LibGuides UFV: Legend of Sugar Girl: Healing

Residential Schools

St. Paul's Indian Industrial School, Middlechurch, Manitoba

NFB Film

Art and Reconciliation

Art and reconciliation
The Secret Path is a powerful film about an Indigenous boy who dies escaping a residential school. Does art — films, books and music — offer the best path to heal historical wrongs? Guests include Joseph Boyden, award-winning author of Three Day Road, The Orenda and most recently the novella Wenjack; Susan Aglukark, Inuk singer and songwriter; Ry Moran, Director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba; and Ken Coates, University of Saskatchewan.
Dancing, Singing, Painting, and Speaking the Healing Story: Healing through Creative Arts
This report describes the results of a study by the Aboriginal Healing Foundation (AHF) in the use of creative arts in healing programs
Dancing in the Dark
Joseph Boyden on the harrowing yet wondrous journey of creating a ballet.

First Nations Health Links

Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health
The Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health exists to support and develop Aboriginal health programs, curriculum, research and advocacy with Aboriginal communities and partners on local, national and international levels.
First Peoples, Second Class Treatment
Produced by Well Living House for Wellesley Institute to examine
the role of racism in the health and well-being of Indigenous peoples in Canada.
Indian Residential School Survivor's Society
The Indian Residential School Survivor's Society strives to provide physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual growth, development and healing through culturally based values and guiding principles for Survivors, Families and Communities.
Indigenous Services Canada
Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) works collaboratively with partners to improve access to high quality services for First Nations, Inuit and Métis. Our vision is to support and empower Indigenous peoples to independently deliver services and address the socio-economic conditions in their communities.
Legacy of Hope Foundation
The Legacy of Hope Foundation is a national, Indigenous-led, charitable organization, with the goal of educating and raising awareness about the history and many legacies of the Residential School System.
National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health
The National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health advances and promotes the health and well-being of all First Nations, Inuit and Métis through collaborative research, Indigenous Traditional Knowledge, building capacity, and community-led initiatives.
Stó:lō Service Agency Wellness
Wellness Services seeks to improve the physical, mental and social well-being of community members by providing prevention and intervention services.

First Nations Healing

Cry of the eagle : encounters with a Cree healer by David E. Young; Grant C. Ingram; Lise Swartz
Call Number: E 99 C88 Y68 1989
Decolonizing education : nourishing the learning spirit by Battiste, Marie
Call Number: E 96.2 B37 2013 and e-book

Drawing on treaties, international law, the work of other Indigenous scholars, and especially personal experiences, Marie Battiste documents the nature of Eurocentric models of education, and their devastating impacts on Indigenous knowledge.
Determinants of indigenous peoples' health in Canada : beyond the social
Call Number: WA 300 G75 2015

The health disparities affecting Indigenous peoples in Canada might well be understood as a national epidemic. Although progress has been made in the last decade towards both understanding and ameliorating Indigenous health inequalities, very little research or writing has expanded a social determinants of health framework to account for the unique histories and present realities of Indigenous peoples in this country.
The Hollow Tree by Herb Nabigon; Georges Sioui (Foreword by)
Call Number: E 78 C2 N23 2006 and e-book

Before discovering native healing methods, Herb Nabigon could not imagine a life without alcohol
Introduction to Aboriginal Health and Health Care in Canada
Call Number: WA 300 D64 2013

The book places aboriginal health in Canada within its historical and philosophical context as it addresses social and clinical approaches to major health issues facing this population.
Magic Weapons by Sam McKegney; Basil H. Johnston (Foreword by)
Call Number: E 96.2 M335 2007 and e-book

The legacy of the residential school system ripples throughout Native Canada, its fingerprints on the domestic violence, poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse, and suicide rates that continue to cripple many Native communities.
Mental Health Counselling for Indigenous Cultures
Call Number: WA 305 I54 2017 and e-book

This volume examines ways Indigenous healing practices can complement Western psychological service to meet the needs of Indigenous peoples through traditional cultural concepts.
An overview of traditional knowledge and medicine and public health in Canada [electronic resource] by National Aboriginal Health Organization
Call Number: E-book
Pathways for remembering and recognizing indigenous thought in education : philosophies of Iethi'nihsténha Ohwentsia'kékha (land) by Styres, Sandra D.
Call Number: E 96.2 S79 2017 and e-book
Promising healing practices in Aboriginal Communities [electronic resource by Archibald, Linda
Call Number: E-book
The Reason You Walk by Wab Kinew; Rosemary Wells
Call Number: E 99 C6 K55 2015

A moving father-son reconciliation told by a charismatic First Nations broadcaster, musician and activist
Traditional medicine in contemporary contexts [electronic resource] : protecting and respecting indigenous knowledge and medicine by National Aboriginal Health Organization
Call Number: E-book
Up Ghost River by Edmund Metatawabin; Alexandra Shimo
Call Number: E 99 C88 M483 2014

A powerful, raw and eloquent memoir about the abuse former First Nations chief Edmund Metatawabin endured in residential school in the 1960s, the resulting trauma, and the spirit he rediscovered within himself and his community through traditional spirituality and knowledge.