ᑕᒪᐃᑎᒍᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᑎᑦᑎᔾᔪᑕᐅᔪᑦ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐱᔨᑦᑎᕋᐅᑎᑦ

"How To Apply for a Grant" App (In English, French and Inuktitut!)

This tool guides first time applicants through the website and explains the application process from beginning to end using step-by-step visual illustrations. Users will have the ability to toggle between three languages: English, French and Inuktitut.

ᓇᕿᑦ: Canadian Council for the Arts

Aboriginal Affairs Secretariat (AAS)

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Parks Canada

Aboriginal Awareness Week

This Web site provides information on how to organize activities to mark Aboriginal Awareness Week, a four-day event designed to increase awareness of Aboriginal peoples among federal public service employees.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Public Service Human Resources Management Agency of Canada

Aboriginal Canadians

Indepth look at the Native rights movement in Canada from an historical perspective.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)

Aboriginal-Canadian Veterans

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Veterans Affairs Canada

Aboriginal Emerging Writers Residencies

Through this program, successful applicants will participate in a two-week, intensive writing program at The Banff Centre, in Alberta.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canada Council for the Arts

Aboriginal Filmmaking Program

The primary focus of the program is to support documentary films. Other genres will be considered as long as the subject matter and its portrayal are consistent with the NFB's mandate.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; National Film Board of Canada (NFB)

Aboriginal Literatures in Canada – A Teacher's Resource Guide

Encourages the teaching of Aboriginal literature in English high school curricula across the country because Aboriginal students deserve to be taught texts they can relate to and, because non-Aboriginal students should be educated about Aboriginals.

ᓇᕿᑦ: Curriculum Services Canada

Aboriginal Media Arts Program

This Program offers grants to Aboriginal media artists to help them develop their careers and produce independent media artworks.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canada Council for the Arts

Aboriginal Peoples

This page offers a selection of Library and Archives Canada resources on the topic of Aboriginal peoples.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Library and Archives Canada

Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards

Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards is an annual gala that features performances by the best Aboriginal recording artists across North America.

Aboriginal Peoples Collaborative Exchange National and International: Travel Grants

This program assists Aboriginal artists or Aboriginal artistic groups to travel to other Aboriginal communities to share traditional and/or contemporary knowledge or practices.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canada Council for the Arts

Aboriginal Peoples Music Program

This Program supports activities that contribute to the career and artistic development of Aboriginal musicians, and to the continued vitality of Aboriginal music.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canada Council for the Arts

Aboriginal Peoples Production Project Grants in Dance

Aims to respond to the natural creative cycles of dance artists and to bring high quality dance works to audiences.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canada Council for the Arts

Aboriginal Peoples' Program

This page highlights financial support programs designed for Aboriginal individuals or organizations working in various fields.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canadian Heritage (PCH)

Aboriginal Peoples' Program – Cultural Connections for Aboriginal Youth

These Youth Centres provides Aboriginal community-based, culturally relevant and supportive projects, programs, services and counselling to urban Aboriginal youth, in order to improve their economic, social and personal prospects.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canadian Heritage (PCH)

Aboriginal Peoples' Program – National Aboriginal Day

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canadian Heritage (PCH)

Aboriginal Perspectives

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; National Film Board of Canada

Aboriginal Program

Responsible for developing policies, programs, strategic initiatives, and budgets to support Aboriginal Peoples artistic practices in all arts disciplines.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canada Council for the Arts

Aboriginal Program

The International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009) is a global celebration of astronomy and its contributions to society and culture. In Canada, this celebration contains an important Aboriginal component.

