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2020
Recommendation 14:
Formalize initiatives to inventory Indigenous cultural heritage facing imminent threats related to climate change (e.g., heritage at risk of damage or destruction due to flooding, erosion, fires, temperature change), and develop response plans. Conduct research about how Indigenous Peoples coped with significant environmental changes in the past, and how this might help Indigenous communities and their neighbours plan climate change responses today.
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Recommendation 3:
Establish jurisdiction and statutory decision-making authority over ICH by Indigenous peoples. This requires decentralizing power and developing or activating mechanisms for extending authority to Indigenous peoples. Shared decision-making processes and relations should be established in support of Indigenous peoples’ management of their own cultural heritage. B.C.’s current Bill C-41 / Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA) provides a mechanism for developing such legal mechanisms, processes and relationships. Provincial legislation needs to be amended to include UNDRIP, as is being planned for currently by British Columbia and the First Nations Leadership Council via an Action Plan. ICH management should be included as a priority item in B.C.’s DRIPA action plan.
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Recommendation 7:
Establish and enhance relational versus transactional connections between governments based on Indigenous rights recognition, Government-to-Government and/or Nation-to-Nation foundations of equality, and through development and implementation of shared decision-making processes addressing Indigenous Cultural Heritage. This requires displacing the current standards of engagement / consultation / accommodation, based on unilateral government decision-making and strength of claim assessments, and replacing them with new standards as set out above. It also requires significant education, training, and revised hiring practices to ensure government have the capacity to undertake these processes in an effective way.
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Establish and enhance relational versus transactional connections between governments based on Indigenous rights recognition, government-to-government and/or nation-to nation foundations of equality, and through development and implementation of shared decision-making processes addressing ICH. This requires displacing the current standards of engagement/consultation/accommodation based on unilateral government decision making and strength of claim assessments, and replacing them with new standards as set out in point 3 above.
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Recommendation 10:
Establish an expert panel of both academic and practice leaders in relational care to help shift assisted living from a philosophy of living at risk to a philosophy of relational care.
This panel’s work should begin with a report for the review process (above) on how to replace Managed Risk Agreements with Relational Care Agreements. Such agreements would acknowledge both the resident’s autonomy and the responsibility of assisted living operators to engage with residents and provide them with the support, education and social connections required to maintain and/or enhance their well-being and autonomy. The report would:
This panel’s work should begin with a report for the review process (above) on how to replace Managed Risk Agreements with Relational Care Agreements. Such agreements would acknowledge both the resident’s autonomy and the responsibility of assisted living operators to engage with residents and provide them with the support, education and social connections required to maintain and/or enhance their well-being and autonomy. The report would:
- Define and apply relational care principles to an assisted living environment;
- Outline a relational-care-planning process to be used with each resident when they enter an assisted living residence and a process for updating it at regular intervals;
- Describe the educational materials and quality-improvement processes needed to support a relational care framework and improve practice over time;
- Include strategies for ensuring that front-line staff and residents, and their family and friends, feel safe and respected in these processes; and
- Recommend how to facilitate the shift to relational care and processes for monitoring progress (i.e., through the inspection processes for assisted living residences).
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Recommendation 19:
Establish a special program to support scholarships and internships for Indigenous students and early-career professionals to conduct and present research on Indigenous cultural heritage related to B.C.’s heritage sites, programs and collections.
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Recommendation 1:
Enhance the capacity of the assisted living registry to enforce the Community and Assisted Living Act by substantially increasing the number of assisted living investigators, and by developing policies that build on the inspection provisions in the act.
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These policies should:
- Mandate yearly inspections of all private-pay and publicly subsidized assisted living residences; and
- Mandate all publicly subsidized and private-pay assisted living residences to post clear and detailed information about how and where residents, families and staff can access the complaints process of the assisted living registry, including public reporting on compliance.
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Recommendation 5:
Eliminate any influence on Provincial policies and legislation of colonial doctrines including the Doctrine of Discovery and terra nullius in relation to Indigenous cultural heritage and more generally. This includes removing the 1846 distinction date for recognition and protection of archaeological sites, properties, and objects under the Heritage Conservation Act.
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Recommendation 4:
Develop a framework, action plan and timeline to fully implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Bill C-41/Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA). UNDRIP recognizes the right of Indigenous Peoples to “maintain, control, protect and develop their cultural heritage.” The Province of B.C. has committed to implementing UNDRIP and DRIPA/Bill 41, and investment in this plan will align with that commitment by providing opportunities for Indigenous-led management of Indigenous cultural heritage. This framework and action plan must establish jurisdiction and statutory decision-making authority over Indigenous cultural heritage by Indigenous Peoples. For this to be successful, it will require decentralizing power and developing or activating mechanisms for extending authority within existing legislation to Indigenous Peoples. British Columbia’s current Bill C-41 / Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA) provides a mechanism for developing such legal mechanisms, processes, and relationships.
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Recommendation 22:
Contribute funding and effort for a detailed needs study to inform the development of:
- Programs and grants to build capacity, support skills development in Indigenous heritage professionals, and support infrastructure development for the caretaking of cultural objects and intellectual property;
- Training programs for Indigenous People interested in heritage work. This could be done in partnership with universities and colleges, or museums through coursework and internships in Indigenous communities and organizations;
- Exchange programs for Indigenous heritage professionals to learn about international best practices and share approaches and methods with international Indigenous organizations and institutions doing ground-breaking work to protect and revitalize Indigenous cultural heritage;
- Mentorship programs partnering experienced Indigenous heritage professionals from museums, universities, or other well-resourced institutions, with those more junior; and
- Awards or campaigns to recognize and celebrate leaders in Indigenous cultural heritage work. This could attract more Indigenous People to the field by putting a public face on Indigenous People leading heritage protection work and normalize and publicize Indigenous leadership in heritage work to the broader public.
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