on Archives: Expert Group on Indigenous Matters – EGIM: https://www.ica.org/en/our-professional-programme/expert-groups/expert-group-on-indigenous-matters-egim
• Reconciliation Framework: Response to the Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Taskforce: https://archives2026.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/reconciliationframeworkreport_en.pdf
• “Ten Books to Contextualize Reconciliation in Archives, Museums, and Public History” by Krista McCracken, Active History, October 17, 2016: http://activehistory.ca/2016/10/ten-books-to-contextualize-reconciliation-in-archives-museums-and-public-history/
• “The Importance of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples & the Truth & Reconciliation Commission to Museums”: https://saskmuseums.org/files/WEB_-_The_Importance_of_the_UNDRIP_and_the_TRC_to_Museums_v_2.pdf

Being an Ally

• “When Being An Ally Turns Into Being An Appropriator (Settler Conduct and Self Check)” Warrior Publications: https://warriorpublications.wordpress.com/2015/04/03/when-being-an-ally-turns-into-being-an-appropriator-settler-conduct-and-self-check-pdf/
• “Indigenous Ally Toolkit” Montreal Urban Aboriginal Community Strategy Network: https://gallery.mailchimp.com/86d28ccd43d4be0cfc11c71a1/files/102bf040-e221-4953-a9ef-9f0c5efc3458/Ally_email.pdf
• “How to Be an Ally of Indigenous-led Conservation” Land Needs Guardians: https://landneedsguardians.ca/how-to-be-an-ally 
• Groundwork For Change: http://www.groundworkforchange.org/ This website contains many links for further information.
• What non-Indigenous Canadians need to know, TVO, Apr 2, 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1E-3Hb1-WA

City of Winnipeg Indigenous Accord

• Indigenous Accord, Indigenous Relations Division: https://winnipeg.ca/indigenous/WIA/
• 2018 Signing Ceremony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7IoLT1H22E
• “Winnipeg’s Indigenous Accord celebrates 200 partners” by Simon Stones, CTVNews, Sept 09, 2021: https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg-s-indigenous-accord-celebrates-200-partners-1.5578863

Indigenous digital collections

• Manitoba Indigenous Tuberculosis History Project: https://indigenoustbhistory.ca/
• Blackfoot Digital Library: https://www.blackfootdigitallibrary.com/digital/collection/bdl
• The Indigenous Digital Archive’s Treaties Explorer: https://digitreaties.org/

Indigenous organizations

• Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami: https://www.itk.ca/ The National Representational Organization Protecting and Advancing the Rights and Interests of Inuit in Canada
• Assembly of First Nations: https://www.afn.ca/
• Métis Nation: https://www2.metisnation.ca/
• Manitoba Metis Federation: https://www.manitobametis.com/
• Native Women’s Association of Canada: https://www.nwac.ca/
• Idle No More: https://idlenomore.ca/
• NEW  Manitoba Association of Friendship Centres: https://friendshipcentres.ca/

Indigenous rights (international)

• United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP): https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples.html   
• United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP): https://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/DRIPS_en.pdf
• “Indigenous law expert explains how UNDRIP advances the law of consultation and consent” by Aidan Macnab, Canadian Lawyer, June 12, 2020: https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/practice-areas/indigenous/indigenous-law-expert-explains-how-undrip-advances-the-law-of-consultation-and-consent/330496
• “UNDRIP will be implemented in Canada no matter political party in power says economic analyst” APTN News, April 1, 2021: https://www.aptnnews.ca/nation-to-nation/undrip-will-be-implemented-in-canada-no-matter-political-party-in-power-says-economic-analyst/

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

• National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/
• TRCM Brown Bag Lunch Series – Video recording: Karine Duhamel - Reclaiming Power and Place - Inquiry into MMIWG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJi7nuoaY54
• Native Women’s Association of Canada: https://www.nwac.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Fact_Sheet_Missing_
• and_Murdered_Aboriginal_Women_and_Girls.pdf
• “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)” The University of British Columbia Library: https://guides.library.ubc.ca/mmiwg This page provides links to many resources for more information.
• “Missing & Murdered: The Unsolved Cases of Indigenous Women and Girls” CBC.ca: https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/

