Welcome to the first Teaching and Learning Blog for the 2025-2026 academic year and beyond. This year, we are updating resources for National Truth and Reconciliation week, recognizing the importance of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. This day is recognized by the Federal Government, as of March 2023, as Truth and Reconciliation Day. Many schools across the land will have activities and discussions on September 30, 2025.
This week’s blog is dedicated to highlighting some of the many resources that may be useful in guiding, reflecting, and informing the ways we teach Indigenous stories and reflect on reconciliation at this moment. In this blog, we have included a diversity of resources, links, and recent, award-winning publications. Teachers and students may learn by reading, listening, and watching.
This list is a point of departure and there are many local events, archival resources, and publications that may meet your classroom and course dynamics. We are working to continually consider how we may shift our pedagogies in the future and to use as many of these resources as possible in the classroom.[1]
Do you have other suggestions for works that could be included on this list? We’d love to hear them! Let us know by tagging @CndHistAssoc on Bluesky and using the hashtag #CHATeachingResourcesChat
Activities
90-minute live event, Parliament Hill, September 30, 2025
This event will take place at 3:00 pm ET and will be broadcast live. It will take place in Plains Cree, English, and French and can be streamed on APTN lumi on October 2, 2025. The event will be hosted by Earl Wood and Melissa Molen Dupuis. Survivors Lucien Wabanonik, Charlotte Nolin, Richard Kistabish, and Reepa Evic-Carleton will share their reflections.
NIKLA-ANCLA
National Indigenous Knowledge & Language Alliance / Alliance nationale des connaissances et des langues autochtones
Respectful Terminology Platform
Decolonization and Methodology
Galloway, Mary, dir. The Cowichan Sweater: Our Knitted Legacy | Absolutely Canadian | CBC Gem. Absolutely Canadian. CBC Gem, 2023.
Horn, Kaniehti:io. Telling Our Twisted Histories | CBC Podcasts. n.d. Accessed September 16, 2025.
Justice, Daniel Heath. Why Indigenous Literatures Matter. Indigenous Studies Series. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2018.
McLeod, Kristy, and Phyllis Webstad. Decolonization and Me: Conversations about Healing a Nation and Ourselves. Medicine Wheel Publishing, 2025.
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. Third edition. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
Tuck, Eve, and K. Wayne Yang. “Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 1, no. 1 (September 8, 2012).
Vowel, Chelsea. Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Issues in Canada. HighWater Press, 2016.
Younging, Gregory. Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing By and About Indigenous Peoples. Edmonton, Alberta: Brush Education, 2018.
Truth and Reconciliation
Aglukark, Susan, and Andrea Warner. Kihiani: A Memoir of Healing. HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2025.
Good, Michelle. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada. Harper Perennial paperback edition. Harper Perennial, 2024.
McLeod, Kristy, and Phyllis Webstad. Decolonization and Me: Conversations about Healing a Nation and Ourselves. Medicine Wheel Publishing, 2025.
Robertson, David A. 52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing. 1st ed. McClelland & Stewart, 2025.
Sinclair, Murray, Sara Sinclair, and Niigaanwedom Sinclair. Who We Are: Four Questions for a Life and a Nation. McClelland & Stewart, 2024.
Wente, Jess. Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance. Penguin Canada, 2022.
Wilson-Raybould, Jody. True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change. Hardcover edition. McClelland & Stewart, 2022.
Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Archibald, Queenie. “Ten Books to Contextualize Reconciliation in Archives, Museums, and Public History.” Active History, October 17, 2016.
McCracken, Krista. “Challenging Colonial Spaces: Reconciliation and Decolonizing Work in Canadian Archives.” The Canadian Historical Review (North York) 100, no. 2 (2019): 182–201.
McCracken, Krista. “The Role of Canada’s Museums and Archives in Reconciliation.” ActiveHistory.Ca (blog), June 15, 2015.
MCDP, CMHR. Picking Up the Pieces: The Making of the Witness Blanket, 2020. (With artist Carey Newman).