ᓇᕿᑦ: International Year of Astronomy 2009

Aboriginal Programs, Policy, and Research

Works with Aboriginal people, primarily off-reserve, to celebrate and strengthen their cultural distinctiveness as an integral part of Canadian diversity.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canadian Heritage

Aboriginal Resources and Services

This site provides access to a full variety of Aboriginal resources within Canada, both through Library and Archives' collections and services and in partnership with numerous Aboriginal institutions.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Library and Archives Canada

Aboriginal Traditional Visual Art Forms Program for Individuals

This program supports Aboriginal artists (working individually or together), to undertake activities that contribute to the knowledge, sharing, understanding and development of Aboriginal traditional art forms.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canada Council for the Arts

Aboriginal Traditional Visual Art Forms Program for Organizations

This program supports Aboriginal groups, collectives, cultural centres and other organizations to undertake activities that contribute to the knowledge, sharing, understanding and development of Aboriginal traditional art forms.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canada Council for the Arts

Aboriginal Training Program in Museum Practices

Offers Aboriginal participants professional and technical training in museum practices while providing the opportunity to work in both official languages.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation (CMCC)

An Approach to Aboriginal Cultural Landscapes

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Parks Canada

Annual Support to Aboriginal Peoples Dance Companies, Organizations and Collectives

The objective of the program is to support the creation, production, revival and presentation of significant dance works in traditional dance and contemporary dance forms.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canada Council for the Arts

Artists and Community Collaboration Program (ACCP)

Designated investment that increases the Canada Council for the Arts' commitment to the diverse artistic activities that bring together professional artists and the broader community.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canada Council for the Arts

ArtsCan Circle, The

The ArtsCan Circle is an independent, volunteer-run support group dedicated to linking creative artists with Native youth at risk in Canada, hence aiming at encouraging self-esteem amongst them.

Arts Toolkit

ᓇᕿᑦ: First Peoples' Cultural Council

Assistance to Aboriginal Curators for Residencies in the Visual Arts

This initiative supports professional development in all aspects of curatorial practice in the visual arts for Aboriginal people at their chosen host institution.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canada Council for the Arts

Audience and Market Development Travel Grants

The purpose of these Travel Grants is to assist Canadian professional artists to develop their careers and reach new audiences and markets in Canada and internationally.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canada Council for the Arts

Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage

This program was created to help celebrate each community in Canada by increasing opportunities for local artists and artisans and for local groups to commemorate local history and heritage.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canadian Heritage (PCH)

Canada Arts Presentation Fund

Gives Canadians direct access to diverse, quality artistic experiences through financial assistance to arts presenters or the organizations that support them.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canadian Heritage (PCH)

Canada Interactive Fund

The Canada Interactive Fund (CIF) aims to support the creation of digital and interactive Canadian cultural content, developed by official-language minority communities (OLMCs), Aboriginal and ethnocultural organizations, and other non-profit organizations.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canadian Heritage (PCH)

Canada Media Fund – Aboriginal Program Funding

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) recognizes the unique circumstances of the Aboriginal-language television market and the Aboriginal production community, and it has tailored Aboriginal Program to reflect those realities. Funding is allocated according to a selective process using an evaluation grid.

ᓇᕿᑦ: Canada Media Fund

Canadian Directory of First Nations, Métis and Inuit Library Collections

The directory lists library and cultural institutions with collections related to First Nations, Métis and the Inuit in Canada.

Capacity Building Program for Aboriginal Arts Organizations: Project Funding

This page describes a program providing focused support to Aboriginal arts groups, collectives and organizations that are committed to building organizational capacity and (or) community capacity.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canada Council for the Arts

Community Engagement Partnership Fund

The Community Engagement Partnership Fund provides financial assistance to non profit groups and organizations who want to commemorate those who served Canada in times of war, military conflict and peace.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC)

Concert Production and Rehearsal Program for Non-Classical Music and Chamber Classical Music: Project Funding

Supports the overall activities of small, Canadian professional ensembles/bands/groups that have demonstrated ongoing yearly stability, planning and artistic excellence.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canada Council for the Arts

Cultural Educational Centres Program

The Cultural/Educational Centres Program funds centres of activity in order to preserve, develop and promote First Nation and Inuit cultural heritage and education.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC)

Developmental Support to Aboriginal Theatre Organizations

This program, which has two components (one for established organizations and the other for emerging organizations), provides developmental support to Aboriginal theatre organizations.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canada Council for the Arts

Elder/Youth Legacy Program: Support for Aboriginal Artistic Practices

This program offers funding to Aboriginal arts organizations that wish to work with Elders and the youth, two underserved segments of the Aboriginal arts community.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canada Council for the Arts

En'owkin Centre

En'owkin provides students with a strong cultural and academic foundation for success in further post-secondary studies.

