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Honouring Indigenous perspectives: A reading list from AUArts Library

AUArts Library proudly supports our Indigenous communities around Calgary, in Alberta, and across Canada.

We offer a diverse selection of library materials that explore a wide range of Indigenous topics. Check out this quick list of what you could borrow:

Ancestors : Indigenous peoples of Western Canada in historic photographs

Unreconciled : family, truth, and Indigenous resistance

Indigenous peoples in arts and music

Alex Janvier

Short history of Indians in Canada : stories

Reclaiming indigenous voice and vision

With good intentions : Euro-Canadian and Aboriginal relations in Colonial Canada

Writing the circle : Native women of western Canada : an anthology

Indigiqueerness : a conversation about storytelling

Indigenous protocols for the visual arts

Blackfoot ways of knowing : the worldview of the Siksikaitsitapi

Indigenous poetics in Canada

Indigenous screen cultures in Canada

Memory and Landscape: Indigenous Responses to a Changing North

Called upstairs : Moravian Inuit music in Labrador

A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other: Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast

Booze, cigarettes, and constitutional dust-ups: Canada’s quest for interprovincial free trade

Western Voices in Canadian Art

Rock Art in an Indigenous Landscape: From Atlantic Canada to Chesapeake Bay

Arts of engagement: taking aesthetic action in and beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Visit the AUArts Library catalogue for access to thousands of titles. Stop by in person and check out our physical collection on campus. Please check the AUArts Library homepage for our summer hours of operation.