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These resources support Alberta lawyers in understanding the historical and current impacts that Canadian law has on Indigenous Peoples (First Nations, Inuit and Métis) in Canada and participating in reconciliation.

Resource	Description	Topic	Audience	Format	Publisher
But I Was Wearing a Suit	This is a mini-documentary about the racism that Indigenous lawyers and law students face within the legal profession, and provides an opportunity for us to examine ourselves as a profession and take steps to correct unconscious bias and stereotypes about Indigenous Peoples.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Video	External Source
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls	The National Inquiry examines and reports on the the underlying social, economic, cultural, institutional, and historical causes that contribute to the ongoing violence and particular vulnerabilities of Indigenous women and girls in Canada. The National Inquiry also examines and reports on existing institutional policies and practices to address violence, including those that are effective in reducing violence and increasing safety.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Article, Guide	External Source
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples	The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) was established by Order in Council in 1991, and it submitted in 1996 the Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. The RCAP was mandated to investigate and propose solutions to the challenges affecting the relationship between Indigenous peoples, the Canadian government and Canadian society as a whole. This database provides access to documents that supported the writing of the Report.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Article	External Source
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Website Recommendations	One of the elements of the Residential Schools Settlement Agreement was the establishment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, to facilitate reconciliation among former students, their families, their communities and all Canadians. In December 2015, the TRC released its entire 6-volume final report, which included a record of the residential school system and 94 "calls to action" (or recommendations) to further reconciliation between Canadians and Indigenous Peoples.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Article, Guide	External Source
Why Is Indigenous Specific Training on Anti-Racism and Unconscious Bias Important?	Learn why Indigenous specific training on anti-racism and unconscious bias is important and a good stepping stone on the journey of reconciliation.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Article	External Source
Increasing your IQ (Indigenous Quotient)	Learn about ways to improve your relationships with Indigenous individuals, communities and governments.	Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Article	External Source
Bill C-92: The Good, The Bad & The Unknowns – Part II	In this 2021 video, Cindy Blackstock, Hadley Friedland and Koren Lightning-Earle address emerging issues, including those pertaining to jurisdiction, national standards, and the government’s ongoing non-compliance with elements of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal’s ruling on First Nations child welfare, as it relates to Bill C-92.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Video	External Source
Indigenous Children and the Child Welfare System in Canada	This article outlines the legacy of the Indian Residential Schools system, funding and legislation, and different Indigenous child welfare models and agencies when looking at Indigenous child welfare in Canada and what reforms need to occur to move toward reconciliation in child welfare.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Article, Guide	External Source
The Complainant: The Canadian Human Rights Case on First Nations Child Welfare	This paper describes the historic First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada et al. v. Attorney General of Canada case, regarding the government's inequitable provision of child welfare services to First Nations children, from the perspective of the executive director of the complainant. Recommendations for reform are also discussed.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Paper/Journal	External Source
An Inside Job: Engaging with Indigenous Legal Traditions through Stories	This paper introduces one supplemental method to work towards revitalization and recognition of Indigenous laws, which is considered essential to reconciliation in Canada.	Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Paper/Journal	External Source
Gathering The Threads: Developing A Methodology For Researching And Rebuilding Indigenous Legal Traditions	This paper explores how we can begin to engage constructively with Indigenous legal traditions to substantively identify and articulate Indigenous laws.	Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Paper/Journal	External Source
Heroes, Tricksters, Monsters, and Caretakers: Indigenous Law and Legal Education	This paper explores how law professors and others might best teach Indigenous peoples’ law.	Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Paper/Journal	External Source
Postcolonial Indigenous Legal Consciousness	This paper discusses the establishment of an innovative postcolonial Indigenous legal consciousness based on Aboriginal teaching and law.	Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Paper/Journal	External Source
Reflective Frameworks: Methods for Accessing Understanding and Applying Indigenous Laws	This paper addresses the question of how might legal scholarship assist with the practical tasks of finding, understanding and applying Indigenous laws today.	Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Paper/Journal	External Source
