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Dr. J. Richard G. Herbert

Richard has a broad education background in teaching, biologic research and veterinary medicine. After providing professional services in Northern Ontario, he focused his skills towards resolving inequities experienced by First Nation individuals and communities. Richard has worked with Kaska Dena in Yukon; Carrier-Sekani and Tlingit in British Columbia; Anishinaabe in Treaty 3, Treaty 9 and the Robinson Superior Treaty; and, Dane’zaa in Treaty 8.

For over two decades, Richard provided capacity to First Nations to facilitate rights-based infrastructure for administration, governance, communities, revenue streams and land stewardship. He worked in whatever capacity was needed by a First Nation to accomplish tasks or fulfill requests; including, working as a Band Administrator/Manager.

Richard has a broad base of experience in First Nation administration; committee and policy development; human resources; community and regional infrastructure development; traditional law; health and education; forestry, mining and oil/gas impacts; environmental/wildlife concerns; meaningful consultation protocols and consultation rights; funding, community initiatives for education, housing, health, economic development, and CHRT-related services; Charter, section 35 and inherent rights; treaties, land claims and self-government agreements; legislation and regulations; and, litigation.

Richard’s skill set includes band management; solution modeling; budget, proposal and report preparation; project coordination; resolution, document and correspondence preparation; complaint management; individual, elder, community and stakeholder engagements; rights advocacy; nation-to-nation consultation support; band council and legal support; and, document access and database creation.

Projects Richard has worked on include regional health service delivery, band administration, policy and committee creation (governance), information management, capital development (housing and other assets), mine reclamation, oil and gas impacts, forestry impacts, rights-infringements and consultation requirements, hereditary rights, traditional law and food harvest, environmental assessments, traditional law-based infrastructure and sustainable traditional economies.

“First, I listened to learn. Then, with understanding, I engaged while learning more. I look forward to further discovering how my skills can benefit First Nation communities.”

J. Richard G. Herbert

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Email:   rherbert@caid.ca