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indigenous planning perspectives 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 education@ontarioplanners.ca.
introductory and Foundational Resources
Indigenous History, Cultures, Traditional Knowledge and Governance
Canadian Geographic,
Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada
. 2018
https://indigenouspeoplesatlasofcanada.ca/
Coursera. Course on Indigenous Canada offered by University of Alberta.
https://www.coursera.org/learn/indigenous-canada
"Guide to Acknowledging First Peoples & Traditional Territory." Canadian Association of University Teachers.
https://www.caut.ca/content/guide-acknowledging-first-peoples-traditional-territory
Joseph, Bob. “Indigenous Peoples Worldviews vs Western Worldviews.” January 26, 2016.
https://www.ictinc.ca/blog/indigenous-peoples-worldviews-vs-western-worldviews
.
Joseph, Bob. "What Is an Aboriginal Medicine Wheel?" What Is an Aboriginal Medicine Wheel?
https://www.ictinc.ca/blog/what-is-an-aboriginal-medicine-wheel
.
Joseph, Bob. "What Is the Seventh Generation Principle?" What Is the Seventh Generation Principle?
https://www.ictinc.ca/blog/seventh-generation-principle
.
Joseph, Bob.
"21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality"
Indigenous Relations Press, 2018.
Mills, Selena. “What are Land Acknowledgements and why do they matter?”
https://locallove.ca/issues/what-are-land-acknowledgements-and-why-do-they-matter/#.XC6-gvZFxPY
"The Gifts of the Seven Grandfathers." Ojibwe.net.
http://ojibwe.net/projects/prayers-teachings/the-gifts-of-the-seven-grandfathers/
Younging, Gregory.
Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing by and about Indigenous Peoples
. Edmonton, Alberta: Brush Education, 2018.
The Path: Your Journey through Indigenous Canada, Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.
https://raic.org/
Truth and Reconciliation
King, Thomas.
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
. Canada: Anchor Canada, 2013.
National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, Interactive Map and Timeline.
https://nctr.ca/map.php
Manuel, Arthur, Ronald M. Derrickson, and Naomi Klein.
The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy
. Toronto: James Lorimer, 2018.
Maracle, Lee.
My Conversations with Canadians
. Toronto: BookThug, 2017.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action (2015).
http://nctr.ca/assets/reports/Calls_to_Action_English2.pdf
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada:
Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future- Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
(2015).
http://nctr.ca/assets/reports/Final%20Reports/Executive_Summary_English_Web.pdf
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007).
https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples.html
“Let Indigenous Treaties – Not the Duty to Consult – Lead Us to Reconciliation: U of T Expert.” University of Toronto, n.d.
https://www.utoronto.ca/news/let-indigenous-treaties-not-duty-consult-lead-us-reconciliation-u-t-expert
.
Traditional Territories, Unceded Land, Treaties, and Land Use Planning
Canadian Institute of Planners:
Policy Statement on Planning Practice and Reconciliation
(2019).
http://www.cip-icu.ca/getattachment/Topics-in-Planning/Indigenous-Planning/policy-indigenous-eng.pdf.aspx
Federation of Canadian Municipalities:
Pathways to Reconciliation
(2016).
https://fcm.ca/Documents/tools/BCMC/Pathways_to_reconciliation_EN.pdf
Government of Ontario: Map of Ontario Treaties and Reserves.
https://www.ontario.ca/page/map-ontario-treaties-and-reserves
Whose Land.
https://www.whose.land/en/
"Environmental Challenges on Indigenous Lands: A CIGI Essay Series." Centre for International Governance Innovation.
https://www.cigionline.org/environmental-challenges-indigenous-lands
“Path Matters.” Shared Path Consultation Initiative, n.d.
https://sharedpath.ca/newsletter-archives/
Aboriginal and Treaty Rights Information System. Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada.
https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100014686/1100100014687
“Honouring the Treaties.” The Land Between.
https://www.thelandbetween.ca/honouring-the-treaties/
Joseph, Bob. “Aboriginal Rights, Title and the Duty to Consult - a Primer.” Aboriginal rights, title and the duty to consult - a primer. Accessed May 25, 2020.
https://www.ictinc.ca/blog/aboriginal-rights-title-and-the-duty-to-consult-a-primer
.
“Consultation Expectations: Can the Government Change Its Consultation Approach and Still Satisfy Its Duty to Consult?” Williams & Shier, n.d.
https://www.willmsshier.com/resources/details/consultation-expectations-can-the-government-change-its-consultation-approach-and-still-satisfy-its-duty-to-consult
.
