Many Indigenous students facebarriers in getting a post-secondary education. The biggest factor, of course, is cost. College and university can be expensive, especially if you live in a remote community — soIndigenous Services Canada(ISC) offers thePost-Secondary...
Those that were registered by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) were labelled ‘status’ Indians and identified by a status card. A First Nations person could be both Treaty and status, and Treaty but not status if their leadership were only a part of Treaty negotiations but were not...
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In Canada, the term “Indigenous” encompasses the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis groups who are all descendants of the original Peoples in Canada, inclusive of those whose ancestors married colonialists and immigrants and who continue to identify with their Indigenous ancestry.18Indigenous People ...
“There is no contrived international US-Canada border on the ancestral lands of the Sisksikaitsitapi, we are all part of the Blackfoot Confederacy and now our university recognizes this through this change that opens the door to Blackfeet students who may live in Montana,...
1 Vincent-Quiggin Legal & Consulting Services would like to acknowledge the contributions of Claire Jackson and Frosanna Kelso to drafting and editing the Toolkit. Indigenous Women's Business Toolkit Funded by the Commonwealth, State, Territory and New Zealand Ministers' Conference on the Status of...
In Canada, the government says the solution lies in stronger nation-to-nation relationships between the state and First Nations. In Australia, the federal government proposes stronger consultation to “close the gaps in Indigenous disadvantage”. In New Zealand, the Treaty of Waitangi is broadly acc...
According to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, “Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLC) are, typically, ethnic groups who are descended from and identify with the original inhabitants of a given region, in contrast to groups that have settled...
Statistics about Indigenous peoples are a common feature of Anglo-colonizing nation states such as Canada, Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, and the United States (CANZUS). The impetus for the production of most Indigenous statistics is the shared position of Indigenous disadvantage in health and soc...
Access to the data requires an application available at https://www.ciqss.org/en/statistics-canada-data.References Adelson, 2005 N. Adelson The embodiment of inequity: Health disparities in aboriginal Canada Can. J. Public Health, 96 (2005), 10.1007/BF03403702 S45–S61 Google Scholar Ai and ...