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Let’s Not Make Reconciliation a Political Football
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. George Orwell, 1984
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Meaningful Consultation with Indigenous Peoples
The announcement on August 30, 2018, that the Federal Court of Appeal had quashed the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion due, in part, to faulty...
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Some Indigenous Protocol Examples
We are at an interesting juncture in Canada in terms of Indigenous relations. On the one hand, there is an awakening and awareness on the part of...
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Reactive vs Proactive Racial Bias Training
I was recently included in a conversation on CBC’s The Current about the efficacy of anti-bias training. The host, Anna Maria Tremonti had three...
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9 Terms to Avoid in Communications with Indigenous Peoples
Language has the power to respect and honour, or, hurt and offend and that is particularly true when working across cultures. Within that frame of...
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Working with Indigenous Communities: Year of the Northern Dog Campaign
The abundance of dogs in both non-Indigenous and Indigenous communities in northern Canada is an escalating animal welfare issue. This article takes...
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Communications with Indigenous Leaders - Letter Writing Tips
When communicating cross-culturally there are certain sensitivities around the language used in the letter and expectations placed on the recipient...
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3 'R's of an Effective Indigenous Pre-Engagement Strategy
The foundation of meaningful engagement with an Indigenous community is trust. Earning that trust will take time, consistency, and transparency. The...
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A Look at Indigenous Relations in Canada for 2018 and Beyond
In 2017, Canada marked 150 years since its confederation. Whether to celebrate or not to celebrate was debated and discussed in the media, in...
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Smudging to Indigenous Protocol - Our Top 10 Articles in 2017
In 2017, we had just over 816,000 visitors to our blog Working Effectively with Indigenous Peoples® looking for information on a wide variety of...