Lifelong Learning Mississauga
Additional Reading on Indigenous History of Ontario
Useful and informative websites
Canada in the Making’s section on “Aboriginals: Treaties & Relations”
The Canadian Encyclopedia has numerous articles written by historians that are very good.
The Dictionary of Canadian Biography is an excellent source for biographies of prominent Canadians.
Indigenous Foundations at UBC is also an excellent source.
And the Indigenous Studies Portal at the University of Saskatchewan is another excellent source.
Government Reports (online)
Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (1996) or
Truth and Reconciliation Commission has numerous reports on the website, including the final report of the TRC – 7 volumes.
Books
In my opinion, the best general overview history book on Ontario is
Aboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First Nations, Edited by Ed Rogers and Don Smith.Dundurn Press (1994). It can be bought directly from the website, as a book or an e-pub, or a pdf.
And for Canada, see:
Olive Dickason and David T. McNab, Canada’s First Nations: a history of founding peoples from earliest times. Toronto: Oxford University Press, numerous editions.
On the Huron-Wendat, two very good books are
Bruce Trigger. The Children of Aataentsic: A History of the Huron People to 1660. McGill-Queen’s University Press. (1987)
Kathryn Magee Labelle. Dispersed but Not Destroyed: A History of the Seventeenth-Century Wendat People. UBC Press (2013)
On treaties:
J. R. Miller. Compact, Contract, Covenant: Aboriginal Treaty Making in Canada. University of Toronto Press, (2009).
AANDC’s webpage on treaties, which includes full text of all treaties: “Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, Treaty-Making in Canada”
The TRC Final Report.Volume 1. Chapter 4: “Treaty-making and betrayal: the roots of Canada’s Aboriginal Policy”.
On the Mississauga:
Brian Osborne and Michael Ripmeester. "The Mississaugas Between Two Worlds: Strategic Adjustments to Changing Landscapes of Power," 259.The Canadian Journal of Native Studies 17, no. 2 (1997): 259-91.
Donald B. Smith. Sacred Feathers.The Reverend Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby) and the Mississauga Indians. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987.
Donald B. Smith. Mississauga Portraits: Ojibwe Voices from Nineteenth Century Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.
On the Six Nations of Grand River, primary sources, see:
Charles M. Johnson. The Valley of the Six Nations: A Collection of Documents on the Indian Lands of Grand River. Toronto: Champlain Society Publications, 1964.
Rick Monture. We Share Our Matters: Two Centuries of Writing and Resistance at Six Nations of the Grand River. University of Manitoba Press, 2015.
On education, memoirs:
Basil Johnston – Indian School Days
WabKinew – The Reason We Walk
Edmund Metatawabin – Up Ghost River
Joseph Merasty - The Education of AugieMerasty: A Residential School Memoir
BevSellars - They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School
On education, history:
Graham, Elizabeth. The Mush Hole: Life at Two Indian Residential Schools. Waterloo, ON: Heffle Publishing, 1997.
Miller, J. R. Shingwauk'sVision : A History of Native Residential Schools. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996.
Milloy, John S. A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879-1896. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.