YELLOWKNIVES DENE FIRST NATION
$474,000.00 CAD
≈ 6 Canadians' average pay for a year
- Department
- Department of Justice Canada
- Recipient country
- Canada
- Fiscal year
- 2020-2021
- Agreement period
- December 10, 2020 – March 31, 2024
- Reference
- jus:119-2020-2021-Q3-00039
Published purpose
The Yellowknives Dene Nation Rebuilding Project will establish the legal and governance infrastructure needed to shift to an Indigenous Dene system of law and governance. To reach this objective, the project will involve: 1) Consulting Dene Knowledge holders to record and distill knowledge on traditional laws, governance and legal traditions; 2) Developing a governance framework to shift to a traditional system of law and government, including legislative drafting; and 3) establishing a constitution for the Yellow Knives Dene First Nation.
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