The Duty to Learn: Taking Account of Indigenous Legal Orders in Practice	The Honourable Chief Justice Lance S.G. Finch of the Court of Appeal for B.C. discusses how legal practitioners and society can make space within the legal landscape for Indigenous legal orders.	Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Article, Paper/Journal	External Source
Thursday Thinkpiece: Rudin on Accommodating Indigenous Cultural Practices in Court	Learn about why Indigenous spiritual and cultural practices do not necessarily have Western analogues and to rely on those analogues to allow the practices to be followed does a disservice to them. Where counsel or courts seek to accommodate these practices, it is important to spend some time learning about the specific practice in the particular context in which it is to be used to avoid misunderstandings.	Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
A Guide to Acknowledging First Peoples and Traditional Land	This guideline outlines understanding the value of conducting land acknowledgements, as well as tips, templates, and protocols for how to do a land acknowledgement at your meetings.	Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Guide	External Source
Acknowledging Land and People	This map shows the approximate locations of the First Nations and the approximate area of treaty land as there is no consensus between rights holders and stakeholders about exact treaty boundaries.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Guide	External Source
Finding Your Personal Land Acknowledgment	Explore the different elements that are important to understand before building your own Land Acknowledgement. These videos will help build your own awareness about the Indigenous philosophy of wahkotowin (all our relations) and how you can honour it when you engage these elements and create your own land acknowledgement.	Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Website, Video	External Source
Cultural Competency: A Necessary Skill for the 21st Century Attorney	Cultural competency is an essential skillset for the 21st century lawyer who seeks to deliver effective advocacy and serve justice. This paper defines cultural competency and how it can be applied to the work of a lawyer.	Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Paper/Journal	External Source
Decolonizing and Indigenizing: Some Considerations for Law Schools	This paper considers whether "Indigenizing" curriculum is coming at the expense of addressing the need to decolonize law schools as institutions. The author argues that both Indigenizing and decolonizing are a vital coupling if full meaning is to be given to the TRC's Calls to Action.	Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Paper/Journal	External Source
From Stonechild to Social Cohesion: Anti-Racist Challenges for Saskatchewan	This paper considers the conclusions of Mr. Justice David Wright's report on the inquiry into the death of Neil Stonechild, and discusses the incident in the context of Aboriginal-settler relations in Saskatchewan.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Paper/Journal	External Source
Reconciliation and Ethical Lawyering: Some Thoughts on Cultural Competence	This paper critically examines the turn to cultural competence as a response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Calls to Action 27 and 28.	Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Government & Non-Profit, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm	Paper/Journal	External Source
Reconciliation in Translation: Indigenous Legal Traditions and Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission	This paper offers one possible method for outsiders to engage with Indigenous traditions in a way that goes beyond the limitations of superficial forms of recognition in which equivalence is too quickly assumed.	Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Paper/Journal	External Source
The Five Habits: Building Cross-Cultural Competence in Lawyers	This paper presents a process known as "the Habits" which lawyers can use to avoid cultural blinders and recover from cultural blunders when they occur. It also explores ideas in understanding issues of difference, identity, bias and stereotyping.	Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Paper/Journal	External Source
Truth and Reconciliation Toolkit for Firms	This Toolkit was developed to help firms learn to be a better ally, engage with Indigenous advisors, recruit and retain Indigenous talent, and more. This Toolkit can be used as a guide to begin or extend a firms Reconciliation journey. Each curated section includes examples, templates and important links.	Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Guide, Website	External Source
The Pedagogy of Trauma-Informed Lawyering	This paper proposes that teaching trauma-informed practice in law school clinics furthers the goals of clinical teaching, and is a critical aspect of preparing law students for legal careers.	Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Paper/Journal	External Source
Delivering on Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action	This Government of Canada website reports on the progress in responding to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission 94 Calls to Action.	Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Website	External Source
Communicating Effectively with Indigenous Clients	This Guide outlines obstacles that confront Indigenuous clients when building a relationship with their counsel and when appearing in court and alert the reader to how linguistic prejudice can disadvantage their clients.	Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Guide	External Source
