Projects have been evenly distributed between on-reserve and
off-reserve in recent years, Davey said.
CAP bills itself as "the national voice representing the interests of Metis, status and non-status Indians, and southern Inuit Indigenous people living
off-reserve."
Caption: Cindy Blackstock of the First Nations and Family Caring Society won a complaint against a federal government policy that funds on-reserve child welfare at lower rates than
off-reserve services.
Between the years 2005 and 2009 in Alberta, the rates of active TB among FN peoples living on-reserve were similar to those among FN peoples living
off-reserve, at 14.9 and 15.4 per 100,000 respectively.
All the three types of harvesting rights can be granted in both production forest reserves and
off-reserve areas.
Forty-three per cent of First Nations students
off-reserve and 60 per cent on-reserve do not graduate from high school.
This means a continuing focus on national parks and other protected areas as reservoirs of well-functioning ecosystems, but it also means an increasing emphasis on
off-reserve conservation.
A second preliminary is to distinguish between registered Indian students attending on-reserve schools and Aboriginal students attending
off-reserve schools along with non-Aboriginal students.