Book Recommendations & Learning Resources

We are excited to feature Swampy Cree author, graphic novelist, and public speaker David A. Robertson's ' The Barren Grounds: Book One of the Misewa Saga '. Young readers will get pulled into the life experiences of Morgan and Eli, two Winnipeg Manitoba Indigenous children who were taken from their families and put into the foster-care system. When the two children find a secret place in the attic of their foster home, they find a portal to a place where they begin to reconne

We are honoured to feature author, speaker, trainer, and member of the Gwawa'enuk Nation and hereditary chief of the Gayaxala clan, Bob Joseph's ' 21 Things You May Not Know About The Indian Ac t', a book that first originated as a viral article by Joseph. The book serves as a guide to help Canadians understand the Indian Act and how it negatively impacted, and still harms generations of Indigenous Peoples today, causing continued oppression. Joseph goes on to explain how it

I AM NOT A NUMBER, written by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer, illustrated by Gillian Newland, and translated into English by Muriel Sawyer and Geraldine McLeod (with contributions by Tory Fisher). Young readers will get a glimpse into the harsh conditions experienced by the children who were forced to attend residential schools and the impact the schools had, and still have on the residential school survivors, their families, and the families of the children who never made