Indigenous Cultural Safety & Humility Focused

Resources

This resource list below can be helpful to you in a general way for your Indigenous Cultural Safety learning journey. However, after you attend our virtual workshop/s or if you have arranged with Harley to host an in-person workshop for your organization or company, we will provide you with a more extensive digital resource document with links to many more sites and resources that are specific to our workshop content.

Please also visit our “Current & Past Work” page as there are several videos of Harley and Sue and their work with other organizations and the videos that were developed in partnership with them.

Lastly, as a reminder, be mindful of your emotions and feelings/sensations that may come up as you embrace this material. Take the time to care for yourself and utilize those techniques that assist you in staying engaged in the face of the uncomfortable as you further embrace this material.

• Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action
• Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
• United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)
• Office of the Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves

• Fact Sheet: Cultural Safety – National Aboriginal Health Organization (NAHO)
• Setting the Context for Indigenous Cultural Safety: Facing Racism in Health – Indigenous Cultural Safety (ICS) Collaborative Learning Series
• Cultural Safety and Humility – First Nations Health Authority
• Indigenous Cultural Safety, Cultural Humility, and Anti-racism –  A video series to support registrants on their cultural humility journey. BC College of Nurses and Mid-wives
• Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights – BC Human Rights Tribunal
• Indigenous Watchdog – Educating Canadians on the current state of reconciliation in Canada
• What is Orange Shirt Day? – CBC Kids
• Beyond 94: Truth and Reconciliation in Canada – CBC News – BC Teachers’ Federation
• Settlers Take Action – The On Canada Project – A Call for Support
• Indigenous Ally Toolkit – Montreal Indigenous Community NETWORK
• Land Back: A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper – Reclaiming Indigenous Jurisdiction
• Cash Back: A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper – The Value of Indigenous Lands
• Priorities & Challenges for Inuit People – ITK president Natan Obed on YouTube

• San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training Program – San’yas
• Indigenous Canada Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) – University of Alberta
• www.lenpierreconsulting.com – Len Pierre Consulting
• www.elainealec.com &  www.cultivatingsafespaces.com – Elaine Alec
• www.ictinc.ca – Indigenous Corporate Training founded by Bob Joseph

• FNHA-Territory-Acknowledgements-Information-Booklet – FNHA
• Indigenous Territory Map – Native Land – This map may have inaccuracies, or omissions, as it is a living document, so it is best to use it as a start to your research regarding Indigenous Territory.

• Integrating somatic approaches to trauma with ‘parts’ language – Janina Fisher on YouTube
• Self-Regulation Skills: Why They Are Fundamental – Committee for Children on YouTube
• What is Self-regulation? – Empowered to Connect on YouTube
• What is Self-regulation? – Roots of Empathy, Dr. Stuart Shankar on YouTube
• My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies – A book by Resmaa Menakem
• Decolonizing the Mind – Dr Michael Yellow Bird
• Decolonizing the Mind: Traditional Healing Contemplative Practices – Dr. Michael Yellow Bird on YouTube

• Shame and Accountability – a podcast with Brené Brown
• Embracing Vulnerability – with Brené Brown on YouTube

• Two-Eyed Seeing as a strategic dichotomy for decolonial nursing knowledge development and practice – Article in Nursing Inquiry Volume30, Issue4 October 2023 e12574. Wiley online library
• Researchers use ‘two-eyed seeing’ to improve Indigenous children’s health – First Nations Health Authority article January 23, 2020

• Doctrine of Discovery: Stolen lands, Strong Hearts – Anglican Church of Canada on YouTube
• Doctrine of Discovery – Oren Lyons on YouTube

Books & Articles:

• Indigenous experts, leaders say Vatican’s Doctrine of Discovery rejection marks step forward – CBC article March 31, 2023
• Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery – Book by Steven T. Newcomb
• Preliminary study of the impact on indigenous peoples of the international legal construct known as the Doctrine of Discovery – Submitted by the Special Rapporteur
• 10 elements which constitute the Doctrine of Discovery – Professor Robert J. Miller, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State Univ. Chief Justice, Grand Ronde Tribe Court of Appeals

