Paprika Indigenous Resources Table

Donate and Support

The 2026 Paprika team will be making donations to or purchases from the following organizations—we encourage settlers to join us in supporting!

Julia: Grassy Narrows – the people of Grassy Narrows are actively resisting the continued destruction of their territories, re-occupying their lands, reviving their culture and fighting for control over their lands and self-determination.

Amanda: Native Youth Sexual Health Network – An organization by and for Indigenous youth that works across issues of sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice throughout the United States and Canada

Aaheli: ​​Wigwamen – Ontario’s oldest and largest urban Indigenous housing provider.

Juliet: Native Land Digital – Celebrating 10 years of amplifying Indigenous voices their mission is to uplift Indigenous ways of knowing, and build understanding between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.

Keira: Justicia for Migrant Workers (J4MW) is a volunteer-run political collective comprising people from diverse walks of life, including migrant workers, labour organizers, educators, researchers, students and racialized youth based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Arts and Culture

Culture Brew Art – Digital platform that promotes and fosters intersectional interculturalism throughout the performing, literary, media and visual arts. Its central tool is a national searchable database of Indigenous and racialized artists.

Native Earth Performing Arts – Canada’s oldest professional Indigenous performing arts company. Currently, in our 41st year, we are dedicated to developing, producing, and presenting professional artistic expressions of the Indigenous experience in Canada.

Indigenous Youth Roots – Indigenous Youth Roots (IYR) is a registered charity that provides Indigenous-based leadership, learning, and experiences to every youth that participates in our programs.

imagineNATIVE – the world’s largest presenter of Indigenous screen content.

Red Sky Performance – A leading company of contemporary Indigenous performance in Canada and worldwide.

PACBI Explainer – Learn about the PACBI movement, as explained by Theatre Workers For A Ceasefire.

Indigenous Cinema at the NFB – Discover the National Film Board’s rich online collection of Indigenous-made films.

Mino Bimaadiziwin Indigenous Art Market – Traditional and contemporary creations handcrafted by First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Relations of Turtle Island

Chippewar – Jay Soule aka CHIPPEWAR is an Indigenous Artist from the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation. Chippewar represents the hostile relationship that Canada’s native people’s have with the government of the land they have resided in since their creation. Chippewar is also a reminder of the importance of the traditional warrior role that exists in Indigenous cultures across North America that survives into the present day.

Cedar Basket – Native Canadian Centre of Toronto Gift Shop. Carrying a wide variety of First Nations, Métis and Inuit handcrafted products each with their own special meanings and stories.

Resist Clothing – An Indigenous-owned Streetwear Brand

Indigenous Health and Wellness Resources

Anishnawbe Health Toronto – To improve, support, and promote the health, well-being, and healing of Aboriginal people in spirit, mind, emotion, and body within a multi-disciplinary health care model

Anduhyaun – a non-profit registered charity founded by five grandmothers in 1973 to respond to the needs of Toronto’s Indigenous women. It first opened as a hostel, and now provides emergency shelter and second stage transitional housing to women and their children fleeing violence.

Indigenous Diabetes Health Circle – Strengthening Indigenous Community Capacity to Reduce the Impact of Diabetes

Women’s College Health Indigenous Health – We are committed to the health and wellbeing of all First Nations, Inuit and Métis individuals, families and communities across the territories.

Silent Enemy – Ontario Health (Cancer Care Ontario, Indigenous Cancer Care Unit) – Comic book addressing cancer among First Nations, Inuit and Métis (FNIM) communities in Ontario.

First Nations Child & Family Caring Society – Supporting First Nations children, young people, families, communities, and Nation so that First Nations children can grow up safely with their families, get a good education, be healthy, and feel proud of who they are.

Toronto Indigenous Harm Reduction – Provides basic needs, access to critical health support & covid 19 testing, harm reduction supplies, sexual, reproductive health and prenatal support, traditional medicines, traditional food, expressive arts, and ceremony

Native Women’s Resource Centre of Toronto – provides a safe and welcoming environment for all Indigenous women and their children in the Greater Toronto Area. Programs offer wrap around blanket services to address and support Basic Needs, Housing, Families, Advocacy, Employment, Education, Healing from Trauma, and Access to Ceremonies and Traditional Practitioners/ Healers.

Wigwamen – Founded in 1972, Wigwamen Incorporated, a non-profit and charitable organization, is Ontario’s oldest and largest urban Aboriginal housing provider.

2-Spirited People of the 1st Nations – supports 2-Spirit peoples and First Nations, Métis, and Inuit community members

Native Canadian Centre of Toronto – works to empower the Indigenous community in Toronto by providing programs that support their spiritual, emotional, physical and mental well-being.

Toronto Council Five Native Cultural Centre – an autonomous, vibrant cultural agency that involves and serves the Indigenous community with confidence for and commitment to their well-being

Resources for Education and Learning

Treaty Words – For as Long as the Rivers Flow

Truth & Reconciliation Calls to Action

Cash Back – A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper

We are All Treaty People

Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance Smudging 

Towards Braiding – Elwood Jimmy and Vanessa Andreotti with Sharon Stein

The Seven Sacred Laws

Education Resources from the National Centre for Collaboration

Education Resources from Take Me Outside

Four Directions Teachings

Land Back

Native Land

Community Land