This page presents a living list of some resources I have found helpful… Updated as often as possible.
On Various Aspects of Indian Residential Schools
WEBSITES and BLOGS:
TEXTS:
Aboriginal Healing Foundation. 2012. Speaking My Truth: Reflections on Reconciliation & Residential School. Ottawa, ON: Aboriginal Healing Foundation.
Haig Brown, Celia. 1988. Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School. Vancouver, BC: Arsenal Pulp Press.
On Truth and Reconciliation in Canada
WEBSITES and BLOGS:
Blog: Tracing Memory
Website: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
TEXTS:
Reagan, Paulette. 2010. Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.
On Repair and Historical Injustice
WEBSITES and BLOGS:
Website: Historical Justice and Memory Research Network
- This site brings together academics and activists on the topics of memory, memorialization, historicisation, historical and transitional justice.
Website: Political Apologies and Reparations
- This site offers a searchable database for documents on apologies and reparations.
Website: Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation
- A Non-Governmental Organization that works to “dispel public myths of historically divided legacies”. Provides some resources primarily in video and textual formats.
TEXTS:
Adachi, Ken. 1976. The Enemy that Never Was: A History of the Japanese Canadians. Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart.
Eudaily, Sean Patrick. 2004. The Present Politics of the Past: Indigenous Legal Activism and Resistance to (Neo) Liberal Governmentality.
Miki, Roy. 2006. Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice. Vancouver, BC: Raincoast Books.
