Reading and Video Resources

Reading Lists 

• Indigenous Voices collection: Read or listen to a rich diversity of Indigenous voices, from established authors to new voices,  by immersing yourself in an eBook or eAudiobook through Overdrive/Libby.  
• Indigenous Children’s Books: Explore the work of Indigenous voices through a list of recommended eBooks and eAudiobooks for children and young adults, available on Overdrive/Libby.
• Indigenous Reading and Streaming: Read, watch and listen to eBooks, eAudiobooks, music, and movies that celebrate the diverse stories by Indigenous voices through Hoopla. 
• American Indians in Children’s Literature Best Books: A resource for parents, caregivers and teachers. 

Also available through Overdrive/Libby:

• The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
• National inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls 
• Residential Schools

Find more reading lists on our Students and Educators page. 

Video Resources

From the community:

Making bannock with the Sioux Chef

• See the Sioux Chef in action making traditional oven bannock. He'll also share a few tips on how to give a boost to your baked bannock. 
  • Bannock-making recipe and demonstration: 0:00-6:15
  • Interview with Chef Dickie Yuzicapi: 6:15-15:04

Tipi raising and sharing traditional tipi teachings

• Learn about the teachings and values related to the tipi poles; for caring for ourselves, and living in balance. View this video to learn about construction, placement, and traditional teachings associated with the tipi.

Knowledge Keepers: Sharing Stories from the Métis Community: an oral history project honouring Métis families of Indian Head and the Qu’Appelle Valley. We're grateful to the Indian Head Museum for allowing us access to view this film. 

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 2021: Bevann Fox, author of Genocidal Love: A Life After Residential School, honoured survivors and encouraged commitment to meaningful and lasting reconciliation in her Sept. 30 talk at Central Library. 

Movies 

• Kanopy Indigenous film 
• NFB Campus: Get great Canadian content from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), with free streaming video of NFB films. NFB Campus provides exclusive access to hundreds of films not available to the public on the main NFB site. 
  • The Aboriginal Voice: The NFB and Indigenous Film makers through the years
  • Birth of a Family: Four siblings meet for the first time after being removed from their mother and adopted into families across North America during the Sixties Scoop.
  • Indigenous Voices and Reconciliation 
  • Residential Schools
  • Indigenous and Métis Peoples Living in Non-Indigenous Communities 
  • Indigenous Cinema: The NFB’s online collection of Indigenous made films 
  • Browse Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations & Métis)

Selections of films from the RPL Film Theatre collection