Guides: Decolonization, Indigenization and Reconciliation: Companion Resource Guide: Taking Responsibility

Tools for Taking Responsibility & Being a Good Ally

Version simplifiée de la Déclaration des Nations Unies sur les droits des peuples autochtones by Mikana, Amnistie Internationale Canada, CDPDJ
Publication Date: 2021 [Cover illustration based on art by Eruoma Awashish]

This collaborative document offers a simplified version of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigneous Peoples (UNDRIP). Adapted from the UNICEF toolkit: “Know Your Rights: UNDRIP for Indigenous Adolescents. ”

The Decolonial Toolbox : Educational Pathway
The result of a multi-year collaboration between the Office of Community Engagement, Mikana and the Montreal Indigenous Community NETWORK, this tool offers the public a self-directed learning pathway to understand historical and contemporary Indigenous realities. The pathway gathers carefully-selected resources produced by Indigenous peoples and organizations that are accessible and promote Indigenous expertise.
Indigenous Ally Toolkit
Discusses the skills required to be a good ally to Indigenous Peoples
Settlers Take Action
Work on learning about your personal role in reconciliation with the Indigenous Peoples of the land now called Canada.
Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex
An Indigenous perspective and provocation intended to intervene in some of the current tensions around solidarity/support work.
Reading to Decolonize (ceased in 2020?)
Community reading group with resources and tools for learning more about historical and present day settler-indigenous relations
Pulling Together: A BCcampus Guide for Indigenization of Post-Secondary Institutions
A set of 6 professional learning guides that are a result of a collaboration between BCcampus, the Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Training, and a Steering Committee of Indigenous education leaders.

C'est le Québec qui est né dans mon pays!* by Emanuelle Dufour
Publication Date: 2021

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.