September 30th has also been recognized since 2013 as Orange Shirt Day to acknowledge the atrocities and suffering experienced by those who attended residential schools in Canada. We encourage staff, students, and faculty to wear orange in solidarity with Indigenous communities, to honour the survivors and their families, and to remember the children that never came home.
The University of Ottawa Library has many titles, both in print and online, on topics of residential schools, Truth and Reconciliation, as well as stories and experiences of Indigenous peoples. Below, we have compiled some resources, in English and French, to learn more. For print books, you can borrow them from our display at the Morisset Library on the first floor from September 25th until October 2nd.
uOttawa events and activities will be hosted throughout the week of September 25th and we encourage you to attend. The Library will be co-hosting a film screening of the NFB film Our People will be Healed along with the Mashkawazìwogamig Indigenous Resource Centre on September 27th at 1:30pm in room 144 of the Morisset Library.
Starting this November, the Morisset Library will also be hosting an exhibit called A National Crime: The Residential School Experience in Canada from the Legacy of Hope Foundation. This exhibition explores the creation of the Residential School System, the experiences of the students, its impacts and traumas, and Indigenous-led political action, healing, and efforts towards Reconciliation.
Books
- The reconciliation manifesto : recovering the land, rebuilding the economy
- Living in Indigenous sovereignty
- This place : 150 years retold (print & eBook)
- Seven fallen feathers : racism, death, and hard truths in a northern city
- Shuni : ce que tu dois savoir, Julie
- In search of April Raintree
- 21 things you may not know about the Indian Act : helping Canadians make reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a reality
- Cheval Indien | Indian Horse (print & eBook)
- Sugar Falls : a residential school story
- Indigenous relations : insights, tips & suggestions to make reconciliation a reality
- Five little Indians
- Unreconciled: family, truth, and Indigenous resistance
- Beyond the orange shirt story : a collection of stories from family and friends of Phyllis Webstad before, during, and after their residential school experience
- Peuples autochtones au Québec - Diplomatie, militantisme et réconciliation (Print & eBook)
- Le droit au froid : le combat d’une femme pour protéger sa culture, l’Arctique et la planète| The right to be cold : one woman's fight to protect the Arctic and save the planet from climate change
- L'Indien malcommode : un portrait inattendu des Autochtones d'Amérique du Nord
- On nous appelait les Sauvages : souvenirs et espoirs d'un chef héréditaire algonquin
- Dry lips devrait déménager à Kapuskasing
- Histoire et expériences des Métis et les pensionnats au Canada
- Namwayut : we are all one : a pathway to reconciliation
- Kuei, je te salue : conversations sur le racisme | Kuei, my friend : a conversation on racism and reconciliation
- Unsettling Canada : a national wake-up call
- In this together : fifteen stories of truth & reconciliation
- Permanent Astonishment: Growing Up Cree in the Land of Snow and Sky
- The mush hole : life at two Indian residential schools
- Dancing on our turtle's back : stories of Nishnaabeg re-creation, resurgence and a new emergence
- Danser sur le dos de notre tortue = Niimtoowaad mikinaag gijiying bakonaan : nouvelle émergence des Nishnaabeg (print & eBook)
- The education of Augie Merasty : a residential school memoir (print & eBook)
eBooks
- Pathways of reconciliation: Indigenous and settler approaches to implementing the TRC's calls to action
- Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School
- Résponse, responsabilité et renouveau cheminement du Canada vers la vérité et la réconciliation
- Canada, Aboriginal peoples, and Residential Schools | Ils sont venus pour les enfants : Le Canada, les peuples autochtones et les pensionnats
- A Knock on the door : the essential history of residential schools
- Renouer avec la Terre et tout ce qui nous unit
- L'œil du maître figures de l'imaginaire colonial québécois
- Décoloniser le Canada : cinquante ans de militantisme autochtone.
- Peuples autochtones et politique au Québec et au Canada : identités, citoyennetés et autodétermination
- Mythes et réalités sur les peuples autochtones
- Kaandossiwin : how we come to know : Indigenous re-search methodologies
- The Right to Be Cold; One Woman's Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change
- As We Have Always Done : Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance
- Indigenous writes : a guide to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit issues in Canada
- Highway of Tears : a true story of racism, indifference and the pursuit of justice for missing and murdered indigenous women and girls
- Claiming Anishinaabe : decolonizing the human spirit
- Unreconciled: family, truth, and indigenous resistance
- Unbroken : my fight for survival, hope, and justice for Indigenous women and girls
Films
- Second Stories - It Had to Be Done | Nos histoires - Ça devait être fait
- Holy Angels
- We were children
- Martha of the North | Martha qui vient du froid
- Our people will be healed
- Birth of a family
- Indian Horse
- We can’t make the same mistake twice
- The Road Forward
- Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance