Working with Indigenous Communities: Companion Resource Guide

A graphic ”carnet de rencontre” by a settler and Concordia alumnus seeking to take personal responsibility as well as give voice to multiple First Nations, Inuit and Métis collaborators.

Together the two authors--a Secwepemc activist intellectual and a Syilx (Okanagan) businessman--bring a fresh perspective and new ideas to Canada's most glaring piece of unfinished business: the place of Indigenous peoples within the country's political and economic space. Sets out a plan for a new sustainable Indigenous economy and lays out a roadmap for getting there. Available in French as Décoloniser le Canada .

A series of letters about exchanged between renowned Innu poet Natasha Kanapé Fontaine and Quebec-American novelist Deni Ellis Béchard. First published in 2016, the 2021 edition includes letters written during the period of the murder of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter, as well as the death of Joyce Echaquan amidst brutally racist treatment at a Joliette hospital.

Hereditary chief and leading Indigenous relations trainer Bob Joseph is your guide to respecting cultural differences and improving your personal relationships and business interactions with Indigenous Peoples. Describes the barriers that Indigenous communities face and the truth behind common myths and stereotypes perpetuated since Confederation.

Being a settler means understanding that what is now called Canada is deeply entangled in the violence of colonialism, which continues to define contemporary political, economic and cultural life. It also means accepting our responsibility to struggle for change. This book offers ways to decolonize relationships so that we can find new ways of being on the land, together.

Unsettling the Settler Within argues that non-Indigenous Canadians must undergo their own process of decolonization in order to truly participate in the transformative possibilities of reconciliation. Settlers must relinquish the persistent myth of themselves as peacemakers and acknowledge the destructive legacy of a society that has stubbornly ignored and devalued Indigenous experience.