Cultural Competency Resources
Cultural Competency Resources
Guides
In 2018, The Law Society of Ontario, together with the Indigenous Bar Association and the Advocates Society, produced a “Guide for Lawyers Working with Indigenous Peoples”. To access the guide, click here.
Online courses
The Path – Your Journey Through Indigenous Canada. Produced by the Canadian Bar Association. For information click here. The law Society provides free membership.
Living Well Together. Produced by the GNWT. To access click here.
The Land Claims Agreements Coalition have created a suite of free online courses pertaining to modern treaties. Click here to access.
The University of Alberta offers an Indigenous Canada course. Click here for more information.
Video material
The Canadian Association for the Institute of Justice has a set of six 90-minute seminars entitled “Indigenous Peoples and The Law”. The link is here.
“But I was wearing a Suit” is a mini-documentary about the racism that Indigenous lawyers and law students face within the legal profession. It was created by a group of BC Indigenous Lawyers, was produced with the support of the Continuing Legal Education Society of BC and the Law Society of BC, and is accessible on You Tube. The link is here.
In 2016, Mr. Justice Murray Sinclair addressed the BC Ministry of Justice. “A Story Canada Needs to know” can be accessed here.
Written material
In Those Days – Kenn Harper
Past and Future Lands – Martin O’Malley
From Lisshamie – Albert Canadian
Finding Dahshaa – Stephanie Irlacher-Fox
Clearing the Plains – James Daschuk
Night Spirits – Ila Bussidor and Uston Bilgen-Reinart
Indigenous Healing – Rubert Ross
The Heart of Everything That Is – Bob Drury & Tom Glavin
Empire of the Summer Moon – S.C. Gwynne
1491 – Charles C. Mann
Paying the Land – Joe Sacco
Doing Things the Right way -Dene Traditional Justice in Lac La Marte NWT – Joan Ryan
I am Woman – Lee Maracle
God is Red – Vine Deloria Jr.
American Holocaust – David Stannard
21 things you may not know about the Indian Act – Bob Joseph
Walking the Land, Feeding the Fire – Allice Legat
The Marrow Thieves – Cherie Dimaline
Sugar Falls — A Residential School Story – David Alexander Robertson
Fatty Legs – Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death and Hard Truths in a Northern City – Tanya Talaga.
Podcasts
Trauma-Informed Lawyer – You can access the podcast series here.
If you know of any other resources to be added to the list, please pass them on to us and we will add them.
