CAID was purposed to fill a need for an organization to provide capacity, not consultants, to Indigenous People. Traditional leaders and remote communities lack capacity to protect their rights and manage their inheritance in a non-Indigenous global society. As such, Immemorial rights, Creator-given roles, needs and poverty are ignored by colonizing mindsets and Indigenous self-determination is thwarted to advance colonial interests.
CAID is designed to share professional expertise, receive cultural guidance, obtain community input and help present rights, roles, needs and traditional law in a format to outside jurisdictions that is administratively ready for traditional leaders or communities to engage in consultation processes for community and regional developments.
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In short, CAID provides capacity needed to engage locally, regionally and nationally creating a platform for consultation, accommodation and informed consent.
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