Suggested Reading / Viewing / Listening List

A list of resources, books, films, podcasts, and stories (many of which are referenced throughout this guide) that incorporate elements of the empowerment approach:

• Indigenous Media Guides for reporting on First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities (media guides available in 3 languages), Indigenous Journalists Association
• The People’s Guide to Community Benefits Agreements and Alternatives (guidebook), City Bureau
• All Our Father’s Relations (documentary film), available in Canada on CBC’s Absolutely Canadian, director Alejandro Yoshizawa
• The Territory (documentary film), National Geographic, director Alex Pritz
• Ear Hustle (podcast), Radiotopia
• Who’s Afraid of Aymann Ismail? (video series), Slate
• First Nations Forward (online series), National Observer
• Crossing Divides, BBC
• Healing Nation (documentary film), director Jamuna Galay-Tamang
• The Eviction Lab
• Cabin Radio
• Salmon Stories (video series), Magic Canoe
• 500 Years: Life in Resistance, When the Mountains Tremble, and Granito: How to Nail a Dictator (documentary films), director Pamela Yates
• My Stolen Childhood and Dementia & Us (documentary films), BBC
• Back in Touch, (web documentary and print series), On Our Radar and New Internationalist
• On Our Radar’s Resource Hub (guides/toolkits)
• Sandy Storyline
• Strangers at Home, Global Reporting Centre
• Writing With Fire (documentary film), directors Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh
• Class of 2000 (film), CBS News
• Prison Journalism Project
• Still Here (VR film), AJ Contrast
• Turning Points (documentary short series), Global Reporting Centre and PBS NewsHour
• “Fixing” the Journalist-Fixer Relationship, Nieman Reports
• On Bottle Binning in Chinatown and Stanley Woodvine’s Pandemic Diary (online stories), The Tyee
• Chelsea, Noelle and Tatyanna Went Missing. Did Police Do Enough to Find Them? (online story), The Tyee
• Decolonizing Journalism: A Guide to Reporting in Indigenous Communities, Duncan McCue
• The frontline of conservation: how Indigenous guardians are reinforcing sovereignty and science on their lands (online story) and Behind the scenes: how we made our Indigenous guardians feature come to life, The Narwhal