Guide for Lawyers Working with Indigenous Peoples (2018)	This Guide is intended to be a starting resource to help lawyers and others in the justice system to learn about Indigenous cultures and understand the interplay between Indigenous legal orders and the Canadian legal system.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Guide	External Source
First Supplement to the Guide for Lawyers Working with Indigenous Peoples (2022)	This Supplement provide lawyers with key information about the significant advancements in the law and the practice of law involving Indigenous peoples since the original Guide was released in 2018.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Guide	External Source
Indigenous Peoples: Language Guidelines	This Guide is intended to help navigate the different terminology and usages associated with Indigenous Peoples	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Guide	External Source
Truth and Reconciliation Action Plan	This document sets out the Law Society of British Columbia's action plan and commitments to address all of the TRC calls to action that are within the purview of the Law Society's mandate.	Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Guide	External Source
Canada's Indigenous Constitution by John Borrows	This book uses the view of understanding and improving legal processes in Canada to explore legal traditoins, the role of governments and courts and the prospect of a multi-juridicial legal culture.	Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
Can the Subaltern Speak?: Reflections on the History of an Idea by Ed. Rosalind C. Morris	Eight scholars take stock of the effects and response to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's original essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?".	Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
Indigenous People and the Criminal Justice System: A Practitioner's Handbook by Jonathan Rudin	This handbook outlines a practical review of leading case law and day-to-day considerations for practitioners who work with Indigenous clients.	Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Management, Private Practice, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
Peace and Good Order: The Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada by Harold R. Johnson	Peace and Good Order is part autobiographical tale of Harold R. Johnson's life as an Indigenous Crown prosecutor and part scathing indictment of Canada's criminal justice system. It is a timely and provocative read about the frustrating absence of meaningful reconciliation, the moral complexities of criminal law, and the havoc it can wreak on entire communities.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879 to 1986 (1999) by John S. Milloy	Using previously unreleased government documents, historian John S. Milloy provides a full picture of the history and reality of the residential school system.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
Dancing with a Ghost: Exploring Aboriginal Reality (1992) by Rupert Ross	"Dancing with a Ghost" seeks to bridge the gap which exists between Native American and other groups by examining the traditional Cree and Ojibway world view and by showing why their philosophy so often places them in conflict with the justice system.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
Dying to Please You: Indigenous Suicide in Contemporary Canada (2017) by Roland David Chrisjohn and Shaunessy M. McKay with Andrea O. Smith	This book provides an in-depth look at the crisis of Indigenous suicide in Canada. It compels us to rethink our definition of suicide and treatment methods, and re-examine the political and primary cause of Indigenous suicide.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
From Where I Stand: Rebuilding Indigenous Nations for a Stronger Canada (2019) by Jody Wilson-Raybould	In this powerful book, drawn from Wilson-Raybould's speeches and other writings, she urges all Canadians – both Indigenous and non-Indigenous – to build upon the momentum already gained in the reconciliation process or risk hard-won progress being lost.	Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
Journeying Forward: Dreaming First Nations' Independence (2000) by Patricia Monture-Angus	Activist and scholar Patricia Monture-Angus examines her own intellectual and personal colonization as a way to share ideas about what she, as a Mohawk woman, sees as the next steps on the path to finding a solution to the continued oppression of First Nations people.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing (2019) by Suzanne Methot	Author and educator Suzanne Methot uses history, human development, and her own and others stories to trace the roots of Indigenous cultural dislocation and community breakdown in an original and provocative examination of the long-term effects of colonization. Methot also shows how we can come back from this with Indigenous ways of knowing lighting the way.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
One Dead Indian: The Premier, the Police, and the Ipperwash Crisis (2001) by Peter Edwards	On September 4, 1995, several Stoney Point Natives entered Ipperwash Provincial Park, near Sarnia, Ontario, and began a peaceful protest aimed at reclaiming a traditional burial ground. Within seventy-two hours, one of those protestors, Anthony (Dudley) George, was dead, shot by an OPP officer. In One Dead Indian, after covering the tragedy from the beginning, journalist Peter Edwards examines the circumstances surrounding George's death and asks a number of tough questions.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
People of the Pines (1991) by Geoffrey York	For 78 days in the summer of 1990, Canadians were transfixed by the dramatic images of Mohawk warriors in an armed standoff with the Quebec police and the Canadian army. People of the Pines is the insider's account of two journalists who lived at the warrior encampment in the final weeks of the military siege.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Government & Non-Profit, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm	Book	External Source
