Learning Resources

• Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation
• United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples  (UN General Assembly, United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: resolution / adopted by the General Assembly, (2 October 2007), A/RES/61/295 (“UNDRIP”). Endorsed by Canada in 2016 / Déclaration des Nations Unies Sur Les Droits Des Peuples Autochtones
• Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (BC)

Residential School  

• Reports of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Violence targeting Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ Persons 

• Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
• Réclamer notre pouvoir et notre place: le rapport final de l’Enquête nationale sur les femmes et les filles autochtones disparues et assassinées
• No More Stolen Sisters: The Need for a Comprehensive Response to Discrimination and Violence Against Indigenous Women,  Amnesty International, (September 2009) 
• Red Women rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

Policing 

• The Report of the Commission of Inquiry into matters relating to the Death of Neil Stonechild, Justice David H Wright. (October, 2004) 
• Broken Trust: Indigenous People and the Thunder Bay Police Service, Office of the Independent Police Review Director (December 2018), 

Access to Public Services 

• Public Inquiry Commission on relations between Indigenous Peoples and certain public services in Quebec: listening, reconciliation and progress
• Commission d’enquête sur les relations entre les Autochtones et certains services publics : écoute, réconciliation et progrès
• In Plain Sight: Addressing Indigenous-specific Racism and Discrimination in B.C. Health Care
• First Peoples, Second Class Treatment: The role of racism in the health and well-being of Indigenous Peoples in Canada

Access to Human Rights Complaints Processes

• Honouring the Strength of Our Sisters: Increasing Access to Human Rights Justice  For Indigenous Women and Girls (Summary Report of the 2013 and 2014 Aboriginal Women’s Roundtable Process, Canadian Human Rights Commission)
• To Dream Together: Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights Dialogue Report (September 2018, Government of Ontario, Ontario Human Rights Commission)
• Expanding Our Vision: Cultural Equality & Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights (2019, Ardith Walpetko We’dalx Walkem QC, Report prepared for the BC Human Rights Tribunal)

• University of Alberta, Indigenous Canada (Massive Open Online Course that explores Indigenous histories and contemporary issues in Canada)
  • https://www.ualberta.ca/admissions-programs/online-courses/indigenous-canada/index.html 
• Indigenous Corporate Training Inc., including free ebooks
  • https://www.ictinc.ca/ 
• British Columbia Government Employees: House of Indigenous Learning – extensive Indigenous led resources and training available to most tribunals
• Law Societies may offer courses. See, for example:
  • Barreau du Québec, Droits, réalités autochtones et comp/tence culturelles pour les avocats
  • Law Society of Ontario, CPD – Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

• University of Victoria, Indigenous Law Research Unit: extensive resources, including:
  • Indigenous Law Videos
  • What Is Indigenous Law? A Small Discussion, by Val Napoleon
  • Indigenous Law Today and Tomorrow with John Borrows and Val Napoleon
  • Case Note: Human Rights in Indigenous (Gitxsan) Law
  • Accessing Justice and Reconciliation Project

Watch

• Finding Dawn [MMIWG]
• Doctrine of Discovery; stolen lands, strong hearts 
• CIAJ free webinar series on “Indigenous Peoples and the Law”:
  1. Overview of the Progress of the Calls to Action
  2. The Next Stages of Indigenous Governance in Quebec
  3. Looking at British Columbia’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act
  4. Discussing the Promises and Problems with the Act respecting First Nations, Métis and Inuit Children, Youth and Families
  5. Investigating the Indigenous Languages Act
  6. Court Changes after the COVID-19 Pandemic and Indigenous Cultural Relevancy
• ADR Institute of Canada free webinar series on Diversity in ADR: Ethics and Inclusion, including A Trauma-Informed Approach to Managing ADR
• But I Was Wearing A Suit
• See also Resources Page of the Indigenous Law Research Unit for other videos

Listen

• Podcasts: Thunder Bay, All My Relations, 2 Crees in a Pod, Trauma-informed lawyer, Unreserved, Indigenous Lands Rights and Reconciliation, Indigenous Human Rights, APTN Nation to Nation, Think Indigenous
• Tanya Talaga, The 2018 CBC Massey Lectures: All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward 
• Jesse Wente, Reframing Indigenous Stories in Joy 

Explore the news

aptnnews.ca

Explore Indigenous arts, entertainment, scholarship, achievements, culture, language etc.

Resources on land, UNDRIP, calls to action, literature, art, storytelling, film, language, etc.

Reports of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

ttps://nctr.ca/records/reports/#trc-reports