Suggested Readings


Arvin, Maile, Eve Tuck, and Angie Morrill. “Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy.” Feminist Formations 25, no. 1 (Spring 2013): 8–34.

Brant, Jennifer, and Kayla Webber. “Hood-in-g the Ivory Tower: Centring Black, Indigenous, and Afro-Indigenous Feminist Solidarities.” Curriculum Inquiry 52, no. 3 (May 27, 2022): 275–88. https://doi.org/10.1080/03626784.2022.2072673.

Crosby, Marcia. “Construction of the Imaginary Indian.” In Vancouver Anthology: The Institutional Politics of Art, edited by Stan Douglas, 266–91. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1991. (can be requested through OCAD U Library)

Martineau, Jarrett, and Eric Ritskes. “Fugitive Indigeneity: Reclaiming the Terrain of Decolonial Struggle through Indigenous Art.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 3, no. 1 (2014): I–XII.

Pedri-Spade, Celeste. “‘But They Were Never Only The Master’s Tools’: The Use of Photography in Decolonial Praxis.” AlterNative: An Internationall Journal of Indigenous Peoples 13, no. 2 (June 2017): 106–13. https://doi.org/10.1177/1177180117700796.

Rice, Ryan. “Oh So Iroquois.” In Kwah I:Kin Tsi Iroquois / Oh So Iroquois, 57–64. Ottawa: Ottawa Art Gallery, 2007. (can be requested through OCAD U Library)

Simpson, Leanne. “Anticolonial Strategies for the Recovery and Maintenance of Indigenous Knowledge.” American Indian Quarterly 28, no. 3 & 4 (Summer & Fall 2004): 373–84.

Tuck, Eve, and K. Wayne Yang. “Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 1, no. 1 (2012): 1–40.

Whyte, Kyle Powys. “Indigenous Women, Climate Change Impacts, and Collective Action.” Hypatia 29, no. 3 (Summer 2014): 599–616.

Whyte, Kyle Powys. “On Resilient Parasitisms, or Why I’m Skeptical of Indigenous/Settler Reconciliation.” Journal of Global Ethics 14, no. 2 (2018): 277–89.

Watts, Vanessa Amanda. “Re-Meaning the Sacred: Colonial Damage and Indigenous Cosmologies.” Queen’s University, 2016.


Costanza-Chock, Sasha. Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need. Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: The MIT Press, 2020.

Coulthard, Glen Sean. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. Minneapolis London: University of Minnesota Press, 2014.

Heath Justice, Daniel. Why Indigenous Literatures Matter. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2018.

Robinson, Dylan, and Keavy Martin, eds. Arts of Engagement: Taking Aesthetic Action In and Beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2016.

Simpson, Audra. Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across The Borders of Settler States. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2014.

Simpson, Leanne. Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence. Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2011.

Tuck, Eve, and Marcia McKenzie. Place in Research: Theory, Methodology, and Methods. London and New York: Routledge, 2015.

Tuhiwai Smith, Linda. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. Second Edition. Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2012.

Tunstall, Elizabeth. Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook. Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: The MIT Press, 2023.

Van Kirk, Sylvia. “Many Tender Ties”: Women in Fur-Trade Society in Western Canada, 1670-1870. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Watson & Dwyer Publishing Ltd., 1980.

Wall Kimmerer, Robin. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants. Canada: Milkweed Editions, 2013.

Wilson, Shawn. Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods. Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 2008.