Returning to the Teachings: Exploring Aboriginal Justice (1996) by Rupert Ross	During a three-year secondment with Justice Canada, Rupert Ross travelled from the Yukon to Cape Breton Island, examining and experiencing the widespread Aboriginal preference for "peacemaker justice".	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers (2011) by Mark Cronlund Anderson and Carmen Robertson	The first book to examine the role of Canada's newspapers in perpetuating the myth of Native inferiority. Seeing Red is a groundbreaking study of how Canadian English-language newspapers have portrayed Aboriginal peoples from 1869 to the present day.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, In-House, Management, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City (2017) by Tanya Talaga	Over the span of eleven years, seven Indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. They were hundreds of kilometres away from their families, forced to leave home because there was no adequate high school on their reserves. Using a sweeping narrative focusing on the lives of the student, author Tanya Talaga delves into the history of this northern city that has come to manifest Canada's long struggle with human rights violations against Indigenous communities.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, In-House, Management, Government & Non-Profit, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm	Book	External Source
Stolen Sisters: The Story of Two Missing Girls, Their Families, and How Canada Has Failed Indigenous Women (2015) by Emmanuelle Walter	Journalist Emmanuelle Walter spent two years investigating the crisis that since 1980 more than 1,200 Canadian Indigenous women have been murdered or have gone missing. Stolen Sisters is a moving and deeply shocking work of investigative journalism that makes the claim that not only is Canada failing its First Nations communities, but that a feminicide is taking place.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America (2012) by Thomas King	The Inconvenient Indian is at once a "history" and the complete subversion of a history—in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be "Indian" in North America.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Government & Non-Profit , Sole Practitioner & Small Firm	Book	External Source
Birdie (2015) by Tracey Lindberg	Birdie is a first novel from Tracey Lindberg about the universal experience of recovering from wounds of the past, informed by the lore and knowledge of Cree traditions.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
Crow Winter (2020) by Karen McBride	Crow Winter is a story of a young Indigenous woman who has the magical power to cross between the spiritual and material worlds.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
Five Little Indians (2020) by Michelle Good	With compassion and insight, Five Little Indians chronicles the desperate quest of five residential school survivors to come to terms with their past and, ultimately, find a way forward.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
In Search of April Raintree (1983) by Beatrice Mosionier	This book is based on author Beatrice Mosionier's life, who is Metis. She survived foster care, abuse and the loss of her two sisters to suicide.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, In-House, Management, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
Indian Horse (2012) by Richard Wagamese	Author Richard Wagamese traces through the stories of fictional characters to show the decline of a culture and a cultural way.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
Monkey Beach (2000) by Eden Robinson	Monkey Beach is a profoundly moving story about childhood and the pain of growing older—a multilayered tale of family grief and redemption.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Government & Non-Profit, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm	Book	External Source
The Back of the Turtle (2014) by Thomas King	The narrative follows Gabriel Quinn, a member of the First Nations community of Lethbridge, Alberta, as he returns to his family's home of Samaritan Bay. The author weaves satirical humour, real-world allegories, and Indigenous mythology into a sweeping narrative that encompasses themes of community, rebirth, and the toll of human intervention in the natural world.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography by Chester Brown	Chester Brown reinvents the comic-book medium to create the critically acclaimed historical biography Louis Riel, nineteenth-century Métis leader.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection (Various authors)	Moonshot brings together dozens of creators from across North America to contribute comic book stories showcasing the rich heritage and identity of indigenous storytelling.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
Secret Path (2016) by Gord Downie and Jeff Lemire	Secret Path is a 10-song album by Gord Downie with a graphic novel by illustrator Jeff Lemire that tells the story of Chanie "Charlie" Wenjack, a 12-year-old boy who died in flight from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School 50 years ago.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
The Outside Circle: A Graphic Novel (2015) by Patti Laboucan-Benson	In this important graphic novel, two brothers surrounded by poverty, drug abuse, and gang violence, try to overcome centuries of historic trauma in very different ways to bring about positive change in their lives.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
