Hi Larry...<br><br>It is a national Aboriginal organization, working in the area of political and community development. They are focussed on helping First Nations in Canada implement governance that serves the expression of collective inherent rights. It's no big secret, but I didn't ask them if it was okay to use names.
<br><br>For those of you in the rest of the world, basically in Canada indigenous communities have a unique set of rights stemming from the fact that they lived in this continent before the European colonial powers arrived. These rights continue to live on, and are enshrined and protected in our Canadian Constitution. Although the rights are not defined, they broadly apply to lands, resources, education, language, culture, health, child welfare and most other areas that governments protect. Each of the more than 630 First Nation communities in Canada has these rights, but creating the governance capacity to exercise them is a major undertaking and that is the work of the organization with whom I am working.
<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Chris<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Larry Peterson</b> <<a href="mailto:larry@spiritedorg.com">larry@spiritedorg.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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a great story Chris.<span> </span>The growing consciousness
of the CEO is a delight and the impact of OST to enable the whole to practice that
collective and individual connection to the base is marvellous.<span> </span>What kind of organization is it?<span> </span>What sector of work?</span></font></p>
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