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Living Library

The Living Library is a curated collection of educational resources, articles, tools, readings, videos, and community knowledge supporting ongoing learning around decolonization, Indigenization, equity, inclusion, reconciliation, and respectful engagement within geography and academia.

Developed by the CAG’s Standing Committee on Decolonizing and Indigenizing the Professional Association, this evolving resource is intended to support collective learning, reflection, teaching, research, and professional practice. The library will continue to grow over time as new resources and perspectives are added.

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Last Updated: May 2026

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Younging G. – Elements of Indigenous StyleSelect Readings
Smith L. (2013) Decolonizing methodologiesSelect Readings
Rose-Redwood R. Blu Barnd N. Lucchesi A.H.E. Dias S. & Patrick W. (2020) Decolonizing the mapSelect Readings
Reo N.J. (2019) Inawendiwin and Relational Accountability in Anishnaabeg StudiesSelect Readings
Pasternak S. Cowen D. Clifford R. Joseph T. Nadine D. Spice A. & Kiiwetinepinesiik H. (2022) Infrastructure Jurisdiction ExtractivismSelect Readings
Olson R. Hackett J. & DeRoy S. (2016) Mapping the Digital TerrainSelect Readings
Noxolo P. (2017) Introduction: Decolonising geographical knowledgeSelect Readings
Nelson S. & McGregor D. (2014) Decolonizing the discipline?Select Readings
Moorman L. Evanovitch J. & Muliaina T. (2021) Envisioning indigenized geographySelect Readings
Lucchesi A.H.E. (2018) Indians don’t make mapsSelect Readings
Louis (2007) Can you hear us now?Select Readings
Kobayashi A. & Peake L. (2000) Racism out of placeSelect Readings
Hunt S. (2014) Ontologies of indigeneitySelect Readings
Holmes C. Hunt S. & Piedalue A. (2015) Violence colonialism and spaceSelect Readings
Hart M.A. Straka S. & Rowe G. (2017) Working Across ContextsSelect Readings
Daigle M. & Sundberg J. (2017) From where we standSelect Readings
Daigle M. (2016) AwawanenitakikSelect Readings
Castleden H. Morgan V.S. & Lamb C. (2012) I spent the first year drinking teaSelect Readings
Mapping Approaches to Decolonizing and Indigenizing the Curriculum at Canadian UniversitiesSelect Readings
Doings with the land and seaSelect Readings
Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous CentreSelect Readings
Because This Land is Who We AreSelect Readings
The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 2Select Readings
Dancing Around the Table (NFB film)Media
Inside Higher Ed article: 4 Ways Universities Gaslight DEI InitiativesMedia
Warrior Life podcastMedia
The Eastern DoorMedia
Media IndigenaMedia
Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN)Media
IndigiNewsMedia
Windspeaker.comMedia
Réseau de recherche et de connaissances relatives au peuple autochtones (DIALOG)Networks
Centre for Indigenous Conservation and Development AlternativesNetworks
Indigenous Resource NetworkNetworks
Indigenous Clean Energy (ICE)Networks
National Urban Indigenous Coalition CouncilNetworks
Indigenous Mapping CollectiveNetworks
Network Environments for Indigenous Health Research (NEIHR)Networks
The TRC Calls to Action in BC MunicipalitiesLand Use Planning & Governance
