ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on best practices with children in First Nations communities by describing a research project that we undertook into this. It considers how First Nations culture has affected this research. First Nations peoples have demanded that the provinces cede control of the child welfare system pertaining to First Nations children to them. First Nations children are the children of the Indigenous peoples of Canada. In Canada, most provinces have the authority to delegate child welfare services to specific groups. Child welfare in this country is delegated to the provinces, and so each of the eleven provinces has its own legislation and system of child welfare and protection services. Because children were seen as precious gifts to their respective communities, child rearing was unique and key to community resilience. The chapter utilises the Medicine Wheel teachings for course development, workshop presentations, writing papers and balancing author's lives.
