National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Reading List

Every month, the DG Ivey Library brings curated book displays and reading lists.

In honour of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on September 30th, also known as Orange TShirt Day, the DG Ivey Library has brought together materials that illustrate the experience and harm caused by the Residential School system on Indigenous people, families and communities, as well as material on Indigenous research methodologies and decolonial pedagogical practices.

Visit the DG Ivey Library foyer to view the display or browse the list of electronic resources below.

• Indian Residential School Survivors’ Storybase
• Canada’s residential schools : the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. (2016). Published for The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada by McGill-Queen’s University Press. 
• Craft, A., & Regan, P. (Eds.). (2020). Pathways of reconciliation : Indigenous and settler approaches to implementing the TRC’s calls to action. University of Manitoba Press.
• Angel, N. (2022). Fragments of truth : residential schools and the challenge of reconciliation in Canada (D. Robinson & J. Berthe, Eds.). Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478023173
• Haig-Brown, C. (1988). Resistance and renewal : surviving the Indian residential school. Arsenal Pulp Press.
• MacDonald, D. B., MacDonald, D. B., MacDonald, D. B., MacDonald, D. B., & MacDonald, D. B. (2019). The Sleeping Giant Awakens : Genocide, Indian Residential Schools, and the Challenge of Conciliation. University of Toronto Press,. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487518042
• Milloy, J. S., & McCallum, M. J. L. (2017). A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System (2nd ed., Vol. 11). University of Manitoba Press.
• Mountain, A. (2019). From Bear Rock Mountain : the life and times of a Dene residential school survivor. Brindle & Glass, an imprint of TouchWood Editions.
• Pirbhai-Illich, F., Pete, S., & Martin, F. (2017). Culturally Responsive Pedagogy : Working towards Decolonization, Indigeneity and Interculturalism (1st ed.). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46328-5
• Woolford, A. J., Benvenuto, J., & Hinton, A. L. (2014). Colonial genocide in Indigenous North America. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822376149