Indigenous cultural development assistance program - Component 1: Aboriginal cultural development agreement;

“Québec. Culture et Communications”

$1,000,000.00

Maximum Eligible Amount

Government Grant

Fund Type

Purpose of the program

The Aboriginal Cultural Development Assistance program aims to support the development of the 11 Aboriginal nations in Quebec, recognized by the National Assembly. The nations recognized by the National Assembly are as follows: (Abenaki, Algonquin, Attikameks, Cree, Huron-Wendat, Micmac, Maliseet, Naskapi, Mohawk, Inuit and, Innu).

It promotes cooperation between the Ministry of Culture and Communications and its First Nations and Inuit partners in order to contribute to the cultural vitality of the communities concerned.

This program is part of the Government Action Plan for the Social and Cultural Development of the First Nations and Inuit 2017-2022. Various interventions are grouped together in this planning in order to ensure the social and cultural development of indigenous peoples by focusing on a real cohesion of government action. The Aboriginal Cultural Development Assistance program aims, in this sense, to bring together all of the Department's interventions with First Nations and Inuit and to ensure better deployment of the support offered by the Department in terms of culture and communications to the region. all indigenous nations.

As the government's action plan indicates, cultural development is inseparable from social development. The program is also one of the specific commitments made with regard to Aboriginals in Quebec's cultural policy.

The partnerships and projects put in place through this program take into account the needs of citizens as well as those of communities, and they are based on a common understanding of the issues and challenges in terms of the development of cultures and communications. . They can be established at the instigation of the Ministry or result from initiatives of partners to which the

Component 1: Indigenous cultural development agreement

Specific objectives

The program aims to increase the number of Aboriginal cultural development agreements (EDCA) concluded and to strengthen those that are in place, in order to increase the number of cultural projects implemented on the territory of each nation and thus contribute to increasing the cultural vitality of nations.