This page contains a growing list of resources on the topic of Indigenous Ukrainian relationships, including recordings of the past events of our initiative, and external sources. We will be regularly updating this page. If you would like to be notified when new resources are added, send an empty email with the subject “Subscribe to resources” to storiesoftheselands@gmail.com

Video resources

Recovering Indigenous-Ukrainian Narratives in East Central Alberta

Art Collaborations as Creative Care

askîy / земля / the land series

kayâs: у далекому минулому: Long Ago on Our Lands

otâkosîhk mîna anohc: вчора і сьогодні: Yesterday and Today on These Lands

nîkânihk: майбутнє: Our Futures On These Lands

Unpublished sources

Kostash, Myrna. “otâkosîhk mîna anohc: вчора і сьогодні: Yesterday and Today On These Lands.” Presentation notes, October 20, 2021.

Vowel, Chelsea. “otâskosîhk mîna anohc: kimâmawi-wîkinaw ôma askîhk Yesterday and today, all of us are living together on these lands.” Speaker notes, October 20, 2021.

Publications

Corntassel, Jeff, Chaw-win-is, and T’lakwadzi. “Indigenous Storytelling, Truth-Telling, and Community Approaches to Reconciliation.” ESC: English Studies in Canada 35, no. 1 (2009): 137–59. 

Costa, Ravi de, and Tom Clark. “On the Responsibility to Engage: Non-Indigenous Peoples in Settler States.” Settler Colonial Studies 6, no. 3 (July 2, 2016): 191–208. 

Denis, Jeffrey S. “Contact Theory in a Small-Town Settler-Colonial Context: The Reproduction of Laissez-Faire Racism in Indigenous-White Canadian Relations.” American Sociological Review 80, no. 1 (February 1, 2015): 218–42. 

DiAngelo, Robin. “White Fragility.” International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, vol.3(3) (2011): 54-70.

Garneau, David. “Imaginary Spaces of Conciliation and Reconciliation.” West Coast Line, Summer 2012.

Hinther, Rhonda L., and Jim Mochoruk, eds. Re-Imagining Ukrainian-Canadians: History, Politics, and Identity. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. 

Holyk, Alexandra. “National Day for Truth and Reconciliation” (Editorial). The Ukrainian Weekly. October 1, 2021.

Klymasz, Robert. “Cossacks and Indians?: Encounters, Abductions, Guilt, Ballads and Empathy on the Prairie and Beyond.” Winnipeg Papers. Winnipeg: The Centre for Ukrainian Canadian Studies, University of Manitoba, 2012.

Kostash, Myrna. The Frog Lake Reader. Newest Press, 2009.

The Frog Lake Reader is a book of massive cultural significance. Exhaustively researched, intrepid and ingenious in its approach, [the book] pieces together an array of accounts and perspectives surrounding the circumstances of the Frog Lake Massacre of 1885. The many voices play off each other, contradict and at other times resonate, and the reader becomes immersed in the complexity of the tragic events and key players at this critical juncture in Canadian history. A fascinating read and visionary accomplishment.

Kostash, Myrna. “Baba’s Other Children.” Alberta Views: The Magazine for Engaged Citizens, September 1, 2017.

Kostash, Myrna. Ghosts in a Photograph: A Chronicle. Newest Press, 2022.

Ledohowski, Lindy. “‘White Settler Guilt’: Contemporary Ukrainian Canadian Prairie Literature.” Canadian Ethnic Studies 47, no. 4 (2015): 67–83. 

Levytsky, Marco. “Shumka Underscores Ukrainian-First Nations interaction.” Ukrainian Weekly, July 30, 2021.

Mackey, Eva. “Becoming Indigenous: Land, Belonging, and the Appropriation of Aboriginality in Canadian Nationalist Narratives.” Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice 42, no. 2 (1998): 150–78.

Sliwkanich, Tara. “Unsettling Ukrainian-Canadian Settler Legacies: Thinking Through Ukrainian-Canadians’ Experiences of State Violence and Implications in Settler-Colonialism and for Decolonization” (Capping Project for Masters of Arts in Gender and Social Justice Degree). University of Alberta.

Snelgrove, Corey, Rita Kaur Dhamoon, and Jeff Corntassel. “Unsettling Settler Colonialism: The Discourse and Politics of Settlers, and Solidarity with Indigenous Nations.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 3, no. 2 (2014): 1–32.

Tuck, Eve, and K. Wayne Yang. “Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 1, no. 1 (September 8, 2012). 

Wolfe, Patrick. “Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native.” Journal of Genocide Research 8, no. 4 (December 1, 2006): 387–409.

Yawnghwe, Mallory. “Why Ukrainian Floral Scarves?” Indigenous Box: Promoting Indigenous Entrepreneurship. Spring 2021.