Podcasts

• 2 Crees in a Pod: https://anchor.fm/terri-suntjens
• All My Relations: https://www.allmyrelationspodcast.com/
• APTN Nation to Nation: https://www.aptnnews.ca/nationtonation/podcast/
• Book Women Podcast: https://bookwomenpodcast.ca/?page_id=26
• MEDIA INDIGENA: https://mediaindigena.com/
• This Place: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1020-this-place Based on the graphic novel anthology.
• Toasted Sister Podcast (Radio about Native American food): https://toastedsisterpodcast.com/
• ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐅᓂᒃᑳᖏᑦ (Inuit Unikkaangit): https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/444-inuit-unikkaangit

NEW Repatriation and reparation

• Totem: The Return of the G'psgolox Pole. Directed by Gil Cardinal.: https://www.nfb.ca/film/totem_the_return_of_the_gpsgolox_pole/
• Canadian Centre for Architecture: The Discovery of Absences -- Martien de Vletter outlines a process of reparative description: https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/articles/82962/the-discovery-of-absences
• Canadian Centre for Architecture: Critical Cataloguing and Reparative Descriptions: https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/82982/critical-cataloguing-and-reparative-descriptions
• Royal BC Museum: Indigenous Collections and Repatriation Policy: https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/media/5331
• Society of American Archivists: Archival Repatriation Committee: https://www2.archivists.org/governance-manual/archival-repatriation-committee
• University of BC Wiki: Archives and Repatriation: https://wiki.ubc.ca/Course:ARST573/Archives_and_Repatriation

Research principles and methodologies

• CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance: https://www.gida-global.org/care
• OCAP®: https://fnigc.ca/ocap-training/
• TCPS 2 (2018) – Chapter 9: Research Involving the First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples of Canada: https://ethics.gc.ca/eng/tcps2-eptc2_2018_chapter9-chapitre9.html
• “First Nations Ethics First Nations Ethics Guide on Research Research and Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge” Assembly of First Nations: https://www.afn.ca/uploads/files/fn_ethics_guide_on_research_and_atk.pdf
• “Indigenous Research Methodologies” The University of British Columbia Library: https://guides.library.ubc.ca/IndigResearch/researchethics This page provides links to many resources for more information.
• Indigenous Research Ethics Institute, Carleton University: https://carleton.ca/indigenousresearchethics/resources/ This page provides links to many resources for more information.

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

• Treaties Relation Commission of Manitoba: https://trcm.ca/
• Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, “Treaties in Manitoba,”: https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1418853369350/1418854433358
• “Treaty Areas” Travel Manitoba: https://www.travelmanitoba.com/places/treaty-areas/
• Treaty Land Entitlement, Indigenous and Northern Relations, Government of Manitoba: https://www.gov.mb.ca/inr/major-initiatives/treaty-land-entitlement.html
• “Treaties” Winnipeg Public Library: https://guides.wpl.winnipeg.ca/treaties This resource page provides links to many websites, publications and videos.

Truth and reconciliation

• National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation: http://nctr.ca 
• Indian Residential School Survivors Society: https://www.irsss.ca/
• Practicing Active Allyship in the TRC's Calls to Action, Webinar October 7, 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFRR_OvipxQ
• “Truth and Reconciliation” TEDx talk by Kevin Lamoureux, January 3, 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FG8SXalxTg
• “What is reconciliation? Indigenous educators have their say” TVO Docs, April 5, 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE_08EQbWRI  
• “Residential Schools in Canada: A Timeline” Historica Canada, Mar 2, 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFgNI1lfe0A

TRC Calls to Action

• Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action: http://trc.ca/assets/pdf/Calls_to_Action_English2.pdf
• Government of Canada: Museums and Archives: https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1524504831027/1557513782811
• Indigenous Watchdog: https://indigenouswatchdog.org/
• Reconciliation in Heritage: webinar by Miranda Jenny for the National Trust for Canada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlOlpqvHycU
• Yellowhead Institute: Calls to Action Accountability: A 2021 Status Update on Reconciliation: https://yellowheadinstitute.org/trc/
• CBC News: Beyond 94, Truth and Reconciliation in Canada: https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform-single/beyond-94?&cta=1