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The words of truth and reconciliation need to be put into action

In This Together: Fifteen Stories of Truth and Reconciliation

by Edited by Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail

(Brindle & Glass,

2016;

$19.95)

No matter who you are -- Indigenous or non-Indigenous -- the words truth and reconciliation can be hard to swallow.

When you hear the words over and over again, you begin to tire of what can be said, especially when these words seem to be popular in today's politics. These terms, truth and reconciliation, are based upon the actions and words of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission that was put together to deal with Canada's genocidal residential school system and its survivors.

Aside from the work of the actual Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the words truth and reconciliation are now largely used as a tool to get Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to work together.

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The integral role of Indigenous women's knowledge

Living on the Land: Indigenous Women's Understanding of Place

by Edited by Nathalie Kermoal and Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez

(Athabasca University Press,

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Study into the Indigenous ways of knowing and knowledge has been largely conducted from a western standpoint and subsequently focuses on the male point of view. This creates not only a gendered analysis but an incomplete picture that ignores the knowledge traditionally held and communicated by Indigenous women.

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'Dying from Improvement' exposes the politics of colonial inquests and inquiries

Dying from Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody

by Sherene H. Razack

(University of Toronto Press,

2015;

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As we shift from a Harper government that denied Canada's history of colonialism to a Trudeau government that has launched an inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women, Sherene Razack's new book is a must-read to navigate the changing tactics of the Canadian state and support ongoing resistance.

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'Birdie' soars to new heights with 'bigelegance' and quiet strength

Birdie

by Tracey Lindberg

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Tracey Lindberg's debut novel Birdie is a celebration of Cree communities centered around the coming of age of a complex female protagonist.

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'Children of the Broken Treaty' exposes Canada's shameful treatment of Indigenous people

Children of the Broken Treaty: Canada's Lost Promise and One Girl's Dream

by Charlie Angus

(University of Regina Press,

2015;

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Imagine going to a school that is broken. A school that sits on a toxic field of noxious fumes that makes you and your classmates sick.

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'Indigenous Nationhood' speaks a truth that Canada needs to hear

Indigenous Nationhood: Empowering Grassroots Citizens

by Pamela Palmater

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2015;

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Indigenous Nationhood: Empowering Grassroots Citizens is an interesting read because it is a collection of the best blog posts written by Indigenous activist, lawyer and academic Dr. Pamela Palmater from her acclaimed blog Indigenous Nationhood.

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The miseducation of Augie Merasty

The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir

by Joseph A. Merasty, David Carpenter

(University of Regina Press,

2015;

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Fractured Homeland recounts Algonquin struggle for identity and nationhood

Fractured Homeland: Federal Recognition and Algonquin Identity in Ontario

by Bonita Lawrence

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2012;

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Bonita Lawrence presents to us a labour of devoted love. A book that takes 10 years to write cannot easily be summed up in a few paragraphs, but the lasting impression that it leaves, is a clearer picture of the complicated history of the destruction of Algonquin culture and identity and the current struggle to redefine their communities and reclaim geographic, legal and human rights within a government that once promised, and took, so much and left so little.

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Re-envisioning reconciliation: Indigenous peoples and resurgence in Canada

Dancing on Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence

by Leanne Simpson

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2011;

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What does reconciliation look like for Indigenous peoples in what is currently Canada? In part, argues Leanne Simpson in Dancing on Our Turtle's Back, it must take the form of the resurgence of Indigenous peoples' political traditions in their nation-to-nation relationships with Canada.

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New book reimagines Indigenous networks

Alliances: Re/Envisioning Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relationships

by Lynne Davis, ed.

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2010;

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Lynne Davis's anthology, Alliances: Re/Envisioning Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relationships, brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists, scholars and community leaders to reflect on relationship-building/alliance-making in struggle and how such work impacts both the personal and political.

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