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Articles and Books
Joseph, Bob. (2018). 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality. Indigenous Relations Press: Vancouver.
Joseph, a member of the Gwawaenuk First Nations and a cultural sensitivity trainer, explores the Indian Act not only as a legal document, but also its long-lasting repercussions and strategies for making reconciliation a reality in Canada.
McLeod, Darrel J. (2018). Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age. Douglas & McIntyre: Vancouver.
An autobiographical work, McLeod details his upbringing as a young cree in Alberta, sharing his own experiences, as well as a abuses faced by his mother in a residential school.
Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake. (2017). As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance. University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis
Simpson, an Indigenous scholar from Alderville First Nations writing on Indigenous Issues in Canada; in As We Have Always Done, she explores resistance and protest movements of Indigenous groups in both Canada and the United States.
Frideres, James (2019). Arrows in a Quiver: From Contact to the Courts in Indigenous-Canadian Relations. University of Regina Press: Regina.
This book explores a broad range of issues in the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the Canadian government, as the title suggests, dating back to early contact with settlers.
Recommended Websites
The website of the Assembly of First Nations, Canada’s largest Indigenous organization, includes press releases, news, policy discussion, information on past and upcoming annual assemblies, and publications, as well as links to provincial and territorial organizations. You might also want to explore the websites for the Métis Nation and Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami.
http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/society/native-issues/native-issues.html
A large selection of CBC stories can be found here on various aspects of Indigenous society and politics.
http://www.ammsa.com/publications/windspeaker
Windspeaker is a national newspaper whose print version may be viewed online. This paper includes news and views on Indigenous issues across Canada.
http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/
Nunatsiaq News is a weekly newspaper published in Iqaluit, Nunavut.
This is a link to the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, a Winnipeg-based network which has a great array of programming, documentaries and archives made by and about Indigenous peoples in Canada and the US.
http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/i-5/
This link is to the Canadian government’s text of the Indian Act.
http://www.trc.ca/websites/trcinstitution/index.php?p=12
This is the website for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada which was created to help heal the wounds of the Residential School system.
This Global News article examines the positions of different Canadian governments toward the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the difficulties that have been faced in getting the tenets of the UNDRIP incorporated into Canadian law.