Research Guides: Resources for Learning About Canada's Residential School System: Media (Films, Podcasts)

Featured Online Film: Our Bodies and Lands are not Your Property

Erica Violet Lee is a grad student in Social Justice, an Indigenous feminist, and a community organizer from inner-city Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She discusses the struggles of inner city Indigenous people. REDx talks celebrate Resilience, Empowerment, and Discourse; the "x" represents the treaties of the past, the 4 directions, and the unknown.

Films

REDxTalks
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REDx Talks is an Indigenous speaker series featuring the most influencial elders, creatives, thinkers and agents of change on Indigenous and reconciliation issues. REDx is building a knowledge bundle to be transferred to future generations from every part of the globe. The world views expressed on the REDx Talks stage come from Indigenous people themselves. RED is an acronym for stories of RESILIENCE and EMPOWERMENT, while facilitating DISCOURSE. X is in acknowledgement of treaties that have been signed.
Bones of Crows by Marie Clements
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A sweeping drama grounded in historical truth, Bones of crows weaves together underrepresented moments in Canadian and Indigenous history, including the Indigenous contributions to WW2, the ongoing cases of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
Holy Angels by Jay Cardinal Villeneuve
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Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese; Stephen S. Campanelli
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Muffins for granny = Des muffins pour grand-maman by Nadia McLaren
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Rhymes for young ghouls by Jeff Barnaby
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Savage by Lisa Jackson
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Also available on DVD - call number PN 1997.2 S373 2009
Stolen Children : Truth and Reconciliation by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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We Were Children by Tim Wolochatiuk
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Where Are the Children? Healing the Legacy of the Residential Schools
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Birth of a Family by National Film Board
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Three Dene sisters and a brother, adopted as infants into separate families across North America, meet together for the first time in this deeply moving documentary by director Tasha Hubbard.

Podcasts

Residential Schools Podcast Series
Residential Schools is a three-part podcast series created by Historica Canada and hosted by Shaneen Robinson-Desjarlais. It aims to commemorate the history and legacy of residential schools, and honour the stories of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Survivors, their families, and communities.