Sentences with phrase «indigenous community members»

Drawing the connection between native title and various government policies with a view to improving the lives of Indigenous community members is important, particularly given the significance of country for Indigenous peoples.

Considerable effort has been invested in involving and informing Indigenous community members regarding use and occupancy mapping, which is now gaining strong support within the Indigenous community.

These organisations are governed and largely staffed by local Indigenous community members who are held accountable to our communities for delivering on outcomes, often well beyond what we are funded to deliver and beyond the usual hours of business.

And, this is despite our previous achievement under a Federal government «pilot program» which placed 88 local Indigenous community members into jobs, most of which were long - term unemployed, and retained employment beyond 13 weeks.

In considering how court support can be best provided to Indigenous litigants a fundamental principle is that court support needs to be provided at a local level by respected local Indigenous community members.

They have the ability to lead to real benefits for the people who really matter in resource projects on Indigenous lands, the local Indigenous community members.

Indigenous community members are actively encouraged to participate in the courses and there are pathways for Indigenous community members who may have had little formal education.

Numerous philanthropic groups, local councils and industry groups support Indigenous community members to develop and deliver learning projects which may be tied in with school curricula or complimentary to school programs.

Our findings reinforce the need to consider the range of determinants that may need to be addressed, increased efforts to engage Indigenous community members and to ensure appropriate care is continued beyond initial contact with the health service in order to improve access to health services.

The internet remains an inaccessible medium for many Indigenous community members, and also presumes that people have high English literacy levels.

In Sarawak, a state in Malaysian Borneo, indigenous community members blockaded a key road leading to the Murum dam site.

The qualitative case study presented in this article used Indigenous Postcolonial Theory as a lens to explore the process and outcomes of a partnership between Indigenous community members and a teacher preparation program.

Not exact matches

In many indigenous cultures I have learned about, community members who want more resources than they can personally use are viewed as suffering from some kind of mental illness.

Mr. Corbett is a Member of the Australian Indigenous Chamber of Commerce Advisory Board and a former founding director of Outback Stores, a commercial venture supported by the government to provide retail facilities for communities in remote Australia.

Enbridge is committed to providing training and employment to members of Indigenous communities, and creating meaningful opportunities for Indigenous businesses.

To say that all religious communities recognize the right of people not to be tortured, or that all religious communities support the self - determination of indigenous peoples is not very exciting: even if these claims are true (and I suspect that they are not), they bear little relation to any claim that a faithful member of any religious community would recognize as his own.

Meanwhile, hundreds of members of indigenous groups (called «native communities» in Peru) harvest Brazil nuts from communally owned forests.

A little march to and rally outside where he was staying, in support of the action being taken to preserve the eight indigenous ethnic groups, the small but very ancient and entrenched Jewish community, the Gulf's only synagogue and Jewish cemetery, the black community that is part of the East African diaspora, the fifth of the population that is non-Muslim, the half of that fifth which is Christian, the strictly optional status of the women's headscarf, the Sunni third of Bahraini Muslims, the requirement that all legislation be approved by both Houses of Parliament, the election of the Lower House by universal suffrage, the regular appointment of women to the Upper House to make up for their dearth in the elected Lower House, the presence in the Upper House of a Jewish man and a Christian woman (the latter the first woman ever to chair a Parliament in the Arab world), the present position of a Jewish woman as Ambassador to the United States, the very close ties to Britain, and the fact that all of this is perfectly acceptable even to Salafi Members of Parliament.

On Tuesday, some members of the Indigenous People of Biafra had reportedly clashed with the Hausa community in Oyibo Local Government Area of Rivers State, allegedly killing a northerner.

Consumption of contaminated fish «is an especially pressing concern for many communities of color, low - income communities, tribes, and other indigenous peoples, whose members may consume fish, aquatic plants, and wildlife in greater quantities than does the general population,» according to a landmark Environmental Protection Agency study published nearly a decade ago.

She's finding evidence that suggests members of indigenous communities exchanged these items, often as gifts, rather than professional merchants establishing trade between towns.

A highly anticipated session between representatives of indigenous Arctic communities and members of the European Parliament kicked off the second day.

Schools that achieve sustained improvements for Indigenous students recognise the key role of Indigenous parents, leaders and other community members and actively build relationships with these important people in their students» lives.

Members embrace the intrinsic value and right to exist of the other - than - human and of natural environments, and recognize that the pursuance and advocacy of a planetary ethic of environmental and social justice needs to be grounded in, as well as restorative and celebratory of, local and indigenous communities and cultures.

Characteristics of culturally responsive pedagogies established through interviews with Australian Indigenous parents, community members and students generated themes which were distilled into survey items by a team of Indigenous and other educators.

The video scripts were tested with members of the Indigenous community to make sure they were relevant, useful and culturally appropriate.

We launched them during NAIDOC week up in Darwin, which was fantastic because some of the Indigenous Outreach Program staff members got to go to Darwin and we were able to invite members of the local community in to have a look at the videos.

In her tribe (Watt is an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation of Indians) and in other Indigenous communities, blankets are given away to honor those who witness important life events.

Utilizing silkscreen prints and sculptural installation Miner invites members of the community to engage with his familial history and, in light of the recent Supreme Court ruling on the status of Metis and non-status Indians, also consider Indigenous sovereignty within an historical and contemporary context.

