LibGuides: Early Childhood Education: Indigenous Children & Education

Agencies and Organizations

Education and Family
Community

First Nations Child & Family Caring Society
The Caring Society works to ensure the safety and well-being of First Nations youth and their families through education initiatives, public policy campaigns and providing quality resources to support communities.
Ontario Aboriginal Head Start Association
OAHSA is collectively united, with respect to our traditional teachings, to inspire, promote and support life-long learning and empowerment of our Aboriginal Head Start in urban and northern communities.
Ontario Native Women's Association
The Ontario Native Women’s Association (ONWA) is a not for profit organization to empower and support all Indigenous women and their families in the province of Ontario through research, advocacy, policy development and programs that focus on local, regional and provincial activities.
Association of Native Child and Family Services Agencies of Ontario
Established in 1994, the Association of Native Child and Family Services Agencies of Ontario (ANCFSAO) is a provincial organization mandated to build a better life for all Indigenous children through promoting the delivery of culturally-based services to Indigenous children, families, and communities.
National Aboriginal Health Organization (NAHO)
Our organisation takes the approach Aboriginals education in terms of spirituality, connectedness, self-determination, and self-reliance as an advanced way of attending to their historical context in society.
Indspire
Indspire is a national Indigenous registered charity that invests in the education of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people for the long term benefit of these individuals, their families and communities, and Canada.

Ontario Coalition of Indigenous People's (OCIP)
advocacy organization representing rights and interests of off-reserve Aboriginal Métis, Status and non-Status peoples
Turtle Island Native Network
extensive links to First Nations communities in Ontario

Select Websites

Indigenous Education in Ontario
Ontario Ministry of Education. This strategy has been designed to improve opportunities for First Nation, Métis and Inuit students, to increase the knowledge and awareness of all students about Indigenous histories, cultures and perspectives.
What Matters in Indigenous Education
People for Education explores an Indigenous approach to quality learning environments and the Measuring What Matters competencies and skills.
Indigenous Education (Canadian School Boards Association)
The CSBA Indigenous Education Committee addresses Indigenous issues at the national level and seeks to develop and support a framework for analysis of how we can contribute to action/ deliberation on those issues by member associations.
First Nations Education Transformation (Government of Canada)
Gov't of Canada partnership on First Nations elementary and secondary education.
TUTORIAL: A Short History of Indigenous Education in Canada (U of T)
This unit provides an unpacking of the term Indigenous education to explain why it is thought of in such different, sometimes opposing, ways. This lesson will also depict some of the major currents of educational movements related to Indigenous learning.
Ontario First Nations, Metis and Inuit Education
Ontario Ministry Education document on Delivering Quality Education to Aboriginal Students in Ontario’s
Provincially Funded Schools (2007)

Truth and Reconciliation Commission
See Resources page for extensive documents, interim reports, settlement agreements, and other reconciliation documents.

Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future
A comprehensive summary of the report is available on pg. 535.

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Government documents related to the Commission

Misconceptions of the Indian Residential School System
Descriptive history including statistics. (Aboriginal Healing Foundation)
Aboriginal Peoples Survey
School Experiences of Off-Reserve First Nations Children Aged 6 to 14, 2006
Indigenous Peoples
"Education and skills related to Canada’s Aboriginal population, including educational attainment, field of study, education outcomes, literacy, technology use, and residential schooling."

National Centre for Truth & Reconciliation, University of Manitoba

(displays residential schools, events, and/or hearings, and includes active time-line)

The National Centre for Truth & Reconciliation is the permanent home for all statements, documents, and other materials gathered by the TRC, ensuring that that:

former students and their families have access to their own history; educators can share the Indian Residential School history with future generations of students; researchers can more deeply explore the Residential School experience; the public can access historical records and other materials to help foster reconciliation and healing