National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (Adult)

Updated June 23, 2026
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Silence to strength : writings and reflections on the sixties scoop
Miskonoodinkwe-Smith, Christine.
Paper Book
From the 1960s through the 1980s the Canadian Children's Aid Society engaged in a large-scale program of removing First Nations children from their families and communities and adopting them out to non-Indigenous families. This systemic abduction of untold thousands of children came to be known...
Ally Is a Verb : A Guide to Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples
LeMay, Rose.
Paper Book
INSTANT GLOBE & MAIL BESTSELLER TORONTO STAR BESTSELLER BOOKMANAGER INDIE BESTSELLER Your next step on the journey of reconciliation starts here. What can you do to be a better ally for your Indigenous colleagues, community...
52 Ways to Reconcile : How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing
Robertson, David A.
Paper Book
52 Ways to Reconcile is an accessible, friendly guide for non-Indigenous people eager to learn, or Indigenous people eager to do more in our collective effort towards reconciliation, as people, and as a country. As much as non-Indigenous people want to walk the path of reconciliation, they often...
Steady Brightness of Being : Truths, Wisdom, and Love from Celebrated Indigenous Voices
Sinclair, Sara.
Paper Book
Drawing on the wisdom and personal experience of its esteemed contributors, this first-of-its-kind anthology tackles complex questions of our times to provide a rich tapestry of Indigenous life, past, present, and future. The letters explore the histories that have brought us to this moment, the...
Soft As Bones : A Memoir
Sage, Chyana Marie.
Paper Book
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A CBC Best Book of 2025 Finalist, Foreword INDIES 2025 Book of the Year A poetic memoir as intricately woven as a dreamcatcher about overcoming the pain of generational trauma with the power of traditional healing In candid...
Who we are : four questions for a life and a nation
Sinclair, Murray
Paper Book
For decades, Senator Sinclair has fearlessly educated Canadians about the painful truths of our history. He was the first Indigenous judge in Manitoba, and only the second Indigenous judge in Canadian history. He was the Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and remains one of the...
Di-bayn-di-zi-win to own ourselves : embodying Ojibway-Anishinabe ways
Fontaine, Jerry
Paper Book
A collaboration exploring the importance of the Ojibway-Anishinabe worldview, use of ceremony, and language in living a good life, attaining true reconciliation, and resisting the notions of indigenization and colonialization inherent in Western institutions.Indigenization within the academy...
Truth and reconciliation in Canadian schools
Toulouse, Pamela Rose.
Paper Book
In this book, author Pamela Rose Toulouse provides current information, personal insights, authentic resources, interactive strategies and lesson plans that support Indigenous and non-Indigenous learners in the classroom. This book is for all teachers that are looking for ways to...
Broken circle : the dark legacy of Indian residential schools : a memoir
Fontaine, Theodore
Paper Book
Now an approved curriculum resource for grade 9-12 students in British Columbia and Manitoba. Theodore (Ted) Fontaine lost his family and freedom just after his seventh birthday, when his parents were forced to leave him at an Indian residential school by order of the Roman Catholic Church and the...
The fire still burns : life in and after residential school
George, Sam
Paper Book
Sam George's harrowing account of surviving Canada's Indian Residential School system. "My name is Sam George. In spite of everything that happened to me, by the grace of the Creator, I have lived to be an Elder." Set in the Vancouver area...
Picking up the pieces : residential school memories and the making of the Witness Blanket
Newman, Carey
Paper Book
"Will educate and enlighten Canadians for generations to come. It's a must-read for anyone seeking to understand Canada's residential-school saga. Most importantly, it's a touchstone of community for those survivors and their families still on the path to healing."--Waubgeshig Rice, journalist...
Kâ-Pî-isi-kiskisiyânthe Way I Remember
Ratt, Solomon
Paper Book
A residential school survivor finds his way back to his language and culture through his family's traditional stories. When reflecting on forces that have shaped his life, Solomon Ratt says his education was interrupted by his schooling. Torn from his family at the age of six,...