Clifford (2018) by Harold R. Johnson	When Harold Johnson returns to his childhood home in a northern Saskatchewan Indigenous community for his brother Clifford's funeral, the first thing his eyes fall on is a chair. It stands on three legs, the fourth broken off and missing. So begins a journey through the past, a retrieval of recollections that have too long sat dormant.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
From The Ashes: My Story of Being Metis, Homeless, and Finding My Way (2019) by Jesse Thistle	From the Ashes is a remarkable memoir about hope and resilience, and a revelatory look into the life of a Métis-Cree man who refused to give up.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
Half Breed (1973) by Maria Campbell	Maria Campbell's biography is a classic, vital account of a young Métis woman's struggle to come to terms with the joys, sorrows, loves and tragedies of her northern Saskatchewan childhood.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
Indian in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power (2021) by Jody Wilson-Raybould	"Indian" in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power is the story of why Wilson-Raybould got into federal politics, her experience as an Indigenous leader sitting around the Cabinet table, her proudest achievements, the very public SNC-Lavalin affair, and how she got out and moved forward.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
Indian School Days (1988) by Basil H. Johnston	This book is the humorous, bitter-sweet autobiography of a Canadian Ojibwa who was taken from his family at age ten and placed in Jesuit boarding school in northern Ontario.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
Mamaskatch (2018) by Darrel J. McLeod	Mamaskatch—named for the Cree word used as a response to dreams shared—is an uplifting account of overcoming personal and societal obstacles. In spite of the traumas of author Darrel McLeod's childhood, deep and mysterious forces handed down by his mother helped him survive and thrive: her love and strength stayed with him to build the foundation of what would come to be a very fulfilling and adventurous life.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
One Native Life (2008) by Richard Waganese	In One Native Life, author Richard Wagamese looks back down the road he has travelled in reclaiming his identity and talks about the things he has learned as a human being, a man and an Ojibway in his 52 years.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
The Right to be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet (2015) by Sheila Watt-Cloutier	Environmental and human rights activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier addresses the global threat of climate change from the intimate perspective of her own Arctic childhood.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
The Reason You Walk (2015) by Wab Kinew	The Reason You Walk is a poignant story of a towering but damaged father and his son as they embark on a journey to repair their family bond. By turns lighthearted and solemn, author Wab Kinew gives an inspiring vision for family and cross-cultural reconciliation, and a wider conversation about the future of Indigenous Peoples.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
They Called Me Number One (2013) by Bev Sellars	In this frank and poignant memoir of her years at St. Joseph's Mission, author Xatsu'll chief Bev Sellars breaks her silence about the residential school's lasting effects on her and her family—from substance abuse to suicide attempts—and eloquently articulates her own path to healing.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book	External Source
Finding Dawn (2006)	Finding Dawn is a documentary film by Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh looking into the fate of an estimated 500 Canadian Indigenous women who have been murdered or have gone missing over the past 30 years (as at the date of the documentary).	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Video	External Source
Incident at Restigouche (1984)	Incident at Restigouche is a documentary film by Alanis Obomsawin, chronicling a series of two raids on the Listuguj Mi'gmaq First Nation (Restigouche) by the Sûreté du Québec in 1981, as part of the efforts of the Quebec government to impose new restrictions on Native salmon fishermen.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Government & Non-Profit , Sole Practitioner & Small Firm	Video	External Source
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993)	Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance is a feature-length film documentary film by Alanis Obomsawin, chronicling the 1990 Oka Crisis.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Video	External Source
Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up (2019)	Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up is a Canadian documentary film that centres on the 2016 death of Colten Boushie and depicts his family's struggle to attain justice after the controversial acquittal of Boushie's killer. The film also includes a number of animated segments which contextualize the broader history of Indigenous Peoples of Canada.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Video	External Source
Stolen (available on Amazon Prime)	Stolen follows troubled, 14-year old, Shayna Hill as she is admitted and runs away from her group-home. It is a small glimpse into a typical Indigenous girl's life before becoming one of 1200+ Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Video	External Source
Two Worlds Colliding (2005)	Two Worlds Colliding deals with a practice that came to be known as starlight tours, which came to light when two police officers dropped off Darrell Night on the outskirts of town on a frigid winter night, leaving him to make his way back on his own.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Video	External Source
