Guides: Indigenous Reading Lists: Residential Schools, History, Activism and Health: Residential School Reading List: Physical Books & eBooks

Selected Books on the Residential School System in Canada

Behind Closed Doors: stories from the Kamloops Indian Residential School by Jack Agnes (Editor)
Call Number: E96.6.K34 B44 2006

ISBN: 1894778413

Publication Date: 2006-11-01
Birdie by Tracey Lindberg
Call Number: PS8623.I52 B57 2016

ISBN: 9781443451352

Publication Date: 2016-02-16
Broken Circle: the dark legacy of Indian residential schools : a memoir by Theodore Fontaine
Call Number: E96.5 .F66 2010

ISBN: 9781926613666

Publication Date: 2010-09-01
Children of the Broken Treaty by Charlie Angus
Call Number: E96.65.O58 A54 2015

ISBN: 9780889774995

Publication Date: 2017

ebook. Physical book also available using the call number above
Fatty Legs: A True Story by Christy Jordan-Fenton; Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton
Call Number: E96.5 .J65 2010

ISBN: 9781554512461

Publication Date: 2010-09-01
A Knock on the Door by Aimée Craft (Afterword by); Phil Fontaine (Foreword by); Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Call Number: E96.5 .K56 2016

ISBN: 9780887557859

Publication Date: 2015-12-18

ebook. physical book is also available at the call number listed above
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
Call Number: PS8607.I53 M37 2017

ISBN: 9781770864863

Publication Date: 2017-09-01
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliot
Call Number: E78.C2 E47 2019

ISBN: 9780385692380

Publication Date: 2019
A National Crime by John S. Milloy; Mary Jane Logan McCallum (Foreword by)
Call Number: E96.5 .M56 1999

ISBN: 9780887555213

Publication Date: 2017-03-29

ebook. Physical book also available at the call number above.
The Orange Shirt Story by Phyllis Webstad; Brock Nicol (Illustrator); Emma Bullen (Editor)
Call Number: PZ7.W43 Or 2018

ISBN: 9780993869495

Publication Date: 2018-09-01

Located in the first floor children's collection
Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga
Call Number: E98.S67 T35 2017

ISBN: 9781487002268

Publication Date: 2017-11-07
Unsettling the Settler Within by Paulette Regan; Taiaiake Alfred (Foreword by)
Call Number: E96.5 R44 2010

ISBN: 9780774817783

Publication Date: 2011-01-25
Up Ghost River by Edmund Metatawabin; Alexandra Shimo
Call Number: E99.C88 M484 2014

ISBN: 9780307399878

Publication Date: 2014-08-26
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
Call Number: PS8595.A34274 I535 2012

ISBN: 9781553659709

Publication Date: 2012-01-27

ebook. Physical book also available at the call number above.
Betty by David A. Robertson; Scott B. Henderson (Illustrator)
Call Number: E98.W8 R63 2015

ISBN: 9781553795445

Publication Date: 2015-04-27
In This Together: fifteen stories of truth & reconciliation by Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail (Editor)
Call Number: E78.C2 I422 2016

ISBN: 9781927366462

Publication Date: 2016-04-12

ebook. Physical book also available at the call number above.

Capilano University's Land Acknowledgement

Capilano University's current land acknowledgement on the website (updated June 3, 2025):
Capilano University is named after Chief Joe Capilano (1854–1910), an important leader of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nation of the Coast Salish Peoples. We respectfully acknowledge that our campuses are located on the unceded territories of the səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), shíshálh (Sechelt), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and xʷməθkʷəỷəm (Musqueam) Nations.