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| General Description: In March of 1975, at the
First Annual All Ontario Chiefs= Conference, a joint First Nations
Association Coordinating Committee was formed, constituting an unincorporated
federation of the four major Ontario First Nation organizations.
The purpose of the committee was to provide a single Ontario representative
to the Assembly of First Nations (then, the National Indian Brotherhood).
From this committee emerged the Chiefs of Ontario office whose basic
purpose is to enable the political leadership to discuss and to
decide on regional, provincial and national priorities affecting
First Nation people in Ontario and to provide a unified voice on
these issues. The Chiefs of Ontario office has become a vehicle
to facilitate discussions between the Ontario government and First
Nation people in Ontario. The main objective of the Chiefs of Ontario office is to facilitate the discussion, planning, implementation and evaluation of all local, regional and national matters affecting the First Nations people of Ontario. The intention of basing the central office in Toronto is to maintain a presence for First Nations in Ontario that is non-government and non-political in order to communicate with government officials on an urgency basis. Political Confederacy The activities of the office are governed by the Political Confederacy
(PC), composed of the Grand Chiefs of the four political territorial
organizations and a representative of the independent First Nations,
overseen by the Regional Elder and chaired by the Ontario Regional
Chief.
Activities: The Chiefs of Ontario office is operated by the Executive Director who is responsible for establishing and maintaining liaison and communications between both levels of government and the Political Confederacy . The office is actively involved in Provincial/Federal/First Nation tripartite discussions. Background: The office of the Chiefs of Ontario was established in 1976, stemming from a resolution passed at the 1975 All Ontario Chiefs Conference, to serve the needs of the First Nations in Ontario. As such, the Chiefs of Ontario office acts as a Secretariat and coordinating body for the First Nations and the Four (4) political territorial organizations. The activities of the Chiefs of Ontario office is governed by the Chiefs Political Confederacy (PC) which is comprised of the Grand Chiefs of the Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians; Grand Council Treaty #3, Nishnawbe-Aski Nation; the Union of Ontario Indians; a representative of the Independent First Nations; the Regional Chief and is overseen by the Regional Elder. The Regional Chief and Regional Elder are both housed in the offices of the Chiefs of Ontario. |
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