The Yukon's primary source for trans, non-binary and two-spirit information. This reource includes practical information for queer youth, like how to change your legal name and gender markers, as well as useful information for teachers in the Yukon and beyond, like 2SLGBTQ terminology.

From the authors: "Women, Contemporary Aboriginal Issues and Resistance" is a free kit, five print pieces and an 80 minute DVD, designed to help you and your students, your classmates, or your friends explore what it's like to grow up Aboriginal and what other youg Canadians learn about Indigenous Peoples. The kit follows the lives of three fictional children as they grow into adulthood, quickly becoming aware of the way their prejudices, Aboriginal roots, and friendships continue to play an improtant role in shaping their view of each other, and our country. This teaching guide is recommended for ages 14+ and is suited for individual or group study (as large as 30 people).

Olemaun is eight and knows a lot of things. But she does not know how to read. Ignoring her father’s warnings, she travels far from her Arctic home to the outsiders’ school to learn. Based on the true story of Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, and complemented by stunning illustrations, When I Was Eight makes the bestselling Fatty Legs accessible to younger readers. Now they, too, can meet this remarkable girl who reminds us what power we hold when we can read. Published in Canada by Annick Press *Best Books for Kids and Teens, starred selection, Canadian Children’s Book Centre; Recommended Reads List, Canadian Toy Testing Council; 2017 TD Summer Reading Club Recommended Reads List; Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize finalist; Cybils Award nomination

Really great resource for all teachers when teaching about Two-Spirit peoples and the sacred roles they've had in communities. Though the term "cross dressing" should generally be avoided, this resource offers a lot of insight about gender roles and identity expression from a historical Indigenous perspective.

A series of interviews from Queer and/or trans and two-spirit Indigenous people between the ages of 18-35 living in Toronto. From the author: "This zine is about research I did on how young trans, queer and two-spirit* Indigenous people use the word two-spirit. I interviewed fellow young queer, trans, and two-spirit Indigenous people here in Toronto about two-spirit as a term – how we use it, how we see our communities using it, and the relationships between two-spirit and other words that are related to our genders, sexualities, and who we are as Indigenous peoples." This resource is also great for introducing high school students to qualititative university-level methods in an accessible way; the author discusses hypothesis-building, choosing methodology, and interview processes.

List of resources for trans, two-spirit and non-binary people in British Columbia. Resources range from helping Trans youth with legal name changes to helping teachers better understand how to teach Trans youth.

A great collection of 5 Resource Kits for trans youth, with topics ranging from mental and physical health to Indigenous art and youth leadership.

The second novel in the series 7 Generations, Scars introduces White Cloud, a young Plains Cree boy, in the year 1870, when the last great smallpox epidemic swept through the prairies. After witnessing, one by one, the death of his family from the illness, he summons the strength to journey on to find a new home and deliver himself from the terrible disease. But will he make it? Scars follows White Cloud and the people he encounters, as he struggles to survive against impossible odds. The book also reconnects readers to Edwin, a lost young man on his own quest who was introduced in book 1, Stone. By learning about the bravery and perseverance of his ancestor White Cloud, Edwin summons his own courage and travels to confront the main source of his despair: the father he barely knows.

From the author: "This presentation will share an understanding of Cree traditional law and discuss its contemporary application in relation to gender and sexual diversity. I will offer a brief history of how the sexuality and bodies of Indigenous, specifically Cree two spirit (LGBTQ) people became regulated through governmental and church policy and discuss how the social movement Idle No More has validated traditional understandings and practices. Through research and examples, personal observations, stories and experiences, the meaning and importance of body sovereignty and gender self-determination and expression will be presented as necessary aspects of undoing systemic forms of oppression and revisioning as a positive ‘coming in’ process."

Billy-Ray Belcourt is a writer and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He won the Griffin Poetry Prize for his first poetry collection, This Wound is a World. In Ndn Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field, Belcourt weaves between poetry, poetics, prose and textual art to highlight the resilience and presence of Indigenous Peoples. Part One examines every day realities of reserve life, intergenerational trauma, and queerness, while part two explores colonial logics underlining texts like Treaty 8.