National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day, is Saturday, September 30, 2023. Below you will find resources that may be found at UBC Education Library.
X̱wi7x̱wa Library’s “Indian Residential School System in Canada” research guide also includes materials that address the reality of the Indian Residential Schools.
Many contain additional resources for teaching or encouraging discussion at home.
Fiction
The orange shirt story / author, Phyllis Webstad; illustrations, Brock Nicol.
http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=9294317
I am not a number / written by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer; illustrated by Gillian Newland.
http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=8536611
Stolen words / written by Melanie Florence; illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard.
http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=9161137
When we were alone / David Alexander Robertson; Julie Flett.
http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=8774028
Shi-shi–etko / Nicola I. Campbell; pictures by Kim La Fave.
http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=3559311
Shin-chi’s canoe, written by Nicola I. Campbell, illustrated by Kim LaFave
http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=3935868
Fatty legs: a true story / Christy Jordan-Fenton & Margaret Pokiak-Fenton; artwork by Liz Amini-Holmes.
http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=4297323
You hold me up / Monique Gray Smith and Danielle Daniel.
http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=8926213
FULL TEXT ONLINE: http://tinyurl.com/yys2eaqn
Non-Fiction
Speaking our truth: a journey of reconciliation / Monique Gray Smith.
FULL TEXT ONLINE: http://tinyurl.com/yy3a7d7v