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- to assist participating First Nations in developing the capacity to provide education on First Nation land and to provide for any other matters related to education that may be agreed to by the Authority and a participating First Nation in accordance with an individual agreement.
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Consult the reports on First Nations education since 1972 to learn more about past research and recommendations that will inform the way forward, as the Government of Canada works collaboratively with First Nations to ensure that all students receive a quality education.
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Learn about Indigenous Services Canada (ISC)'s role in...
- Education
Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) supports the advancement of First Nations student achievement in First Nations, independent, provincial and territorial schools through the Education Partnerships Program (EPP).
- Traditional Education
- Development of European-Style Education, 1600S-1830
- Residential Schools, 1830s to 1996
- Reserve Schools and Provincial Schools, 1867-1972
- Indigenous-Led Education, 1972-2010S
- Moving Forward: Challenges and Change
- Recent Directions
Traditional education among most Indigenous peoples was accomplished using several techniques, including observation and practice, family and group socialization, oral teachings and participation in community ceremonies and institutions. The adults responsible for educating youth included parents, grandparents, members of the extended family and co...
In the early 1600s, the formal European-style education of Indigenous children began in New France. Schools were operated by Catholic missionaries from French religious orders such as the Récollets, Jesuits and Ursulines. These schools established a pattern of church involvement in Indigenous education that dominated until after the Second World Wa...
Beginning in the 1830s, the settler churches, mainly the Roman Catholic and Anglican denominations, in cooperation with the colonial governments and later the federal government, began to establish residential schools. Some Inuit children were educated in mission schools in Labrador as early as the 1790s; however, formal European-style education fo...
After 1867, education for Indigenous youth fell into two categories: education for status Indians, which became a federal responsibility under the Constitution and various treaties, and education for non-status Indian, Inuit and Métis youth, which became a provincial or territorial responsibility. By 1900, there were 226 federally-funded day school...
In 1972, the National Indian Brotherhood (now known as the Assembly of First Nations) produced a policy on Indigenous education called Indian Control of Indian Education. The policy was subsequently adopted by the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (now Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada) as an unofficial education policy. It...
Improving the educational outcomes of Indigenous youth in Canada has been an ongoing challenge for more than a century. It is evident that major reforms will be required before substantive positive changes in the Indigenous graduation rates and outcomes at the secondary and post-secondary education levels will emerge. Some argue that federal and pr...
In 2009, Shannen Koostachin (born 12 July 1994; died 1 June 2010), a 15-year old Cree girl from Attawapiskat First Nation in Ontario, went to Parliamentto demand better education for Indigenous students. The only elementary school in her hometown had been closed down for many years, forcing the students into portables. Some students, including Koos...
This document was designed to “assist governments and First Nations communities in building the requisite policies, programs, services and systems to ensure the future prosperity of First Nations peoples in Canada,” and reasserts “First Nations inherent Aboriginal and Treaty rights to education.”
Learn about Indigenous Services Canada (ISC)'s role in elementary and secondary First Nations education, as well as funding programs available to support students and educators.
First Nations students have an Inherent and Treaty right to education, including education infrastructure as part of their lifelong learning process. This includes the right to safe, equitable and sustainable education infrastructure that incorporates the unique needs of First Nations students.
May 4, 2021 · The Honourable Marc Miller. Minister of Indigenous Services. "One more step toward the common achievement of a change that fully supports the control of First Nations' education by and for First Nations in Quebec, as envisioned by the Chiefs in the early 1970s.
