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• Reclaiming Power and Place

  the Final Report of the National Inquiry Into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

  National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (Canada)

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  National Inquiry into MMIWG website here: https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/final-report/

• Unsettling Canada

  a National Wake-up Call

  Manuel, Arthur

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  "While Canada spent 2017 celebrating the 150th anniversary of Confederation, Indigenous peoples made shrewd interventions into its birthday blowout, questioning, at every turn, just what was being celebrated. [Arthur] Manuel's book…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Reconciliation Manifesto

  Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy

  Manuel, Arthur

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  “[Arthur] Manuel and [Grand Chief Ronald] Derrickson show how governments are attempting to reconcile with Indigenous peoples without touching the basic colonial structures that dominate and distort the relationship. They review the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Indigenous Writes

  a Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada

  Vowel, Chelsea

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  “Delgamuukw. Sixties Scoop. Bill C-31. Blood quantum. Appropriation. Two-Spirit. Tsilhqot’in. Status. TRC. RCAP. FNPOA. Pass and permit. Numbered Treaties. Terra nullius. The Great Peace. Are you familiar with the terms listed above? In…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• As We Have Always Done

  Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance

  Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake, 1971-

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  “Indigenous resistance is a radical rejection of contemporary colonialism focused around the refusal of the dispossession of both Indigenous bodies and land. [Leanne Betasamosake] Simpson makes clear that its goal can no longer be cultural…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Indigenous Nationhood

  Empowering Grassroots Citizens

  Palmater, Pamela D. (Pamela Doris), 1970-

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  “Indigenous Nationhood is a selection of blog posts by well-known lawyer, activist and academic Pamela Palmater. Palmater offers critical legal and political commentary and analysis on legislation, Aboriginal rights, Canadian politics,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Red Skin, White Masks

  Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition

  Coulthard, Glen Sean, 1974-

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  “Over the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonization between the nation-state and Indigenous nations in North America. The term 'recognition' shapes debates over Indigenous cultural…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

  An Indian History of the American West

  Brown, Dee

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  “First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontier. In this non-fiction account, Dee…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Medicine Unbundled

  a Journey Through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care

  Geddes, Gary, 1940-

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  “A shocking exposé of the dark history and legacy of segregated Indigenous health care in Canada. The memories recounted by these survivors—from gratuitous drug and surgical experiments to electroshock treatments intended to destroy the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unsettling the Settler Within

  Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada

  Regan, Paulette, 1949-

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  “In Unsettling the Settler Within, Paulette Regan, a former residential-schools-claims manager, argues that in order to truly participate in the transformative possibilities of reconciliation, non-Aboriginal Canadians must undergo their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Whose Land Is It Anyway? A Manual for Decolonization

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  “The book contains two essays from [Arthur] Manuel, described as the Nelson Mandela of Canada, and essays from renowned Indigenous writers Taiaiake Alfred, Glen Coulthard, Russell Diabo, Beverly Jacobs, Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Kanahus…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Memory Serves

  Oratories

  Maracle, Lee

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  “Memory Serves gathers together the oratories award-winning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performed over a twenty-year period. Revised for publication, the lectures hold the features and style of oratory intrinsic to the Salish…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Conversations With Canadians

  Maracle, Lee

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  “On her first book tour at the age of 26, Lee Maracle was asked a question from the audience, one she couldn't possibly answer at that moment. But she has been thinking about it ever since. As time has passed, she has been asked countless…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Clearing the Plains

  Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life

  Daschuk, James W. (James William), 1961-

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  “For years, government officials withheld food from Aboriginal people until they moved to their appointed reserves, forcing them to trade freedom for rations. Once on reserves, food placed in ration houses was withheld for so long that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Restoring the Balance

  First Nations Women, Community, and Culture

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  “Restoring the Balance brings to light the work First Nations women have performed, and continue to perform, in cultural continuity and community development. It illustrates the challenges and successes they have had in the areas of law,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Inconvenient Indian

  a Curious Account of Native People in North America

  King, Thomas, 1943-

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  “Neither a traditional nor all-encompassing history of First Nations people in North America, The Inconvenient Indian is a personal meditation on what it means to be 'Indian.' [Thomas] King explores the relationship between Natives and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Settler

  Identity and Colonialism in 21st Century Canada

  Battell Lowman, Emma • Barker, Adam J.

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  “Canada has never had an “Indian problem”—but it does have a settler problem. But what does it mean to be settler? And why does it matter? Through an engaging, and sometimes enraging, look at the relationships between Canada and Indigenous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Surviving Canada

  Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal

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  “Surviving Canada: Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal is a collection of elegant, thoughtful and powerful reflections about Indigenous peoples’ complicated, and often frustrating, relationship with Canada, and how—even 150…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Right Relationship

  Reimagining the Implementation of Historical Treaties

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  “In The Right Relationship, John Borrows and Michael Coyle bring together an impressive slate of renowned scholars to consider the fraught treaty relationship(s) between First Nations and Canada. Despite the fact the Supreme Court of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Returning to the Teachings

  Exploring Aboriginal Justice

  Ross, Rupert, 1946-

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  “During a three-year secondment with Justice Canada, [Rupert] Ross travelled from the Yukon to Cape Breton Island, examining—and experiencing—the widespread Aboriginal preference for 'peacemaker justice.' In this remarkable book, he…Read moreRead more of this annotation