(un)learning content.
Articles/Reports
- Decolonization is Not a Metaphor | Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang
- Complicated pathways: settler Canadians learning to re/frame themselves and their relationships with Indigenous peoples | Lynne Davis, et al.
- Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native | Patrick Wolfe
- Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy | Maile Arvin, Eve Tuck, Angie Morrill
- Indigenous Governance is Gay | Emily Riddle
- The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open | Billy-Ray Belcourt
- Pacification and Indigenous Struggles in Canada | Tia Dafnos
- How Canada Criminalizes Indigenous Land Defense | Yellowhead Institute
- Cacophonous Settler Grounded Normativity: Interrelationality with the More-Than-Human World as a Path for Decolonial Transformation | Benjamin Kapron
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack | Peggy Mcclintock
- Settler Colonial Knapsack | Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Books
Listed in order of basic groundwork to complex interconnection. Many more on this Decolonization Reading List, but these together provide a solid foundation.
- The Inconvenient Indian | Thomas King (Cherokee)
- 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance | Gord Hill (Kwakwaka’wakw)
- Indigenous Writes | Chelsea Vowel (Métis)
- Unsettling Canada | Arthur Manuel (Secwepemc)
- The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy | Arthur Manuel
- Memory Serves | Lee Maracle (Sto:lo)
- Lighting the Eighth Fire | Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Anishinaabe)
- Canadian Law and Indigenous Self-Determination | Gordon Christie (Inupiat/Inuvialuit)
- Canada’s Indigenous Constitution | John Borrows (Anishinaabe)
- Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition | Glen Coulthard (Yellowknives Dene)
Webpages
- What does white privilege and anti-racism look like? | Northshore Edu
- Indigenous legal updates and analysis | First Peoples Law
- Current Indigenous Top Ten | Academica Group
- Settlers with Opinions | The Conversation
- Handbook for Implementing UNDRIP | Indigenous Bar Association
Podcasts
- Media Indigena
- Host Rick Harp (Cree) and recurring guest speakers provide a platform for complex Indigenous topics to be explored in depth.
- First Peoples Lawcast
- Podcast featuring conversations on the defence of Indigenous rights and legal orders.
- The Trauma-Informed Lawyer
- This podcast will serve as your educational resource on trauma-informed lawyering. Through inspiring interviews and thoughtful commentary, Myrna McCallum will shine a light on a critical competency you did not get any instruction on in law school.
- All My Relations
- All My Relations is a team of folks who care about representations, and how Native peoples are represented in mainstream media.
- Red Man Laughing
- Ryan McMahon’s (Anishinaabe/Métis) storytelling comedy style is fast-paced, loose & irreverent as he explores the good, the bad & the ugly between Indian Country & the mainstream.
- Our Native Land
- Tchadas Leo is an award-winning Indigenous digital media producer. Tchadas brings indigenous content to mainstream media through projects like Our Native Land, commissioned by CHEK.