References National Aboriginal Achievement Award Recipients: http://indspire.ca/program/92 Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards: http://aboriginalpeopleschoice.com/home/ Women of the Dawn Inc: http://www.reginacity.com/fnac/index.html CBC 8th Fire: http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/8thfire/index.html APTN First Tracks: http://www.aptn.ca/pages/firsttracks/ Art by and about Canada’s First Peoples: http://firstpeoplesofcanada.com/fp_groups/fp_groups_art.html The Players: http://www.nativehockey.com/players/ Turtle Island Native Network: http://www.turtleisland.org/culture/culture-music.html National Aboriginal Sport Circle- Google for regional Sites National Aboriginal Festival: http://www.canab.com/mainpages/events/archive_files/2004_cama_profiles/santeesmith.html […]
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Ways of Knowing Indigenous ways of knowing and seeing the world are inclusive of spirit, ancestral memory, respect, interconnectedness, storytelling, feelings, experiences and guidance. It reminds us that we do not need to know or understand everything and that it is perfectly acceptable and appropriate to be aware of things that we cannot explain. The […]
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The Dimensions of Cultural Competency in First Nations Education Culturally competent First Nations education involves acknowledgement of the values and characteristics of First Nations cultures as well as of the events and circumstances that influence First Nations quality of life, whether on the prairies, woodlands, or on the west coast. These values, characteristics and events […]
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The Truth and Reconciliation Comission of Canada The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) overarching purposes are to reveal to Canadians the complex truth about the history and the ongoing legacy of the church-run residential schools, in a manner that fully documents the individual and collective harms perpetrated against Aboriginal peoples, and honours the resiliency and […]
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Regulations Under the Act The Indian Act was designed to address the Indian problem by singling out a segment of society, largely on the basis of race, removing much of their land and property from the commercial mainstream, and giving the Minister of Indigenous Services Canada and other government officials a degree of discretion that […]
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