strategic planning

A Human Resource Capacity Tool for First Nations

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This tool was developed by the British Columbia Treaty Commission (BCTC) to assist BC First Nations who are working through the treaty process with their Human Resource (HR) planning. It responds to a growing need for a practical, efficient tool for First Nations with diverse sets of priorities, capacity levels, and traditions of governance. It is not a one-size-fits-all approach, but can be modified by First Nations to meet their unique needs and circumstances...

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British Columbia Treaty Commission. "A Human Resource Capacity Tool for First Nations." A Guide developed in partnership with the Kaska Dena Council and the British Columbia Treaty Commission. The British Columbia Treaty Commission. Canada. November 2011. Guide. (https://www.bctreaty.ca/sites/default/files/BCTC-HRToolBook_0.pdf, accessed February 23, 2023)

Best Practices Case Study (Territorial Integrity): Yakama Nation

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The Yakama Nation is located in central Washington State. Their struggles with land loss began over 150 years ago when, in 1855, the federal government pressured the Yakama to cede by treaty more than ten million acres of their ancestral homelands. In the latter half of the 1800s and early 1900s, individual tribal citizens were granted fee patent land titles, which both freed surplus reservation land for non-Indian settlement and permitted tribal citizens to sell their land to non-Indians. Faced with difficult economic choices, many tribal citizens did so.

This pattern of landholding, in which Indian and non-Indian parcels are interspersed across the reservation, creates a jurisdictional morass: a majority of the nation's land is potentially subject to competing state and county claims of jurisdiction. Indeed, the checkerboarded nature of the Yakama reservation has led to numerous jurisdictional disputes over land and water, boundaries, hunting restrictions, environmental regulation, and taxing authority all of which have set the Yakama Nation at odds with individual non-Indian land owners as well as county, state, and federal governments. These disputes have slowed development, compromised the nation's economic interests, and challenged its stewardship over the land and local wildlife.

Recognizing the need for a comprehensive and effective program to manage, control, and promote land re-purchase, the Yakama Nation Land Enterprise (YNLE) was created in 1950 to provide the nation with an institutional vehicle to confront the crisis of land loss by buying and developing land within the reservation...

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National Centre for First Nations Governance. "Best Practices Case Study (Territorial Integrity): Yakama Nation." A Report for the National Centre for First Nations Governance. The National Centre for First Nations Governance. Canada. June 2009. Case Study. (https://fngovernance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/TI_Yakama.pdf, accessed March 8, 2023)

Best Practices Case Study (Meaningful Information Sharing): Miawpukek First Nation

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Miawpukek First Nation (MFN) are Micmac people living on the south coast of Newfoundland. In 1998 they indicated to the Government of Canada their desire to move toward self-government negotiations. Recognizing the nature and scope of achievements of the community within its short existence as an Indian Act band, departmental officials proposed a unique exploratory discussion process. This process was implemented in late 1999 and continued through to spring 2001...

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National Centre for First Nations Governance. "Best Practices Case Study (Meaningful Information Sharing): Miawpukek First Nation." A Report for the National Centre for First Nations Governance. The National Centre for First Nations Governance. Canada. June 2009. Case Study. (https://fngovernance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/MIS_Miawpukek.pdf, accessed March 8, 2023)

Best Practices Case Study (Meaningful Information Sharing): Squiala First Nation

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Squiala First Nation is located within the boundaries of the City of Chilliwack, B.C. in the central Fraser Valley east of Vancouver. The connection of Evans Road to Ashwell through Squiala lands has been an issue of ongoing discussions between the City of Chilliwack and Squiala First Nation.

In response to the roads project -- and Squiala's work to develop financial and governance policies and the Squiala First Nations Land Code -- the Squiala initiated a comprehensive community planning process...

Native Nations
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National Centre for First Nations Governance. "Best Practices Case Study (Meaningful Information Sharing): Squiala First Nation." A Report for the National Centre for First Nations Governance. The National Centre for First Nations Governance. Canada. June 2009. Case Study. (https://fngovernance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/MIS_Squiala.pdf, accessed March 8, 2023)

Best Practices Case Study (Strategic Vision): Tsleil-Waututh Nation

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The Tsleil-Waututh are a Coast Salish people who live in a community located on the north shore of Vancouver, B.C. The Tsleil-Waututh have worked hard to protect their community identity and culture in the face of rapid urban expansion. Community leaders, including Chief Dan George and John L. George, have spoke strongly of the need to maintain aboriginal rights and title. In the early 1990s, the leadership began a revitalization process to mark their presence within Tsleil-Waututh traditional territory and to ensure their community's survival in the growing urban environment...

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National Centre for First Nations Governance. "Best Practices Case Study (Strategic Vision): Tsleil-Waututh Nation." A Report for the National Centre on First Nations Governance. National Centre for First Nations Governance. Canada. June 2009. Case Study. (https://fngovernance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/SV_Tseilwaatuth.pdf, accessed March 8, 2023)