Defnition of Indigenous Homelessness in Canada /

The white and black, however, are implicit and are represented in the white of the background and the black of the texts. [...] The white and the black colours of the medicine wheel literally carry the message of Indigenous Homelessness and articulate it to the world with the help of the red and yellow accents; therefore, the document itself is the medicine wheel. [...] These deficiencies include the government’s lack of culturally appropriate policies and practices in dealing with Indigenous Peoples, the broken treaty promises it fails to address, the lack of supports to Indigenous people in rural and urban settings, inadequate housing and tenancies on and off reserve, and the state’s failure to deliver vital infrastructure, health, education and employment serv [...] They institutions at the are instead necessary and inevitable systems of negotiation, arising out of the extinguishment history of cultures and the perpetual experience of people’s movements through of Indigenous webs of cultural significance and the material world. [...] The Métis had their Aboriginal title to the land, a right enshrined in the Royal Proclamation of 1763, extinguished through the Scrip system, first implemented after the first Red River Resistance (commonly known as the First Riel Rebellion) of 1869, the Northwest Resistance of 1885, and the Numbered Treaty Era that ran from the 1870s to the 1920s.