The primary information
provider for this site is Martin F. Dunn, a Metis, and an Aboriginal
Rights Consultant and author who has been involved in the Aboriginal
movement full-time since 1978 as an editor, writer, researcher,
analyst, and strategist for Aboriginal organizations.
Until April 2007, Mr.
Dunn was contracted as the National Coordinator for the CAP
Powley Implementation Project, as the Archivist for the Congress
of Aboriginal Peoples as well as information manager for CAP's
website CAPonline.
He was contracted by the
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples in 1994 as a writer and
analyst on Metis issues for the Mtis Policy Team. He is also involved
in designing research instruments for, and analysis of the results
of, a consultation on the Inherent Right of Aboriginal Self-government
for the Native Alliance of Quebec and the Ontario Metis Aboriginal
Association.
He served as Metis Co-Chairman
of the Constitutional Review Commission of the Native Council
of Canada (NCC) in 1991-92. From 1983 to 1987 he
was involved as the National Constitutional Co-Ordinator for
the NCC in the First Ministers' Conferences on Aboriginal Matters.
He worked as Assistant
Director in the areas of historical and claims research
for the Ontario Metis and Non-Status Indian Association from
1978-80. His experience has embraced a wide range of off-reserve
Aboriginal issues and concerns, including Aboriginal constitutional
reform, Aboriginal and Treaty Rights, Comprehensive and Specific
Claims policy, Aboriginal language retention and literacy, and
funding policy.
As Associate Editor,
he edited and designed the 10-volume set of The First Peoples
Urban Circle for the NCC in 1993. Mr. Dunn has lectured at universities
and colleges on Canadian Aboriginal issues and produced magazines
and newsletters on Native themes.
Other contract work
includes the Aboriginal brochures and posters used by Election
Canada in the 1993 federal elections, the revision of material
used in Aboriginal Awareness Workshops of the Department of
Indian and Northern Affairs, a chapter on Aboriginal peoples
in the DIAND employee training manual, and was the lead national
consultant on a national Aboriginal consultation on federal
archaeology policy.
Mr. Dunn was a journalist
with the Windsor Star and Toronto Telegram, and has published
magazine and journal articles and two books, "Red on White,
the Biography of Duke Redbird", New Press, 1971, (out of print)
and "Access to Survival, A Perspective on Aboriginal Self-Government
for the Constituency of the Native Council of Canada", Queen's
University, 1986.
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