Organization of American States:
American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
https://www.oas.org/en/sare/documents/DecAmIND.pdf
Engagement protocols, Relationship Building, and Partnership
Government of British Columbia: Consulting with First Nations.
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/environment/natural-resource-stewardship/consulting-with-first-nations
Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada: Aboriginal Consultation and Accommodation= Updated Guidelines for Federal Officials to Fulfill the Duty to Consult.
https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100014664/1100100014675
Indigenous Corporate Training, Inc.
https://www.ictinc.ca/
Indigenous Corporate Training, Inc.
Indigenous Awareness: eLearning
.
https://www.chinookmarketplace.com/products/indigenous-awareness-online-training
Indigenous Corporate Training, Inc.
9 Terms to Avoid in Communications with Indigenous Peoples
.
https://www.ictinc.ca/blog/9-terms-to-avoid-in-communications-with-indigenous-peoples
Joseph, Bob.
12 Common Mistakes in First Nation Consultation
. July 2, 2015.
https://www.ictinc.ca/blog/12-common-mistakes-in-first-nation-consultation
.
Métis Nation of Ontario: Regional Consultation Protocols.
http://www.metisnation.org/media/51974/duty_to_consult_guide.pdf
Orange Shirt Day.
https://www.orangeshirtday.org/
Experiential Learning Opportunities
Brian Charles, Understanding Anishinaabe History through Wampum Belts.
The Blanket Exercise, Kairos Canada.
https://www.kairosblanketexercise.org/
Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford, ON.
http://woodlandculturalcentre.ca/
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 Journal
2, 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
Saul, John Ralston.
A Fair Country: Telling Truths about Canada
. Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2009.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Final Report, Volume 1:
Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future
(2015).
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Final Report, Volume 2:
Canada’s Residential Schools: The Inuit and Northern Experience
(2015).
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Final Report, Volume 3:
The Métis Experience
(2015).
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Final Report, Volume 4:
Missing Children and Unmarked Burials
(2015).
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Final Report, Volume 5:
The Legacy
(2015).
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Final Report, Volume 6:
Reconciliation
(2015)
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada:
What We Have Learned
(2015).
http://nctr.ca/assets/reports/Final%20Reports/Principles_English_Web.pdf
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada:
The Survivors Speak
(2015).
United Nations- Indigenous Peoples: State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, First Volume.
https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/publications/2009/09/state-of-the-worlds-indigenous-peoples-first-volume/
United Nations- Indigenous Peoples: State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, Second Volume.
https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2018/03/The-State-of-The-Worlds-Indigenous-Peoples-WEB.pdf
United Nations- Indigenous Peoples: State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, Third Volume
https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2017/12/State-of-Worlds-Indigenous-Peoples_III_WEB2018.pdf
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
Alberta Energy Regulator.
Voices of Understanding- Looking through the Window
.
https://www.aer.ca/documents/about-us/VoiceOfUnderstanding_Report.pdf
Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO): Municipal-Indigenous Relations.
https://www.amo.on.ca/AMO-Content/Indigenous-Relations/IndigenousRelations
Booth, Annie L., and Norman W. Skelton. "Improving First Nations' Participation in Environmental Assessment Processes: Recommendations from the Field."
Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal
29, no. 1 (March 2011): 49-58.
Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (CCAB).
https://www.ccab.com/about-ccab/
Laforme, Harry S. “Indian Sovereignty: What does it Mean?”
http://www3.brandonu.ca/cjns/11.2/laforme.pdf
Meaningful Involvement of Aboriginal Peoples in Environmental Assessment: Final Report
. Ottawa: Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, 2009.
Métis Nation of Ontario: Consultation Protocol for the Georgian Bay Traditional Territory.
http://www.metisnation.org/media/507390/mno%20consultation%20protocol%20-%20georgian%20bay%20(region%204).pdf
National Aboriginal Lands Managers Association (NALMA).
https://nalma.ca/
Ontario First Nation Technical Services Corporation of Ontario (OFNTSC).
http://ofntsc.org/
Marcia Nickerson, “Characteristics of a Nation-to-Nation Relationship,” Institute on Governance, n.d.,
https://iog.ca/docs/IOG-Nation-to-Nation-Discussion-Paper-2017-02.pdf
.
“Treaties, Rights and Title.” Yellowhead Institute, n.d.
https://yellowheadinstitute.org/yellowhead-briefs/treaties-rights-title/
.