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001)	Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Inuktitut) is a Canadian film directed by Inuit filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk and was the first feature film ever to be written, directed and acted entirely in the Inuktitut language. Set in the ancient past, the film retells an Inuit legend passed down through centuries of oral tradition.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, In-House, Management, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Video	External Source
Dance Me Outside (1994)	A story of life on a First Nations reserve in Ontario: Silas and Frank are trying to get into college to train to be mechanics but they find themselves having to deal with girls, family—and murder.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Video	External Source
Four Sheets to the Wind (2007)	The film tells the story of Cufe, a young Seminole/Creek man who travels from his small Oklahoma home town to Tulsa to visit his sister, Miri, after the suicide and funeral of their father. While Miri struggles with her life in the city, Cufe becomes friendly, and then romantically involved, with Miri's neighbor, Francie, and he begins to perceive that his life has more possibilities than he had realized.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Video	External Source
Indian Horse (2017)	Indian Horse is a Canadian drama film adaptation of the 2012 novel by author Richard Wagamese (Ojibwe). The film centres on Saul Indian Horse, a young Canadian First Nations boy who survives the Canada's Indian residential school system to become a star ice hockey player.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Video	External Source
Monkey Beach (2020)	Monkey Beach is a Canadian drama film adaptation of the 2000 novel by author Eden Robinson. The film stars Grace Dove as Lisamarie, a young Haisla woman in Kitamaat, British Columbia coming to terms with the mysterious disappearance of her brother.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Management, Private Practice, In-House, Government & Non-Profit , Sole Practitioner & Small Firm	Video	External Source
Powwow Highway (1989)	Powwow Highway is a comedy-drama film about two Northern Cheyenne men who take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico to bail out the sister of one of them who has been framed and arrested in Santa Fe. On the way, they begin to reconnect to their spiritual heritage.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Video	External Source
Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013)	Rhymes for Young Ghouls is a Canadian drama film set in 1976 on the fictional Red Crow Mi'kmaq reservation and takes place in the context of the Canadian residential school system. Although it tells the fictional story of a teenager named Aila and her plot for revenge, it is based on the history of abuse of the First Nations people by government agents, including a large number of reported cases of the mental and physical abuse of residential school children.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Video	External Source
Smoke Signals (1998)	Uneasy rivals and friends, Thomas and Victor spend their days killing time on a Coeur d'Alene reservation in Idaho and arguing about their cultural identities. When Victor's father dies, the duo set out on a cross-country journey to Phoenix to retrieve his ashes.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Video	External Source
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019)	Over the course of an hour and 45 minutes as the film plays out in real-time, two women forge a bond while attempting to navigate the complex issues surrounding domestic abuse, Indigenous motherhood and the lasting impacts of colonialism.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Video	External Source
The Grizzlies (2018)	In a small Arctic town struggling with the highest suicide rate in North America, a group of Inuit students' lives are transformed when they are introduced to the sport of lacrosse.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Video	External Source
The Lesser Blessed (2012)	The Lesser Blessed is a Canadian drama film based on the novel of the same name by Richard Van Camp. The film follows a shy teenager living in a small, remote community in the Northwest Territories of Canada and dealing with life as a high school student. The film explores several typical teen issues, such as alienation and the search for one's own identity, but in this case from the perspective of a Dogrib Indian who struggles between his Native ancestry and finding his place in to the modern world.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Video	External Source
Home Fire – Ending the Cycle of Family Violence	Home Fire is a documentary film that explores family violence and restorative justice from an Indigenous perspective. Featuring commentary from Elders, community leaders, and members of the justice system, Home Fire examines the colonization of Canada, historic trauma, the western justice system and grassroots healing programs in Indigenous communities.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Video	External Source
The BANG You Feel	The BANG You Feel is a documentary film that examines the challenges faced by women who are trying to rebuild to their lives after being released from prison.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Video	External Source
2 Crees in a Pod	2 Crees in a Pod, unapologetically creates space for Indigenous resurgence. The host's intention is to disrupt western colonial systems and honor Indigenous helping practices.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Podcast	External Source
The Secret Life of Canada	The Secret Life of Canada is a podcast about the country you know and the stories you don't. Join hosts Leah-Simone Bowen and Falen Johnson as they reveal the beautiful, terrible and weird histories of this land.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Podcast	External Source
