Do Tripartite Approaches to Reform of Services for First Nations Make a Difference? A Study of Three Sectors.

Jodi Bruhn

doi:10.5663/aps.v7i1.28443

Do Tripartite Approaches to Reform of Services for First Nations Make a Difference? A Study of Three Sectors.

aboriginal policy studies ◽

10.5663/aps.v7i1.28443 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Jodi Bruhn

Keyword(s):

Secondary Education ◽

Child Welfare ◽

First Nations ◽

Grey Literature ◽

The Past ◽

The Future ◽

Service Areas

First Nations in Canada have developed tripartite arrangements with federal and provincial governments in a range of service areas. Some scholars classify the arrangements as “mere” devolution; others debate whether they mark an emerging, more collaborative Crown/Indigenous relationship. There is also the pressing question of impact. Do tripartite service arrangements promote positive changes for affected First Nations and their members? This paper examines the character of these arrangements, as well as their impact on both services and relationships among the signatories. Analysing regional tripartite arrangements concluded over the past decade in First Nations policing, child welfare, and primary/secondary education, it then draws on evaluations, and scholarly and other “grey” literature to identify common challenges and successes. Throughout, the paper seeks to discern potential lessons from the past decade for negotiating and implementing tripartite service arrangements in the future.

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Aboriginal population of Canada: growth dynamics under conditions of encounter of civilisations

Canadian Studies in Population ◽

10.25336/p6b605 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 30 (1) ◽

pp. 75 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Anatole Romaniuc

Keyword(s):

First Nations ◽

Growth Dynamics ◽

Historical Background ◽

Aboriginal Peoples ◽

Policy Issues ◽

Aboriginal Population ◽

The Past ◽

The Future ◽

Demographic Evolution

This paper endeavours to capture the broad configuration of demographic evolution of the Aboriginal peoples of Canada from the early contacts with Europeans to the present. The main stages thereof are identified and the underlying factors explored, against the historical background of Aboriginal and European civilisations' encounter. While taking stock of the past, the paper takes a glimpse into the future. It concludes with a review of demographically-driven policy issues that the First Nations are likely to confront as they step into the 21s Century.

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"For the Good of the Child": The Colonial Machinations of Child Welfare in Canada

INvoke ◽

10.29173/invoke48988 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 ◽

Author(s):

Nathan Sunday

Keyword(s):

Child Welfare ◽

First Nations ◽

School System ◽

Child Welfare System ◽

Residential Schools ◽

Welfare System ◽

Residential School ◽

School Project ◽

The Past

Although residential schools no longer exist today, the systems of oppression which allowed them to operate continue. These systems have existed non-linearly throughout time, as the past, present, and future effects of colonialism intersect in the lives of First Nations. The spiritual successor of the residential school project can be viewed in many contemporary structures; specifically, in the institutionalized violence accumulated within the child welfare system. In this paper, I argue that the contemporary child welfare system in Canada, as it relates to both on- and off-reserve First Nations children, is the modern-day successor of the Indian Residential School System. Specifically, the strategies of racialization and subalternation underpinning the colonial machine, and exemplified within the residential school system, have surreptitiously reformed into the child welfare system.

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Imagination in and Beyond Education

10.1093/oso/9780190468712.003.0010 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Sanne Akkerman

Keyword(s):

Secondary Education ◽

Identity Development ◽

Young Age ◽

Educational Context ◽

Educational Settings ◽

The Past ◽

The Future ◽

Domains Of Life ◽

The Way

This chapter discusses the way in which imagination is key to being and learning at school, given the fact that education is inherently oriented to that which is, for a large part, outside and beyond it. First, attention will be given to students’ life-wide imagination across parallel participations outside the educational context, showing how education is not isolated from other domains of life. Second, lifelong imagination is discussed as a process by which students narrate the past and anticipate the future; specifically at stake are the successive choices that students are required to make, often starting at a relatively young age during secondary education. Referring to existing studies on identity development and interest research, it is argued that the imaginary work of students is a plausible but also essential way to determine their own pathways, even in partly restricted educational settings.

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Les peuples américains et le système judiciaire canadien: Spéléologie d'un trou de mémoire

Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue Canadienne Droit et Société ◽

10.1017/s0829320100007274 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 123-148 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Rémi Savard

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Social Control ◽

First Nations ◽

Political Institutions ◽

Justice System ◽

Aboriginal Peoples ◽

Constant Increase ◽

The Past ◽

The Future

AbstractWhy are First Nations overrepresented in Canadian prisons? The habitual answer is that the Canadian justice system is not adapted to Aboriginal cultures. This has given rise to various measures of adjustment, which have not, however, contributed significantly to halt the constant increase of overrepresentation. The author argues that this predicament is rather due to the lack of credibility that the Canadian justice system has in the eyes of Aboriginal peoples, given its involvement in the dismantling of Aboriginal institutions of social control since the middle of the nineteenth century. For this reason, first of all, one must dissociate oneself from certain founding myths of present-day Canada. Moreover, all must be set in motion to allow Aboriginal peoples to reappropriate their political institutions, including their own ways of administering justice. Make no mistake: it is not a question of returning to the past, but rather of moving ahead towards the future.

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