Exploring Effective Systems Responses To Homelessness
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Author/Creator
Yale D. Belanger
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Gives overview of reserve housing conditions tracked through government and academic reports dating to the 1930s, looks at the impacts of the Indian Act, and discusses how jurisdictional disputes over responsibility and subsequent legal and policy separations have contributed to the current housing crisis.
Chapter from Exploring Effective Systems Responses To Homelessness edited by Naomi Nichols and Carey Doberstein.
File contains a presentation by Gloria Christmas, Native Justice Court Worker. Christmas, after a brief description of her job, makes a series of recommendations to the Commission on hiring Aboriginal interpreters, Aboriginal court workers, and Aboriginal corrections personnel, in the justice system.
File contains a presentation by Crisis Intervention Officer Marie Francis of the Micmac Native Friendship Centre (Halifax, NS). Francis discusses the financial difficulties faced by the Status Indian population in Canada who lives off reserve, and states that Bands often do not live up to their fiduciary obligations to off-reserve people.
The file contains a presentation by the Nisga'a First Nation by Herbert Morven, Reg Percival, Peter Squires, and Tommy Dennis. Herbert Morven introduces the other presenters; Reg Percival speaks on behalf of the Gitlakdamix Band Council and the Tribal Council, Peter Squires speaks on behlaf of the Health Board, and Tommy Dennis makes a presentation on behalf of the Nisga'a Nation's urban locals.