These resources have been collected exclusively for ease of access by students enrolled in ALDR 6305 to preparation materials required for the course.
Pre-Class Exercises to Familiarize Yourself With Before Class Preparation
20 pages
Authentic Allyship Project. "Finding Your Place in Reconciliation - A Workbook" (Shadow of the Law Publications, Canada 2020), online. download electronic version download to print
Find Out What Land You Are On (Native-Land.ca), online.
20 pages
First Nations People, Métis and Inuit in Canada: Diverse and Growing Populations
20 pages
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action
Read calls #13-47, #52, #71 & #84
17 pages
United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)
Preparing for Class
please review before class
4 pages
Bruce McIvor, Reconciliation at the End of a Gun: The Wet’suwet’en and the RCMP from Standoff: Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It (Canada: Harbour Publishing, 2021), pg. 138-141.
4 pages
Bruce McIvor, Made of Sterner Stuff – The Problem with Allies from Standoff: Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It (Canada: Harbour Publishing, 2021), pg. 180-183.
4 pages
Bruce McIvor, A New Legal Remedy for Indigenous People from Standoff: Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It (Canada: Harbour Publishing, 2021), pg. 36-39.
4 pages
Bruce McIvor, How to Fulfill the Duty to Consult? from Standoff: Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It (Canada: Harbour Publishing, 2021), pg. 45-48.
3 pages
Bruce McIvor, Breathing Life Back into the Duty to Consult from Standoff: Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It (Canada: Harbour Publishing, 2021), pg. 65-69.
4 pages
Bruce McIvor, The Age of Reconciliation: The Significance of the Tsilhqot’in Decision from Standoff: Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It (Canada: Harbour Publishing, 2021), pg. 78-82.
6 pages
Bruce McIvor, Environmental Assessments and the Duty to Consult from Standoff: Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It (Canada: Harbour Publishing, 2021), pg. 87-92.
3 pages
Bhalla, Marc. “Special Class Guests on the Afternoon of July 19th" ALDR 6305. (Summer 2022).
14:13
McMahon, Ryan. "On Reconciliation." Red Man Laughing. (29 May 2015).
trigger warning: contains foul language.
24:38
Authentic Allyship Project. "Rodney McLeod Interview" (4 June 2022), online: YouTube.
Implicit Association Test, online.
2 pages
ADR Institute of Canada. "Code of Ethics", online.
3 pages
Bruce McIvor, Reconciliation as a Massive Failure from Standoff: Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It (Canada: Harbour Publishing, 2021), pg. 168-170.
11 pages
Bruce McIvor, Indigenous Identity and Canadian Law: A Personal Journey from Standoff: Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It (Canada: Harbour Publishing, 2021), pg. 28-35.
3 pages
Bruce McIvor, Colonialism’s Disciples: How Government Undermines Indigenous People from Standoff: Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It (Canada: Harbour Publishing, 2021), pg. 177-179.
6 pages
Bruce McIvor, The Wet’suwet’en, Governments and Indigenous Peoples: A Five-Step Plan for Reconciliation from Standoff: Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It (Canada: Harbour Publishing, 2021), pg. 150-156.
Additional Resources for Reflection
11 pages
Farrow, Trevor C.W. Truth, Reconciliation and the Cost of Adversarial Justice from Trevor C.W. Farrow & Lesley A. Jacobs, eds, The Justice Crisis – The Cost and Value of Accessing law (Canada: UBC Press, 2020).
*** chapter available for download in course Moodle - contact us if you experience trouble accessing it. ***
37:22
Native Counselling Services of Alberta. "Home Fire - Ending the Cycle of Family Violence" (20 March 2015), online: YouTube.
trigger warning: this film deals with mature subject matter, including suicide, domestic abuse, alcohol abuse.
1:28:40
National Film Board of Canada. "Reel Injun" (2009), online: CBC Gems, film.
11 pages
Bruce McIvor, The Duty to Consult at the Supreme Court in 2017 from Standoff: Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It (Canada: Harbour Publishing, 2021), pg. 110-120.
250 pages (skim only, you are not expected to read in entirety)
Duncan, Pearl. The role of Aboriginal humour in cultural survival and resistance. PhD Thesis, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland. (2014).
29:20
Don Featherstone, dir. "Babakiueria" (1986), film.
36:10
Suntjens, Terri. "Journey to Leadership with Aly Bear." 2 Crees in a Pod. (13 December 2021).
121 pages (skim only, you are not expected to read in entirety)
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls: Final Report (Executive Summary)
7 pages
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls: Calls for Justice
