Last year, the Indigenous Team shared wisdom and perspective on Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being and how we can each take reconciliACTION, meaningful steps to move reconciliation forward. The answers included many book recommendations, which are compiled here, as well as the books read by the Indigenous Services Book Club:
- 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph
- A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
- A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879 to 1986 by John S. Milloy
- Alliances: Re/Envisioning Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relationships edited by Lynne Davis
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Crow Winter by Karen McBride
- From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle
- Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
- Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga
- Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
- Structures of Indifference: An Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City by Mary Jane Logan McCallum and Adele Perry
- The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
- There There by Tommy Orange
- They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School by Bev Sellars
- Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada by Paulette Regan with foreward by Taiaiake Alfred
- Wenjack by Joseph Boyden
SLC Libraries Virtual DisPlay
The SLC Libraries team has created a virtual display for National Indigenous History Month. You can also check to see what books from the recommended list are available from our campus libraries.