In January 2020 the Faculty of Academic & Career Preparation began a series of Indigenous Reading Circles. All ACP faculty and staff are invited to participate in the reading of Indigenous materials and to discuss the learnings and the impact of the readings.

To generate hearty discussion, readers consider the following questions during their reading:

• What specifically did you learn about the Indigenous community?
• What specifically did you learn about Canadian culture or institutions?
• Explain what you discovered or what is pronounced in the intersection of the Indigenous community and Canadian culture and or/institutions.
• Did you experience a mental shift in your thinking, or was there information that reinforced your understanding? if so tell us about it.
• If you see the world differently after reading/viewing this month’s book/film, how did it or will it affect you and what will you do with your new understanding?

Over the last 2 years the Indigenous Reading Circle has read and discussed:

• You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie
• “Why Cree is the Funniest of All Languages” by Tomson Highway
• Smoke Signals, a film by Sherman Alexie
• The Truth About Stories by Thomas King
• Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
• An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
• Kent Monkman’s paintings and related article
• The Rider – a film by Chloe Zhao

• Starlight by Richard Wagamese
• Peace and Good Order by Harold Johnson
• Take the Cannoli:  Stories from the New World by Sarah Vowell