Tessler, Camila Zorrilla, and Conor Casey. Archives in Context: Krista McCracken and Skylee-Storm Hogan-Stacey, Decolonial Archival Futures. 8:4. Society of American Archivists: Archives in Context. October 29, 2024. 31:20.
Library and Archives Canada: Digital Portal
Archives and Primary Sources
Directory of Canadian Archives (Database)
Australian Society of Archivists
Society of American Archivists
Digital Public Library of America
Dr. Erin Millions, Research Director and Dr. Mary Jane Logan McCallum, Project Lead & Canada Research Chair in Indigenous People, History, and Archives, The Manitoba Indigenous Tuberculosis Project.
Institutions established to remove children from their communities, cultures, families, and homes
Confronting Residential School Denialism with Sean Carleton. December 12, 2024. 1h46min.
Fraser, Crystal. By Strength, We Are Still Here: Indigenous Peoples and Indian Residential Schooling in Inuvik, Northwest Territories. Critical Studies in Native History. University of Manitoba Press, 2024.
Goulet, Danis. Night Raiders, 2021.
Hill, Richard W., Alison Norman, Thomas Peace, and Jennifer Pettit, eds. Behind the Bricks: The Life and Times of the Mohawk Institute, Canada’s Longest-Running Residential School. University of Calgary Press, 2025.
Hubbard, Tasha. Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up. National Film Board of Canada. Accessed September 10, 2021.
Justice, Daniel Heath and Sean Carleton. “Truth Before Reconciliation: 8 Ways to Identify and Confront Residential School Denialism.” Royal Society of Canada, August 25, 2021.
McCue, Duncan. Kuper Island Podcast, CBC Radio, 2022.
NoiseCat, Julian, and Emily Kassie, dirs. Sugarcane. Documentary. National Geographic, 2024. 107 Minutes. USA Canada.
Noyce, Phillip, Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, and Kenneth Branagh. Rabbit-Proof Fence. Biography, Drama. Rumbalara Films, The Australian Film Commission, Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC), 2002.
Walker, Connie. Stolen: Surviving St. Michaels. Spotify, 2022.
Williams, Alex. The Pass System. Tamarack Productions, 2015.
Wolochatiuk, Tim. We Were Children (2012). National Film Board of Canada. Accessed September 14, 2022. (Warning: The NFB suggests that his film is suited for audiences 16 years of age or older).
US Context
Carlisle Indian School Resource Centre
Newland, Bryan. Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report. n.d.
O’Gara, Geogg (dir). Home from School: The Children from Carlisle. Vision Media Maker, 2021, 54 minutes. (Available via Kanopy).
Trafzer, Clifford E. “Boarding School Voices: Carlisle Indian School Students Speak.” Journal of American History 110, no. 1 (2023): 147–48.
Teaching
Blackhawk, Ned. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History. The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity. Yale University Press, 2023.
Bohaker, Heidi. Doodem and Council Fire: Anishinaabe Governance through Alliance. University of Toronto Press, 2021.
Dupuis, Renée. La question des Premières Nations au Canada: nouvelle édition mise à jour. Éditions du Boréal, 2023.
Gabriel, Katsi’tsakwas Ellen. When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance. 1st ed. With Sean Carleton, Pamela Palmater, and Audra Simpson. Between the Lines, 2024.
Hoy, Benjamin. A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands. Oxford University Press, 2021.
Leddy, Lianne C. Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake. University of Toronto Press, 2022.
Luby, Brittany. Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory. University of Manitoba Press, 2020.
Nickle, Sarah, Adele Perry, Alison Norman, and Jo McCutcheon. A Syllabus for History After the TRC, September 2018.
Rawle, Fiona. The Campus Learn, Share, Connect. “A Pedagogy of Kindness: The Cornerstone for Student Learning and Wellness,” August 20, 2021.
Sinclair, Niigaanwewidam James. Wînipêk: Life from the Centre. McClelland & Stewart, 2025.
Steeves, Paulette F. C. The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere. University of Nebraska Press, 2021.
[1] For past blogs related to resources for National Truth and Reconciliation Day, please click here and here.