Trauma-Informed Legal Practice Toolkit	This resource outlines what trauma-informed legal practice is, why lawyers and judges need to understand the impacts of trauma, why law schools need to teach trauma-informed practice and what trauma-informed practice looks like in the lawyer-client relationship and in the courtroom.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	In-House, Private Practice, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm	Guide	External Source
The Trauma-Informed Lawyer	Myrna McCallum and her guests shine a light on a critical ethical competency for lawyers, trauma-informed lawyering. This do-no-further-harm, relational approach to the practice of law provides education in trauma, resilience, compassion, empathy, humility, boundaries, vicarious trauma and good professional relationship strategies.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Podcast	External Source
Annie Pootoogook	An Inuk artist that portrayed the experiences of herself and those in her community through pen and coloured pencil drawings.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Music/Art	External Source
The Lifeworlds of Law: On Revitalizing Indigenous Legal Orders Today	What ultimately counts as law and as the legitimate processes of its generation, adjustment, and destruction are both empowered and constrained by the constitutional order from which they derive life. A constitutional framework, in turn, reflects unique understandings about what there is and how one can know: a lifeworld. Reflecting on his own experience, the author emphasizes how legal education harms when it fails to acknowledge and to begin to articulate the lifeworld beneath any system of law it aims to impart.	Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Paper/Journal	External Source
Waniskā: Reimagining The Future With Indigenous Legal Traditions	This paper mindfully uses narrative as a means to vulnerably re-imagine a future relationship between Indigenous and other legal traditions in Canada.	Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Paper/Journal	External Source
Bill Reid	A goldsmith, sculptor, writer and broadcaster that explored his Haida roots through art. Reid's art celebrates diverse Indigenous cultures in a small and modern way.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Music/Art	External Source
2022 Gladue Casework and Aftercare Conference	Information from this conference provides an opportunity to learn about the vital role Gladue Aftercare Workers play in assisting Indigenous people involved with the criminal justice system.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Management, Private Practice, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Website	External Source
Buffy St. Marie	A Canadian-American singer-songwriter, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist from Piapot Cree Nation that focuses her work on issues facing Indigenous peoples of the Americas.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Music/Art	External Source
Gladue at Twenty: Gladue Principles in the Professional Discipline of Indigenous Lawyers	This paper explores the applicability of Gladue principles for Indigenous lawyers in the context of a regulator's disciplinary process.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Paper/Journal	External Source
Indigenous Peoples and the Law: A Guide to Restorative Justice and Indigenous Courts	In this 2021 video, Legal Aid Alberta lawyers Grace Auger and Jessica Buffalo and justice navigator Stephen Shirt explain how Indigenous Courts and restorative justice work.	Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Video	External Source
Dale Auger	A visual artist from Sakaw Cree from the Bigstone Cree Nation in northern Alberta whose vividly coloured acrylics have included portraying Indigenous history and the deeper, more spiritual levels of Indigenous life, including the intricate links between Indigenous spirituality and the natural laws of the land.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Music/Art	External Source
The Gladue Principles: A Guide to the Jurisprudence	This Guide outlines how greater action can be taken to implement the Gladue Principles, including deciding how to act in relation to an Indigenous accused and strive to find justice through a deep understanding of the intersection of colonialism and criminal justice.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Book, Guide	External Source
Kent Monkman	A First Nations artist of Cree ancestry who works in painting, film/video and installation, who has achieved international recognition for colourful and richly detailed works that combine genre conventions to recast historical narrative.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Music/Art	External Source
Norval Morrisseau	Also known as Copper Thunderbird, an Indigenous artist from the Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek First Nation who is widely regarded as the grandfather of contemporary Indigenous art in Canada. Morrisseau created works depicting the legends of his people, the cultural and political tensions between native Canadian and European traditions, his existential struggles, and his deep spirituality and mysticism.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Music/Art	External Source
The Halluci Nation	An electronic music group who blend instrumental hip hop, reggae, moombahton and dubstep-influenced dance music with elements of First Nations music, particularly vocal chanting and drumming. The group's music has been labelled as "powwow-step", a style of contemporary powwow music for urban First Nations in the dance club scene.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Government & Non-Profit , Sole Practitioner & Small Firm	Music/Art	External Source
