Researching

The Room121 Twitter account follows people and organizations that tie into the content of the big ideas we explore and think about in English. It is a good place to begin researching.

@wawhsroom121

Authors

James Bartleman

Drew Hayden Taylor

Tomson Highway

Wab Kinew

Thomas King

Tracey Lindberg

Lee Maracle

Waubgeshig Rice

Eden Robinson

Richard Wagamese

Nonfiction 

Ontario Drafts First Nations Citizenship Law

Remember, Resist, Redraw: Whitehorse artist’s poster counters Canada 150 celebrations

Inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women has just 122 names registered

Indigenous perspective on Canada’s 150th: 7 generations back and ahead

Harold Cardinal exposed White Paper’s “thinly disguised” program of extermination

“For 150 years, people have been told lies about Canada’s history”

On Canada’s 150th What Are First Nations Kids Losing Out To?”

New series The Story of Us is not the story of Canada

Canada’s quality of life ranks in middle of ‘peer’ countries: report

A youth-driven movement remakes Attawapiskat

Truth and Reconciliation Recommendations

Truth and Reconciliation Site

RWB Going Home Star: The language of truth and reconciliation

Common Portrayals of Aboriginal People

Aboriginal People in the News

Video: Injin Among Us

Podcast: Reconciliation (personal rant)

Video: I’m Not the Indian you had in mind

Podcast: Indigenous Media Roundtable

The Myth of the Vanishing Indian

Craft Reconciliation

Wikwemikong to take part in craft reconciliation

#craftreconciliation on Twitter

Project of Heart

Canada’s Race Problem? It’s even worse than America’s

This Election Showed Us Racism Is Alive and Well in Canada

Racism in Canada

Racial Discrimination

Video: Indigenous Game Designer Challenges Stereotypes

CBC The Current: Majority of Indigenous Canadians remain Christians despite residential schools

Musical homage to MMIW to be filmed in Wikwemikong, Manitoulin Island

MMIWG National Inquiry Website Library

Where the kids are: How indigenous children are over-represented in foster care

Top 5 Indigenous issues all Canadians should care about

First Nations issues: What will make Canadians care?