The reason you walk
Kinew, Wab
Ebook
A moving story of father-son reconciliation told by a charismatic aboriginal star When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who'd...
All the Quiet Places
Isaac, Brian Thomas
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Waiting for the Long Night Moon: Stories Hardcover
Peters, Amanda.
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of The Berry Pickers In her debut collection of short fiction, Amanda Peters describes the Indigenous experience from an astonishingly wide spectrum in time and place--from contact with the first European settlers, to the forced removal of...
Five little Indians
Good, Michelle
Paper Book
WINNER: Canada Reads 2022 WINNER: Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction WINNER: Amazon First Novel Award WINNER: Kobo Emerging Author Prize  Finalist: Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist: Atwood Gibson Writers Trust Prize Finalist: BC & Yukon...
Blanket toss under midnight sun : portraits of everyday life in eight Indigenous communities
Seesequasis, Paul
Paper Book
A revelatory portrait of eight Indigenous communities from across North America, shown through never-before-published archival photographs--a gorgeous extension of Paul Seesequasis's popular social media project. In 2015, writer and journalist Paul Seesequasis found himself...
Small ceremonies : a novel
Edwards, Kyle
Paper Book
A poignant and heart-wrenching coming-of-age story that follows the friendships, hopes, fears, and struggles of a group of Native high school students from Winnipeg, Manitoba's North End, illuminating what it's like to grow up in the heart of an Indigenous city WINNER OF THE GOVERNOR...
Medicine walk
Wagamese, Richard
Paper Book
"A novel about the role of stories in our lives, those we tell ourselves about ourselves and those we agree to live by." --Globe and Mail When Franklin Starlight is called to visit his father, he has mixed emotions. Raised by the old man he was entrusted to soon after his birth, Frank is...
Decolonization and me : conversations about healing a nation and ourselves
McLeod, Kristy
Paper Book
This book invites readers to step into a space of reflection on your personal relationship with truth, reconciliation, and Orange Shirt Day. Written in response to the increase of residential school denialism, Phyllis Webstad and Kristy McLeod have collaborated to create a...
Wild People Quiet : A Novel
Gereaux, Tara.
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A taut, exquisitely rendered story exploring the repercussions of a woman's decision to hide her Métis identity while living in a small, predominantly white prairie town in the 1940s, for readers of The Berry Pickers, Tommy Orange, and The...
The education of Augie Merasty : a residential school memoir
Merasty, Joseph Auguste
Paper Book
Named the fourth most important "Book of the Year" by the National Post in 2015 and voted "One Book/One Province" in Saskatchewan for 2017, The Education of Augie Merasty launched on the front page of The Globe and Mail to become a national bestseller and an instant...
Becoming a matriarch : a memoir
Knott, Helen
Paper Book
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Co-winner of the 2024 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature * Winner of the Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes (part of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes) * Shortlisted for the 2024 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize * Finalist for...
The boy from Buzwah : a life in Indian education
King, Cecil O.
Paper Book
Cecil King's remarkable memoir, from humble beginnings on a reservation to his unparalleled legacy to ensure Indian Control of Indian Education in Canada. "Through my eyes, my community was creative, innovative and self-sufficient. In this remote northern traditional First Nation...
Beyond the orange shirt story : a collection of stories from family and friends of Phyllis Webstad before, during, and after their residential school experiences
Webstad, Phyllis
Paper Book
Beyond the Orange Shirt Story is a unique collection of truths, as told by Phyllis Webstad's family and others, that will give readers an up-close look at what life was like before, during, and after their Residential School experiences. In this book, Survivors and Intergenerational Survivors share...
The serviceberry : abundance and reciprocity in the natural world
Kimmerer, Robin Wall
Paper Book
An Instant New York Times Bestseller From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world....
The first few feet in a world of wolves : a novel
Mainprize, Scott
Paper Book
The First Few Feet in a World of Wolves chronicles the fictionalization of the year the author spent teaching in Aupaluk (a remote Inuit community on the Ungava Coast of Nunavik). The second outlines, and explores, the history of oppression experienced by the more than five hundred Indigenous...

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