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Sage Against the Machine

Art & Music, Health & Wellness, Heart, Social Media

Follow Sage Against the Machine – a Facebook page sharing videos with stories of Indigenous resilience, powwow dancing and success stories

The Talking Stick App

Health & Wellness, Heart, Safe Spaces

The Talking Stick App is an anonymous chat platform connecting First Nations with First Nations peers who provide cultural based support and confidential conversations, one on one.

Assembly of Seven Generations is an Indigenous owned and youth-led, non-profit organization focused on cultural support and empowerment programs/policies for Indigenous youth while being led by traditional knowledge and Elder guidance. Learn more about their work of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

Water Is Life

Heart, Learn/Education, This Land

The Water Is Life learning package is a series of four lessons plans that draw on on land-based learning, centered on women’s teachings about, for, and from Mother Earth, with a specific focus on water and its connection to land and the Indigenous Peoples living on Turtle Island.

The REDress Project

Art & Music, Current Events, Heart

The REDress Project focuses on the issue of missing or murdered Aboriginal women across Canada. It is an installation art project based on an aesthetic response to this critical national issue. The project has been installed in public spaces throughout Canada and the United States as a visual reminder of the staggering number of women who are no longer with us.

Learn about Ruth Cuthand

Art & Music, Heart

Artist Ruth Cuthand was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, of plains Cree, Scottish and Irish ancestry. Her creative practice ranges from printmaking, painting, drawing, photography, and beadwork and influenced by her childhood experiences of diseases, settler/Native relationships and living conditions of Indigenous peoples.

Listen: All My Relations

Heart, Listen

The podcast All My Relations, hosted by Matika Wilbur and Adrienne Keene, explores relationships — to land, to creatural relatives, and to one another. Each episode invites guests to delve into a different topic facing Indigenous Peoples today – they play games, laugh, and even cry sometimes.

Moose Hide Campaign

Current Events, Heart, Participate

Learn about the Moose Hide Campaign, an Indigenous-led grassroots movement of men, boys and all Canadians, take action and stand up to end violence towards women and children. Find them on Facebook and Twitter.

Learn about authentic engagement

Heart, Protocols, Read

Learn about Authentic Engagement of First Nations and Métis Traditional Knowledge Keepers in this guide created by the Wîcihitowin Conference Committee.

Watch: Eagle Feather, Sweetgrass and Indigenous Learning

Heart, Reconciliation 101, Watch

Irma school created the video, Eagle Feather, Sweetgrass and Indigenous Learning, detailing the journey of their students who have had the opportunity to be gifted the knowledge from Elder Clifford Cardinal.

Learn: Indigenous Activists

Current Events, Heart, Politics & Leaders, Support

An activist is one who works to bring about social or political change. Check out this list of remarkable Indigenous women who have effectively championed important causes, including Bertha Clark Jones, and Cindy Blackstock.

Activist Filmmaker: Alanis Obomsawin

Art & Music, Heart, Politics & Leaders

Alanis Obomsawin is an acclaimed director and activist filmmaker. Obomsawin always focuses on the importance of her roots and intergenerational bonds in preserving First Nations culture. Her works are driven by the desire to give Canada’s first peoples a voice.

Indigenous Leaders: Shina Novalinga

Art & Music, Heart, Politics & Leaders

Shina Novalinga is an Inuit throat singer. In the early 20^th century, Christian missionaries banned throat singing, and much was lost. Shina along with her mother uses Tik Tok and Instagram to preserve throat singing and celebrate Inuit culture. Follow her on TikTok

Watch: We Can’t Make the Same Mistake Twice

Current Events, Heart, Watch

The rights of First Nations children take centre stage in We Can’t Make the Same Mistake Twice. The documentary follows the historic court case filed by the Assembly of First Nations and the Child and Family Caring Society of Canada against the federal government, and filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin exposes generations of injustices endured by First Nations children living on reserves and their families.

Host a Reconciliation Dialogue Workshop

Heart, Participate, Reconciliation 101

The Reconciliation Canada Reconciliation Dialogue Workshop aims to create a safe environment that brings diverse participants together to start a meaningful conversation and relationship building. They provide an opportunity for sharing stories of resilience. The Reconciliation Dialogue Workshop guide provides a brief introduction and outlines injustices in Canadian history including residential schools, the Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act, the Japanese-Canadian Internment, and the Komagata Maru Incident.

Honouring Her Spark

Current Events, Heart, Listen

Honouring Her Spark by Aboriginal Friendship Centres of Saskatchewan is a framework that focuses on Indigenous women, to increase awareness and understanding of the barriers they face, exploring their passions and providing support to succeed. Follow Honouring Her Spark Facebook to stay updated about their latest podcast episodes, workshops, and informational sessions.

Learn to be anti-racist

Heart, Learn/Education, Read, Reconciliation 101

Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre sees how racism occurs at all levels of society and that anti-racism is an active way of seeing and being in the world, in order to transform it. To this end the ACLRC offers anti-racism training and resources through a learning toolkit with Calgary Anti-Racism Education

Help promote life

Health & Wellness, Heart, Participate

The Centre for Suicide Prevention created a toolkit, Indigenous people, trauma, and suicide prevention that looks at how to prevent suicides and promote life.