Federation of Canadian Municipalities Pathways to ReconciliationLand Use Planning & Governance
Canadian Institute of Planners Policy Statement on Planning Practice and ReconciliationLand Use Planning & Governance
Indigenous Planning Perspectives Resource ListLand Use Planning & Governance
When they do their land acknowledgmentsTraditional Territories Land & Maps
Land Grab UniversitiesTraditional Territories Land & Maps
What is Secretary’s Order 3404 and the DOI Derogatory Geographic Names Task Force?Traditional Territories Land & Maps
GIS Resources for Indigenous StudiesTraditional Territories Land & Maps
Gwich’in Place Name and Story AtlasTraditional Territories Land & Maps
Stories from the Land: Indigenous Place Names in CanadaTraditional Territories Land & Maps
Beyond territorial acknowledgmentsTraditional Territories Land & Maps
Doing land acknowledgementsTraditional Territories Land & Maps
Native Land DigitalTraditional Territories Land & Maps
Pulling Together: Foundations GuideTeaching & Learning
Home on Native LandTeaching & Learning
Whose land is it anyway? A manual for decolonizationTeaching & Learning
Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education: A 6-Week MOOCTeaching & Learning
An Indigenous Abolitionist Study GuideTeaching & Learning
University of Alberta CTL – EDI Indigenization and Decolonization ToolkitTeaching & Learning
Queens University CTLTeaching & Learning
Indigenous CanadaTeaching & Learning
Indigenous Issues 101Teaching & Learning
KAIROS CanadaIndigenous Research & Engagement
UBC Indigenous Research Methodologies guideIndigenous Research & Engagement
Indigenous Research Agreement templateIndigenous Research & Engagement
First Nations Health Authority – Research ResourcesIndigenous Research & Engagement
First Nations Principles of OCAPIndigenous Research & Engagement
First Nations Information Governance CentreIndigenous Research & Engagement
Collaborative Indigenous Research Digital GardenIndigenous Research & Engagement
National Indigenous Cultural Safety Webinars VideosIndigenous Research & Engagement
Sanyas Indigenous cultural safety trainingIndigenous Research & Engagement
Yellowhead InstituteIndigenous Research & Engagement
Independent Special Interlocutor Interim Report: Searching for the Missing Children and Unmarked BurialsReconciliation Calls to Action and Calls for Justice
Indigenous WatchdogReconciliation Calls to Action and Calls for Justice
MMIWG2S+ National Action PlanReconciliation Calls to Action and Calls for Justice
Native Women’s Association of Canada Calls for JusticeReconciliation Calls to Action and Calls for Justice
MMIWG2S+ Calls for JusticeReconciliation Calls to Action and Calls for Justice
Reclaiming Power and Place: Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and GirlsReconciliation Calls to Action and Calls for Justice
TRC Summary ReportReconciliation Calls to Action and Calls for Justice
#ReadTheTRCReportReconciliation Calls to Action and Calls for Justice
TRC Calls to ActionReconciliation Calls to Action and Calls for Justice
National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation websiteReconciliation Calls to Action and Calls for Justice
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous PeoplesReconciliation Calls to Action and Calls for Justice

