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Free, Prior and Informed Consent
Indigenous Peoples have a clear right to determine for themselves whether to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ or ‘yes with conditions’, whenever governments or corporations propose actions that could impact their lives, lands, jurisdictions and futures. The exercise of this aspect of the right to self- determination is known as "free, prior and informed consent" or FPIC.
More About This Resource Free, Prior and Informed ConsentWorking with Elders
The First Peoples’ Cultural Council (FPCC) supports community-based work in language, arts and cultural heritage across British Columbia. Much of this work depends on the involvement of our Elders and Knowledge Keepers. Here, we offer suggestions that can help to create a smooth and rewarding experience both for our Elders and for the communities they support.
More About This Resource Working with EldersEmpathy, Dignity, and Respect: Creating cultural safety for Aboriginal people in urban health care
In the spring of 2012, the Health Council of Canada held a series of meetings across Canada with health care providers, managers, and researchers to learn about efforts to create culturally competent care and culturally safe environments for Aboriginal people in urban health care services.
More About This Resource Empathy, Dignity, and Respect: Creating cultural safety for Aboriginal people in urban health careAboriginal Cultural Practices: A Guide For Physicians And Allied Health Care Professionals Working At Vancouver Coastal Health
These cultural guidelines aim to help VCH staff within hospital settings to provide culturally responsive health care services to Aboriginal clients.
More About This Resource Aboriginal Cultural Practices: A Guide For Physicians And Allied Health Care Professionals Working At Vancouver Coastal HealthA Guide to the Pronunciation of Indigenous Communities and Organizations in BC
This Guide contains aids to the pronunciation of communities and organizations listed in the Excel Database “Guide to Indigenous Organizations and Services in British Columbia” (Previously known as The Guide to Aboriginal Organizations and Services in British Columbia). The original Pronunciation Guide was created with input from First Nations and other Aboriginal organizations, as well as from the First Peoples’ Cultural Council.
More About This Resource A Guide to the Pronunciation of Indigenous Communities and Organizations in BCIndigenous Peoples: Language Guidelines
Canada’s historical relationship with the first inhabitants of the land has been shaped by its imperial and colonial history. One result has been that for many years, Indigenous peoples’ respective identities were neither recognized nor respected in mainstream discourse. Version 3.1 of this guide has been produced to help UBC communicators navigate the terminology and meanings associated with this subject in order to produce the best — and most respectful — results, with the recognition that, as time passes, the terminology is subject to change and this guide will again need to be refreshed.
More About This Resource Indigenous Peoples: Language GuidelinesIntellectual Property and the Safeguarding of Traditional Cultures
This publication by Jane Anderson and Molly Torsen offers legal information and compiles practical experiences on the management of intellectual property for cultural institutions whose collections comprise traditional cultural expressions. It seeks to respond directly to the needs of cultural institutions and Indigenous and traditional communities dealing with the preservation, safeguarding and protection of cultural heritage.
More About This Resource Intellectual Property and the Safeguarding of Traditional CulturesPolicy Paper: Recognizing and IncludingIndigenous Cultural Heritage in B.C.
First Peoples’ Cultural Council (FPCC) has prepared this paper to address the immediate need to revitalize, manage, and protect Indigenous cultural heritage (ICH) in meaningful and substantive ways.
More About This Resource Policy Paper: Recognizing and IncludingIndigenous Cultural Heritage in B.C.Biopiracy: Abolish Corporate Hijacking of Indigenous Medicinal Entities
In this paper, we present an overview of typical cases of global biopiracy, bioprospecting via introduction of cost-effective deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) fingerprinting and international protocol with Private-Public-People Partnership concept as excellent forms of utilization of natural resources. We propose certain perspectives as scientists towards abolishing biopiracy and also to foster the fair utilization of natural resources; since the economy of most developing countries is agriculture based, the gross domestic product of the developing countries could be increased by enhanced bioprospecting via introduction of cost-effective DNA fingerprinting technologies and thus not being a pray of corporate hijacking.“Biopiracy is biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use” (Vandana Shiva).
More About This Resource Biopiracy: Abolish Corporate Hijacking of Indigenous Medicinal EntitiesTri-council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans: Chapter 9: Research Involving the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples of Canada
This chapter of the Tri-council Policy Statement on research involving Indigenous Peoples in Canada, including First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples, marks a step toward establishing an ethical space for dialogue on common interests and points of difference between researchers and Indigenous communities engaged in research.
More About This Resource Tri-council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans: Chapter 9: Research Involving the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples of CanadaBeyond Conservation:Working Respectfully with Indigenous People and Their Knowledge Systems
This toolkit was developed by the IPCA Knowledge Basket, offering guidance to prepare you for the work of weaving multiple ways of knowing, and of working respectfully with Indigenous Peoples and their Knowledge Systems. Decolonizing collaboration, research, and conservation and stewardship is an ongoing effort that will continue for generations to come. It requires a certain readiness on the part of non-Indigenous people that is rooted in humility, curiosity, a willingness to learn and change, and a clearly expressed intention to embrace other ways of knowing. This toolkit section outlines a very small portion of what is required to decolonize our work to protect and preserve the natural world.
More About This Resource Beyond Conservation:Working Respectfully with Indigenous People and Their Knowledge SystemsUnited Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (S.C. 2021, c. 14)
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (S.C. 2021, c. 14)
More About This Resource United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (S.C. 2021, c. 14)