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Measuring Progress

• More knowledge of practical skills to sustain each other
• More goods and services obtained through reciprocal trade instead of financial transactions

Key Challenges And Concerns

• We have become too fixated on western ideals of wealth and consumerism, it keeps us always working at jobs for financial
gain instead of working to sustain each other
• Community members learning less practical and traditional skills as they pursue modern fields to make more money
• As we spend less time caring for each other we are becoming more individualized which further erodes our
language and culture
• Money is becoming the only way we value wealth and wellbeing – new businesses and projects are being evaluated in terms
of costs and revenue, not the things that make us wealthy such as family, health, nature, etc.

Suggested Lead Partners

• Six Nations of the Grand • GREAT/OSTTC • Two Rivers Community • New and emerging
River Development • Six Nations Public Library Development organizations
Corporation

Timeline

OBJECTIVES STATUS IN 2019

SHORT Develop Social Enterprise/Co- Community seeking to learn more about business approaches that pursue positive
(2019-2024) operative training program social outcomes outside of profit.

Create a community skills Develop a platform where community members can post skills they have or are looking
database for to coordinate the Trade & Barter Economy.

Integrate Trade & Barter
MEDIUM Economy considerations into (See Food and Farming Goal) Programs to be offered will provide opportunities to
(2025-2029) the Community Farm Resource share resources for food processing, storing and vending.
Centre
Integrate ‘Maker’s Space’ into
new Public Library and Archive New facility to include space for people to explore new skills or hone existing ones,
tools available to loan out.
Facility
LONG Integrate Trade & Barter Not yet started, creating match ups between families could help to cover a broader
range of the responsibilities that make up a house, such as gardening, hunting,
Economy considerations into new
(2030-2039) communal housing approaches maintenance, culture, etc.).

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