{"id":1507,"date":"2009-11-25T08:39:38","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T16:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2009-11-25T08:39:38","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T16:39:38","slug":"congress-of-aboriginal-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/2009\/11\/25\/congress-of-aboriginal-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress of Aboriginal People"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"G9kqSVKObD\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/abo-peoples.org\/\">Home<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Home&#8221; &#8212; Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP)\" src=\"https:\/\/abo-peoples.org\/embed\/#?secret=gzDgJHyOa6#?secret=G9kqSVKObD\" data-secret=\"G9kqSVKObD\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, (CAP), is the national voice of off-reserve Aboriginal people throughout Canada.\u00a0 We are a grassroots-driven, national voice for our communities, advocating for the rights and interests of off-reserve and non-status Indians and M\u00e9tis people, living in urban, rural and remote areas of Canada.\u00a0 The Congress is at the leading edge of issues and opportunities that impact Aboriginal peoples across Canada.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Founded in 1971   as the<em> Native Council of Canada<\/em>, our initial goal was to re-establish recognition of our constituents as Aboriginal people, and to obtain fundamental Aboriginal and human rights for them.\u00a0 Our work continues today as the effects of urbanization and globalization are increasingly felt in social and economic trends that have direct bearing on off-reserve Aboriginal peoples.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Seventy-nine per cent pf Aboriginal people live away from Indian Reserves, while Aboriginal policies and programming in Canada is directed to on-reserve \u201cFirst Nations\u201d people at a ration of over 8:1.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The goals of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples are targeted to achieving social and economic equity for its constituents in housing, health care, education, employment and economic development.\u00a0 A key component of CAP\u2019s mandate continues to be advocacy for Aboriginal and treaty rights for M\u00e9tis and non-status Indian people.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) serves the interests of on-reserve Indians.\u00a0 The M\u00e9tis National Council (MNC) represents some M\u00e9tis people. The Inuit are represented by the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK), and Aboriginal women, by the Native Women\u2019s Association of Canada (NWAC).<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Yet, there remains a large gap in program and service delivery once individuals leave their on-reserve communities, or in the case of the M\u00e9tis, if they cannot trace their ancestral lineage back to what the MNC term as the \u201cM\u00e9tis homelands\u201d in Western Canada.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples is the organization that advocates on behalf of the \u201cForgotten People\u201d, those who are otherwise voiceless at the National level.\u00a0 We have a distinguished thirty-seven year history of undertaking research and program\/service delivery, as well as carrying out ongoing government relations.\u00a0 All these efforts seek to build mutual understanding and broader acceptance of the off-reserve status, non-status and M\u00e9tis constituencies.\u00a0 The Congress is also a recognized non-governmental organization (NGO) with the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">We are here to amplify the voice of our people at all levels, from local to global.\u00a0 We are committed to ensuring that Aboriginal people attain a standard of living equitable to all Canadians.\u00a0 We seek to engage others \u2013 to participate, contribute and to gain benefit \u2013 to consider and influence the effects of our collective decisions on behalf of future generations, so that our children and grandchildren can inherit healthy and sustainable communities and enjoy the prosperity they so richly deserve.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, (CAP), is the national voice of off-reserve Aboriginal people throughout Canada.\u00a0 We are a grassroots-driven, national voice for our communities, advocating for the rights and interests of off-reserve and non-status Indians and M\u00e9tis people, living in urban, rural and remote areas of Canada.\u00a0 The Congress is at the leading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":885,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/885"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}