Essential Reading

 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)

• Text of the UN Declaration
• Announcement – Canada adoption of the UN Declaration
• Carolyn Bennett Speech
• Canada Support for the UN Declaration

World Health Organization – Commission on the Social Determinants of Health

• Closing the gaps in a generation – Health equity through action on the social determinants of health

Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP)

• Chapter 1 – Looking Forward- Looking Back
• Chapter 2 – Restructuring the Relationship
• Chapter 3 – Gathering Strength
• Chapter 4 – Perspectives and Realities
• Chapter 5 – Renewal: A Twenty-Year Commitment

Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Report Summaries

• Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future (PDF)
• What We Have Learned – Principles of Truth and Reconciliation (PDF)
• The Survivors Speak (PDF)

Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Full Reports

• Volume 1 – History Part 1
• Volume 1 – History Part 2
• Volume 2 – Canada’s Residential Schools: The Inuit and Northern Experience
• Volume 3 – Canada’s Residential Schools: The Métis Experience
• Volume 4 – Canada’s Residential Schools: Missing Children and Unmarked Burials
• Volume 5 – Canada’s Residential Schools: The Legacy
• Volume 6 – Canada’s Residential Schools: Reconciliation
• TRC Calls to action (PDF)

Honouring our Strength

• A Renewed Framework to Address Substance Use Issues Among First Nations in Canada (PDF)

Mental Wellness Framework

• First Nations Mental Wellness Framework (PDF Summary)
• First Nations Mental Wellness Framework (Full PDF version)

Jordan Principle

• Information Sheet – Ensuring First Nations Children Receive the Public Services They Need (PDF)
• Jordan Principle Handbook: Jordan Principle Handbook 2019 (PDF)
• Service coordinators List: Accessing Jordan Principle – Coordinators’ List (PDF)
• Jordan’s Principle -Timeline and Documents: Timeline and Documents – The Caring Society (PDF)

Indigenization, Decolonization, and Reconciliation 

• Indigenization, Decolonization and Reconciliation

From our Dear Board Member Dr. Deborah Canada

• UBC Thesis
• The Strength of the Sash (PDF)

The Métis people and the British Columbia Child Welfare System