(without prejudice to those First Nations and their organizations with education jurisdiction agreements in place or under negotiation) With reference to Resolution 13/13, work was authorized in May 2013 to build an Education Law Template to move First Nations jurisdiction over education. This presentation, by Kahontakwas Diane Longboat, contains visuals to assist the reader in
A Declaration of First Nations Jurisdiction over Education. This Declaration was unanimously approved and adopted by the Chiefs of Canada at the Meeting of the Confederacy of Nations in Ottawa on the 13th December 1988. This Declaration is a result of the National Review of First Nations Education - a major study of First Nations
In order to ensure that the Indian Control of Indian Education (ICIE) of 1972 reflected the current challenges and changes in education and continued to support the realization of education as a tool to eradicate poverty, on February 21, 2007 the AFN Chiefs Committee on Education (CCOE) and the National Indian Education Council (NIEC) recommended
This report was produced in 2012 by the New Agenda Working Group, established by the Chiefs of Ontario. It continued the important work and objectives set out in previous reports, studies and resolutions on First Nations education in Ontario. This report builds on the Manifesto that was completed in 2004 and is meant to be
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The Ipperwash Inquiry was established by the Government of Ontario under the Public Inquiries Act. Its mandate was to inquire and report on events surrounding the death of Dudley George, who was shot in 1995 during a protest by First Nations representatives at Ipperwash Provincial Park and later died. The Inquiry was also mandated to
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The purpose of this report is to determine the Government of Canada's funding requirement for First Nations schools, based on a capital budgeting methodology. INAC has a mandate to build and to meet the operating and capital expenditure requirements related to schools on reserve according to the Indian Act of 1867. The scope of this
Authors Don Drummond and Ellen Kachuck Rosenbluth reported in December 2013 how funding has a significant impact on the delivery of educational services and is integral to improving educational outcomes for First Nations students.
On January 21, 2019, the Honourable Seamus O'Regan, Minister of Indigenous Services, and National Chief Perry Bellegarde of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), announced a new, co-developed policy and funding approach that will better support the needs of First Nations students on-reserve.