Digital Display: Indigenous History Month
June is National Indigenous History Month! Every year, we celebrate Indigenous History Month, which falls around National Indigenous Peoples Day (June 21st). This is an opportunity to learn more about the history of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people, who have lived on this land since time immemorial. To coincide with festivities, which run throughout the month, MacEwan Library has put together a number of films and books about Indigenous peoples and their histories.
To Read:
‘Métis’: Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood by Chris Andersen
A Knock on the Door: The Essential History of Residential Schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Edited and Abridged by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System by John S. Milloy
Arrows in a Quiver: From Contact to the Courts in Indigenous-Canadian Relations by James Frideres
Canada’s First Nations and Cultural Genocide by Robert Z. Cohen
Canadian Indigenous Literature and Art: Decolonizing Education, Culture, and Society by Carol A. Mullen
Carrying the Burden of Peace: Reimagining Indigenous Masculinities Through Story by Sam McKegney
Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life by James W. Daschuk
Disinherited Generations: Our Struggle to Reclaim Treaty Rights for First Nations Women and Their Descendants by Nellie Carlson and Kathleen Steinhauer
From Treaties to Reserves: The Federal Government and Native Peoples in Territorial Alberta, 1870-1924 by D. J. Hall
Gathering Places: Aboriginal and Fur Trade Histories by Laura L. Peers and Carolyn Podruchny
Histories of Indigenous Peoples and Canada by John Douglas Belshaw, Sarah Nickel, and Chelsea Horton
Indigenous Poetics in Canada by Neal McLeod
Indigenous Toronto: Stories that Carry This Place by Denise Bolduc, Mnawaate Gordon-Corbiere, Rebeka Tabobondung, and Brian Wright-McLeod
Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis, & Inuit Issues in Canada by Chelsea Vowel
Let the People Speak: Oppression in a Time of Reconciliation by Sheilla Jones
Metis Pioneers: Marie Rose Delorme Smith and Isabella Clark Hardisty Lougheed by Doris Jeanne MacKinnon
Rekindling the Sacred Fire: Métis Ancestry and Anishinaabe Spirituality by Chantal Fiola
Spirits of the Grassroots People: Seeking Justice for Indigenous Survivors of Canada’s Colonial Education System by Raymond Mason, Jackson Pind, and Theodore Michael Christou
What the Eagle Sees: Indigenous Stories of Rebellion and Renewal by Eldon Yellowhorn and Kathy Lowinger
To Watch:
In the Footsteps of the Inuit: The History of Nunavik
Kwa’nu’te’: Micmac and Maliseet Artists
Truth and Reconciliation: The Legacy of Residential Schools in Canada