Read: Aboriginal Peoples and Historic Trauma

Health & Wellness, Heart, Read

Understanding intergenerational trauma is important to address well-being in Indigenous communities. This paper, Aboriginal Peoples and Historic Trauma: The process of intergenerational transmission, by the National Collaboration Centre for Aboriginal Health introduces Trauma Theory and how it is transmitted through generations.

Read about the need for diverse voices in media

Current Events, Heart, Read

In June 2020, Brandi Morin wrote for ELLE magazine this piece on how the media needs more voices of Black, Indigenous and people of colour to stop perpetuating systemic racism.

Help reclaim Indigenous place names in Saskatoon

Cultural Understandings, Heart, Participate, This Land

Advocate for reclaiming Indigenous place names in Saskatoon. If you have a suggestion to change the name of a street, parks, and other civic properties, you can fill out a form on the City of Saskatoon’s website.

Support projects in remembrance of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Children and Two Spirit Peoples

Current Events, Heart, Participate

The Canadian Library is an art installation project that will work its way across Canada with the help of community members that would like to participate in this powerful compilation. It will serve as a vivid memory of all First Nations, Metis and Inuit women and children that have suffered abuse or lost their lives due to brutality and had been forgotten.

Read: What’s in a Name?

Heart, This Land, True History

Team ReconciliAction YEG wrote a blog post on the importance of reclaiming Indigenous place names for preserving Indigenous knowledge and history. Check it out here

Watch: Everything is Connected

Current Events, Heart, Watch

Everything is Connected is a documentary project led jointly by the Sixties Scoop Indigenous Society of Saskatchewan (SISS) and Iskwewuk-E-wichiwitochik. The project highlights how intergenerational trauma and the separation of Indigenous children from their families are connected to the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

Read: Children’s books by Teoni Spathelfer

Heart, Kids/Family, Read

Teoni Spathelfer writes the stories that “have always been part of who I am as far back as I can remember.” Little Wolf starts the series of three children’s books.

The Orange Path

Heart, Reconciliation 101

Use The Orange Path to help you shape your path towards reconciliation. The Athabasca Tribal Council created the Orange Path to provide support to Indigenous survivors and community members on their journey to heal and to help Canadians on their journey to truth, reconciliation, and allyship.

Craft Your Own Land Acknowledgement

Cultural Understandings, Heart, Path, Reconciliation 101, Theme

Through a series of 5 video blogs, Rose Roberts and Stryker Calvez invite you to explore a few different elements that are important to understand before building your own Land Acknowledgement: worldviews, positionality, treaties and the Metis homeland. The goal is to help you to 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. Hosted by the University of Saskatchewan, you can watch the video blogs here.

Visit IndigenARTSY.com

Art & Music, Heart, Shopping

Learn about Indigenous arts and support Indigenous artists, by visiting the IndigenARTSY website created by the Indigenous Arts Collective of Canada. You can shop, search by artist and learn about medicines.

Read: Life in the City of Dirty Water

Cultural Understandings, Heart, Read

Winnipeg environmental activist Clayton Thomas-Muller details what life was like growing up as an Indigenous youth in Winnipeg’s inner city: Life in the City of Dirty Water

“This is my story. It is the story of many Indigenous Peoples who find themselves in one of Canada’s inner cities with questions. It is the story of how we became dispossessed and how we rise.”

Read for Reconciliation: Medicine Wheel Education

Heart, Kids/Family, Read

If you are looking for resources for reconciliation to support youth, check out Medicine Wheel Education. They publish culturally authentic Indigenous books, resources and tools specialized for moral and cultural education for children. Titles include Beyond the Orange Shirt Story and Drum for the Heart.

Indigenous Cloud

Heart, Listen, Support

Check out Indigenous Cloud, an online platform created to preserve and distribute Indigenous Music.

Learn more about streaming service in this CBC story: Sask. music producer on a mission to preserve Indigenous music through streaming website, app

Watch: Indigenous Cities

Art & Music, Heart, Watch

Experience stories from the cities you thought you knew, with Indigenous Cities, an audio storytelling experience, from Indigenous artists living in the cities known as Vancouver, Saskatoon, and Ottawa

Watch: Angry Inuk

Cultural Understandings, Heart, Watch

Angry Inuk is an Indigenous feature-length documentary film written and directed by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril that shows the Inuit seal hunt, as the hunt is a vital means for Inuit peoples to sustain themselves and looks at those people standing in opposition.

Learn with Future Ancestors Services

Cultural Understandings, Heart, Participate

Future Ancestors Services Inc. offers capacity building and skills training that can contribute to holistic and sustainable change. These trainings can advance knowledge on the individual’s role in addressing systemic issues to become a part of building a sustainable future that our next generations will inherit.

Listen: Still Here Still Healing

Heart, Listen, Residential Schools

Still Here Still Healing, is a podcast that shares stories from residential school survivors and discussions with Indigenous youth about topics such as culture, language, identity, and community. Tune in to advance your awareness to the lasting impacts of residential schools and ongoing impacts of colonialization.

