Calgary Board of Education Resource List - January 30th 2026

https://ipaa.ca/indigenous-musical-sovereignty/
2021 Open Letter

https://ipaa.ca/open-letter-from-indigenous-classical-musicians/
2022 Open Letter

Airhart, A. Christian, et al. Voicing Identity: Cultural Appropriation and Indigenous Issues. University of Toronto Press, 2022.

Jackson, Regina, et al. White Women: Everything You Already Know about Your Own Racism and How to Do Better. Penguin Books, 2022.

Oluo, Ijeoma. Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power. Basic Books, 2022.

Robinson, Dylan. Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies. University of Minnesota Press, 2021.

Williamson, Toni Graves, et al. White Fragility: Why Understanding Racism Can Be so Hard for White People. Beacon Press, 2022. 
https://www.cbc.ca/passionateeye/episodes/the-pretendians

Yellowhead Institute
​https://yellowheadinstitute.org/report/pretendians-and-publications-the-problems-and-solutions-to-redface-research/

Working hand-in-hand at this time means to commission new works from verified Indigenous composers.

Playlist:
Cris Derksen: The Visit & Cris Derksen: The Cusp

AMA Reading List - 2025

21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadian Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality

Research is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods

Aboriginal Rights Are Not Human Rights: In Defense of Indigenous Struggles

Cartiere, Cameron, and Martin Zebracki. The Everyday Practice of Public Art: Art, Space and Social Inclusion. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

García-Antón, Katya. Sovereign Words: Indigenous Art, Curation and Criticism. Valiz, 2018.

Igloliorte, Heather, and Carla Taunton. The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Art Histories in the United States and Canada. Routledge, 2023.

McMaster, Gerald, and Nina Vincent. Arctic Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity. Goose Lane Editions, 2023.

Morton, Erin. Unsettling Canadian Art History. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022.

Reilly, Maura, and Lucy R. Lippard. Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating. Thames & Hudson, 2021.

Robinson, Dylan. Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies. University of Minnesota
Press, 2021.

ORFF Calgary Workshop - February 2024

Title: Clearing The Plains
Author: James Daschuk
Publisher: University of Regina Press
​Year: 2019
Audio Version Available: Yes

Title: White Women (Everything you already know about your own racism and how to do better)
Author: Regina Jackson and Saira Rao
Publisher: Penguin Books
Year: 2022
​Audio Version Available: Yes

Title: Unreconciled (Family, Truth, and Indigenous justice)
Author: Jesse Wente
Publisher: Allen Lane
Year: 2021
​Audio Version Available: Yes

​Title: 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act
Author: Bob Joseph
Publisher: Page Two Books
Year: 2018
Audio Version Available: Yes

​​Title: The True Spirit and Intent of Treaty 7
Author: Treaty 7 Elders and Tribal Council
Publisher: McGill-Queens University Press
Year: 1996
Audio Version Available: No

​​Title: Hungry Listening
Author: Dylan Robinson
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Year:2020
Audio Version Available: No

​​​Title: Teaching Where You Are
Author: Shannon Leddy, Lorrie Miller
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Year: 2023
Audio Version Available: No

Playlist:

Cris Derksen: The Cusp
Robbie Robertson: How to become Clairvoyant
Once A Tree: Phoenix