| Phase: |
Theme |
| Theme: | Theme 4 - Enhancing outcomes for INDIGENOUS YOUTH (THEME4) |
| Status: | Active |
| Start Date: | 2019-04-01 |
| End Date: | 2024-12-31 |
| Principal Investigator |
| Wilson, Alex |
Project Overview
The One House Many Nations (OHMN) interdisciplinary research team and its First Nations partners have brought an innovative community-first land-centred approach to the overrepresentation of First Nation youth in the homeless population. Youth living on-reserve with lived experience or who are at risk of homelessness join a team that designs and builds new home in their community, gaining new skills, experiences and relationships in the process. This approach can be adapted or rescaled for use in other First Nations, and may be particularly valuable because, in addition to providing an economically and environmentally sustaining solution to the shortage of housing on-reserves, it is designed to build capacity of both the community and individual First Nation youth to prevent and sustain exits from homelessness.
The OHMN approach was developed in partnership with Opaskwayak Cree Nation, where a first home has been built and is now occupied by a formerly homeless young couple who participated in the build. OHMN, in partnership with OCN and representatives of three additional First Nations, has initiated a research project that will characterize the nature and causes of homelessness amongst First Nation youth; assess the impacts of this Indigenous community-led approach to homelessness on the housing trajectories of First Nation youth living on-reserve; and support adaptation and mobilization of this approach in other First Nations.
Outputs
| Title |
Category |
Date |
Authors |
| Research into Land-Based Lifestyles: The Northern Métis HomeThe project laid out research on historical ways of building homes in Métis
Communities. It focused on self-built housing prior to Colonial Housing
Policies in several Métis communities (Fort Smith, Fort Providence, Hay
River, Indian Cabins and Fort Resolution). The research also documented
several self-built auxiliary structures and material objects that support
notions of a land-based sustenance lifestyle. For example, smoke-houses/
structures and skiffs (A uniquely Métis style of wooden boat derived from the
York Boat) were photographed and documented for future research. | Presentation | 2023-02-23 | Jason Surkan |
| Situated On Land Office - Memory/Reciprocity/Community/Resilience Public PresentationJason Surkan of SOLO Architecture delivered a public lecture at the University of Manitoba. | Presentation | 2023-02-13 | Jason Surkan |
| One House Many Nations: Big River First Nation
Big River First Nation Video:
https://youtu.be/xqVfIs7yvNQ University of Saskatchewan | Presentation | 2022-06-30 | Alex Wilson |
| Embedding Indigenous Knowledge into Housing Design with the Homebuilding Students in Wasagamack and Garden Hill First Nations, Manitoba, CanadaWasagamack and Garden Hill First Nations in Island Lake, Manitoba are experiencing a housing
crisis, with severe overcrowding. This article describes an interior design graduate student research
analysis of local materials, building skill levels, environment, demographics, and cultural aspects
as part of collaborative design-build activities, training programs, and community workshops. This
study was part of a First Nation community-university partnership. Healthy, culturally appropriate,
resilient single- and extended-family homes were designed using local materials and labour. This
pilot project offers a pathway to build capacity to fill the gap of 150,000 homes in a way that advances
cultural, health, social, and economic development. Further, decolonizing policy and providing
adequate infrastructure in Indigenous reserves, such as access roads, are needed to create a
sustainable home-building ecosystem. | Publication | 2024-05-06 | |
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