Resources
- Orange Shirt Society: About Phyllis Webstad
- Orange Shirt Day Resources
- National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
- Senator Murray Sinclair on Reconciliation
- Senator Murray Sinclair on How Canadians Can Work toward Reconciliation
Events
- Elements of Truth: Before Reconciliation Workshops, kinSHIFT, Various Dates
- Elephant Mountain Challenge, Movement is Medicine
- Indigenous Learning across the Seasons, Outdoor Learning School
- Lunch and Learns, National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, Online
Reading List
Browse a list of titles from past Selkirk Reads!
Fiction
- 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
Short stories
- Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology Eds. Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr.
Memoirs
- 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
Graphic novels
- 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
Poetry
- 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
Non-fiction
- 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
Reports
- 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
Children's literature
- 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