Wicihitowin Circle of Shared Responsibility & Stewardship

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Wicihitowin Circle of Shared Responsibility & Stewardship A place where the urban Aboriginal community, governments & organizations can come together & collaboratively address community needs & priorities.

The concept of Wicihitowin was born following three years of Aboriginal community dialogue and consultation facilitated by the Edmonton Aboriginal Urban Affairs Committee and the City of Edmonton. With support and participation from the Edmonton's Homeward Trust, the Urban Aboriginal Strategy through the Office of the Federal Interlocutor, and the Government of Alberta's
Aboriginal Relations Ministry, a draft Terms of Reference for the 'Traditional Stewardship' model, now call 'Wicihitowin: Circle of Shared Responsibility and Stewardship' emerged. The Edmonton Urban Aboriginal Community Dialogue Process from 2004 to 2007 sought input and consensus from urban Aboriginal people on how to best to work together to identify issues, concerns, and solutions through community-led and solution focused Community and Action Circles. It was through this community designed process, and guided by a Circle of Aboriginal Elders, that the Aboriginal community identified three areas of work that they felt were critical in meeting the needs of Aboriginal people in Edmonton:

-Identify urgent issues and priorities.
-Create an Accord Relationship Agreement to provide a set of Principles and Values to establish working relations, and
-Create a community mechanism to support and facilitate these new ways of -working together. While Wicihitowin is a governance mechanism, it is not a government. In fact, when creating Wicihitowin, the Aboriginal community felt that all orders and levels of governments must work together with local community members, through Action Circles and the Circle of Shared Responsibility, to better make use of resources in order to deliver the much needed support for priority needs in the city. Aboriginal governments along with Federal, Provincial, and Municipal governments have identified places and roles within the Wicihitowin: Circle of Shared Responsibility from which their inclusion and participation in this consensus-driven governance model is made clear.

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Along with this name, vision, and mission we commit to working together for the greater good of the community. All our relations must be shaped and built upon the foundation of these values: • Honesty • Respect • Wisdom • Love • Sharing • Honour • Humility

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