The Union of New Brunswick Indians Board of Directors authorized the establishment of the UNBI Training Institute in 1994 as a key component of the UNBI's activities. Its purpose is to provide post-secondary and other educational opportunities for the people, and by the people, of the First Nation communities. At present the UNBI Training Institute is delivering courses such as Diploma in Early Childhood Education, and a Certificate in Home & Community Care as a Personal Support Worker.
Other parts of our site have described where the Mi’gmaq people have lived for thousands of years and how our language and traditions were formed over that long time.
The Lands Program administers and manages land transactions for The CMM's six member communities. The program provides quality land management advice and administrative support pertaining to reserve additions, pre-reserve designations and lands referendums. The Lands Management Program is available to member communities for updating land encumbrances, facilitating community land issue settlements, updating community mapping, researching historical land use and responding to Indian Land Registry queries.
The CMM is Tribal Council incorporated in 1986 as a not-for-profit organization under the Societies Act of Nova Scotia. Starting with a team of two staff members, twenty years later the organization is supported by more than sixty employees. The mission statement best summarizes the objectives of the organization:
Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs Secretariat (APC)
Year of publication:
2011
The intention of this project is to bring together a group of Elders from around the Atlantic region in order for them to guide the APCFNC (and others) on the development of protocols, ethics and guidelines on how Traditional Knowledge and Aboriginal world views can be incorporated into research which guides community economic development. These protocols, ethics and guidelines could be used for other areas of research as well.
Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs Secretariat (APC)
Year of publication:
2011
Provincial governments in the Atlantic Provinces are adopting aggressive renewable energy targets and strategies to meet those targets. Are First Nations participating in the renewable energy sector? If not, what are the barriers to that participation and how can we overcome those barriers. Several First Nations have begun to identify renewable energy opportunities and are working to meet renewable energy targets set by their respective provinces. What can we learn from them?
