Looking to learn more about Indigenous rights? I hope you find this reading list informative and helpful. It is not meant to be exhaustive.
Asch, Michael, On Being Here to Stay: Treaties and Aboriginal Rights in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2014).
Borrows, John & Michael Coyle, eds., The Right Relationship: Reimagining the Implementation of Historical Treaties (University of Toronto Press, 2017).
Chartrand, Paul L.A.H., ed., Who Are Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples?: Recognition, Definition, and Jurisdiction (Purich Publishing, 2002).
Christie, Gordon, Canadian Law and Indigenous Self‐Determination: A Naturalist Analysis (University of Toronto Press, 2019).
Foster, Hamar, Heather Raven & Jeremy Webber, eds., Let Right Be Done: Aboriginal Title, the Calder Case and the Future of Indigenous Rights (UBC Press, 2007).
Hoehn, Felix, Reconciling Sovereignties: Aboriginal Nations and Canada (University of Saskatchewan Native Law Centre, 2012).
Johnson, Harold, Two Families: Treaties and Government (Purich Publishing, 2007).
McNeil, Kent, Flawed Precedent: The St. Catherine’s Case and Aboriginal Title (UBC Press, 2019).
Nichols, Joshua, A Reconciliation without Recollection?: An Investigation of the Foundations of Aboriginal Law in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2019).
Reynolds, Jim, Aboriginal Peoples and the Law: A Critical Introduction (UBC Press, 2018).
Reynolds, Jim, From Wardship to Rights: The Guerin Case and Aboriginal Law (UBC Press, 2020).
Borrows, John, Canada’s Indigenous Constitution (University of Toronto Press, 2010).
Borrows, John, Freedom and Indigenous Constitutionalism (University of Toronto Press, 2016).
Cameron, Angela, Sari Graben & Val Napoleon, eds., Creating Indigenous Property: Power, Rights, and Relationships (University of Toronto Press, 2020).
Craft, Aimée, Breathing Life into the Stone Fort Treaty: An Anishnabe Understanding of Treaty One (Purich Publishing, 2013).
Friedland, Hadley Louise, The Wetiko Legal Principles: Cree and Anishinabek Responses to Violence and Victimization (University of Toronto Press, 2018).
McAdam, Sylvia (Saysewahum), Nationhood Interrupted: Revitalizing nêhiyaw Legal Systems (Purich Publishing, 2015).
University of Victoria Indigenous Law Research Unit, Mikomosis and the Wetiko: A Teaching Guide for Youth, Community, and Post-Secondary Educators (University of Victoria Indigenous Law Research Unit, 2013).
Borrows, John, Larry Chartrand, Oonagh E. Fitzgerald & Risa Schwartz, eds., Braiding Legal Orders: Implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019).
Drake, Karen & Brenda L. Gunn, eds., Renewing Relationships: Indigenous Peoples and Canada (University of Saskatchewan Native Law Centre, 2019).
Hartley, Jackie, Paul Joffe & Jennifer Preston, eds., Realizing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Triumph, Hope, and Action (UBC Press, 2010).
Lightfoot, Sheryl, Global Indigenous Politics: A Subtle Revolution (Routledge, 2016).
Morales, Sarah & Joshua Nichols, “Reconciliation Beyond the Box: The UN Declaration and Plurinational Federalism in Canada” (Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2018).
Borrows, John & Leonard Rotman, Aboriginal Legal Issues: Cases, Materials and Commentary, 5th edition (LexisNexis, 2018).
Decembrini, Angela D’Elia, Kate Gunn, Bruce McIvor & Shin Imai, Annotated Aboriginal Law 2021: The Constitution, Legislation, Treaties and Supreme Court of Canada Case Summaries (Thomson Reuters, 2020).
Rudin, Jonathan, Indigenous People and the Criminal Justice System: A Practitioner’s Handbook (Emond Publishing, 2018).
Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (2019).
Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume One, Summary: Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future (2015).
Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (1996).
Adams, Howard, Prison of Grass: Canada from a Native Point of View, 2nd edition (Fifth House Books, 1989).
Akiwenzie-Damm, Kateri, et al., This Place: 150 Years Retold (HighWater Press, 2019).
Alfred, Taiaiake, Wasáse: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom (University of Toronto Press, 2005).
Asch, Michael, John Borrows & James Tully, eds., Resurgence and Reconciliation: Indigenous-Settler Relations and Earth Teachings (University of Toronto Press, 2018).
Campbell, Maria, Halfbreed (Random House of Canada, 2019).
Cardinal, Harold, The Unjust Society: The Tragedy of Canada’s Indians, 2nd edition (Douglas & McIntyre, 1999).
Coburn, Elaine, ed., More Will Sing Their Way to Freedom: Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence (Fernwood Publishing, 2015).
Coulthard, Glen Sean, Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (University of Minnesota Press, 2014).
Green, Joyce, ed., Making Space for Indigenous Feminism (Fernwood Publishing, 2017).
Hill, Gord & Ward Churchill, The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002).
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).
King, Thomas, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America (Random House of Canada, 2013).
Kino-nda-niimi Collective, ed., The Winter We Danced: Voices from the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movement (ARP Books, 2014).
Manuel, Arthur, Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call (Between the Lines, 2015).
Manuel, Arthur & Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson, The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy (Lorimer, 2017).
Manuel, George & Michael Posluns, The Fourth World: An Indian Reality (University of Minnesota Press, 2019).
Maracle, Lee, I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism (Press Gang, 2003).
Maracle, Lee, Bobbi Lee Indian Rebel, 2nd edition (Women’s Press, 2017).
McFarlane, Peter & Nicole Schabus, eds. Whose Land Is It Anyway?: A Manual for Decolonization (Federation of Post-Secondary Educators of BC, 2017).
Monture-Angus, Patricia, Thunder in My Soul: A Mohawk Woman Speaks (Brunswick Books, 1995).
Palmater, Pamela, Indigenous Nationhood: Empowering Grassroots Citizens (Fernwood Publishing, 2015).
Saul, John Ralston, The Comeback: How Aboriginals Are Reclaiming Power and Influence (Penguin Canada, 2015).
Sellars, Bev, Price Paid: The Fight for First Nations Survival (Talonbooks, 2016).
Simpson, Audra, Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States (Duke University Press, 2014).
Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake, Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence (ARP Books, 2011).
Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake, As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance (University of Minnesota Press, 2017).
Bhandar, Brenna, Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership (Duke University Press, 2018).
Chartrand, Paul L.A.H., Manitoba’s Metis Settlement Scheme of 1870 (University of Saskatchewan Native Law Centre, 1991).
Crosby, Andrew & Jeffrey Monaghan, Policing Indigenous Movements: Dissent and the Security State (Fernwood Publishing, 2018).
Daschuk, James, Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life (University of Regina Press, 2013).
Davis, Lynne, ed., Alliances: Re/Envisioning Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relationships (University of Toronto Press, 2010).
Johnson, Harold, Peace and Good Order: The Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada (Random House of Canada, 2019).
Kelm, Mary-Ellen & Keith D. Smith, Talking Back to the Indian Act: Critical Readings in Settler Colonial Histories (University of Toronto Press, 2018).
Lowman, Emma Battell & Adam J. Barker, Settler: Identity and Colonialism in 21st Century Canada (Fernwood Publishing, 2015).
Mackey, Eva, Unsettled Expectations: Uncertainty, Land, and Settler Decolonization (Fernwood Publishing, 2016).
Morgensen, Scott Lauria, Spaces Between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization (University of Minnesota Press, 2011).
Regan, Paulette, Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada (UBC Press, 2011).
Robertson, Lindsay G., Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of their Lands (Oxford University Press, 2007).
Teillet, Jean, The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel’s People, the Métis Nation (Harper Collins Canada, 2019).