77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin by Thomas King	Seventy-seven poems intended as a eulogy for what we have squandered, a reprimand for all we have allowed, a suggestion for what might still be salvaged, a poetic quarrel with our intolerant and greedy selves, a reflection on mortality and longing, as well as a long-running conversation with the mythological currents that flow throughout North America.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Poetry	External Source
Eskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity (2020) by Norma Dunning	Eskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity examines Dunning's lived history as an Inuk who was born, raised and continues to live south of sixty. Her writing takes into account the many assimilative practices that Inuit continue to face and the expectations of mainstream as to what an Inuk person can and should be.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Poetry	External Source
Inconvenient Skin / Nayêhtâwan Wasakay (2019) by Shane Koyczan	This collection of poems aims to unpack the history of colonialism in Canada so the nation can finally heal.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Poetry	External Source
Learning to Count (2020 CBC Prize Shortlist) by Emily Riddle	A nehiyaw iskwew and a member of the Alexander First Nation, Emily Riddle reflects on how much Indigenous people whose territories are occupied by cities have lost and how intergenerational love has allowed them to continue with their ever-changing traditions.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Poetry	External Source
NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field by Billy-Ray Belcourt	A writer and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation, Billy-Ray Belcourt takes on the political demands of queerness, mainstream portrayals of Indigenous life, love and its discontents, and the limits and uses of poetry as a vehicle for Indigenous liberation.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Poetry	External Source
Bones of Crows (2022)	A psychological drama, told through the Cree Matriarch, that follows a Canadian residential school survivor as she continues her family's generational fight.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Video	External Source
North of 60 (1992-98)	A Canadian television drama series about the experiences of Aboriginal people in a fictional town in the Northwest Territories.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Video	External Source
Reservation Dogs (2022)	This television series follows four Indigenous teenagers as they tell a story that resonates with their lived experiences.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Video	External Source
Trickster (2020)	A Canadian coming-of-age Supernatural Thriller Television series.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Video	External Source
The Witness Blanket	Inspired by a woven blanket, the Witness Blanket is a large-scale work of art that contains hundreds of items reclaimed from residential schools, churches, government buildings and traditional and cultural structures from across Canada. Explore the items and stories carried by the Witness Blanket.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Website	External Source
Gladue & Beyond	Learn about overrepresentation of Indigenous Peoples in the criminal legal system, the Gladue principles and alternative justice systems.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Private Practice, Management, In-House, Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Government & Non-Profit	Website	External Source
How Lawyers can be Good Allies – The Principles of Allyship	This resource explains what allyship is and is not and provides steps on becoming an ally and ideas on implementing Indigenous Allyship in law firms.	Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Sole Practitioner/Small Firm, Private Practice, In-House, Management	Article, Guide	External Source
Indigenous Court Connected Services in Alberta	A list of Indigenous Court Services with contact information in Alberta	Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Private Practice, Management, Government & Non-Profit, In-House	Guide	Law Society of Alberta
Indigenous Education Series: Guide for Lawyers Working with Indigenous Peoples	Hear Kathleen Mahoney, KC, lead negotiator for the Assembly of First Nations in designing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC), talk about what the TRC is, where it came from and why it is so important.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Private Practice, Management, Government & Non-Profit, In-House	Video	Law Society of Alberta
Indigenous Education Series: TRC 101	Hear David Nahwegahbowmore and Racquel Fraser talk about practical tips and the guide created to assist lawyers and other legal advisors, and litigation counsel in particular, as they work with Indigenous Peoples (First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples) and Indigenous issues in Canada.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Management, Private Practice, Government & Non-Profit, In-House	Video	Law Society of Alberta
Journey to the Law National Indigenous People's Day Webinar	On June 21, 2023, the Law Society hosted a webinar in recognition of Indigenous People’s Day. Hosted by Jessica Buffalo, the Law Society’s Indigenous Counsel, Jessica Buffalo, Tayla Basawa, Katelynn Cave and Krysia Przepiorka discuss their personal experiences, issues in the profession, key resources and how to continue to move forward in their journeys.	Truth Regarding the Experience of Indigenous Peoples, Support for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples	Sole Practitioner & Small Firm, Private Practice, Management, Government & Non-Profit, In-House	Webinar	Law Society of Alberta

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