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For Further Reading
- Archibald, Jo-ann. Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2008.
- Arthur H. The Grieving Indian. Winnipeg: Intertribal Christian Communications, 1988.
- Bastien, Betty. Blackfoot Ways of Knowing: The Worldview of the Siksikaitsitapi. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2004.
- Bombay, Amy, Kim Matheson, and Hymie Anisman. “Intergenerational Trauma: Convergence of Multiple Processes Among First Nations Peoples in Canada.” Journal of Aboriginal Health 5, no. 3 (November 2009): 6–47.
- Chief Dan George. My Heart Soars. Saanichton, BC: Hancock House, 1974.
- Corntassel, Jeff, Chaw-win-is, and T’lakwadzi. “Indigenous Storytelling, Truth-Telling and Community Approaches to Reconciliation.” English Studies in Canada35, no. 1 (March 2009): 137–59.
- Dion, Susan D. Braiding Histories: Learning from Aboriginal Peoples’ Experiences and Perspectives. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2008.
- Mahoney, Kathleen. “The Indian Residential School Settlement: Is Reconciliation Possible?” ABlawg.ca (University of Calgary, Faculty of Law), 26 June 2013, http://ablawg.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Blog_KM_Settlement_June2013.pdf.
- McLeod, Neal. “Coming Home Through Stories.” International Journal of Canadian Studies 18 (Fall 1998): 51–66.
- Merasty, Joseph August, with David Carpenter. The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir. Regina: University of Regina Press, 2015.
- Metatawabin, Edmund, with Alexandra Shimo. Up Ghost River: A Chief’s Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2014.
- Miller, J. R. “Residential Schools and Reconciliation.” ActiveHistory.ca, 19 February 2013. http://activehistory.ca/papers/history-papers-13/.
- ———. Shingwauk’s Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996.
- Million, Dian. “Telling Secrets: Sex, Power and Narratives in Indian Residential School Histories.” Canadian Woman Studies 20, no. 2 (2000): 92–104.
- Milloy, John S. A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System 1879 to 1986. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.
- Niezen, Ronald. Truth and Indignation: Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.
- Regan, Paulette. Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2011.
- Rogers, Shelagh, Mike DeGagné, and Jonathan Dewar, eds. “Speaking My Truth”: Reflections on Reconciliation and Residential School. Ottawa: Aboriginal Healing Foundation, 2012.
- Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. “Residential Schools.” In Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, vol. 1, Looking Forward, Looking Back, chap. 10. Ottawa: Canada Communication Group, 1996. https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/handle/1974/6874.
- Sellars, Bev. They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2013.
- Stanton, Kim. “Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Settling the Past?” International Indigenous Policy Journal 2, no. 3 (August 2011): article 2. http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1034&context=iipj.
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. They Came for the Children: Canada, Aboriginal Peoples, and Residential Schools. Winnipeg: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, 2012. http://www.myrobust.com/websites/trcinstitution/File/2039_T&R_eng_web[1].pdf.
- ———. Canada’s Residential Schools: Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. 6 vols. Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015. http://www.trc.ca/websites/trcinstitution/index.php?p=890.
- Wesley-Esquimaux, Cynthia C., and Magdalena Smolewski. Historic Trauma and Aboriginal Healing. Ottawa: Aboriginal Healing Foundation, 2004. http://www.ahf.ca/downloads/historic-trauma.pdf.