Indigenous Studies

• Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Calls to Action

  Truth and Reconciliation Commission
• Progress on Realizing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action

  Assembly of First Nations
• SPECIAL REPORT Calls to Action Accountability: A 2023 Status Update on Reconciliation

  Yellowhead Institute; Eva Jewell and Ian Mosby
• Delivering on Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action

  Government of Canada
• National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation

  The NCTR is a place of learning and dialogue where the truths of the residential school experience will be honoured and kept safe for future generations.
• The Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre

  The Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC) at UBC provides access for former Indian Residential School students, their families, and communities to records of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (housed at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation Archives).

• Browse Canada's Truth and Reconciliation resources in the Library's collection
• Books on Canada's Truth and Reconciliation

  Sample books on Canada's Truth and Reconciliation available in Durham College Library.
• Videos on Canada's Truth and Reconciliation

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  Sample videos on Canada's Truth and Reconciliation available through Durham College Library.

• The Survivors Speak : a report of the Truth and Reconcilliation Commission of Canada by Truth and Reconcilliation Commission of Canada

  Call Number: E96.5 .T783 2015

  ISBN: 9780660019857
• Canada's Residential Schools : the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

  Call Number: E96.5 .T78 2015

  ISBN: 9780773598294
• A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System by John S. Milloy

  Call Number: E96.5 .M56 2017

  ISBN: ‎9780887557897

  Publication Date: University of Manitoba Press
• Residential Schools and Reconciliation: Canada Confronts Its History by James Rodger Miller

  Call Number: E96.5 .M53 2017

  ISBN: 1487502184

  The book tackles and explains the institutional responses to Canada's residential school legacy.
• A Knock on the Door: The Essential History of Residential Schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

  ISBN: 0887552269
• Truth and Reconcilliation Commission of Canada : Calls to Action
• Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future: Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

• Canada's Residential School Apology

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  In June 2008, the government of Canada apologized to Indigenous Canadians for the way they were treated in residential schools. Thousands of First Nations, Inuit and Métis children were forced into government-financed schools where many suffered physical and sexual abuse.
• Beyond 94: Truth and Reconciliation in Canada (Video Series)

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  Cbc.ca/beyond94 allows students to track outcomes on the Calls to Action, learn more about the residential school(s) that operated near their communities (explore the interactive map) and discover concrete examples of how Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians can work together.
• Finding Peter Bryce

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  Journalist and teacher Andy Bryce traces the story of his great-grandfather, Peter Bryce – from his childhood in rural Ontario, to his mysterious death on a cruise ship in the West Indies
• First Contact (Series)

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  First Contact takes six Canadians on a 28-day journey intended to challenge these attitudes and shed a light on the true Indigenous experience.
• CBC Arts Road to Reconciliation Panel Discussion

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  How can Chanie Wenjack's story make a difference? Following The Secret Path broadcast, CBC live-streamed The Road to Reconciliation, a special one-hour panel conversation hosted by Melanie Nepinak Hadley.
• Holy Angels

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  Jay Cardinal Villeneuve’s short documentary Holy Angels powerfully recaptures Canada’s colonialist history through impressionistic images and the fragmented language of a child.
• Stolen Children: Truth and Reconciliation

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  This collection of six documentaries from The National profiles Justice Murray Sinclair, Manitoba’s first Aboriginal judge and the head of the Commission; uncovers the personal stories of survivors both on the ground in Winnipeg and across Canada; and gets up-close with 11-year-old Wanekia Morning Star Cooke to hear the younger generation’s take on the residential school experience.
• Treaties, Reconciliation and Indigenous History in Canada

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  A panel discuss how well Canadians know Indigenous history, what role did treaties play in forming the country, and if the stories told through truth and reconciliation changing our understanding of Canadian history.
• Truth and Reconciliation: The Legacy of Residential Schools in Canada

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  This program examines the history, legacy and current impacts of the Residential School experience in Canada. From the establishment of the early Residential Schools to the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, this film shines a light into this dark chapter of Canadian history.