This brief analyzes a little-known policy that is behind the housing crisis on some reserves in Canada that has been wreaking havoc on First Nations for decades. The Default Management and Prevention Policy (DPMP) is supposed to build capacity and support for First Nations that have fallen into debt. Yet, the long-term, overall consequences of …
December 15, 2020, marks a full five years since the release of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. It was a momentous day that saw residential school Survivors, their families, and representatives of the institutions responsible for overseeing the horrors of Canada’s Indian residential school system gather in Ottawa to …
Calls to Action Accountability: A 2020 Status Update on Reconciliation Read More »
In November 2019, the province of British Columbia passed the first law in Canada aimed at implementing the United Nation’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. This Special Report — with contributions from six primarily Indigenous authors — considers the promise of that legislation but also some of the challenges that have emerged, specifically …
The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canada: Lessons from B.C. Read More »
This Special Report by Jas Morgan, considers themes in the historic relationship between Indigenous people in the Institutions of Canadian art and culture to contextual a series of interviews conducted with cultural workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and which reveal a renewed exploitation of their labour and their works. The report also offers 15 Standards …
A Culture of Exploitation: “Reconciliation” and the Institutions of Canadian Art Read More »
IN MANY CROWN-FIRST NATION TREATIES, and specifically the Numbered Treaties, there is reference to health care provisions. Referred to as a medicine chest in some cases or aid in others, this provision appears in written and oral versions of treaties. Why then, is it absent in the conversations around the COVID-19 pandemic and First Nations, …
Covid-19, the Numbered Treaties & the Politics of Life Read More »
As Canada moves towards a strategy of sectoral self-governance—slowly deconstructing the Indian Act rather than negotiating all-encompassing self-governance agreements—the management of reserve lands is becoming a critical component of the First Nations Land Management regime and a supposed means for First Nations to ‘catch up’ to the speed of business and build prosperity for their …
The Rise of the First Nations Land Management Regime in Canada: A Critical Analysis Read More »
Based in the Faculty of Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University.