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Visual artists

Moving the Museum: Indigenous + Canadian Art at the AGO

Wanda Nanibush & Georgiana Uhlyarik, 2023
Call number: Coming soon!
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The Way Home

David A. Neel, 2019
Call Number: N 6549 N38 A2 2019
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Sonny Assu: A Selective History

Sonny Assu with Candice Hopkins, Marianne Nicolson, Richard Van Camp & Ellyn Walker, 2019
Call Number: N 6549 A787 A78 2017
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Mischief Making: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Art, and the Seriousness of Play

Nicola Levell, foreword by Nobuhiro Kishigami, 2021
Call number: N 6549 Y33 L48 2021

Understanding Northwest Coast Indigenous Jewelry: The Art, the Artists, the History

Alexander Dawkins; foreword by Corrine Hunt, 2019
Call number: E 98 J48 D39 2019

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Mythologizing Norval Morrisseau: Art and the Colonial Narrative in the Canadian Media

Carmen L. Robertson, 2016
E-book and in print: ND 249 M66 R6 2016

Annie Pootoogook: Cutting Ice = Ini Putugu: Tukisitittisimavuq Takusinnggittunik

Nancy Campbell, 2019
Call Number: NC 143 P659 A4 2017

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Cultural Memories and Imagined Futures: The Art of Jane Ash Poitras

Pamela McCallum​, 2011
E-book and in print: N 6549 P65 M33 2011

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Beyond Wilderness: The Group of Seven, Canadian Identity, and Contemporary Art

John O'Brian & Peter White​, 2017
E-book and in print: ND 1352 C3 B49 2007

Brian Jungen

Daina Augaitis, 2005
Call Number: N 6549 J86 A4 2010

Art as Reconciliation

Arts of Engagement: Taking Aesthetic Action In and Beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Keith Martin, Dylan Robinson, & David Garneau, 2019
E-book
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A Digital Bundle: Protecting and Promoting Indigenous Knowledge Online

Jennifer Wemigwans, 2018
E-book and in print: E 98 C73 W46 2018
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Picking up the Pieces: Residential School Memories and the Making of the Witness Blanket

Carey Newman & Kirstie Hudson, 2019
Call number: E 96.2 N49 2019
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Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun

Karen Duffek, 2019
Call Number: ND 249 P323 L39 2016

The Good Lands: Canada through the Eyes of Artists

Artists Laura Brandon, Victoria Dickenson, Patricia Grattan, Laurier Lacroix, Gerald McMaster, Naomi Fontaine, Lee Maracle; Foreword by Senator Murray Sinclair
Call number: N 6545 G66 2017
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Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years

Curated by Candice Hopkins; edited by Sherry Farrell Racette
Call number: N 6549.5 A54 C56 2011
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Featured books

Unsettling Canadian Art History

Erin Morton, 2022
E-book
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Royally Wronged: The Royal Society of Canada and Indigenous Peoples

Constance Backhouse, Cynthia E. Milton, Margaret Kovach & Adele Perry, 2021
Co-editor Margaret Kovach (Sakewew p’sim iskwew) is of Nêhiyaw and Saulteaux ancestry from Treaty Four, Saskatchewan.
E-book
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Adjusting the Lens: Indigenous Activism, Colonial Legacies, and Photographic Heritage

Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen, 2021
Call number: TR 681 I58 A35 2021
Includes contributors: Piita Irniq, Veli-Pekka Lehtola, Donna Oxenham, waaseyaa'sin Christine Sy, Manitok Thompson, Deborah Kigjugalik Webster, Sally Kate Webster.
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Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists

Jill Ahlberg Yohe & Teri Greeves, foreword by Kaywin Feldman, 2019 
Call Number: N 6538 A4 H43 2019
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Performing Turtle Island: Indigenous Theatre on the World Stage

Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber, Kathleen Irwin & Moira J. Day, 2019
Call Number: PN 2301 P47 2019
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Incorporating Culture: How Indigenous People Are Reshaping the Northwest Coast Art Industry

Carmen L. Robertson, 2016
E-book and in print: ND 249 M66 R6 2016
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Understanding Northwest Coast Indigenous Jewelry: The Art, the Artists, the History

Alexander Dawkins, foreword by Corrine Hunt, 2019
Call Number: E 98 J48 D39 2019
Authentic Indigenous Voices