UNDRIP Strategy - Indigenous engagement

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The City of Vancouver is now the first municipality in Canada to adopt a formal process to engage with urban Indigenous community members—who include First Nations, Inuit and Métis from across North America—marking a significant step forward in its Reconciliation journey.

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The process:

We invited Indigenous people who live or work in Vancouver to join us to learn more about the City of Vancouver's United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) Strategy, and to share thoughts on how the Strategy and its Calls to Action can better reflect the needs and rights of Indigenous people in Vancouver. Below is a list of past workshops and engagements.

Next Steps:

  • Continue engaging with urban Indigenous community members
  • Report back to the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation) and urban Indigenous community members
  • Share the engagement findings with all City of Vancouver departments

To learn more, you can:

Background:

Vancouver has the second largest urban Indigenous population in Canada. Urban Indigenous people also have important rights and experience ongoing impacts from colonialism. The work to implement UNDRIP within Vancouver, is being done with care to strengthen the government-to-government relationship and respect the protocols of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation) as Aboriginal title holders, while continuing to build relationships with diverse Urban Indigenous communities.

An engagement approach based on supporting solidarity among xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation) and urban Indigenous people is taking shape. It will be important to work with urban Indigenous leadership and bring together Urban Indigenous communities to address the priorities of Urban Indigenous people, and make sure that their voices are included.

We acknowledge that what is known as the City of Vancouver is situated on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation).


Siwash Rock in Stanley Park at sunsetSiwash Rock, Stanley Park


The City of Vancouver is now the first municipality in Canada to adopt a formal process to engage with urban Indigenous community members—who include First Nations, Inuit and Métis from across North America—marking a significant step forward in its Reconciliation journey.

Learn more by:

The process:

We invited Indigenous people who live or work in Vancouver to join us to learn more about the City of Vancouver's United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) Strategy, and to share thoughts on how the Strategy and its Calls to Action can better reflect the needs and rights of Indigenous people in Vancouver. Below is a list of past workshops and engagements.

Next Steps:

  • Continue engaging with urban Indigenous community members
  • Report back to the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation) and urban Indigenous community members
  • Share the engagement findings with all City of Vancouver departments

To learn more, you can:

Background:

Vancouver has the second largest urban Indigenous population in Canada. Urban Indigenous people also have important rights and experience ongoing impacts from colonialism. The work to implement UNDRIP within Vancouver, is being done with care to strengthen the government-to-government relationship and respect the protocols of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation) as Aboriginal title holders, while continuing to build relationships with diverse Urban Indigenous communities.

An engagement approach based on supporting solidarity among xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation) and urban Indigenous people is taking shape. It will be important to work with urban Indigenous leadership and bring together Urban Indigenous communities to address the priorities of Urban Indigenous people, and make sure that their voices are included.

We acknowledge that what is known as the City of Vancouver is situated on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation).


Siwash Rock in Stanley Park at sunsetSiwash Rock, Stanley Park


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    Purpose of these updates: To bring together Indigenous community members who live or work in Vancouver to support the implementation of the Urban Indigenous Engagement Framework | City of Vancouver and to share your priorities and perspectives with City of Vancouver.

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