In 1998 the Government of Canada responded to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples with a long-term, broad-based policy approach designed to increase the quality of life of Aboriginal people and to promote self-sufficiency. It is called Gathering Strength -- Canada's Aboriginal Action Plan.

The vision captured by Gathering Strength is fairly straightforward:

• A new partnership among Aboriginal people and other Canadians that reflects our mutual interdependence and enables us to work together to build a better future.
  
  
• Financially viable Aboriginal governments able to generate their own revenues and able to operate with secure, predictable government transfers.
  
  
• Aboriginal governments reflective of, and responsive to, their communities' needs and values.
  
  
• A quality of life for Aboriginal people like other Canadians.

• Gathering Strength - Canada's Aboriginal Action Plan: A Progress Report: July 2000
  
  
• Gathering Strength - Canada's Aboriginal Action Plan: A Progress Report: January 1998
  
  
  • Agenda for Action with First Nations
    
    

• Statement of reconciliation: Learning from the past
  
  
  • Backgrounder: The Residential School System:
    An Historical Overview

• Gathering strength: Canada's Aboriginal Action Plan (pamphlet)
  
  
• Gathering strength: Canada's Aboriginal Action Plan

Fact Sheets:

• The Government of Canada Takes Another Important Step in Renewing its Partnership With Aboriginal Peoples: June 16, 1998
  
  
  • Backgrounder

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