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Dalhousie is closed this Thursday, September 30th to observe the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. We've compiled a list of events and resources as a starting place for learning, reflecting and taking action. In addition to some foundational resources on reconcilation, the list includes resources that are specific to those studying business, public service and information and resource management. 

Events

Dalhousie events

• Preparing for a Day of Truth and Reconciliation" hosted by the Indigenous Health in Medicine program on September 27, 28, 29 (email IHIM@dal.ca)
  
• Screening of the film The Secret Path on September 29 at noon in the McInnes room at which special TRC postcards will be distributed
• Orange Shirt unveiling on the Truro Campus in the Student Learning Commons, which will be on display beginning September 28 at 12:30 pm until Monday, October 4. (see The Golden Ram, Dalhousie Agricultural Students' Association monthly campus newspaper, for more info).
• Virtual sunrise ceremony hosted by Catherine Martin, Director of Indigenous Community Engagement, on September 30 from 7-7:30 a.m. (Link will be made available on the HRES website.
• A virtual Zoom presentation from Dal faculty member Patricia Doyle-Bedwell, hosted by the Dalhousie Faculty Association, taking place on September 30 from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Community events

• Kent Monkman’s work, online  or, in person. On Sept. 30th, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia will have free admission. see Monkman’s "Miss Chief's Wet Dream”, part of the AGNS permanent collection as well as the TA’N A’SIKATIKL SIPU’L | CONFLUENCE exhibition.
• Join the online sunrise ceremony organized by APTN, airing live on television on September 30 at 6:00 am ET CT MT. There will be a day of full programming on Truth and Reconciliation
• The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation has webinars all week
• Implementing Indigenous Reconciliation series October 14, 20 and 28 from the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
  

Resources

Mi'kmaw history and culture

• Dalhousie is situated on Mi'kma'ki, the traditional and unceded lands of the Mi'maq. Download a PDF list of resources about Mi'kmaw history and culture compiled be members of the Faculty of Management
  

Podcasts

• The Secret Life of Canada: Introducing: Telling Our Twisted Histories
• Unreserved
  
• The Canadian Encyclopedia: Residential Schools Podcast Series
  
• All my relations
• 2 Crees in a Pod
  • Featured in MacEwan News
•  Matriarch Movement

Videos

• Phyllis Webstad Orange Shirt Day Presentation
• Mi’kmaq Elder Albert Marshall on Indigenous knowledge
• Dr. Leroy Little Bear on Indigneous Knowledge and Western science
• Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc (July 15, 2021) Public Presentation of Kamloops Indian Residential School Le Estcwéý (The Missing)
• CBC documentaries
  • My Auntie survived residential school. I need to gather her stories before she’s gone
    
  • I was taken from my home and raised as a “nice Jewish girl,” but I’m Indigenous
• Jayli Wolf's Child of the Government music video

Films

• “We were Children” directed by Tim Wolochatiuk
• “Rhymes for Young Ghouls” directed by Jeff Barnaby {e.g., on Fandor, Starz Play Amazon Channel, Hoopla, Crave Plus, Crave Stars)
• “There is Something in the Water '' Directed by: Elliot Page, Ian Daniel. Available on Netflix. Watch the trailer here.
• “I Lost my Talk” performed by Gabrielle Nebrida-Pepin

Books

• Aikenhead, G., & Michell, H. (2011). Bridging cultures: Indigenous and scientific ways of knowing nature. In: Toronto, ON: Pearson Canada Inc.
• Cajete, G. (2000). Native science: Natural laws of interdependence.
• Dimaline, Cherie. The Marrow Thieves. Toronto: Dancing Cat, 2017. Web.
• Eve Tuck and K. Yang, Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 1(1):1-40
• Kimmerer, R. W. (2013). Braiding sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants: Milkweed Editions.
• Jisgang Nika Collison, Sdaahl K’awaas Lucy Bell and Lou-ann Neel (2019) Indigenous repatriation handbook. Prepared by the Royal BC Museum and the Haida Gwaii Museum at Kay Llnagaay
• John Borrows, Larry Chartrand, Oonagh E Fitzgerald and Risa Schwartz, eds. (2019) Braiding Legal Orders: Implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Waterloo, Ontario : Centre for International Governance Innovation)
• William C. Wicken (2018) Mi'kmaq Treaties on Trial: History, Land, and Donald Marshall Junior (Toronto : University of Toronto Press)
• Marie Battiste, ed. (2016) Living Treaties: Narrating Mi'kmaw Treaty Relations (Sydney, Nova Scotia: Cape Breton UP)

Academic Articles:

• No’kmaq, M. s., Marshall, A., Beazley, K. F., Hum, J., joudry, s., Papadopoulos, A., Zurba, M. (2021). “Awakening the sleeping giant”: re-Indigenization principles for transforming biodiversity conservation in Canada and beyond. FACETS, 6(1), 839-869.
• Johnson, J. T., Howitt, R., Cajete, G., Berkes, F., Louis, R. P., & Kliskey, A. (2016). Weaving Indigenous and sustainability sciences to diversify our methods. J Sustainability Science, 11(1), 1-11.
• Kealiikanakaoleohaililani, K., & Giardina, C. P. (2016). Embracing the sacred: an indigenous framework for tomorrow’s sustainability science. Sustainability Science, 11(1), 57-67.
• Miller, J.R. (1996). Shingwauk's Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802078582.
• Maggie Walter, Raymond Lovett, Bobby Maher, Bhiamie Williamson, Jacob Prehn, Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews and Vanessa Lee (2021) Indigenous data sovereignty in the era of big data and open data. The Australian Journal of Social Issues 56(2):143-156
• Stephanie Russo Carroll, Ibrahim Garba, Oscar L. Figueroa-Rodríguez, Jarita Holbrook, Raymond Lovett, Simeon Materechera, Mark Parsons, Kay Raseroka, Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear, Robyn Rowe, Rodrigo Sara, Jennifer D. Walker, Jane Anderson and Maui Hudson (2020) The CARE principles for indigenous data governance. Data Science Journal 19(1):43

Calls to action and accountability

• Read the Truth and Reconciliation calls to action
  
• Truth and Reconciliation final report summary 
• Additional reports and resources from the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
• Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls (MMIWG) Inquiry Report and recommendations (2019)
• Calls to Action Accountability, Yellowhead Institute (2020)
• Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) 2021 Priority List Election (2021)
• Royal Commission on the Donald Marshall, Jr. (1987-8) Report
• Taskforce on Access to Dalhousie for Black and Native People (1989) Breaking Barriers: Report of the Task Force on Access for Black and Native People. Dalhousie University
• United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (2007)
  
• Nancy Shoemaker (Oct 1, 2015) A Typology of Colonialism. Perspectives on History
• L’nuey (n.d.) Treaty people
• Archives Association of Ontario list of resources Towards Truth and Reconciliation
  

On giving land acknowledgments  

• Guide to Acknowledging Traditional Territory
• Vowel, C. (2016). Beyond territorial acknowledgments. Âpihtawikosisân.

On being an ally

• Hathcock, A. (2016). You’re Gonna Screw Up. At the Intersection.
• Henry, A. (2010). How Can I Learn to Take Criticism Without Taking It Personally? Lifehacker.
• Kendall, M. (2009). The Do's and Don'ts of Being a Good Ally. Angry Black Woman.

Resources for faculty and staff

• Four Seasons of Reconciliation course for Dalhousie faculty, staff and administration through the Dalhousie Libraries
• Think Before You Appropriate: A Guide for Creators and Designers
• Tuck, E. & Yang, W. (2012). Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society. 1(2).