Shared Learning Resources for F2CC Team & Partners

Photo: Roots to Harvest, Thunder Bay, Airin Stephens

Please note that for the time being, the resources are primarily in English due to their greater availability.

If you know of any resources in French that we still need to consider, we invite you to send them to info@farmtocafeteriacanada.ca.

Veuillez noter que pour l’instant, les ressources sont principalement en anglais en raison de leur plus grande disponibilité. Si vous connaissez des ressources en français que nous n’avons pas encore prises en compte, nous vous invitons à les envoyer à info@farmtocafeteriacanada.ca

PURPOSE: Canada’s colonial history includes many traumas created by residential schools and harms done through food, including forced farmwork, creating the conditions for starvation and denying Indigenous peoples their traditional foodways.

This space is in-constant progress dedicated to Farm to Cafeteria Canada’s school community members and partners to share resources about the diverse histories and stories of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people in Canada. It is intended to support ongoing individual and collective learning as we adhere our work to the Truth and Reconciliation process and Indigenous food sovereignty claim.

Below are links to books, articles, essays, podcasts, movies, video recordings and more listed by topics. Most resources are free, and some are hard to read, watch or listen to. Your discretion is advised.

Indigenous Food Systems & Food Sovereignty

Food is Our Medicine: Understanding Indigenous Food Ways to Work towards Healing and Reconciliation video-recorded presentation
By UBC Learning Circle | 1-hour watch
Revitalizing Indigenous Food Ways video recorded presentation
By UBC Learning Circle | 1-hour watch
Food Insecurity Through Indigenous Perspectives video recorded presentation
By UBC Learning Circle | 1-hour watch
Community Strength Based Approaches to Indigenous Food Systems video recorded presentation
By UBC Learning Circle | 1-hour watch
Food is Our Medicine free action learning series
By Nourish
What We Mean When We Say Indigenous Land is ‘Unceded’ article magazine
By Emma McIntosh, Canada’s National Observer
Top 5 Things to Change NOW and Support Indigenous Food Sovereignty video
By Jacob Beaton, Tea Creek
We Desperately Need to be Talking about Food Sovereignty article magazine
By Emilee Gilpin, Canada’s National Observer
Ratinenhayén:thos Offers Sanctuary to Indigenous Seeds article magazine
By Cindy Duffy, County & Quinte Living
Indigenous Food Sovereignty Movements Are Taking Back Ancestral Land article magazine
By Melissa Montalvo, Civil Eats
Turning Food into a Weapon in the Battle against Colonialism article magazine
By Missy Johnson, The Tyee
Gather documentary film website
By Illumine Running
Indigenous Food Systems: Concepts, Cases & Conversations book
By Priscilla Sette and Shailesh Shukla
Indigenous Food Systems as Promise to Feeding the Future slides presentation
By Prof. Shailesh Shukla, University of Winnipeg
Making Innu Donuts with Elisabeth Penashue video
By Food First NL | 6-min watch

School food & Land-based Learning

Farm to Cafeteria Canada’s Nourishing Relations website
By Farm to Cafeteria Canada
Farm to Cafeteria Canada’s Land-based Learning Resource List webpage
By Farm to Cafeteria Canada
Walking Forward: Learning from Place digital document
By Judy Halbert and Linda Kaser, Networks of Inquiry and Indigenous Education

Food & Colonialism in Canada

How Contact and Colonialism Have Affected Indigenous Foodways? video recorded
By Dr. Daniel Sims, Farm to School BC | 1-hour watch
The Dark History of Canada’s Food Guide: How Experiments on Indigenous Children Shape Nutrition Policy podcast
By Unreserved CBC podcast | 15.5-min listen
Food as a Weapon in the Residential School System blog post
By Jade Owen, Food Secure Canada

Indigenous worldviews

Red Rising Education Magazine Indigenous-managed magazine for educators
By Red Rising Collective
First Nations, Métis, Inuit books First Nation-owned website and book business
By GoodMinds.com
Red Rising Magazine Indigenous-managed annual magazine
By Red Rising Collective
All my Relations Indigenous-hosted podcast
By Matika Wilbur and Adrienne Keene
It’s Our Time: The AFN Education Toolkit First Nations-created digital learning modules
By the Assembly of First Nations
Indigenous Perspectives Education Guide digital document
By Historica Canada
National Indigenous Cultural Safety video-recorded webinars
By Indigenous Cultural Safety Collaborative Learning Series
Run Woman Run fiction movie
By level FILM on CBC Gem
Methaphysica: Intersecting Western and Native Ideas video recorded presentation
By Professor Emeritus Leroy Little Bear | 1-hour watching
Braiding Sweetgrass book
By Robyn Wall Kimmerer
Seven Fallen Feathers book MatikaWilbur (Swinomish an
By Tanya Talaga
Legacy book
By Suzanne Methot
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground book
By Alicia Elliott
Global Indigenous Politics: A Subtle Revolution book
By Sheryl Lightfoot
Clearing the Plains book
By James Daschuk (about the role of food in colonization)
From the Ashes book
By Jesse Thistle

Colonialism in Canada & Residential Schools

The Indigenous Title and the Doctrine of Discovery blog post
By Indigenous Corporate Training | 5 min reading
Red Skins White Masks book introduction
By Glen Coulthard
Indian Horse fiction movie
By Elevation Pictures, CBC Gem | 1 hour 40 min watch
Kruper Island podcast
By CBC
Telling our Twisted Histories podcast
By CBC
Secret Life of Canada podcast
By CBC

Truth & Reconciliation

National Centre for Truth & Reconciliation (NCTR) website
By NCTR
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action digital document
Especially the sections about Education (pages 1-2, recitals 6-12) and Education for Reconciliation (pages 7-8, recitals 62-65)
ReconciliACTION Plan webpage
By the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, University of Manitoba
My ReconciliACTION-Plan template digital document
By the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, University of Manitoba
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People digital document
By United Nations
Reconciliation through Indigenous Education 6-week online course
By the University of British Columbia
Indigenous Canada 12-part online course
By the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta

The Role of Settlers

Wanna be an Ally? digital living text
By Elwood Jimmy and Vanessa Andreotti posted on the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures website | 5 min read
Allyship webpage
By The Anti-oppression Network
Role of an Ally with Kim Haxton video recorded conversation
By UBC Learning Circle
Towards Braiding digital document
By Elwood Jimmy and Vanessa Andreotti
Weaving Relations online course
By the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Applied Sciences and Faculty of Land and Food Systems | 6.5-min watch
Indigenous Foundations website
By University of British Columbia
Settlers Take Action Guide webpage
By On Canada Project website

Justice, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (JEDI)

Intersectionality, Positionality, and Privilege
By the Center for Social Solutions, University of Michigan
Positionality and Intersectionality
By the Open Library
Wheel of Privilege and Power digital document
By the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
The Wheel of Power and Privileges digital document
By the Canadian Council for Refugees
Why you shouldn’t be afraid of critical race theory (in a classroom environment)
Episode 18 of Don’t Call Me Resilient podcast | 35 min listen
Race, Space, and the Law: Unmapping White Settler Society
By Sherene Razack

White Supremacy

White Narratives in the Food System video recorded webinar
By the World Food Policy Centre, Duke Sanford University | 1-hour watch
Unlearning and Undoing Systemic White Supremacy and Indigenous-Specific Racism video recorded presentation
By Learning Circle, University of British Columbia