First Nations Confederacy of Cultural Education Centres

Grants to Aboriginal Dance Professionals

This page describes a program that provides support and assistance to Canadian Aboriginal dance professionals (individuals) to pursue projects involving professional development, research, and apprenticeship or mentorship.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canada Council for the Arts

Grants to Aboriginal Writers, Storytellers and Publishers

Encourages the artistic development of established and emerging Aboriginal writers and storytellers, the development of Aboriginal publishers and collectives, and increases appreciation for Aboriginal literature in Canada.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canada Council for the Arts

ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival

ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival is an international festival that celebrates the latest works by indigenous peoples. The organisers invite every year indigenous producers to submit their work.

International Residencies Program in Visual Arts

The International Residencies Program is intended for professional artists working in the visual arts, fine craft, and independent criticism and curating to participate in an international residency.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canada Council for the Arts

Media Portrayals of Aboriginal People: Introduction

This section identifies some of the major media stereotypes of First Nations, Inuit and Native American peoples in film, television and the news.

ᓇᕿᑦ: Media Awareness Network

Museums Assistance Program – Aboriginal Heritage

Provides financial assistance to Canadian museums and related institutions, for museum activities that support the objectives of Canada's museum policy.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canadian Heritage

National Gatherings on Indigenous Knowledge

The Gathering was intended in part to give the federal government and private sector an opportunity to learn more, not only about the opportunities that Aboriginal artists offer, but also about the challenges they face. It also gave Aboriginal artists a chance to learn more about the support available to them.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canadian Heritage

Native Spirituality

In the context of National Defence Canada's commitment to accommodate its members' religious requirements, this page offers general information about native spirituality and practices in Canada.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; National Defence and the Canadian Forces (DND/CF)

NSI Storytellers

Helps Canadian Aboriginal film and television producers advance their projects as international co-productions by providing them with guidance and access to new markets.

ᓇᕿᑦ: National Screen Institute

Our Stories, Our Identities

ᓇᕿᑦ: Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival

Pride and Dignity (Aboriginal Portraits)

Pride and Dignity is an exhibition of over 60 photographic reproductions (c.1846 - c.1960) taken from the original exhibition Aboriginal Portraits from the National Archives of Canada produced by Edward Tompkins and Jeff Thomas.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Library and Archives Canada

Researching Your Aboriginal Ancestry – Canadian Genealogy Centre

Helps Canadians undertaking aboriginal genealogical research in the archival documentation at Library and Archives Canada.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Library and Archives Canada

Storm Spirits - Aboriginal New Media Art

ᓇᕿᑦ: Virtual Museum of Canada

Strategic Alliance of Broadcasters for Aboriginal Reflection (SABAR)

The Flying Eagle

The Flying Eagle program provides grants to Aboriginal arts groups, collectives, organizations, independent arts administrators and artistic mediators, which may be used for organizational development and professional development.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Canada Council for the Arts

Transportation of Eagle Items

Discusses the interim solution which authorizes status Indians to transport eagle items to and from the United States for cultural and ceremonial purposes.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC)

Tribal Spirit: Native Art and Spiritual Craft

Turning Point – Native Peoples and Newcomers On–Line

Turning Point offers cyber-space for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in Canada to have open and direct communication with each other.

Virtual Museum of Métis History and Culture, The

The Virtual Museum of Métis History and Culture provides children and youth with the opportunity to explore Metis history and culture.

ᖁᓛᓄᑦ