As we approach the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation at the end of September, we have book recommendations which tell important stories about residential schools and their impacts on Indigenous communities.

You can find these and other books by using the Browse by categories option and searching the Indigenous Peoples in Canada section. 

For kids:

• I am my name by Na'Kuset
• Rez kid by Andrea Landry
• Miya wears orange by Wanda John-Kehewin
• Tess's red dress: honouring love and family by Carolyn Roberts
• Shirley: an Indian residential school story by Joanne Robertson
• Little Shoes by David A. Robertson
• My Street Remembers (Better Paths) by Karen Krossing

For Adults

• Beyond the Orange Shirt Story: A collection of stories from family and friends of Phyllis Webstad - Before, during, and after their Residential School experiences by Phyllis Webstad
• Decolonization and me: Conversations about healing a nation and ourselves by Phyllis Webstad
• Five seasons of Charlie Francis by Danica Roache
• True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change and Reconciling History: A Story of Canada by Jody Wilson-Raybould
• Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese 
• Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance by Jesse Wente in audio and braille
• Children Like Us: A Métis Woman's Memoir of Family, Identity and Walking Herself Home
  by Brittany Penner
• North of Nowhere: Song of a Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner by Marie Wilson.
• Eliza Sunshine, Truth telling: Seven conversations about indigenous life in Canada and Five Little Indians: A Novel by Michelle Good 
• 52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing by David A. Robertson
• The knowing and All our relations: finding the path forward (CBC Massey lectures) by Tanya Talaga
• Valley of the birdtail: An Indian reserve, a white town, and the road to reconciliation by Douglas Sanderson and Andrew Stobo Sniderman
• Everyday Reconciliation: A Guide to Action and Change for All of Us by Derek Aronhie:nens Montour and Elin Sandberg Miller.

• Who We Are: Four Questions For a Life and a Nation by Murray Sinclair

For other Indigenous stories and authors, visit our previous blogs

• Books for National Indigenous People's Day
• Books for Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
• Orange shirt day: From story to movement
   

CELA also has the full set of reports from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. 
Truth and Reconciliation Reports