Orange Shirt Day Booklist

Updated December 19, 2023
University of Victoria Libraries
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The inconvenient Indian : a curious account of native people in North America
King, Thomas
Paper Book
In The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King offers a deeply knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated, and utterly unconventional account of Indian-White relations in North America since initial contact. Ranging freely across the centuries and the Canada-U.S. border, King debunks...
Highway of Tears : a true story of racism, indifference, and the pursuit of justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls
McDiarmid, Jessica
Ebook
In the vein of the bestsellers I'll Be Gone in the Dark and The Line Becomes a River, a penetrating, deeply moving account of the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls of Highway 16, and a searing indictment of the society that failed them. For decades,...
Up Ghost River : a chief's journey through the turbulent waters of Native history
Metatawabin, Edmund
Ebook
A powerful, raw yet eloquent memoir from a residential school survivor and former First Nations Chief, Up Ghost River is a necessary step toward our collective healing. In the 1950s, 7-year-old Edmund Metatawabin was separated from his family and placed in one of Canada's...
Compact, contract, covenant : Aboriginal treaty-making in Canada
Miller, J. R.
Ebook
One of Canada's longest unresolved issues is the historical and present-day failure of the country's governments to recognize treaties made between Aboriginal peoples and the Crown. Compact, Contract, Covenantis renowned historian of Native-newcomer relations J.R. Miller's exploration and...

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