03/24/2023
"The majority of Indigenous peoples in Canada now live in cities. The 1951 census recorded that only 6.7% of the Indigenous population resided in Canadian cities; by 2020 the number had increased to 56%. In spite of persistent stereotypes and misconceptions of Indigenous peoples as living primarily on remote reserves far from urban life, there is a long-standing Indigenous connection to Canadian cities."
The UAKN Compendium is one of the largest collections of community-driven research in existence and its subjects range from Indigenous food security to education for First Nations people to economic status of Indigenous people to how the law is applied to Indigenous people, and much more. It is concerned with the vibrant communities of Indigenous people who reside in cities and the intricate mixture of land-based knowledge sharing, urban existence, ties to many traditions and identities.
Led by David Newhouse, Verlé Harrop, and Kevin Fitzmaurice, this project is one of the greatest, coolest, and most exciting I have ever worked on and I am proud to have been a small part of it as the copy editor. Anyone interested in issues, including / , should check this out and get acquainted with the most current methodologies in research on, by, with, and for communities.
In 2007, the National Association of Friendship Centres (NAFC) began working with David Newhouse, a professor at Trent University who has been involved in the Friendship Centre Movement (FCM) since 1978 locally, provincially, and nationally, and Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (no...
