Indigenous Resources - Background, Policy, Analysis: Agriculture/ Business/ Community Planning/ Economy/ Tourism

"Aboriginal peoples have a history of agriculture that goes back many centuries, long before the arrival of Europeans on the land that today includes Canada. Very little data, or for that matter analysis, on Aboriginal peoples and agriculture has been published. This article represents Statistics Canada’s first attempt at filling this gap.
One of the key products from the 2016 Census of Agriculture is the Agriculture Population Linkage Database, a rich source of information on the socioeconomic characteristics of the agricultural population, which is defined as all persons who live in agricultural households. By linking farm level data from the Census of Agriculture to individuals in the Census of Population, a portrait emerges of Aboriginal peoples and agriculture.
It should be noted that Aboriginal history has been marked by government policies that affected Aboriginal access to farmland, tools and markets. The recent statistics, then, should be viewed with this history in mind."

The CCPA publications cover a wide range of Indigenous topics, including housing, Wet’suwet’en, experiences with racism, community development, voting, intimate partner violence, food costs, reconciliation, language revitalization, mining, and so on.

"FNTC MISSION: To assist First Nation governments to build and maintain fair and efficient property tax regimes, and to ensure those First Nation communities, and their taxpayers, receive the maximum benefit from those systems."
"This website contains a wealth of information, for both current FMA First Nations and taxpayers, and those seeking to start the process. There are many examples of success stories and creative approaches to building economies throughout the pages of the site."

A joint economic development initiative between the Manitoba government and the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) saw the creation of the First Peoples Economic Growth Fund Inc.

The collaborative process between AMC and Government of Manitoba identified the following seven program areas for the fund:

Business plan assistance,
Skills development,
Entrepreneur loans,
Community economic expansion loans,
Joint-venture investments, and
Professional support aftercare.
Resource & Energy Investment

"The Indigenous Business Development Services (IBDS) Program is comprised of organizations who offer services to Indigenous entrepreneurs.
We offer:
Business information and resource materials
Assistance with business plan preparation
Business advisory services
Training in the form of workshops and seminars."

"An online directory that allows procurement officers and the private sector to identify Indigenous businesses."

"Indigenous Works, formerly the Aboriginal Human Resource Council, is a national social enterprise that is ISO 9001 certified (quality management system). We were founded as a non-profit national organization in 1998 as a recommendation from the 1996 Report on the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples with a mandate to improve the inclusion and engagement of Indigenous people in the Canadian economy."

"The NCIED serves as a hub to unite Indigenous, academic, community, government and business leaders to understand and foster the conditions for effective collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous enterprises...".

"Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation (NCN) (Nelson House, MB), has embarked on a comprehensive program of economic development that addresses employment, training, healing from trauma, infrastructure development, and energy self-reliance. The First Nation is vitally concerned with nurturing young people, and is now interested in sharing its learning with other First Nations communities. NCN's development initiative is reflective of a convergence, or self-reliance approach to community economic development (ie. converging local production with meeting local basic needs) (Loxley, 2010). The program also reflects the quadruple bottom line of social enterprise (employment creation, environmental protection, social development, and income generation) (Berkes and Ross, 2013)."

"...This audit focused on whether Indigenous Services Canada satisfactorily measured and reported on Canada’s overall progress in closing the socio-economic gaps between on-reserve First Nations people and other Canadians. It also focused on whether the Department made adequate use of data to improve education programs to close the education gap and improve socio-economic well-being...".

"Projects under the initiative must be for the benefit of Indigenous Peoples and communities in Canada, as well as the Canadian agriculture and agri-food sector. Examples of agriculture and food systems projects that may be eligible for funding through the Indigenous Agriculture and Food Systems Initiative include, but are not limited to:
-supporting an approach to producing fresh food within an indigenous community, and helping to plan and design the means in which that agricultural production can occur
-developing a food system within an Indigenous community to access healthy food, while also providing an opportunity for Indigenous Peoples to share their agricultural knowledge and experiences, and market and sell their agriculture products
-providing skills training that will help an Indigenous community or organization establish or scale up an agriculture operation."

"The NIEDB is committed to providing advice and guidance to the federal government on issues related to Indigenous economic opportunities that enable the Indigenous peoples of Canada to have a voice in government policy."

"The Indigenous Leadership Development Institute, Inc. is a non-profit organization established in the year 2000 to build leadership capacity in Indigenous people. We are run by Indigenous people and directed by a volunteer board reflecting the diversity of the Indigenous community."