Indigenous Peoples Organizations

The Coalition of Hamilton Indigenous Leadership (CHIL) is a collaborative of Indigenous organizational leaders. CHIL receives federal, provincial, and municipal funding which is then allocated to local Indigenous agencies to...

Coastal First Nations is a unique alliance of nine Nations living on British Columbia’s North and Central Coast and Haida Gwaii. Each Nation has its own distinct culture, governance and territory.

The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples represents the interests of Métis, status and Non-status Indians, and Southern Inuit Indigenous People living off-reserve in Canada. Our mandate is to improve the socio-economic conditions...

The File Hills Qu’Appelle Tribal Council (FHQTC) is the political and service organization for the Qu’Appelle Agency and the File Hills Agency, delivering programs and services to the 11 First Nations in the Treaty Four...

Gwich’in Council International (GCI) represents 9,000 Gwich’in in the Northwest Territories (NWT), Yukon, and Alaska as a Permanent Participant in the Arctic Council; the only international organization where Indigenous...

Since 1972 the Hamilton Regional Indian Centre, has been providing the Indigenous community with a place to gather, access service and participate in Cultural teachings and practices. The Friendship Centre provides wrap...

Identidad Territorial Lafkenche is an indigenous organization that brings together a group of communities and territorial actors that inhabit the Lafken Mapu or Mapuche coastal territory located between the Gulf of Arauco and...

The Indigenous Health Research Development Program operated from 2003 to the end of 2013 to increase capacity in Aboriginal health research in Ontario. The IHRDP provided funding for community-based research projects and...

Indigenous Works, formerly the Aboriginal Human Resource Council, is a national social enterprise. We were founded as a non-profit national organization in 1998 as a recommendation from the 1996 Report on the Royal Commission...

We are experts in the field of advocacy, policy, program delivery and support, and continually work to advance the capacity of Indigenous women, their families, and communities. Esquao, the Institute for the Advancement of...

Founded in 1977 by the late Eben Hopson of Barrow, Alaska, the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) has flourished and grown into a major international non-government organization representing approximately 180,000 Inuit of Alaska...