Use the Subject search in the Library Catalogue to help you find Indigenous Resources.
Try these search terms:
- Indigenous people of North America
- Six Nations
- Haudenosaunee
- Mohawk
- Huron-Wendat
- Anishinaabe
- Ojibwe
- Algonquin
- Cree
- Mi’kmaq
- Blackfoot
- Métis
- Inuit
- First Nations reservations
- Truth and reconciliation
Add the term fiction to the end of any search term to find fiction books.
Look for Indigenous Resources, many purchased by the Indigenous, Equity and Human Resources Department. These titles are available in many of our WRDSB school libraries.
Picture Books
The Orange Shirt Story
by Phyllis Webstad
I Lost My Talk
by Rita Joe
Sweetest Kulu
by Celina Kalluk & Alexandria Neonakis
Fiction
Strangers
by David A. Robertson
A Quality of Light
by Richard Wagamese
The Red Power Murders
by Thomas King
Non-Fiction
Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada
by The Royal Canadian Geographic Society
Métis Community
by Laura K. Murray
Indigenous Writes
by Chelsea Vowel
Truth and Reconciliation
by Simon Rose
Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Residential Schools
by Melanie Florence
Braiding Sweetgrass
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Online Digital Resources
More resources can be found outside our catalogue. Here are just a few:
- To learn more about treaties by region, check out the Map of Treaties at Native Land.ca and view more teaching resources on the Government of Ontario website.
- Four Directions Teachings, a Digital Bundle produced by Jennifer Wemigwans
- Historica Canada also offers online resources.
- National Day for Truth and Reconciliation by the Government of Canada
- Canadian Geographic’s Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada
