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Chén̓chenstway (Human Resources) Reading List

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Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History

Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call

Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance

True Reconciliation: How to be a Force for Change

Trickster Drift

Traplines

The Sasquatch at Home: Traditional Protocols & Modern Storytelling

The Right to be Cold: One Woman's Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change

The Only Good Indians: A Novel

The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America

The Gatherings: Reimagining Indigenous-Settler Relations

The Break

Talking to the Story Keepers: Tales from the Chilcotin Plateau

Stories of Métis Women: Tales My Kookum Told Me

Standoff: Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It

Rez Rules: My Indictment of Canada's and America's Systemic Racism Against Indigenous Peoples

Return of the Trickster

Son of a Trickster

Ragged Company

Price Paid: The Fight for First Nations Survival

Namwayut - We Are All One: A Pathway to Reconciliation

My name is Seepeetza

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Monkey Beach

Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing

Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit issues in Canada

Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit

Indigenous Relations: Insights, Tips & Suggestions to Make Reconciliation a Reality

"Indian" in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power

Indian Horse

Half-Bads in White Regalia: A Memoir

Five Little Indians

First Nations 101

Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Volume 1: Summary: Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future

These Are My Words: The Residential School Diary of Violet Pesheens

Call Me Indian: From the Trauma of Residential School to Becoming the NHL's First Treaty Indigenous Player

Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools

Beyond the Orange Shirt Story: A collection of stories from family and friends of Phyllis Webstad - Before, during, and after their Residential School experiences

All the Quiet Places

All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward

7 Generations: a Plains Cree Saga

21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality

1491: New revelations of the Americas before Columbus