Resources

The dropdown menu (i.e. hover your mouse over ‘Resources’ above) features resources from our site.

What follows is a list of outside resources we’ve compiled. We are always looking for more, so please email ipsmo@riseup.net with suggestions or add your suggestion as a comment at the bottom.

The resources on this page are categorized as follows:

1. Online articles / writings
2. Online (short) video
3. Websites
4. Books (subsection for fiction)
5. Films
6. Audio

We’ve also made another resource list, organized by subject, featuring sections dealing with residential schools, treaties and agreements, First Nations Child Welfare and Education, the Algonquins of Barriere Lake, and so on.

Online Articles:

• Building a “Canadian” Decolonization Movement: Fighting the Occupation at “Home” – Devin Burke http://auto_sol.tao.ca/node/988
• I Am Indigenist: Notes on the Ideology of the Fourth World, by Ward Churchill http://auto_sol.tao.ca/node/3245
• A Case Against Colonialism, by Robert Lovelace http://councilofcanadianslondon.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/1455/
• Environmental Justice: Race, Displacement and Land (statement by No-One Is Illegal Vancouver) http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=971
• “Decolonizing Anti-Racism” by Bonita Lawrence and Enakshi Dua. http://racismandnationalconsciousnessresources.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/bonita-lawrence-decolonizing-anti-racism.pdf

 

Online Video Clips:

• Audrey Huntley from the No More Silence Coalition speaks about political activism and the neglected and ignored issue of missing Aboriginal women in Canada, before screening her film on the issue, ‘The Heart Has Its Own Memory’. Part of Toronto’s Israeli Apartheid Week 2008. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8019090184632452299
• Ward Churchill speaking in Regina: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-932035938331497720

Websites:

• Department of Native Studies / St. Thomas University http://www.nativestudies.org/
• Hoping Against Hope: The Struggle Against Colonialism in Canada http://www.praxismedia.ca/transcripts/transcript_HopingAgainstHopepdf
• HONOR THE EARTH http://www.honorearth.org/
• Project of Heart http://poh.jungle.ca/
• Survival International http://www.survival-international.org/
• Spiritual Commodification and Misappropriation: What Native People Want You To Understand, compiled by Mariah Jones
  http://www.sonomacountyfreepress.com/features/native.html

Books:

• Making Space for Indigenous Feminisms, edited by Joyce Green
• Conquest by Andrea Smith
• Strong Women Stories by Kim Anderson and Bonita Lawrence
• Women in American Indian Society by Rayna Green
• The Fourth World An Indigenous Perspective on Feminism and Aboriginal Women’s Activism by Grace J. M. W. Ouellette
• Thunder in My Soul: A Mohawk Woman Speaks by Patricia Monture-Angus
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
• Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto (Second Edition) by Gerald Taiaiake Alfred
• Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage: A Global Challenge by Marie Battiste and J. (Sa’k’ej) Youngblood Henderson
• Since Predator Came, by Ward Churchill
• Wasáse: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom, by Taiaiake Alfred
• We Were Not The Savages: A Micmac Perspective on the Collision of European and Aboriginal Civilization, by Daniel N. Paul

Fiction

• Green Grass Running Water (Thomas King)
• The Rez Sisters (Tomson Highway)
• Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing (Tomson Highway)

Films:

• NFB Aboriginal Perspectives http://www3.nfb.ca/enclasse/doclens/visau/index.php?mode=view&language=english&filmId=32864
• The Invisible Nation: http://www3.nfb.ca/webextension/peuple-invisible/the-film.php
• Power (NFB, 1996): Behind-the-scenes story of the Cree’s five-year battle to save the Great Whale River and their traditional way of life from the James Bay II project. http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=33182
• Trudell the Movie http://www.trudellthemovie.com/trudell.html
• We Shall Remain http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallremain/
• Being Innu http://216.191.175.70/mcnabbnew/beinginnu/
• First Australians http://www.sbs.com.au/firstaustralians/
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee http://www.hbo.com/films/burymyheart/
• Global Oneness Project http://www.globalonenessproject.org/
• Mohawk Girls (Tracy Deer)
• Club Native (Tracy Deer)
• Blockade: Algonquins Defend the Forest (NFB Documentary: 1990, 26min 45s) Director: Boyce Richardson, Producer Mark Zannis

Audio

• 4th annual Guelph Anti-Colonial Thanksgiving Dinner: http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/30172 includes speakers Boots Powless and Skyler Williams from Six Nations, Jackie of the Mississaugas of the New Credit, Dan Doreen from Tyendinaga, and Sarah Dover from Toronto