Constituents - Congress of Aboriginal Peoples - Representing the rights and interests of off-reserve people living in urban, rural, and remote areas across Canada

About CAP

- Political Structure
- Historical Development
- CAP Affiliates
- CAP Resolutions
- CAP Financial Statements
- By-Laws of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples

CAP Executive & Board of Directors

- National Chief Patrick Brazeau
- Vice-Chief Brendan Sheppard
- Board of Directors
- Native Council of Canada

CAP Affiliates

- Aboriginal Affairs Coalition of Saskatchewan
- Alliance Autochtone du Quebec Inc
- Aboriginal Council of Manitoba
- Federation of Newfoundland Indians
- Labrador Metis Nation
- New Brusnwick Aboriginal Peoples Council
- Native Council of Nova Scotia
- Native Council of Prince Edward island
- Ontario Coalition of Aboriginal People
- United Native Nations Society

More About CAP

- The CAP Constituency
- The Forgotten Peoples and the Indian Act
- The Rights of CAP Constituents
- Tribal / National Identities
- A Socio-Demographic Profile
- Statistical Comparison Chart
- Table of CAP's Constituency as created by Federal Legislation

Custom Census Maps: Distribution of Aboriginal Populations

- Aboriginal Proportion
- Aboriginal Ancestry
- Indian Ancestry
- Metis Ancestry
- Non-Status Indian

The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) is the sole national representative organization whose affiliates are open to over 800,000 off-reserve Indian, Inuit, and Metis people. CAP's constituency not only stretches across Canada from sea to sea to sea, but consists of a wide variety of Aboriginal peoples with very different historical backgrounds, and current environments. Most of these peoples share common problems in terms of exclusion from policies and programs for other Aboriginal peoples. As a result of their varying histories and circumstances, however, several of these peoples have different priorities in terms of achieving a solution to those common problems. These priorities provide one useful way by which CAP's constituency can be identified. They can be described in terms of:

1. -the Indian Act system and its consequences; particularly for those who are excluded from registration, band membership, residency on reserve, or related programs and benefits and want to address those concerns.

2. -the constituency's Aboriginal and/or treaty rights; particularly for those who live in comprehensive claims areas, those who have been excluded from treaty benefits, or who are pursung modern treaty as a vehicle for addressing their rights.

3. -the population's socio-demographics; particularly for those who are seeking economic parity or equity of access to policies, programs and services designed to serve the Aboriginal population; and,

4. -the simplicity or complexity of the Tribal/Nationality identities within regional organizations; particularly for those organizations whose membership maintains tribal affiliations, or who includes different groups who are associated with different tribal groupings.

Each approach carries with it implications for the relations between CAP and the federal government, and each is valid in its own context.

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