Resources for Decolonizing Your Teaching

Queen's Library Guides provide links to a wide range of Indigenous sources. Apart from those,there are other collections that map out Indigenous topical and subject knowledge.

North American Indian Thought and Culture: This database brings together unpublished and rarw autobiographies, biographies, Indigenous publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files for the first time. The result is a comprehensive representation of historical events as told by the individuals who lived through them.

Deepening Knowledge Project (University of Toronto): Topical lists include resources on Residential Schools, Sixties Scoop and Adoption, Treaties and Land Claims. Subject lists reflect te K-12 curriculum and include the Arts, Music, Science, Math, and Indigenous Languages.

Shekon Neechie: An Indigenous History Site: This is a select bibliography of historical works by Indigenous scholars on Indigenous histories in North America/Turtle Island. 

How did we get here? A concise unvarnished account of the history of the relationships between Indigenous poeples and Canada

21 things you may not know about the Indian Act

University of British Columbia

First Nations X̱wi7x̱wa Library (Squamish for “echo”)

Collects materials written from First Nations perspectives and written by Indigenous authors, First Nations organizations, tribal councils, schools, publishers, researchers, writers, and scholars. Maintains research guides on publishers, new media, residential schools, film, mapping, treaties, and Indigenous Digital Collection in Canada.

Library and Archives Canada: Indigenous Heritage

Peat, D. (2006). Blackfoot physics: A Journey into the Native American universe. Weiser Books. [online]