As a follow-up to our September 29th service, our guest speaker (Ken Coates, PhD) put together the following reading list of books that relate to the theme of “Living in the Spirit of Reconciliation:

Best Historical Overviews

J.R. Miller, Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens: A History of Indian-White Relations in Canada
Olive Dickason and David Newhouse, Canada’s First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from the Earliest Times

Contemporary Policies and Legal Issues

Jodi Wilson-Raybould, True Reconciliation: How to be a Force for Change
Jodi Wilson-Raybould, From Where I Stand: Rebuilding Indigenous Nations for a Stronger Canada (and watch for her new book, Reconciling History, coming out this fall)
Bob Joseph, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act
Bruce McIvor, Standoff: Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It
Greg Poelzer and Ken Coates, From Treaty Peoples to Treaty Nation: A Road Map for All Canadians
Sniderman and Sanderson, Valley of the Birdtail

Indigenous Perspectives

Michelle Good, Five Little Indians
Maria Campbell, Halfbreed
Tanya Talaga, The Knowing
Murray Sinclair, Who We Are
Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian
Thomas King, The Truth About Stories

There is a large and wonderful body of literature by and about Indigenous peoples, Indigenous-newcomer relations, and the path to reconciliation. This is only a start of your reading!! Enjoy!