Resources

Lee Maracle: Connection between Violence against the Earth and Violence Against Women
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Oppression Tree depicting violence against Indigenous women is included in Honouring Indigenous Women: Hearts of Nations - Vol. 1
Storytelling as Resistance
Idle No More - Indigenous Women and Human Trafficking: http://idlenomore.podbean.com/2013/08/29// (Audio Interview)

On Cindy Glaude Case, talk by Sherene Razack: https://soundcloud.com/coady-international/dr-sherene-razack-keynote-address-iwd2016.

Reconciliation and its Discontents: Settler Governance in an Age of Sorrow by Audra Simpson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGl9HkzQsGg
Books on colonialism, racism and resistance
(find these books at your local libraries or independent bookstores!)
  • Strong Women Stories: Native Vision And Community Survival by Anderson, K. & Lawrence, B. (2003). Sumach Press.
  • Slash by Armstrong, J. (1988). Theytus Books.
  • In Search of April Raintree by Culleton, B. (1983). Pemmican Publications Inc.
  • When the Other Is Me: Native Resistance Discourse, 1850 - 1990 by LaRocque, E. (2010). University of Manitoba Press.
  • Bobbi Lee: Indian Rebel by Maracle, L. (1990). Toronto: Women’s Press.
  • I am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism by Maracle, L. (1988). Press Gang Publishers.
  • Thunder in My Soul: A Mohawk Woman Speaks by Monture-Angus, P. (1995). Fernwood Publishing.
  • Gendered Racial Violence and Spatialized Justice: The Murder of Pamela George by Razack, S. H. (2002). In S. H. Razack (Ed)., Race, Space, and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society (pp.121-156). Between the Lines.
  • Conquest: sexual violence and American Indian genocide by Smith, A. (2005). South End Press.
  • The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America by Sarah Deer (2015). University of Minnesota Press 
  • Dying from Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody by Sherene Razack (2015). University of Toronto Press
  • Forever Loved: Exposing the Hidden Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada edited by D. Memee Lavell-Harvard and Jennifer Brant (2016). Bradford: Demeter Press
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Liberation Tree depicting a vision without violence is included in Honouring Indigenous Women: Hearts of Nations - Vol. 1
Books on Healing, Reclaiming and Revitalization
  • A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood by Anderson, K. (2000). Canadian Scholars’ Press.
  • Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine by Anderson, K. (2011). University of Manitoba Press.
  • The sacred hoop : recovering the feminine in American Indian traditions by Gunn Allen, P. (1992). Beacon Pres.
  • Dancing on our Turtle’s Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence by Simpson, L. (2011). Arbeiter Ring Publishing.
  • Celia's Song by Maracle, L. (2014). Cormorant Books.
  • Birdie by Tracey Lindberg (2015). Harper Collins Canada.
  • Living on the Land:Indigenous Women’s Understanding of Place edited by Nathalie Kermoal and Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez (2016). Athabasca University Press.
Reports on violence against Indigenous women

Native Women's Association of Canada: Sisters In Spirit Research
Feminist Alliance for International Action: Campaign of Solidarity with Aboriginal Women
Lynn Gehl: Sex Discrimination and the Indian Act
#OPThunderBird: Missing or Unsolved Murders of Indigenous Sisters
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR): Missing the Murdered Indigenous Women in British Columbia, Canada
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A Commemorative Art Installation for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women of Canada and the USA. Website: http://walkingwithoursisters.ca/
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