Minister of Healthy Living and Sport (British Columbia)
Description
Follow-up to the Transformative Change Accord: First Nations Health Plan (TCA: FNHP). Outlines basic commitments and processes needed to develop an administrative structure which would enable First Nations to exercise greater control over the delivery of services.
Outlines the progresses made to advance all aspects of the new First Nations health governance structure and the actions needed to improve health services in BC.
Briefing (Conference Board of Canada) ; March 2014
[Conference Board of Canada Publication ; 6097]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Stefan Fournier
Description
Explores way to enhance capacity and well-being in Tłįcho community by identifying strengths and vulnerabilities and pinpointing strategies to increase capacity and manage change and opportunities.
Provides summary of past and current policies and programs in Canada, discusses initiatives in Aboriginal communities and common themes or objectives, looks at international Indigenous communities for similarities in concerns and challenges and how they are responding.
Discussion on the development of the Federal Framework for Aboriginal Economic Development; recent Federal measures including the Northern Strategy; a series of agreements between government and Aboriginal communities, including self-government and Comprehensive Land Claims Agreements; and examines how they can play a central role in strengthening the northern economy.
Discusses the strategic plan that includes enhancing capacity within First Nation governance, encourages access to education, assists British Columbia First Nations to protect and revive their languages and cultures, supports initiatives that engage youth and elders, and advances economic development opportunities.
Northern Sovereignty and Political Geography in North America
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jean-François Arteau
Description
Representative from the Makivik Corporation discusses geographic, political, economic, environmental, and socio-cultural issues in the north.
Paper given at the conference Northern Sovereignty and Political Geography in North America, Washington DC, 2010.
[Intersections 2010]: Encounters: Situating "Relation" in Communication and Culture
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jason Stabler
Description
Looks at how the social construction of Canadian identity may present a barrier in achieving a meaningful reconciliation with Indigenous peoples.
Paper presented at "Encounters: Situating 'Relation' in Communication and Culture" Intersections 2010
9th Annual Graduate Student Conference hosted hosted by the students in the Joint Program in Communication and Culture, York and Ryerson Universities.
First Nations, Inuit and Métis Essential Skills Inventory Project (FIMESIP)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Career Development Foundation (CCDF)
Description
Discusses a program which provides unemployed Aboriginal youth the targeted training they need to obtain either advanced training or employment in a specific occupation or trade.
First Nations, Inuit and Métis Essential Skills Inventory Project (FIMESIP)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Canadian Career Development Foundation (CCDF)
Description
Comments on the success of the classroom model which has successfully helped a large percentage of participants gain employment in the childcare field.
Assignment to explore the qualities of a hero, leader, & role model, and then research & create a short biography on one to three of those Métis individuals. Designed for primary, junior and intermediate students.
Information manual topics include: First Nations child rearing practices, developmental milestones and stages of life, healthy child development issues, strategies to promote healthy child development, how parents can be positive role models and more.
Fast Facts (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Shauna MacKinnon]
Description
Argues that while the process is not an easy one, Aboriginal control and administration of Aboriginal child welfare is essential to reduce the rates of children in care.
[UBC Museum of Anthropology Pacific Northwest Sourcebook Series]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Pam Brown
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Description
Sourcebook for exhibition of the same name held from June, 2014 to January, 2015. Includes photos of individual works and brief biographies of each artist.
To accompany award-winning book by James Daschuk which examines ecological, economic, and political factors affecting Aboriginal health and mortality from the early 1700s to the end of the 19th century.