JESSICA CARMICHAEL’S READING AND LISTENING LIST

BOOKS, PLAYS AND ESSAYS The Rez Sisters How to Carry What Can’t Be Fixed: A Journal for Grief By Tomson Highway By Megan Devine From Oral to Written: A Celebration of Indigenous Surviving the Death of a Sibling: Living Through Grief When an Adult Brother or Sister Dies Literature in Canada, 1980–2010 by T.J. Wray By Tomson Highway Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief A Tale of Monstrous Extravagance: Imagining Multilingualism By Joanne Cacciatore By Tomson Highway Ridgerunner Comparing Mythologies By Gil Adamson By Tomson Highway Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field By Yuval Noah Harari By Billy-Ray Belcourt On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous A Mind Spread Out on the Ground By Ocean Vuong By Alicia Elliott A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster Performing Indigeneity By Rebecca Solnit Edited by Yvette Nolan and Ric Knowles Learning Through the Music of Our People: A Cree Language Resource Kuessipan By Darriene Martin and Davis Jacobs By Naomi Fontaine Remembering the Trickster in Tomson Highway’s The Rez Sisters Les Belles-soeurs By Lina Perkins By Michel Tremblay The Rez Sisters Redux…? A History of My Brief Body By Daniel David Moses By Billy-Ray Belcourt Idling No More: The Road in Tomson Highway’s The Rez Sisters This Accident of Being Lost: Songs and Stories By Deena Marie Rymhs By Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Bleeding Red: Decolonizing the Actor’s Process in Search of Emotional Authenticity Islands of Decolonial Love: Stories and Songs By Brefny Caribou-Curtain By Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Nehiyaw iskwew kiskinowâtasinahikewina – paminisowin namôya tipeyimisowin: Grief is the Thing with Feathers Learning Self Determination Through the Sacred By Max Porter By Janice Alison Makokis Grief Sequence By Prageeta Sharma It’s OK That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand By Megan Devine JESSICA CARMICHAEL’S READING AND LISTENING LIST,

MUSIC To hear these pieces as a complete playlist, click here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4OI7bxy0BRd56yvgWbS1t1?si=f0ad37b0ddfd415d “Arnaq” “Howl” “I Walk the Line” By Elisapie By Tanya Tagaq By Johnny Cash From the album The Ballad of the Runaway Girl From the album Animism From the album I Walk the Line “Ton vieux nom” “Goodbye” “A Widow’s Toast” By Elisapie By Emmylou Harris By Neko Case From the album The Ballad of the Runaway Girl From the album Wrecking Ball From the album Fox Confessor Brings the Flood “Wolves Don’t Live by the Rules” “Powwow Rhapsody” “I Wish I Was the Moon” By Elisapie By Cris Derksen By Neko Case From the album The Ballad of the Runaway Girl From the album Orchestral Powwow From the album Blacklisted “The Darkness” “Tuesday is Your Monday” “No Woman” By Rose Cousins By Cris Derksen By Whitney From the album We Have Made a Spark From the album Orchestral Powwow From the album Light Upon the Lake “All the Stars” “New Women Song” “Call It Dreaming” By Rose Cousins By Cris Derksen By Iron & Wine From the album We Have Made a Spark From the album Orchestral Powwow From the album Beast Epic “Can I Believe You” “Colors” “Little Waltz” By Fleet Foxes By Black Pumas By Basia Bulat From the album Shore From the album Black Pumas From the album Oh, My Darling “Constellation” “Ça va ça va” “Blackbird” By Leanne Betasamosake Simpson By Lou-Adriane Cassidy By Sarah McLachlan From the album F(l)ight From the album C’est la fin du monde à tous les jours From the album Rarities, B-Sides “Caribou Ghosts and Untold Stories” “Mystery of Love” By Leanne Betasamosake Simpson By “Time After Time” From the album F(l)ight From the motion picture soundtrack By Cyndi Lauper and Sarah McLachlan “The Oldest Tree in the World” Call Me by Your Name From the album Rarities, B-Sides By Leanne Betasamosake Simpson “Makonse” From the album F(l)ight By Rosary Spence and Jason Chamakese “Happy Day (Sister My Sister)” By Hiss Golden Messenger “Laughing Heart” From the album Maskawisiwin From the album Heart Like a Levee By Leanne Betasamosake Simpson “New Beginnings” From the album F(l)ight By Rosary Spence and Cris Derksen “Shine” By David Gray “Fast Car” From the album Maskawisiwin From the album A Century Ends By Tracy Chapman “Resolution” From the album Tracy Chapman by Matt Corby “Graceland” By Paul Simon “I Need My Girl” From the album Resolution From the album Graceland by The National “Heart Beats Slow” From the album By Angus & Julia Stone “Song for Zula” By Phosphorescent “Start a War” From the album Spotify Sessions From the album Muchacho by The National “Crazy” From the album Boxer By Patsy Cline From the album Showcase