Reading List for 2023

1. 1. We Were Not The Savages by Daniel Paul
   2. First Peoples in Canada by Alan McMillan and Eldon Yellowhorn 
   3. Five Little Indians by Michelle Good 
   4. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Kimmerer
   5. Truth Telling by Michelle Good 

Trending Podcasts

1. 1. Unreserved by Rosanna Deerchild 
   2. Native Currents by Steven Vanloffeld 
   3. Telling our Twisted Histories by Kaniehtiio Horn
   4. The Secret Life of Canada by Leah-Simon Bowen and Falen 

Independant Indigenous Media Sources

1. 1. Turtle Island News 
   2. Windspeaker 
   3. Anishinabek News 

List of Musicians

1. 1. Buffy Sainte-Marie 
   2. Jayli Wolf 
   3. Morgan Toney 
   4. Digging Roots 
   5. Tanya Tagaq

1. 1. Tyler J Sloane is a performance artist, curator, producer, and facilitator. Their art emphasises marginalised voices with an intrinsic intersectional lens and artistic framework.
   2. Samay Arcentales Cajas is a Toronto-based queer Kichwa digital media artist and video designer exploring human-land relations, the new media dimensions of indigenous cosmology, and immersive art as a site of liberation.
   3. William Monague is a self taught painter that left Beausoleil First Nation reserve on Christian Island in the 70's and 80's to travel the Pow Wow circuit to sell my art.
   4. Susan Hill is a self-taught moccasins maker who was mentored by her mother, Millie throughout her years of beading. 
   5. James Mishibinijima is a painter. His most common theme is painting islands and water because a human being is an island and his inner universe is made out of water, destroying one part of who he is will mean, he will destroy himself forever.

Children's Resources

1. 1. Durham Catholic District School Board (DCDSB) has great resources for introducing children to Indigenous histories and to the history of Canada. 
   2. CBC Kids resources
      1. CBC Book Club: The Walrus and the Caribou
      2. 3 Cool Facts about Totem Poles
      3. Explaining the Word ‘Indigenous”
      4. How to be an Ally
      5. Indigenous Change-Makers Answer Questions from Kids

Intermediate/Senior Resources

1. 1. How to Talk About Indigenous People
   2. Cindy Blackstock - Canadian Human Rights Tribunal on First Nations Child Welfare 
   3. Indigenous Art Exhibit by Paul Seesequasis 
   4. Magnificent Peel Watershed Protected for Future Generations

Ways to be an Active Ally

1. 1. 10 Ways to Be a Genuine Ally to Indigenous Communities 
   2. Dr. Lynn Gehl Ally Bill of Responsibilities

Truth and Reconciliation Day with OCCU