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Resource List

This list is a starting point for planning practitioners to access resources that encourage learning on Indigenous topics. To suggest an additional resource for this list, or to discuss any other matters pertaining to resources on Indigenous planning topics, please contact [email protected]. 

Introductory and Foundational Resources

Indigenous History, Cultures, Traditional Knowledge and Governance
Truth and Reconciliation
Traditional Territories, Unceded Land, Treaties, and Land Use Planning
Engagement protocols, Relationship Building, and Partnership
Experiential Learning Opportunities

Academic and Organizational Resources

Indigenous History, Cultures, Traditional Knowledge and Governance
  • Blair, Peggy J. Lament for a First Nation: The Williams Treaties of Southern Ontario. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008.
  • Deloria, Vine. God Is Red: A Native View of Religion, 30th Anniversary Edition. New York: Fulcrum Publishing, 2003.
  • Eades, G. (2015). Maps and Memes: Redrawing Culture, Place, and Identity in Indigenous Communities. 2nd ed. Montreal and Kingston: McGill- Queens University Press.
  • Havard, Gilles. The Great Peace of Montreal of 1701: French-native Diplomacy in the Seventeenth Century. Montreal: McGill-Queens Univ. Press, 2001.
  • Herbert Nabigon, Rebecca Hagey, Schulyer Webster, and Robert MacKay. “The Learning Circle as a Research Method: The Trickster and Windigo in Research.” Native Social Work Journal2, no. 1 (1999): 113-37. https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/bitstream/10219/461/1/NSWJ-V2-art5-119-143.pdf
  • Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2015.
  • Labelle, Kathryn Magee. Dispersed but Not Destroyed: A History of the Seventeenth-century Wendat People. Place of Publication Not Identified: Univ Of Brit Columbia Press, 2014.
  • Schmalz, Peter S. The Ojibwa of Southern Ontario. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.
  • Seed, Patricia. Ceremonies of Possession in Europe’s Conquest of the New World, 1492-1649. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
  • Sioui, Georges E. For an Amerindian Autohistory: An Essay on the Foundations of a Social Ethic. Montrâeal: McGill-Queens University Press, 1992.
  • Smith, Donald B. Sacred Feathers: The Reverend Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby) and the Mississauga Indians. University of Toronto Press, 2013.
  • “Two-Eyed Seeing.” Guiding Principles (Two Eyed Seeing) | Integrative Science. http://www.integrativescience.ca/Principles/TwoEyedSeeing/.
  • Williams, Kayanesenh Paul. Kayanerenkó:wa: The Great Law of Peace. Winnipeg, Manitoba: University of Manitoba Press, 2018.
Truth and Reconciliation
Traditional Territories, Unceded Land, Treaties, and Land Use Planning
  • Alfred, T. (2017). It’s all about the land. In Peter McFarlane & Nicole Schabus (Eds), Whose land is it anyway? A Manual for decolonization. Federation of Post-Secondary Educators of BC.
  • Ball, Jennifer, Caldwell, Wayne, and Pranis, Kay. Doing Democracy with Circles: Engaging Communities in Public Planning (2009).
  • Barry, J. & Porter, L. (2011). Indigenous recognition in state-based planning systems: Understanding textual mediation in the contact zone. Planning Theory, 11(2): 170-187.
  • Berkes, F. (2012). Sacred Ecology. Canada: Routledge.
  • Borrows, J. (1997). Living between Water and Rocks: First Nations, Environmental Planning and Democracy. The University of Toronto Law Journal, 47(4), 417-468.
  • Borrows, J. (2005). Crown and Aboriginal Occupations of Land: A History & Comparison. Ipperwash Inquiry, Toronto, Ontario.
  • Borrows, J. (2015). The Durability of Terra Nullius: Tsilhoqot’in Nation V British Columbia. UBC Law Review, 48(3): 701
  • Dorries, H. (2012). Rejecting the “False Choice”: Foregrounding Indigenous Sovereignty in Planning Theory and Practice. Doctor of Philosophy. University of Toronto.
  • Federation of Canadian Municipalities: Community Economic Development Initiative. https://fcm.ca/en/programs/first-nation-municipal-collaboration/community-economic-development-initiative
  • Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. “Land as Pedagogy: Nishnaabeg Intelligence and Rebellious Transformation.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 3, no. 3 (2014): 1-25. https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/22170/17985.
  • Lighting the Eighth Fire: The Liberation, Resurgence, and Protection of Indigenous Nations. Winnipeg, Man.: Arbeiter Ring, 2009.
  • Macklem, P. (2001). Indigenous Difference and the Constitution of Canada. University of Toronto Press Inc, Toronto, ON.
  • Millette, Daniel M. “Incremental Planning: The Tsawwassen First Nation Experience.” Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development 19, no. 1, 28-43.
  • Millette, Daniel M. “Land Use Planning on Aboriginal Lands- Towards a New Model for Planning on Reserve Lands.” Canadian Journal of Urban Research 20, no. 2, 1-xx.
  • Natcher, David C., Ryan Christopher Walker, and Theodore S. Jojola. Reclaiming Indigenous Planning. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 2013.
  • Scott, D.N. (2017). The Environment, Federalism, and the Charter. In Oliver, P., Macklem, P. & Des Rosiers, N. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution. Oxford University Press. 
  • Regan, P. (2010). Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth-Telling, and     Reconciliation in Canada. UBC Press: Vancouver, BC.
  • Porter, L & Barry, J. (2016). Planning for Coexistence? : Recognizing Indigenous Rights Through Land- Use Planning in Canada and Australia, Routledge. 
  • Pasternak, S. (2014). Jurisdiction and Settler colonialism: Where do laws meet? Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 29(2): 145-161.
  • Bélanger Pierre, Christopher Alton, and Nina-Marie Lister. “Decolonization of Planning.” Essay. In Extraction Empire: Undermining the Systems, States, and Scales of Canada’s Global Resource Empire, 2017-1217. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2018.
  • Dorries, Heather. “Rejecting the False Choice: Foregrounding Indigenous Sovereignty in Planning Theory and Practice,” 2014.
  • “Assessing the Duty to Consult.” Fraser Institute, n.d. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/assessing-the-duty-to-consult. 
  • Decolonzing the City: The future of Indigenous Planning in Vancouver (2019). Simon Fraser University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC2QzaWUSHk
Engagement protocols, Relationship Building, and Partnership