• 70-20-10 Model for Learning and Development
• 70:20:10 – Charles Jennings & Fuse on YouTube

• Understanding Trauma: Learning Brain vs Survival Brain – Dr. Jacob Ham on YouTube
• Name it to tame it – Dr. Dan Siegel on YouTube
• Integrational Trauma and Residential Schools – The Canadian Encyclopedia
• Trauma-Informed Practice (TIP) – Resources – BC Government

www.livingjusticepress.org/about-circles/

The home page of the website above is a great portal into Restorative Justice especially as they strive to work from a decolonized perspective: www.livingjusticepress.org

• www.indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/the_indian_act/
• The Indian Act – The Canadian Encyclopedia

• Residential Schools in Canada: A Timeline – Historica Canada on YouTube 
• Shattering the Silence – The Hidden History of Indian Residential Schools, University Of Regina
• The National Center for Truth and Reconciliation
• Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: 94 Calls to Action

• US Indian Boarding School History – The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition
• Digital Archive launched in U.S. spotlights Indigenous boarding school history – Eye on the Artic
• Investigation finds at least 973 Indigenous children died in U.S. government boarding schools – CBC Article
• Biden apologizes for past U.S. policy on boarding schools for Indigenous children – CBC Article

• Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls – Report card article CBC
• Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls – Calls For Justice

• Indian hospitals: The evolution of intentional coloniality and the biology of anti-Indigenous racism – Dr. Cassandra Felske-Durksen
• Researching and Revealing Indian Hospitals in Canada – Dr. Maureen Lux presents at the 2016 Canada’s History Forum
• Legacy of Canada’s Indian hospitals – CityNews on YouTube
• The Cure was Worse – APTN Investigates on YouTube

• Separating children from parents: The Sixties Scoop in Canada – CBC News on YouTube
• Have you heard about the Sixties Scoop?

• Understanding Indian Day Schools in Canada – Southern Chiefs Association
• Indian Day Schools – Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre UBC

• What is Scientific Racism? – Carl Linnaeus and Taxonomy on YouTube
• The Roots of Race I – Carl Linnaeus on YouTube
• The Myth of Race – BBC Ideas on YouTube

• Anti-racism Resources – Public Service Alliance of Canada
• White Supremacy Culture Brief – by Tema Okun, Dismantling Racism
• White Supremacy Culture – Still Here – Tema Okun | May 2021 (For a more extensive exploration of this article, go to: www.whitesupremacyculture.info)

• The Danger of a Single Story – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, TED Talks
• Determinants of Indigenous Peoples’ Health in Canada: Beyond the Social – Book by Charlotte Reading and Sarah de Leeuw
• The Kairos Blanket Exercise Program – Kairos Canada

• United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) – KPU
• How UNDRIP Changes Canada’s Relationship with Indigenous Peoples – Centre for International Governance Innovation
• New BC legislation now in force to implement Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act
• Backgrounder: United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act

• Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation – Monique Gray Smith
• Indigenous Political Ecology – Sarah Hunt, University of Victoria
• From Where I Stand: Rebuilding Indigenous Nations for a Stronger Canada – Jody Wilson-Raybould
• Indian in the Cabinet –  Jody Wilson-Raybould
• True Reconciliation: How to be a Force of Change – Jody Wilson-Raybould
• Reconciliation History: A Story of Canada – Jody Wilson-Raybould
• Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-up Call – Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson, Foreword by Naomi Klein
• 21 Things About the Indian Act – Bob Joseph
• A Brief Definition of Decolonization and Indigenization – Bob Joseph Indigenous Corporate Training Inc.

• ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐅᓂᒃᑳᖏᑦ (Inuit Unikkaangit) – CBC Podcasts with Mary Powder
• Unreserved with Rosanna Deerchild – CBC Radio
• Creating Safer Spaces – Interview with Harley Eagle
• Teachings in The Air – Elder Gerry Oldman
• Priorities & Challenges for Inuit People – ITK president Natan Obed on YouTube
• CANADALAND – Jesse Brown
• The Secret Life of Canada – CBC Podcasts with Leah-Simone Bowen and Falen Johnson

• Noojimo Health
• Residential School Survivors
• First Nations Health Authority (FNHA)