Law Society of Saskatchewan Truth and Reconciliation Reading About Residential Schools and Indigenous Perspectives
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Reading About Residential Schools and Indigenous Perspectives
July 8, 2021By Alan Kilpatrick, Librarian
In light of the recent residential school announcements, Law Society Legal Resources has put together a list of books about residential schools and Indigenous justice.
These titles are available through our Legal Resources Library. Reach out to us or call us 306-569-8020 if you would like to read them.
- 21 things you may not know about the Indian Act / Robert Joesph
- Canadian justice, Indigenous injustice: the Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie case / Kent Roach
- Clearing the plains: disease, politics of starvation, and the loss of Aboriginal life / James Daschuk
- Fragile settlements : Aboriginal peoples, law, and resistance in south-west Australia and prairie Canada / Amanda Nettelbeck
- Missing & murdered Indigenous people in “Canada”: an inclusionary approach to understanding violence against the original people of Turtle Island / Jen MtPleasant
- Peace and good order: the case for Indigenous justice in Canada / Harold Johnson
- To right historical wrongs : race, gender, and sentencing in Canada / Carmela Murdocca
A short read we recommend, available through Saskatchewan’s public library system, is:
- The education of Augie Merasty: A residential school memoir / Augie Merasty
Good picture books about residential schools that you may want to read to your children, also available through the Saskatchewan public library system, include:
- Kookum’s red shoes / Peter Eyvindson
- I am not a number / Jenny Kay Dupuis
- No time to say goodbye / Sylvia Olsen
- Not my girl / Christy Jordan-Fenton
- Shi-shi-etko / Nicola Campbell
- Shin-chi’s canoe / Nicola Campbell
- Stolen words / Melanie Florence
- When we were alone / David A Robertson & Julie Flett
Please feel free to recommend any other resources about residential schools and Indigenous perspectives in the comments.