Indigenous Peoples' community hub
North Vancouver City Library is grateful for the opportunity to learn and grow on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish Peoples including the Territories of the Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nation.
One of City Library's priorities is to honour Indigenous perspectives and practices in library services and programs. We do that in part through our growing collections and programming to help our community learn and grow together.
Quick links
Truth & reconciliation
Start your learning about truth and reconciliation with these important readings:
Listen and read online
For educators
Aboriginal Education by the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation
Learning First Peoples: Classroom resources by the First Nations Education Steering Committee
Indigenous education resource inventory by the British Columbia Ministry of Education, the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation, the First Nations Education Steering Committee and the Métis Nation British Columbia
Indigenous education resources by BC’s Curriculum
Workshops & webinars
Indigenous Canada by the University of Alberta
Reconciliation Dialogue Workshop by Reconciliation Canada
Cultural safety and cultural humility by the First Nations Health Authority
Workshops on aboriginal education by the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation
San’yas anti-racism Indigenous cultural safety training program by the Indigenous Health Department at the Provincial Health Services Authority
Nahanee Creative by Ta7talíya Michelle Nahanee
Toolkits
Building better relationships: A reconciliation toolkit by Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada
16 Resources to help settlers understand and advance Indigenous reconciliation by Career Wise from the Canadian Education and Research Institute for Counselling
Reconciliation dialogue toolkits by Reconciliation Canada
Viewing
Indigenous Film Archive showcases Indigenous films made from 1894 to 2010 currently streaming
Read, watch, listen
Specially curated selections from our librarians
Regularly updated lists of books, magazines and movies organized by theme. These include physical items you can borrow from the library and digital items you can enjoy on your devices at home or on the go. Click on a book to learn more or choose your preferred format.
Moon of the Crusted Snow
A Novel
Bearskin Diary
A Novel
Future Home of the Living God
A Novel
The Only Good Indians
A Novel
Winter Counts
A Novel
What I Remember, What I Know
The Life of A High Arctic Exile
Black Water
Family, Legacy, and Blood Memory
First Nations Self-government
17 Roadblocks to Self-determination, and One Chief's Thoughts on Solutions
They Write Their Dream on the Rock Forever
Rock Writings of the Stein River Valley of British Columbia
Did You See Us?
Reunion, Remembrance, and Reclamation at An Urban Indian Residential School
The Gatherings
Reimagining Indigenous-Settler Relations
We Had A Little Real Estate Problem
The Unheralded Story of Native Americans in Comedy
Think Indigenous
Native American Spirituality for A Modern World
Call Me Indian
From the Trauma of Residential School to Becoming the NHL's First Treaty Indigenous Player
From the Ashes
My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way
This Place
150 Years Retold
Surviving the City
Volume 2, From the Roots up
Looks Like Daylight
Voices of Indigenous Kids
The Wandering Years
Seasons of Change
The Power of Style
How Fashion and Beauty Are Being Used to Reclaim Cultures
Âmî Osâwâpikones
Dear Dandelion
Indigenous Ingenuity
A Celebration of Traditional North American Knowledge
