National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

As a settler-colonial organization, the League recognizes its own historical role in the exclusion of Indigenous poets from the wider poetry community and network in Canada.

The organization's leadership continues to seek opportunities for education, reform, and collaboration in order to launch meaningful Indigenous-led programs and opportunities supported by equitable and inclusive processes and policies.

The League also recognizes the historical and ongoing colonial significance of our organization name, and we acknowledge that not all members of our community identify with the term "Canadian." We support these members and their right to self-identify while still having access to the programs and services offered by the League.

For the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the League would like to share some of Turtle Island's leading Indigenous-owned organizations, bookstores, and publishers in the literary arts sector, as well asto highlight the work of Indigenous poets featured in Poetry Pause during Indigenous History Month.

An image featuring nine logos of the organizations listed on this page.
  • Indigenous Editors Assocation
  • Indigenous Literary Studies Association
  • Indigenous Voices Awards
  • Inhabit Media
  • Kegedonce Press
  • Librairie Hannenorak
  • Massy Books
  • Native Women in the Arts
  • Theytus Books

Indigenous History Month in Poetry Pause

“Quell” by Cooper Skjeie

“maps” by Grace Goudie

“The Hunt” by Connor Lafortune

“A Study in Missingness” by Colleen Charlette

“Pine Needles” by Raymond Sewell

“Something Purple” by Michelle Poirier Brown