Indigenous Relations for Local Governments

The second half of our Working Effectively
with Indigenous Peoples^® training

Do you work in a municipal or local government in Canada? Do you want to increase your knowledge of Indigenous relations?

Indigenous Relations for Local Governments course pattern

The fear of doing or saying the wrong thing can affect your relationship with Indigenous communities in a big way. This course was designed to help aid municipal employees specifically and to be a guide to fostering sustainable, long-term partnerships between municipal governments and Indigenous communities.

This course paves your path to respectful and effective Indigenous relations for local governments and is a follow-up course to our Indigenous Awareness training.

Building Relationships

You’d like to understand how to form, strengthen, and sustain effective relationships between government and Indigenous communities.

Practical Partnerships

You want clarity on the pragmatic and organizational benefits of working with Indigenous Peoples.

Building Consultation
Effectively

You’d like to learn how to start consultation processes in a respectful, informed, and collaborative way.

Managing Risk in
Indigenous Engagement

ou want to know how to reduce uncertainty, avoid missteps, and manage risk when engaging with Indigenous communities.

This training was developed in collaboration
with our subject matter expert, Tammy Robertson.

Tammy brings her immeasurable knowledge and award-winning experience to ICT clients through the development of course materials to training ICT clients in virtual classrooms or in person. She has over 13 years of experience in local government and municipal external relations. She has led Mayor, Council and City staff to see Indigenous relations through a new lens. As a proponent of openness, humility, and respect, Tammy has been successful in fostering new levels of trust between municipal and Indigenous governments leading to new agreements, joint working groups and projects, and cultural heritage protection practices. Now you can learn best practices from a subject matter expert.