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Resources for Decolonizing Your Teaching

This list offers resources to support a path towards decolonizing our teaching.

Mutlimedia Sources

  • Curio: CBC and Radio-Canada. Documentaries from television, radio, news, archival material. CBC. (2012). 8th Fire: Aboriginal Peoples, Canada and the way forward (TV series and interactive website with teaching resources
  • National Film Board: Over 1000 films are free to all Canadians. Queen’s Library has paid the classroom public performance rights to show an additional 500 films in classrooms.
  • First Nations Films:  for, by, and about native people– Vancouver
  • Turtle Island News (weekly newspaper); Guide to Indigenous News & Media (Dalhousie)
  • Aboriginal Multi-Media Society: Canadian publications for various audiences, such as Windspeaker, Raven’s Eye, Ontario Birchbark, Buffalo Spirit, and Alberta Sweetgrass.
  • Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami represents Canada's 65,000 Inuit peoples across four regions: Nunatsiavut (Labrador), Nunavik (northern Quebec), Nunavut, and the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in the Northwest Territories. They produce learning resources including their current Inuit Nunangat Taimannganit storytelling project.

    Locations of the storytelling videos.

Locations of the story recordings are shown on the map and include: Inuvialuit Settlement Region (Northwest Territories), Nunavut, Nunavik (Northern Quebec), and Nunatsiavut (Northern Labrador). The entire region is named Inuit Nunangat.

The Witness Blanket

The Witness Blanket is a largeā€scale art installation made from hundreds of items reclaimed from survivors and their families, residential schools, churches, government buildings, and traditional and cultural structures across Canada. The process of gathering these objects and their stories took artist Carey Newman and his team from coast to coast to coast. The documentary film Picking Up the Pieces: The Making of the Witness Blanket shares that journey.