Looking for ways to educate yourself and deepen your understanding of reconciliation in everyday actions? WESN team members compiled the following list of actions and resources to support our community’s ongoing learning and reconciliation efforts. Several of these were sourced through the The Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund (for more information visit here).
Individual and community actions:
- Visit a local Indigenous organization, Friendship Centre, community group or museum
- If invited or open to the public, attend local Indigenous cultural events taking place in your community
- Organize or participate in fundraising and awareness events supporting Indigenous artists, organizations, and community groups
- Support Indigenous artists and Indigenous owned businesses
- Learn the land acknowledgment in your region or develop one of your own in consultation with local Indigenous communities.
Everyday actions through media and learning:
Listen to a podcast that explores historic and current lived experiences of Indigenous People in Canada
- Thunder Bay – Canadaland
- Our Native Land – Tchadas Leo
- Coffee with My Ma – Kaniehti:io Horn
- The Historical Natives – Mackenzie Taylor and Josef Stafford
- Residential Schools – Historica Canada and hosted by Shaneen Robinson-Desjarlais
- The Secret Life of Canada – Falen Johnson, Leah Simone Bowen
- Telling Our Twisted Histories – CBC Podcast hosted by Kaniehti:io Horn
- Kiwew – CBC Podcast hosted by David A. Robertson
- Inuit Unikkaangit – CBC Podcast hosted by Mary Powder
- Pieces – CBC Podcast hosted by Jeremy Ratt
Read a book centering Indigenous stories and experiences
- Moon of the Crusted Snow – Waubeshig Rice
- Split Tooth – Tanya Tagaq
- Ragged Company – Richard Wagamese
- Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun – Paul Seesequasis
- Code Talker – Cheser Nez
- From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way – Jesse Thistle
- Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life – James Daschuk
- Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-up Call – Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ron Derrickson
- The Inconvenient Indian – Thomas King
- The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy – Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ron Derrickson
Watch a movie or documentary that highlights Indigenous perspectives and issues
- We Were Children – Film by Tim Wolochatiuk
- Colonization Road – Documentary by Michelle St. John
- nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up –Documentary by Tasha Hubbard
- Jordan River Anderson: The Messenger – Documentary by Alanis Obomsawin
- Cottagers and Indians – Documentary by Drew Hayden Taylor
- Elder in the Making – Documentary by Chris Hsiung
Last Updated: 15-Sep-2021