Indigenous Archives Resources
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Archives and Museums
Archival Description
Being an Ally
City of Winnipeg Indigenous Accord
Indigenous Digital Collections
Indigenous Rights (International)
Land Acknowledgements
- "What's wrong with land acknowledgments, and how to make them better," by Ka’nhehsí:io Deer, CBC.ca, October 21, 2021: https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/land-acknowledgments-what-s-wrong-with-them-1.6217931
- "Five Steps to Writing A Land Acknowledgment," by Martha Benduski: https://www.careaboutclimate.org/blog/five-steps-to-writing-a-land-acknowledgement
- "Are Most Land Acknowledgments Performative?," The Agenda: Interview with Cliff Cardinal about his play "The Land Acknowledgment, Or As You Like It": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_l84t8qjf0
- "Land acknowledgement," Baroness von Sketch Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlG17C19nYo
- "Territorial acknowledgments seeds for growth, action," by Niigaan Sinclair, Winnipeg Free Press, April 24, 2023: https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/2023/04/24/territorial-acknowledgments-seeds-for-growth-action
- Whose Land (Search the website by location for a land acknowledgement example): https://www.whose.land/
- Native Land, "Territory Acknowledgement," (2020). Note their advice for learning how to correctly pronounce a nation’s name: https://native-land.ca/resources/territory-acknowledgement/
- "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. This document lists land acknowledgements for every school division in Manitoba in English, French and several Indigenous languages: https://mapc.mb.ca/files/Treaty-Land-Acknowledgement-Document.pdf
- "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. Although this publication comes from Ontario, it contains useful information and ideas for education: https://etfofnmi.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Going-Beyond-A-Land-Acknowledgement-FINAL-VERSION.pdf
- "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
- What Is Land Back? David Suzuki Foundation: https://davidsuzuki.org/what-you-can-do/what-is-land-back/
- 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 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
Indigenous Podcasts
Rematriation, Repatriation, and Reparation
Research Principles and Methodologies
Theses by Graduates of the University of Manitoba/University of WInnipeg Archival Studies 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
Truth and Reconciliation
- Paths to Reconciliation, Canadian Geographic: https://pathstoreconciliation.canadiangeographic.ca/
- National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation: https://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, March 2, 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFgNI1lfe0A
TRC Calls to Action