Video Resources
- Our Healing Journey video by Chippewas of the Thames First Nation Part 1: https://youtu.be/4bb1G6Sjcn4
Part 2:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WlUvYKC6s0 - Joseph’s Residential School Stories; youtube.com/watch?v=ii1pUrK29MM
- Phyllis’s Orange Shirt video; youtube.com/watch?v=EsvUqr01kAkt
- The Orange Shirt Story video; https://www.bctf.ca/uploaded Files/Public/Aboriginal Education/AboriginalWaysofKnowing.pdf
Teacher Resources
- Truth & Reconciliation in Canadian Schools by Pamela Rose Toulouse
- Speaking Our Truth, A Journey of Reconciliation by Monique Gray Smith
- They Came from the Children by the Truth & Reconciliation Commission of Canada
- Behind Closed Doors: Stories from the Kamloops Indian Residential School by Jack Agnes
- Calling Down the Sky by Rosanna Deerchild
- They Called Me Number One by Bev Sellars
- Orange Shirt Day by the orange Shirt Society published by Orca Publishers or Medicine Wheel Education
Classroom Resources
- First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada; fncaring society.com
- Indian Residential School & Reconciliation Resources; http://www.fnesc.ca/irsr/
- Mount Elgin Industrial Institute- Indian Residential School https://www.cottfn.com/mt-elgin-industrial-institute-indian-residential-school/
- Mount Elgin Industrial School – The Children Remembered; https://www.cottfn.com/mt-elgin-industrial-institute-indian-residential-school/
Books
Books for Younger Students
- When I Was Eight by Michael Kusugak
- Kookum’s Red Shoes by Peter Evyindson
- I Am Not a Number y Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer
- Stolen Words by Melanie Florence
- Phyllis’s Orange Shirt by Phyllis Webstad
Books for Older Students
- The Orange Shirt Story by Phyllis Webstad
- The Secret Path by Gord Downie and Jeff Lemire
- Fatty Legs: A True Story by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
- No Time to Say Good-bye: Children Stories of Kuper Island Residential Schools by Sylvia Olsen
- As Long as the Rivres Flow by Larry Loyie
- Dear Canada: These Are My Words by Ruby Slipperjack