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The collection became "an important addition to Indigenous Health education at WCH", [6] showcasing "the power of Indigenous art to not only create a more welcoming space for Indigenous patients, health care providers and students but to assert Indigenous world views on medicine and healing in the Western health care system."
Indigenous groups and organizations, including the families and friends of victims, increasingly began making public calls for action to address the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada. One of the organizations leading those calls was the NWAC. [4] The NWAC is a non-profit organization run by Indigenous women.
The camp is the site of activities related to healing and learning. Construction of a healing centre began in 2015. [8] The healing centre welcomes people to reconnect with the land, learn cultural practices, and recover from health issues such as substance abuse, using traditional Indigenous methods. [9]
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In 1990, a report called Creating Choices was issued by a task force aiming to improve the lives of and create more choices for federally sentenced women. [10] One of the recommendations of the task force was the creation of a healing lodge "where Aboriginal federally sentenced women may serve all or part of their sentences". [9]
The centre provides opportunities for people of Aboriginal ancestry to pursue health-related research and training. [6] While serving as the director of the centre, Smylie was recruited by Patricia O’Campo to help develop an Indigenous health research program at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto. [ 2 ]
The Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC; French: Association des femmes autochtones du Canada [AFAC]) is a national Indigenous organization representing the political voice of Indigenous women, girls, and gender-diverse people in Canada, inclusive of First Nations on and off reserve, status and non-status, disenfranchised, Métis, and Inuit.
The Aboriginal Healing Foundation was created on March 30, 1998. It was established following consultations with residential school survivors, the Assembly of First Nations, the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada, the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, the Métis National Council, and the Native Women's Association of Canada. [2]