Indigenous Studies, StFX’s Angus L. Macdonald Library offers a Subject Guide divided into Nova Scotian, Canadian, and global categories.
Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Truth & Reconciliation Commission on Residential Schools, Coady courselinks.
Organizations
Leadership Development Programs
Suggested Readings

National Organizations

• Aboriginal Healing Foundation ceased operations on September 30, 2014. Resources are archived on the website.
• Assembly of First Nations
• Assembly of First Nations Women’s Council (AFNWC)
• Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
• Métis National Council
• Native Women’s Association of Canada

National Leadership Development Programs

• Aboriginal Financial Officers Association of Canada
• Circle of Abundance, Coady Institute
• Indigenous Leadership and Management programs, Banff Centre
• Indigenous Leadership Development Institute (ILDI)

Provincial Leadership Development Programs

• Alberta
  • Institute for the Advancement of Aboriginal Women
• British Columbia
  • Minerva Foundation
  • YWCA Aboriginal Mentorship Program
• Manitoba
  • Ka Ni Kanichihk Inc.
• Nunavut
  • Nunavut Status of Women Council
• Ontario
  • Ontario Native Women’s Association: Indigenous Women’s Leadership Program

Asset Based Community Development

• Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs Secretariat (APCFNC). (2011). APCFNC Elders Project: Honouring traditional knowledge 2009 – 2011. (3.05 Mb pdf)
• Bank of I.D.E.A.S. (n.d.). 10 key community development beliefs. (54K pdf)
• Barefoot Collective. (2009). Barefoot guide to working with organizations and social change.
• Asset Based and Citizen-Led Development (ABCD) resource page offered by the Marie Michael Library.
• Coady Institute. (2018, October 9). Sadi’s video [Video]. Youtube. (9:14 min.)
• Four Worlds Center for Development Learning, publications available for download.
• Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre, located in Winnipeg, MB, is a strength and value-based family resource centre delivering community-based programs and services and creating community-based solutions that build local capacity for self-care.
• McBride, J., MacDonell, G., Smoke, C. & Sanderson, C. (2002). Rebuilding First Nations: Tools, traditions and relationships. Simon Fraser University. (797K pdf)
• National Aboriginal Forestry Association. (n.d.). Capacity assessment guide: Survey and model resource plan. (1.23 Mb pdf)
• National Centre for First Nations Governance (NCFNG) provides tools and resources and publications.
• Nunavut Planning Commission (NPC), mapping processes for land co-management planning and policy making.
• Publications are available for download from the ABCD Institute, DePaul University in Chicago, IL.
• Silver, J. (2009). We all work together to help one another: The story of Ma Mawi. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. (474K pdf)
• Silver, J., Ghorayshi, P., Hay, J., & Klyne, D. (2006). In a voice of their own: Urban Aboriginal community development. CCPA. (1.03 Mb pdf)
• Symington, A. (2004). Intersectionality: A tool for social and economic justice (Women’s Rights and Economic Change, no. 9). AWID.

Communication and Facilitation Skills

• Ayers Institute. (2019). EduToolbox: Suggestion circles.
• BiggerPictureVideo. (2013). Learning graphic facilitation – 7 elements by Bigger Picture [Video]. Youtube. (4:26 min.)
• Corrigan, C. (2015). Facilitation resources.
• MindToolsVideos. (2015, June 12). Improve your listening skills with active listening [Video]. Youtube. (2:39 min.)
• TED-Ed. (2016, February 22).  How miscommunication happens (and how to avoid it) – Katherine Hampsten [Video]. Youtube. (4:32 min.)

Community Resilience

• Cape Breton University. (2014). Two-eyed seeing [Video]. Vimeo. (8:44 min.)
• TEDx Talks. (2015, March 10). Resilience and the power of one | Monique Gray Smith | TEDxLangleyED [Video]. Youtube. (15:45 min.)
• TEDx Talks. (2015, July 14). Building resilient communities: A moral responsibility: Nick Tilsen, TEDxRapidCity [Video]. Youtube. (14:54 min.)

Conflict Management In Indigenous Contexts

• BearPaw Legal. (2014, April 28). Lateral violence [Video]. Youtube. (19:57 min.)
• Tait, P. L. (2007). Systems of conflict resolution within First Nations communities: Honouring the elders, honouring the knowledge. Research paper for the National Centre for First Nations Governance. (380K pdf)

Gender and Power

• Gaventa, J. (2006). Finding the spaces for change: A power analysis. IDS Bulletin, 37(6), 23-33. (120K pdf)
• Monkman, L. (2017, December 1). Indigenous feminism: What is it and what does the future hold? CBC News.
• Wilbur, M., & Keene, A. (2019, February 26). All my relations and indigenous feminism [Audio podcast].

Indigenous Governance

• TEDGlobal 2009. (2009, July). The danger of a single story: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [Video]. TED.com. (18:35 min.)
• Thunder Valley CDC was inspired by a group of youth and young families that were reconnecting to cultural spirituality and identity through spiritual ceremonies. We are a grassroots community development corporation that is guided by the needs and ideas of our community.

