The Indigenous workstream

No Indigenous person or organization has reviewed, endorsed, or participated in this work, and this page says so.

This is not our land.

Whose land this is, said in the nations' own words, not ours: the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation on the Toronto Purchase and Treaty 13 — mncfn.ca — and the ongoing work of Talking Treaties.

Doors

Find services

Looking for an Indigenous-led or Indigenous-serving service in Toronto? Start with the free services and learning-traditions guide. Every entry links the provider's own site. → Guide 17: Indigenous Services and Learning Traditions

Find organizations

The organization directory's Indigenous-led and Indigenous-serving rows, in the same directory every other organization in this project appears in — same status gate, no special treatment. → Organization Directory

Read Indigenous authors

Sixty-eight works — reports and books — selected on stated, mechanical criteria, organized by theme. Where a work's authorship has been publicly contested, that contest travels with the entry. → The Indigenous Shelf

Learn the traditions

For a non-Indigenous reader who wants to learn: public tours, cultural education, and the language classes that are stated open to everyone — never a substitute for the services above, which are addressed to Indigenous readers specifically. Ceremony is entered by invitation, on communities' own terms, never consumed. → Guide 17 — Learning Traditions (Part B)

What Indigenous communities have said about Toronto's issues

Thirty-one issues, each with what Indigenous nations, organizations, and knowledge-holders have publicly published about it — quoted exactly, sourced to the original, never paraphrased into our agenda. Where communities disagree, we carry the disagreement. → The Indigenous Context Library

Our method and our limits

The charter this work runs on, and the roadmap of what is done, shipping, and next. Every quote here is verified against the living source, twice, by different hands. → The Charter · The Roadmap

The Indigenous Context Library below currently covers 31 of Toronto's civic issues, with more added as the corpus grows.