RELATED ARTS ACTIVITIES Co-Organizer, Onaman Collective (2014 — present) Project Creator / Lead Coordinator, Walking With Our Sisters Touring Exhibit (2012 on - going to 2020) Keynote Address, Indigenous Artists» Symposium: Activism & Education Through the Arts by Sâkêwêwak and the First Nations University of Canada Plains Red Gallery, Regina, SK (Feb 2016) Keynote Address, Education Through Reconciliation Through Education by First Nations, Métis, & Inuit Education Association of Ontario, Brampton, ON (May 2016) Collaboration with The House of Valentino, Milan, Italy (2015) Designer, 2015 Pan Am Parapan Am Game Medals Guest Lecturer, Shingwauk Ginoomagegamig, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, ON (2014) Guest Lecturer, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts & Institute of American Indian Arts, Sante Fe, NM (2013) Lead Organizer, Community Art Collaborative Piece, Seventh Generation Midwives, Toronto, ON (2012) Jury Member, Ontario Arts Council, Aboriginal Arts Awards, Toronto, Ontario (2012) Jury Member, Ontario Arts Council, Visual Arts / Established Artist Program, Toronto, Ontario (2011) Guest Lecturer, Snelgrove Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Arts Department, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (2010) Guest Exhibit / Presenter, New Sun Symposium, Ottawa, Ontario (2010) Jury Member, Ontario Arts Council, Northern Arts Program, Toronto, Ontario (2009) Project Creator, Artistic Co-Director & Jury Member, Willisville Mountain Project, Willisville, Ontario (2008) Jury Member, Ontario Arts Council, Visual Arts Program, Toronto, Ontario (2008) Jury Member, Canada Council for the Arts, Aboriginal Peoples Collaborative Exchange Program, Ottawa, Ontario (2008) Jury Member, Ontario Arts Council, Chalmers Awards, Toronto, Ontario (2006)

In a prepared statement, the center pointed to Hamilton's «proficiency in ethnographic assessment and organizational design... her position as a trusted local community member, and familiarity with indigenous artists» as key assets for the New Orleans center.

During his residency at Bellas Artes Projects, Dayrit focused his research into the history and mythology of the Ayta Magbukun community of Bataan, a deeply marginalized Indigenous Peoples group in central Luzon, examining their position in relation to colonial and post-colonial history and their representation in ethnographic studies of these periods, in close conversation with members of the community.

In her tribe (Ms. Watt is an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation of Indians) and other Indigenous communities, blankets are given away to honor those who are witness to important life events.

In this edition Maximo Ba Tiul, the head of international relations, presents the Tezulutlan Peoples» Council, a member organisation of the Network that represents indigenous communities in Guatemala.

United Tribes of Bristol Bay was founded in 2013 to unite the tribal voice by six Bristol Bay tribes and its member tribes now represent fourteen of the Yup» ik, Denai» na, and Alutiq indigenous communities in Bristol Bay — over half the population of the region.

The delegation included members from frontline communities, Indigenous communities, communities of color, youth, advocates, and policymakers who are pushing for climate action on the city and state level despite the U.S withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and recent rollbacks on climate protections.

Signed by party co-leaders Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley and four other party members, the Green Party letter calls on Barclays and HSBC to stop funding the U.S. pipeline project due to its impact on the climate and indigenous communities.

«It is time that Shell be held accountable for the damages it has done on our communities and environment,» says Monique Verdin, an indigenous resident of the Louisiana coast and member - elect of the United Houma Nation Council.

• The draft REDD text contains promising ethical language, including obligations to «respect the knowledge and rights of indigenous peoples and members of local communities» and promote «the full and effective participation of all relevant stakeholders.»

Between training sessions with us, they would return to their villages, with specific tasks: To teach village members about the regulations that applied to the timber companies; to map their communities» traditional land use and boundaries; to learn about their village's indigenous knowledge and management of wildlife; to help organize a system for monitoring the timber companies; to develop a series of wildlife management scenarios acceptable to their communities; etc..

Led by Richmond community members, indigenous leaders in the Idle No More movement, and other climate movement leaders, we refused to move until our demands were met or we were arrested.

Her community service includes serving as a member of the Indigenous Blacks & Mi «kmaq Initiative Advisory Council and the IB&M Standing Committee at the Schulich School of Law, and she provides pro bono legal services to individuals through the Immigrant Settlement & Integration Services (ISIS).

Saturday, March 17 2018, Coast Salish Territory / Burnaby, BC — A group of more than two dozen Indigenous people, community members, families and retired teachers were arrested on Burnaby Mountain after they blocked Kinder Morgan's tank farm front gate for four hours.

Any offence to the name has already been expressed, by members of Indigenous and First Nations communities.

Saturday, March 17TH 2018, Coast Salish Territory / Burnaby, BC — A group of more than two dozen Indigenous people, community members, families and retired teachers are being arrested on Burnaby Mountain after they blocked Kinder Morgan's tank farm front gate for four hours.

-- A group of more than two dozen Indigenous people, community members, families and retired teachers are being arrested on Burnaby Mountain after they blocked Kinder Morgan's tank farm front gate for four hours.

-- Dozens of Indigenous people, community members, families and retired teachers are blocking Kinder Morgan's front gate on Burnaby Mountain.

Twenty - eight Indigenous people, community members, families and retired teachers peacefully blocked the gates to Kinder Morgan's tank farm for 4 hours until the RCMP moved in to arrest them, moments ago.

March 17, 2018, Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver)-- Indigenous leaders will lead community members in ceremony and action at Kinder Morgan's construction site on Burnaby Mountain, starting at 10:00 AM PDT.

In 1963, she also founded the Vancouver Friendship Centre, now the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Society, which continues to serve members of the urban Indigenous community by providing health, advocacy, education and social services.