Birdie is the outstanding debut novel by Cree law professor and activist Tracey Lindberg. A member of the As’in’i’wa’chi Ni’yaw Nation Rocky Mountain Cree she has a doctoral degree in law as well as law degrees from the University of Ottawa, Harvard Law School and the University of Saskatchewan. She was awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal, the most prestigious award given to a doctoral student in humanities. Currently at Athabasca University, where she is Chair of the Centre for World Indigenous Knowledge and the Canada Research Chair of Indigenous Traditional knowledge, Legal Orders and Laws, Professor Lindberg has published many legally based Arcticles in areas related to Indigenous law and Indigenous women. In addition to writing stories for literary journal this remarkable author is also a blues singer. The story main character is a big, beautiful Cree woman with a dark secret in her past, Bernice (“Birdie”) Meetoos has left her home in northern Alberta to travel to Gibsons, B.C. She is on something of a vision quest, looking for family, for home, for understanding. She is also driven by the leftover teenaged desire to meet Pat Johns--Jesse from The Beachcombers--because he is, as she says, a working, healthy Indian man. Birdie heads for Molly’s Reach to find answers, but they are not the ones she expected. With the arrival in Gibsons of her Auntie Val and her cousin Skinny Freda, Birdie begins to draw from her dreams the lessons she was never fully taught in life. Informed by the lore and knowledge of Cree traditions, Birdie is a darkly comic and moving first novel about the universal experience of recovering from tragedy. At heart, it is the story of an extraordinary woman who travels to the deepest part of herself to find the strength to face the past and to build a new life.

This source describes in detail what the doctrine of discovery is, how it has shaped Canada's relationship with Indigenous Peoples (legally, politically, economically, and socially) and why it must be formally renounced in Canada in order to achieve reconciliation and decolonization. This is a useful source for teachers who may need some background knowledge about how the Canadian government and settlers more broadly tend to write, think, and talk about Canada as a place that was "discovered" by explorers or pioneers. For teachers beginning to introduce the concept of Treaties, a first step may be to internally reflect upon how we have, generally, historically been taught or are expected to teach Canada's history of settlement. This is an incredible resource for dismantling any preconceived notions of Canada as a "blank space" or terra nulius before European settlement, and a source that provides many justifications for overruling doctrine of discovery pedagogy with new paradigms.

From the main page, under the "Resources" tab, teachers will find three other tabs ("FNMI Teaching and Learning Resources,""Indigenous Education: Pedagogy to Practice Videos," and "Treaty Education") containing a plethora of resourcse having to do with Indigenous cultures and histories as well as Residential Schools and Treaties, including Summaries of Pre-1975 Treaties and the Numbered Treaties as well as resourcse about the concept of treaties generally. This website provides lesson plans and discussion questions for grades K-8, videos, learning activities, maps, and further reading.

The year is 1959, and fifteen-year-old Nipishish returns to his reserve in northern Quebec after being kicked out of residential school, where the principal tells him he's a good-for-nothing who can look forward to a life of drunkenness, prison and despair. The reserve, however, offers nothing to Nipishish. He remembers little of his late mother and father. In fact, he seems to know less about himself than the people at the band office. He must try to rediscover the old ways, face the officials who find him a threat, and learn the truth about his father's death.

• Winner of the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People 2005;
  Short-listed for the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award 2005;
  Selected for the CCBC Our Choice 2005; Selected for the IBBY Honor List 2006

A collection of games, activities and other teaching resources that teach about a variety of topics including interesting facts about First Nations, Inuit and Métis culture, history, culture and present-day lives of First Nations, Métis and Inuit in Canada, traditional spiritual practices, Residential Schools, present-day concerns and achievements of First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities, and First Nations, Métis or Inuit technologies. Many of the games are available both online and as printable PDF versions, for example the Memory Game featuring items invented or discovered by First Nations and Inuit. The Turtle Island "tour" game comes with a printable quiz. The website also includes lesson plans to accompany some of the games. This is a federal government resource.

Life is changing for the Anishnaabe Nation and for the wolf packs that share their territory. In the late 1800s, both Native people and wolves are being forced from the land. Starving and lonely, an orphaned timber wolf is befriended by a boy named Red Wolf. But under the Indian Act, Red Wolf is forced to attend a residential school far from the life he knows, and the wolf is alone once more. Courage, love and fate reunite the pair, and they embark on a perilous journey home. But with winter closing in, will Red Wolf and Crooked Ear survive? And if they do, what will they find? * Moonbeam Children’s Book Award 2014; Forest of Reading, Shortlisted Silver Birch Awards; Shortlisted MYRCA Award 2016; Toronto Public Library’s 2015 Great Reads for Kids Collection

A comprehensive list of teaching resources, books, activities and Arcticles based on the themes of residential schools and reconciliation

From the website: Rezolution Pictures International is an Aboriginal-owned film and television production company based in Montreal. Since 2001, Rezolution Pictures has been at the forefront of Canada’s cultural landscape, having attracted over $25 million to develop and produce award-winning projects, including the Peabody Award-winning Reel Injun, which has been sold to countries around the world and received three Gemini awards in 2010. This website contains countless short films, documentaries and tv series dealing with topics ranging from the James Bay Crees’ battle against uranium development (“The Wolverine”) to the Oka crisis (“The Oka Legacy”) to different kinds of life on different reserves across the country (“Mohawk Girls,” “Moose TV”). International is an Indigenous-owned film and television production company based in Montreal.

Produced by the Treaty Relations Commission of Manitoba, this website contains countless resources for teaching Manitoba Treaties - crosswords, word searches, colouring pages, game cards, Treaty trivia cards, and so much more. In addition to puzzles and games, this webpage contains a wide variety of Teaching Support Materials like maps, resources in French, Treaty Education Newsletters and Teacher Training opportunities, webinars, and literature relevant to the subjects of History, Social Studies, and Geography.

A great list of resources for teachers with descriptions. Topics covered include, among others: Treaties 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10, Saskatchewan Elders, spiritual principles of peace and sharing, the Seven Years War, Oka, and present day events, from First Nations, Inuit and Métis perspectives.