Watch: Visiting with Anishnaabe and Cree knowledge holders

Heart, Listen, Watch

Learn from Anishnaabe and Cree knowledge holders by watching the Visiting with Anishnaabe and Cree knowledge holders video series created by Nipissing University.

Learn the locations of residential schools

Heart, Residential Schools, This Land, True History

The residential school system separated 150,000 Indigenous children from their families — and the last one closed in 1996. Was one of those schools in or near the community where you grew up? You can use the CBC interactive map to find out.

Read: Red Dresses on Bare Trees

Current Events, Heart, Read

Read Red Dresses on Bare Trees: Stories and Reflections on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. The book includes essays and reflections by both men and women, because it seeks to help bring balance to our collective, equally important and unique, roles and responsibilities. It hopes to incorporate Indigenous knowledge principles about relationships and love in the hope that we can begin to emulate and live our lives in balance.

Learn about the Rights of Indigenous People

Around the World, Current Events, Heart, Learn/Education

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is the most comprehensive international instrument on the rights of indigenous peoples. It establishes a universal framework of minimum standards for the survival, dignity and well-being of the indigenous peoples of the world and it elaborates on existing human rights standards and fundamental freedoms as they apply to the specific situation of indigenous peoples.

Listen: Paykiiwikay Podcast

Heart, Listen

Listen to the ‘Paykiiwikay’ Métis Culture Podcast, an online series exploring the rich Métis culture and Michif language. It was created in collaboration between Métis Nation-Saskatchewan and Canadian Geographic.

Follow beaders on Instagram

Art & Music, Heart, Shopping, Social Media

Follow incredible Indigenous beaders on Instagram and consider purchasing their work, including:

Jaymie Campbell – White Otter Design Co

B.Yellowtail

Syke Paul – RunningFoxBeads

Elias Jade Not Afraid – EliasNotAfraid

Lenise Omeasoo – AntelopeWomanDesigns

Hollis Chitto – Hchitto

Catherine Blackburn – CatherineBJewellery

Tania Larsson – Tania.Larsson

Tayler Gutierrez – Kamamabeadwork

Watch: Indigenous Language Classes on YouTube

Heart, Language, Learn/Education

The File Hills Qu’Appelle Tribal Council has a series of Indigenous language learning videos on their YouTube page. Choose from Saulteaux, Cree, nêhiyawêwin, Dakhóta lá, Anishinaabemowin, Nakon’i’a, and Nakoda

Learn about racism in health care

Health & Wellness, Heart, Read, Reconciliation 101

In Plain Sight is the report of the Addressing Racism Review that is set to address Indigenous-specific Racism and Discrimination in the British Columbia Health Care system.

Read the Summary Report or the Full Report

Listen: Seven Truths

Cultural Understandings, Heart, Listen, True History

Seven Truths by Tanya Talaga is an Audible Canada audio story series exploring stories of contemporary life for Canada’s Indigenous peoples through the lens of the Seven Grandfather Teachings. The episodes interweave conversations with Elders and reflect on Canadian history, civil rights moments and the ongoing challenges First Nations communities face.

Listen: The Porcupine

Heart, Listen, Reconciliation 101

The Porcupine is a podcast series exploring reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous Canadians. Listen in as they have in-depth, funny, and revealing discussions with a variety of people, from activists to comedians, who are all focusing on reconciliation in big, small, and surprising ways.

Listen to The North Sound

Heart, Listen, Support

Listen to The North Sound, who independently released second full-length roots-rock album, As The Stars Explode on Oct. 23

Follow Indigenous Women Photographers

Art & Music, Heart, Support

Read and follow tea&bannock, a collective blog by indigenous women photographers, and get to know their incredible work.

Watch Cree Teachings

Heart, Learn/Education, Listen, Protocols

In a series of Cree Teachings videos, Sylvia McAdam, shares information about protocol and smudging, women’s teachings and mossbags, Treaties, the Pipe laws and more.

Watch: Orange Shirt Day Stories

Cultural Understandings, Heart, Residential Schools, Watch

Survivors and children of survivors of the Saskatoon Survivors Circle shared their stories of residential school and what Orange Shirt Day means to them in this 2020 initiative. Watch their stories

Thank you to Nutrien for their support and being our Community Investor on this project and to the Saskatoon Survivors Circle for their willingness to share difficult truths.

Watch: Brown Town Muddy Water

Art & Music, Heart, Watch

Brown Town Muddy Water honours the relationship between Indigenous people and the meeting place known as The Forks.

This film chronicles musicians who shaped Winnipeg’s main street in the 1960’s like the late Percy Tuesday, Errol Ranville and Billy Joe Green. For the emerging urban Aboriginal community, echoes of home sounded through music, dance, story and gatherings. Peoples lived experiences of emergence, segregation, racism, camaraderie and resistance are as resilient as the downtown streets of Winnipeg. The professional musicians that grew up on this notorious strip paved the road to success for forthcoming generations of Indigenous artists.

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