Indigenous Women, Leadership, and the Law

• Cutruzzula, K. (2018, September 6). How to build closer relationships. TED-Ed.
• Hanson, E. (2009). Marginalization of Aboriginal women.
• Indigenous women leaders’ case studies and videos, Coady Institute.
• McNab, M. (2006, February 7). Indigenous women’s issues in Canada. The Canadian Encyclopedia.
• Reclaiming power and place: The final report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
  • Accessible formats produced by the National Network for Equitable Library Service (NNELS)
• Stohs, L. (2013, October 27). Leadership: The importance of being self-aware [Video]. Youtube. (6:47 min.)
• Wane, N., Arndt, L., O’Neil Green, D., Khan, A. I., Mather, M., McPherson, K., & Tyagi, P. (Eds.). (2023). Black, Indigenous, and racialized women in leadership [Special issue]. Candian Women Studies, 36(1-2).

Indigenous Women Timeline and Herstory Resources

• Simpson, S. (2018, June 20). Indigenous firsts: 14 Indigenous women to know on national Indigenous Peoples day. CWF.
• Simpson, S. (n.d.). Female, Indigenous, born in Northern Turtle Island (aka Canada) and first to… (355K pdf)

Mentorship

• Barrett, M. (2014, January 21). What exactly is the mentor’s role? What is the mentee’s? Association for Talent Development.
• Sinclair, R. & Pooyak, S. (2007). Aboriginal mentoring in Saskatoon: A cultural perspective. Indigenous Peoples’ Health Research Centre. (1.15 Mb pdf)

Personal Leadership Development

• Jansen Kraemer Jr., H. M. (2011, April 26). The only true leadership is values-based leadership. Forbes.
• TEDGlobal 2009. (2009). Itay Talgam: Lead like the great conductors [Video]. TED.com. (20:45 min.).

Power and Good Governance

• Jefferson, C. (1994). Conquest by law. Originally written in 1978, one of the most comprehensive reports describing the impact of western settlement on traditional forms of justice among Aboriginal Peoples across Canada.
• Morellato, M. (2008). The crown’s constitutional duty to consult and accommodate Aboriginal and treaty rights. National Centre for First Nations Governance. (486K pdf)

Social Media, Collectives and Social Change

• Marr, B. (2015, June 2). How to create a killer LinkedIn profile that will get you noticed. LinkedIn.
• Tennant, Z. (2019, September 20). ‘A mountain of power’: The impact of Cindy Blackstock. Unreserved, CBC.
• Warrior Life. (2019). Native women warriors are the heart of the resistance [Audio podcast episode]. In Warrior Life.

Additional Resources

• Collard, M. (2012, September 16). Group energiser, warm-up, fun game – jump in jump out [Video]. Youtube. (3:39 min.)
• Findlay, I. M., & Wuttunee, W. (2007). Aboriginal women’s community economic development: Measuring and promoting success. Choices, 13(4). (210K pdf)
• Four Directions Teachings celebrates Indigenous oral traditions by listening as each elder or traditional teacher shares a teaching from their perspective on the richness and value of cultural traditions from their nation.
• Indigenous cinema, the National Film Board’s (NFB) online collection of Indigenous-made films.
• Indigenous Studies subject guide is offered by Kwantlen Polytechnic University, which serves a region south of the Fraser River in British Columbia. It overlaps with the unceded traditional and ancestral lands of the Kwantlen, Musqueam, Katzie, Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen, Qayqayt and Kwikwetlem peoples.
• Kwilmu’kw Maw-klusuaqn / Mi’kmaq Rights Initiative. (2024). Community meeting handbook.
• Mi’kmawey Debert Cultural Centre is currently in the planning stage and will be built in Debert, Nova Scotia.
• Mind Tools. (2018). Resolving team conflict: Building stronger teams by facing your differences. Mind Tools.
• NWAC. (n.d.). Aboriginal lateral violence. (1.77 Mb pdf)
• Sengupta, U., Vieta, M., & McMurtry, J. J. (2015). Indigenous communities and social enterprise in Canada: Incorporating culture as an essential ingredient of social entrepreneurship. Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, 6(1), 104-123.
• Stachowiak, S. (2013). Pathways for change: 10 theories to inform advocacy and policy change efforts. Center for Evaluation Innovation.
• TEDx Talks. (2013, November 26). Introduction to the Maine-Wabanaki: gkisedtanamoogk at TEDxDirigo [Video]. Youtube. (17:53 min.)
• Trnka, P. (2015). Talk, negotiate, or blockade? Tactics and strategies for indigenous power. Northern Public Affairs, 3(3).
• Institute for Integrative Science and Health. (n.d.). Two-eyed seeing.
• United Nations. (2008). United Nations declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples. (166K pdf)
• United Nations. (2013). Indigenous peoples and the United Nations human rights system (Fact sheet no. 9, rev. 2). United Nations. (702K pdf)swiss gear backpack