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What are Appropriate Gifts for Indigenous Guest Speakers?
This article goes out to all the people who organize events that include Indigenous speakers and we thank one of our readers for suggesting we write on this topic.
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The Relationship Between Indigenous Peoples and Place Names
What is the relationship between Indigenous Peoples and place names? Indigenous place names carry knowledge that has been passed from generation to...
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Forestry and Reconciliation: Focus on BC
Since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its summary report containing 94 Calls- to-Action we have written a series of articles on what...
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Aboriginal Skills Training Projects Connect Communities with Opportunities
The Aboriginal Labour Market Community Navigators’ project, managed by the New Relationship Trust, was launched in January 2015. The three-year...
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Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its summary report and findings on June 2, 2015, after six years of hearings and testimony from more...
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Indigenous Worldviews vs Western Worldviews
Any individual within a culture is going to have his or her own personal interpretation of the collective cultural code; however, the individual's...
Ramona Materi Ingenia Consulting
Ramona Materi, MPA, MEd is the President of Ingenia Consulting. Ingenia consults on labour market and economic development issues. The firm has...
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Tips on Doing Business with Indigenous Communities in Northern BC
Northern British Columbia is an area often overlooked as a business opportunity Mecca but to Ramona Materi, President, Ingenia Consulting, it is rich...
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Reconciliation and the BC Anglican Diocese
The Anglican Church has been working towards reconciliation for a long time and in BC, that work is being guided by Bishop Logan McMenamie, who is in...
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Indigenous Reconciliation and Municipalities: Some Calls to Action
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) released its final report in December 2015 - a massive 3700-page tome resulting from the six-year...