Cultural Competency Resources

Cultural Competency Resources

Guides

Guide for Lawyers Working with Indigenous Peoples (2022) –  the Advocates Society, the Indigenous Bar Association, the Law Society of Ontario

• 1st Supplement (2022)

Online courses

The Path – Your Journey Through Indigenous Canada –  Canadian Bar Association

Living Well Together – Government of the Northwest Territories

Modern Treaties – The Land Claims Agreements Coalition

Indigenous Canada – The University of Alberta

Video material

Indigenous Peoples and The Law – The Canadian Association for the Institute of Justice

Identifying, Understanding and Responding to Relevant Racial / First Nations Issues in our Cases – Nova Scotia Barristers Society

“But I was wearing a Suit”  – The Continuing Legal Education Society of BC and the Law Society of BC

“A Story Canada Needs to know” – The Honourable Murray Sinclair

Written material

National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

150 Acts of Reconciliation – Crystal Fraser, Sara Komarnisky

Peace and Good Order – Harold R. Johnson

In Those Days – Kenn Harper

Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada – Michelle Good

Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer

Finding Dahshaa – Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox

Clearing the Plains – James Daschuk

Indigenous Relations: Insights, Tips & Suggestions to Make Reconciliation a Reality – Bob Joseph, Cindy Joseph

Night Spirits – Ila Bussidor and Uston Bilgen-Reinart

Indigenous Healing – Rubert Ross

The Heart of Everything That Is – Bob Drury , Tom Glavin, Kate Waters

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

Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman  – Yvonne Johnson, Rudy Weibe

God is Red – Vine Deloria Jr.

Righting Canada’s Wrongs : The Sixties Scoop and the Stolen Lives of Indigenous Children – Andrew Bromberry, Teresa Edwards

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

This Place: 150 Years Retold

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 – Myrna McCallum

Telling our Twisted Histories – CBC

Courtroom to Campfire: Harold Johnson’s Final Public Lecture for Indigenous Justice – Indictment, Benjamin Perrin

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