Selkirk Reads!

Books

• What We Learned: Two Generations Reflect on Tsimshian Education and the Day Schools by By Helen Raptis, with members of the Tsimshian Nation
• Students by Day: Colonialism and Resistance at the Curve Lake Indian Day School by Jackson Pind
• Spirit of the Grassroots People: Seeking Justice for Indigenous Survivors of Canada's Colonial Education System by Raymond Mason, edited by Jackson Pind and Theodore Michael Christou

Podcast

• The Legacy of Hope Foundation and Roots and Hoots Presents – A Federal Indian Day School Series Podcast with Survivor Conrad Saulis

Websites

• Drawing on Identity: Inkameep Day School & Art Collection
• Inkameep Indian Day School: There is Truth Here
• Federal Indian Day Schools 

Articles

• "Canada’s Indian Day Schools: The Case of Massett, Haida Gwaii, 1909–1924" by Alan L. Hayes, Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto
• "Silencing Voices: Indigenous Day Schools and the Education Section of Hawthorn's 1958 Report for British Columbia" by Stefan Dollinger, Veronika Larsen and Emilie Jones, British Journal of Canadian Studies
• "'The New Generation' Cooperative Education at the Day School on Dalles 38C Indian Reserve, 1890-1910" by Brittany Luby and Kathryn Labelle, Ontario History
• "Part of that Whole System': Maritime Day and Residential Schooling and Federal Culpability" by Martha Walls, St. Francis Xavier University
• "'True to my own noble race': Six Nations Women Teachers at Grand River in the Early Twentieth Century" by Alison Norman, Ontario History
• "'[T]he Teacher that Cannot Understand their Language Should Not Be Allowed': Colonialism, Resistance, and Female Mi’kmaw Teachers in New Brunswick Day Schools, 1900–1923" by Martha E. Wall, Journal of the Canadian Historical Association

• Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
• Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese
• Empty Spaces by Jordan Abel
• Five Little Indians by Michelle Good
• All the Quiet Places by Brian Thomas Isaac
• Birdie by Tracey Lindberg
• Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
• Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
• Weird Rules to Follow by Kim Spencer
• Buffalo is the New Buffalo by Chelsea Vowel
• Moccasin Square Gardens by Richard Van Camp
• The Strangers by Katherena Vermette
• Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese

• The Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp

• Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology Eds. Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. 

• All the Way: My Life on Ice by Jordin Tootoo
• The Outside Circle by Patti Laboucane-Benson
• On/Me by Francine Cunningham
• A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
• Song of Rita Joe: Autobiography of a Mi'kmaq Poet by Rita Joe
• Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman by Yvonne Johnson & Rudy Wiebe
• In My Own Moccasins by Helen Knott
• Mamaskatch by Darrel J. McLeod
• The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir by Joseph Auguste Merasty
• Take the Indian Out of the Child: Syilx Okanagan Experiences in the Violent and Forced Assimilation of Indian Residential Schools by Okanagan Nation Alliance
• Bones by Tyler Pennock
• Call Me Indian: From the Trauma of Residential Schools to Becoming the NHL’s First Indigenous Player by Fred Sasakamoose
• Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun by Paul Seesequasis
• They Called Me Number One by Bev Sellars
• Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls by Angela Sterritt
• Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
• From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle
• Life in the City of Dirty Water by Clayton Thomas-Muller
• The Shoe Boy by Duncan McCue

• This Place: 150 Years Retold by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Sonny Assu, Brandon Mitchell, et al.
• If I Go Missing by Brianna Jonnie with Nahanni Shingoose, art by Nshannacappo

• The All + Flesh by Brandi Bird
• Treaty # by Armand Garnet Ruffo
• Hope Matters by Lee Maracle, Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter
• Disintegrate/Dissociate by Arielle Twist
• River Woman by Katherena Vermette
• The Red Files by Lisa Bird-Wilsonn

• White Benevolence: Racism and Colonial Violence in the Helping Professions Eds. Amanda Gebhard, Sheelah McLean & Verna St. Denis
• Decolonizing Education: Nurturing the Learning Spirit by Marie Battiste
• In this Together: 15 Stories of Truth & Reconciliation by Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail
• The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy by Arthur Manuel & Grand-Chief Ronald Derrickson

Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec & Nick Estes

Finding My Talk: How Fourteen Native Women Reclaimed their Lives After Residential School by Agnes Grant

Behind Closed Doors: Testimonials from the Kamloops Indian Residential School Ed. Agnes Jack

21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act by Bob Joseph 

Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call by Grand-Chief Ronald Derrickson & Arthur Manuel

Standoff: Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It by Bruce McIvor

Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada by Paulette Regan

Pathways of Reconciliation: Indigenous & Settler Approaches to Implementing the TRC’s Calls to Action Eds. Aimee Kraft & Paulette Regan

Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga 

Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada by Chelsea Vowel

Beyond the Orange Shirt Story by Phyllis Webstad

True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change by Jody Wilson-Raybould

Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead

Braiding Legal Orders: Implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Eds. John Burrows, Larry N. Chartrand, Oonagh E. Fitzgerald, Risa Schwartz & Centre for International Governance Innovation

• What We Have Learned: The Final Report of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission of Canada by Truth & Reconciliation Commission of Canada
• UNDRIP Implementation More Reflections on the Braiding of International, Domestic and Indigenous Laws by the Centre for International Governance Innovation in partnership with Wiyasiwewin Mikiwahp Native Law Centre of the University of Saskatchewan College of Law

• The Barren Grounds: The Misewa Saga #1 by David Alexander Robertson
• The Orange Shirt Story by Phyllis Webstad
• Phyllis's Orange Shirt by Phyllis Webstad
• Books by Monique Gray Smith
• Medicine Wheel Publishing
• 15 Books that Teach Children about Residential Schools compiled by Today's Parent