Truth & reconciliation: Books to read

Browse books on topics related to truth and reconciliation. These books are available to read online with your RRU username and password.

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Red skin, white masks: rejecting the colonial politics of recognition

Coulthard, G. S. (2014).

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Pathways of reconciliation

Craft, A., & Regan, P. (Eds.). (2020).

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A knock on the door: The essential history of residential schools

Craft, A., & Fontaine, P. Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. (2016).

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The education of Augie Merasty: A residential school memoir

Merasty, J. A., & Carpenter, D. (2015).

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Picking up the pieces: Residential school memories

Newman, C., & Hudson, K. (2019).

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Truth and reconciliation in Canadian schools

Toulouse, P. R. (2018).

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Canada's First Nations and cultural genocide

Cohen, R. Z. (2016).

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In this together: Fifteen true stories of real reconciliation

Metcalfe-Chenail, D. (2016).

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Whose land is it anyway?: A manual for decolonization

McFarlane, P., & Schabus, N. (2018).

The rise of Indigenous economic power : deconstructing Indian Act economics

Hilton, C.A. (2025).

Tricky Grounds : Indigenous Women's Experiences in Canadian University Administration

Brunette-Debassige, C. (2024).

Indigenous Healing As Paradox Re-Membering and Biopolitics in the Settler Colony

Maxwell, K. (2025).

News framing of Indigenous politics in Canada : representation in the era of reconciliation

Budd, B. (2024).

Reclamation and Resurgence: The Poetry of Marilyn Dumont

Dumont, M. (2024).

Métis music : stories of recognition and resurgence

Giroux, M. (2024).

Wayi wah! : Indigenous pedagogies : an act for reconciliation and anti-racist education

Chrona, J. (2022).

Extracting reconciliation : Indigenous lands, (in)human wastes, and colonial reckoning

Hyrd, M.J. & Predko, H. (2024).

Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Federalism

Swiffen, A. & Nichols, J. (2023).

A drum in one hand, a sockeye in the other : stories of indigenous food sovereignty from the Northwest Coast

Coté, C. (2022).