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To create the Atlas, editors collaborated with a number of groups and organizations representing indigenous peoples in Canada, including the Assembly of First Nations, Indspire, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the Métis National Council, and the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. [2] Some of the editors are members of an indigenous group. [4]
The Assembly of First Nations (French: Assemblée des Premières Nations, AFN) is an assembly of Canadian First Nations (Indian bands) represented by their chiefs. Established in 1982 and modelled on the United Nations General Assembly , it emerged from the National Indian Brotherhood , which dissolved in the late 1970s.
Indigenous peoples in Canada (also known as Aboriginals) [2] are the Indigenous peoples within the boundaries of Canada. They comprise the First Nations, [3] Inuit, [4] and Métis, [5] representing roughly 5.0% of the total Canadian population.
Shared between two First Nations Agency 1: Couchiching First Nation, Mitaanjigamiing First Nation, Naicatchewenin First Nation, Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nation: Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, Saulteaux: Shared between four First Nations Agency 30
The Assembly meets about 4 times a year to give mandates to its Bureau and to the Commissions it has set up. From 1985 to 1992, the elected chief of the Assembly was Konrad Sioui. Since 1992 it has been Ghislain Picard . [3] The AFNQL is attached to the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) whose office is located in Ottawa. The chief of the AFNQL is ...
"First Nations must work towards the restoration of our own model of nationhood made up of our true nations. In essence, moving away from 633 First Nations —from Aamjiwnaang to Zhiibhaasing—to governance based on the nearly 60 indigenous nations , from the Abenaki Nation to the Wendat Nation and all those in between."
In 2008, the British Columbia Assembly of First Nations endorsed the claims of the local people as a First Nation, supporting the claim that the people of Kelly Lake were left out during the enumeration of peoples living within the Treaty 8 area. [4]
First Nations receive: Limited reserve land, and monetary compensation; farming tools; right to hunt and fish on ceded land except that already used by Canada for resource extraction or settlement; provision for childhood education; furnishings for agricultural assistance; have right to build and maintain infrastructure on reserves; provision ...