This week's We Are Neighbours is focusing on the Welcoming Communities characteristic of Positive Indigenous-Immigrant Relations and Understanding. Having both immigrants and indigenous people having positive experiences with one another and work towards having mutual understanding is important to ensuring local communities are welcoming and inclusive for everyone. Pathways to Prosperity's Welcoming Communities Toolkit identifies the Key Indicators for this as:
• Evidence of positive mutual attitudes between immigrants and Indigenous peoples in the
community
• Rate of discrimination and conflict between immigrants and Indigenous peoples in the
community
• Availability of reliable information for immigrants in both official languages and other top
languages of new arrivals about Indigenous peoples’ history, languages, knowledge,
cultures, traditional practices, contributions, and rights in Canada
• Level of immigrants’ knowledge of and respect for Indigenous peoples’ history, knowledge, languages, cultures, traditional practices, contributions, and rights in Canada
• Evidence of safe spaces for intercultural understanding between immigrants and Indigenous peoples (e.g., workshops and meetings to discuss and work on issues of common interest)
• Evidence of Indigenous peoples’ role in decision-making and activities to welcome immigrants to the community
• Level of satisfaction with:
o information for immigrants about Indigenous people’s history, languages, knowledge, cultures, traditional practices, contributions, and rights in Canada
o safe spaces for intercultural understanding between immigrants and Indigenous
peoples
o Indigenous peoples’ involvement with immigrants (from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and immigrants)
o immigrants’ knowledge about and involvement with Indigenous peoples (from the perspective of immigrants and Indigenous peoples)
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