ReconciliAction Resources: Non-Fiction: Biography, Creative NF
Decolonizing Genders
I Am Woman by Publication Date: 2002-05-31One of the foremost Native writers in North America, Lee Maracle links her First Nations heritage with feminism in this visionary book. "Maracle has created a book of true wisdom, intense pride, sisterhood and love." -Milestones Review
Masculindians by Publication Date: 2014Sam McKegney conducted interviews with leading Indigenous artists, critics, activists, and elders on the subject of Indigenous manhood. In offices, kitchens, and coffee shops, and once in a car driving down the 401, McKegney and his participants tackled crucial questions about masculine self-worth and how to foster balanced and empowered gender relations.
The Beginning and End of Rape by Publication Date: 2015-11-01This book is aimed at engaging the problem of violence against Native women head-on--and ending it.
Indigenous Men and Masculinities by Publication Date: 2015-11-30Building on Indigenous knowledge systems, Indigenous feminism, and queer theory, the sixteen essays by scholars and activists from Canada, the U.S., and New Zealand open pathways for the nascent field of Indigenous masculinities.
Biography and Personal Accounts
Come Walk with Me by Publication Date: 2009-10-10Come Walk With Me is a moving memoir that follows a bewildered three-year-old through a dramatic journey to adulthood. Mosionier searches to make sense of her losses--her sundered family, her innocence, and her dignity--only to triumph as a woman and writer, fulfilled artistically, politically, and personally.
The Reason You Walk by Call Number: E99 C6K545 2015Publication Date: 2015-09-29When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who'd raised him.
The Mush Hole : Life at Two Indian Residential Schools. by Publication Date: 1997Maddie Harper tells her story about aboriginal life and culture, as she experienced life in the residential school at Brantford and since.
- The Amazing Mazie Baker
Galvanized by the injustices she saw committed against and within her community-especially against indigenous women, who were denied status and property rights-she began a long career of advocacy. She fought for housing for families in need; she pushed for transparency in local government; she defended ancestral lands; she shone a bright light into the darkest political corners.
General Nonfiction
Indigenous Writes by Call Number: E78 .C2V69 2016ISBN: 9781553796800Publication Date: 2016-09-09In Indigenous Writes, Chelsea Vowel initiates myriad conversations about the relationship between Indigenous peoples and Canada.
Taking Back Our Spirits by Publication Date: 2009-05-01Taking Back Our Spirits traces the link between Canadian public policies, the injuries they have inflicted on Indigenous people, and Indigenous literature's ability to heal individuals and communities.
Unsettling the Settler Within by Call Number: E96.5 .R44 2010ISBN: 9780774817776Publication Date: 2010-12-22Unsettling the Settler Within argues that non-Aboriginal Canadians must undergo their own process of decolonization in order to truly participate in the transformative possibilities of reconciliation.
The Inconvenient Indian by ISBN: 9781452940298Publication Date: 2013-09-01A personal meditation on what it means to be "Indian." King explores the relationship between Natives and non-Natives since the fifteenth century and examines the way that popular culture has shaped our notion of indigenous identity, while also reflecting on his own complicated relationship with activism.
Dancing on Our Turtle's Back by ISBN: 9781894037501Publication Date: 2011-06-15Activist, editor, and educator Leanne Simpson asserts reconciliation must be grounded in political resurgence. She stresses the importance of illuminating Indigenous intellectual traditions to transform their relationship to the Canadian state. Challenging and original, Dancing on Our Turtle's Back provides a valuable new perspective on the struggles of Indigenous Peoples.
Anthologies
Arts of Engagement by Publication Date: 2016-07-15Arts of Engagement focuses on the role that music, film, visual art, and Indigenous cultural practices play in and beyond Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools.
Reconciling Canada by ISBN: 9781442611689Publication Date: 2013-04-22Reconciling Canada provides readers with the contexts for understanding the phenomenon of reconciliation as it has played out in this multicultural settler state.
The Winter We Danced by Call Number: E92 .W58 2014ISBN: 9781894037518Publication Date: 2014-04-01The Winter We Danced is a vivid collection of writing, poetry, lyrics, art and images from the many diverse voices that make up the past, present, and future of the Idle No More movement.
Residential schools: with the words and images of survivors by Publication Date: 2014A first-person perspective of the residential school system in Canada, as it shares the memories of more than 70 survivors from across Canada as well as 125 archival and contemporary images.