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Featured Readings

A curated selection of books, articles, and academic readings exploring decolonization, Indigenous geographies, reconciliation, mapping, research methodologies, and relational engagement.

Because This Land is Who We Are

(NEW!) Richmond, C., Coombes, B., & Pualani Louis, R. (2024). Because This Land is Who We Are: Indigenous Practices of Environmental Repossession. Bloomsbury Publishing.

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Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre

(NEW!) Sinclair, N. (2024). Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre. Penguin Random House Canada.

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Doings with the land and sea

Barker, A. J., & Pickerill, J. (2020). Doings with the land and sea: Decolonising geographies, Indigeneity, and enacting place-agency. Progress in Human Geography, 44(4), 640–662.

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Mapping Approaches to Decolonizing and Indigenizing the Curriculum at Canadian Universities

Brunette Debassige, C., Wakeham, P., Smithers-Graeme, C., Haque, A., & Chitty, S. M. (2022). Mapping Approaches to Decolonizing and Indigenizing the Curriculum at Canadian Universities: Critical Reflections on Current Practices, Challenges, and Possibilities. The International Indigenous Policy Journal, 13(3), 1-24.

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Additional Selected Readings

(NEW!) Monkman, K., & Gordon, G. (2025). The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 2: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island. Random House. 

(NEW!) Richmond, C., Coombes, B., & Pualani Louis, R.  (2024). Because This Land is Who We Are: Indigenous Practices of Environmental Repossession. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/because-this-land-is-who-we-are-9781350247673/

(NEW!) Sinclair, N. (2024). Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre. Penguin Random House Canada. .https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/673193/winipek-by-niigaan-sinclair/9780771099175

Barker, A. J., & Pickerill, J. (2020). Doings with the land and sea: Decolonising geographies, Indigeneity, and enacting place-agency. Progress in Human Geography, 44(4), 640–662. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132519839863

Brunette Debassige, C., Wakeham, P., Smithers-Graeme, C., Haque, A., & Chitty, S. M. (2022). Mapping Approaches to Decolonizing and Indigenizing the Curriculum at Canadian Universities: Critical Reflections on Current Practices, Challenges, and Possibilities. The International Indigenous Policy Journal, 13(3), 1-24.

Castleden, H., Morgan, V. S., & Lamb, C. (2012). “I spent the first year drinking tea”: Exploring Canadian university researchers’ perspectives on community-based participatory research involving Indigenous peoples. Canadian Geographer, 56(2), 160–179. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0064.2012.00432.x

Daigle, M. (2016). Awawanenitakik: The spatial politics of recognition and relational geographies of Indigenous self‐determination. The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe Canadien, 60(2), 259-269.

Daigle, M., & Sundberg, J. (2017). From where we stand: unsettling geographical knowledges in the classroom. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 42(3), 338–341. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12201

Hart, M. A., Straka, S., & Rowe, G. (2017). Working Across Contexts: Practical Considerations of Doing Indigenist/Anti-Colonial Research. Qualitative Inquiry, 23(5), 332–342. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800416659084 

Holmes, C., Hunt, S., & Piedalue, A. (2015). Violence, colonialism, and space: Towards a decolonizing dialogue. Acme, 14(2), 539–570. https://doi.org/10.14288/1.0340266

Hunt, S. (2014). Ontologies of indigeneity: The politics of embodying a concept. Cultural geographies, 21(1), 27-32.

Kobayashi, A., & Peake, L. (2000). Racism out of place: Thoughts on whiteness and an antiracist geography in the new millennium. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 90(2), 392-403.

Louis (2007)  Can you hear us now? Voices from the margin: Using indigenous methodologies in geographic research. Geographical Research 45(2): 130–139.

Lucchesi, A. H. E. (2018). “Indians don’t make maps”: Indigenous cartographic traditions and innovations. American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 42(3), 11-26.

Moorman, L., Evanovitch, J., & Muliaina, T. (2021). Envisioning indigenized geography: a two-eyed seeing approach. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 45(2), 201-220.

Nelson, S., & McGregor, D. (2014). Decolonizing the discipline? Questions and methods in indigenous geography. Canadian Journal of Native Education, 37(1).

Noxolo, P. (2017). Introduction: Decolonising geographical knowledge in a colonised and re‐colonising postcolonial world. Area, 49(3), 317-319.

Olson, R., Hackett, J., & DeRoy, S. (2016). Mapping the Digital Terrain: Towards Indigenous Geographic Information and Spatial Data Quality Indicators for Indigenous Knowledge and Traditional Land-Use Data Collection, The Cartographic Journal, 53:4, 348-355, DOI: 10.1080/00087041.2016.1190146

Pasternak, S., Cowen, D., Clifford, R., Joseph, T., Nadine, D., Spice, A., & Kiiwetinepinesiik, H. (2022). Infrastructure , Jurisdiction , Extractivism : Keywords for decolonizing geographies. Political Geography, (September), 102763. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102763

Reo, N. J. (2019). Inawendiwin and Relational Accountability in Anishnaabeg Studies: The Crux of the Biscuit. Journal of Ethnobiology, 39(1), 65–75. https://doi.org/10.2993/0278-0771-39.1.65

Rose-Redwood, R., Blu Barnd, N., Lucchesi, A. H. E., Dias, S., & Patrick, W. (2020). Decolonizing the map: Recentering Indigenous mappings. Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, 55(3), 151-162.

Smith, L. 2013. Decolonizing methodologies: Research and indigenous peoples. London, UK: Zed Books Ltd.

Younging, Gregory. Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing by and about Indigenous Peoples. Edmonton, Alberta: Brush Education, 2018.

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