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Indigenous rights and self-governance
Recommendation 69:
We call upon Library and Archives Canada to:
- Fully adopt and implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations Joinet-Orentlicher Principles, as related to Aboriginal peoples’ inalienable right to know the truth about what happened and why, with regard to human rights violations committed against them in the residential schools.
- Ensure that its record holdings related to residential schools are accessible to the public.
- Commit more resources to its public education materials and programming on residential schools.
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Clearly renounce the racism that status First Nations experience when using this form of identification.
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Clearly articulate the rights of First Nations governments as self-determining, including with respect to what tax regimes are applicable to their own peoples.
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Recommendation 3:
Ceremonies to support healing and wellness, re-establish traditional practices, and improve relationships and community safety.
Government of B.C. Reflection on Ending Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls: A Statement on the Anniversary of the Release of the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
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Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General
Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General
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2020
2020
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Recommendation 19:
Canada needs to develop its own federal, provincial and territorial repatriation legislation, drawing from the shortcomings of NAGPRA and led by communities of Indigenous artists, curators, cultural administrators, Elders, and other respected Indigenous cultural leaders within Reserve and urban communities. While it must foremost be concerned with “human remains,” this legislation should expand the notion of repatriation beyond bodies to funerary objects, “sacred” objects, and objects of cultural patrimony. These laws must be meaningfully co-developed in collaboration with Indigenous peoples.
- These “Repatriation Acts” must be passed in every province and territory within the borders of Canada, and not simply apply to federal reserve lands.
- The legislation must have extremely strong compliance measures, with an accountability provision that allows Indigenous representatives to ensure the legislation is being enforced. As Indigenous people are not flora and fauna, Parks Canada should not be involved in the implementation of the legislation. Jurisdiction over “Repatriation Acts” could fall under the Canadian Heritage Portfolio or even the Minister of Justice.
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Recommendation 2:
- Strengthen Indigenous self-identity
- Provide a home, a safe environment – with love and no judgement
- Feast – eat together – share stories around the table, and feed the spirit
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Recommendation 9:
Build basic information about status cards as legal identification into the training and onboarding for all staff.
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BC should promote self-determination at every opportunity as a guiding principle in its mental health law.
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Recommendation 17:
Create a public education campaign for Indigenous Peoples which addresses human rights from an Indigenous perspective:
- Make materials easily accessible at Band offices, Métis organizations, Friendship Centres, Indigenous political organizations, and universities.
- Emphasize cases where Indigenous individuals have successfully brought human rights claims.
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Recommendation 6:
Apply holistic, integrated, fulsome and inclusive recognition of ICH, serving to broaden institutional attachments from the narrow focus on “archaeological” material culture currently common in the interpretation of the heritage legislation such as the Heritage Conservation Act.
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