Series consists of records relating to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) and the Oka/Kanesatake blockades. The series has been divided into the following files and items:

2018.008.001.001 [RCAP terms of reference, research plans, publications]
2018.008.001.002 RCAP - Clippings
2018.008.001.003 RCAP release: 11/96
2018.008.001.004 For Seven Generations - An information Legacy of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
2018.008.001.005 Reclaiming Our Nationhood Strengthening Our Heritage
2018.008.001.006 RCAP: Fed Response 1/98
2018.008.001.007 AFN RCAP Assembly 2/97
2018.008.001.008 RCAP Analysis
2018.008.001.009 Agreement with Respect to Kanesatake Governance of the Interim Land Base
2018.008.001.010 Oka - Akwesasne
2018.008.001.011 4 Pillars - 9/90
2018.008.001.012 Oka - 1990
2018.008.001.013 Rebuilding the Iroquois Confederacy
2018.008.001.014 Post Oka
2018.008.001.015 Anasazi
2018.008.001.016 Miscellaneous periodicals
2018.008.001.017 The Ontario Indian
2018.008.001.018 Akwesasne Notes
2018.008.001.019 Battle of Oka t-shirt

File contains newspaper and magazine clippings relating to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) report and the reports release.

File contains:
1) invitation to sunrise ceremony to commemorate the completion of commission's work
2) address for the launch of the report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (2 copies)
3) Economist article ""The Wisdom of King George"" 1996
4) Guide to the principal findings and recommendations of the final report of The Royal Commission on Aborginal Peoples
5) Assembly of First Nations response and associated materials"

File contains:
1) clippings and articles
2) draft discussion paper ""Alternative Approaches to First Nations Inherent, Aboriginal & Treaty Rights in Canada, Centre for Treaty Advocacy, October 17, 1990
3) Notes for statement by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney ""Canada and the 21st Century"" November 1, 1990
4) Release and accompanying materials - Citizen's Forum on Canada's Future"

File contains correspondence and memorandums regarding issues surrounding the 1969 white paper, and Cabinet Document #747 "Developments in Indian Affairs".

File contains a pamphlet "Self-Government is Treason" put out by the Confederation of Shuswap/Okanagan Action Committee; "Reveille for First Nations: The Politics of Aggression and Defence" by Walter Rudnicki; and 4 copies of a pamphlet "Recent Trends and Initiatives in Indian Affairs".

One copy of the report.

One copy of the report and an accompanying cover letter.

One copy of the report and an accompanying cover letter.

One copy of the document "First Nations Health The Constitutional Framework - participant's manual" prepared by Michael Hudson of Legal Services, Health Canada.

File contains correspondence, notes, and multiple copies of "Notes on Bill C-79".

The Liberal Party of Canada's election "Red Book" of campaign promises.

File contains records relating to "secret" Liberal briefing notes on Aboriginal Policy, self-government, and Nisga'a Land Claims.

File contains a draft of the aide-memoire regarding treaty policy. Also in the file is a press release regarding Treaty 6 talks, and a copy of the framework for discussion between the Federal Government and the Huron-Wendat Nation (Murray Treaty)

File contains copies of "Guidelines for Federal Self-Government Negotiators"; a draft discussion paper "Possible consequences of Recognizing Self-Government Agreements as Treaties under section 35 of the Constitution Act; a presentation re: implementation of inherent right and negotiation of self-government; and other related records.

File contains a copy of Section 14 "Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development" from the 1994 Auditor General of Canada's report to the House of Commons. File also contains some pages 19-21 from the 1991 report.

File contains records relating to Federal Government programs and assessment of those programs. Included are a Program Assessment by Peter DiGangi for the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs; newspaper clippings; a draft of "Programs, Policies and Approvals" for the RCAP Treaty Policy team; historical outline of Indian social welfare developments, 1945-1966; and Assembly of First Nations materials.

File contains 3 reports prepared by Peter Di Gangi. They include:
1) The "Trojan Buffalo"? Inherent Right, Federal Policy and the Bureaucracy: A Situational Analysis
2) Crown - First Nation Intergovernmental Relations: Politics, Policy and Bureaucracies
3) Federal Program Assessment and Review: Buffalo Jump II?

File contains what appears to be a workbook of information from the Chiefs' Governance Working Group. Included in the workbook are:
1) Approach to First Nations Government: Governance
2) The Mawiw Council of Chiefs proposal respecting the exploration, development and negotiation of an "Indian Court System"
3) Governance Community-Level Constitution chart
4) Governance
5) Building Blocks Towards Constitutionalizing First Nations Self-Government
6) Chiefs' Governance Working Group Chairman's Working paper on Leadership Selection - Draft #1
7) Chiefs' Governance Working Group Chairman's Discussion Paper on Process
8) Chiefs' Governance Working Group Chairman's Discussion Paper: Need for a Communication Strategy
9) Chiefs' Governance Working Group Chairman's Discussion Paper: Objectives and Means in Changing Crown-First Nations Relationship
10) Concept paper Training Element for Inclusion to Work Plans
11) Discussion paper - Leadership Selection
12) Proposal on Accountability
13) Proposal for First Nations Governance Issue: Legal Status and Capacity
14) A Framework for a Leadership Selection Act (by Voting)
15) Principles Guiding the Development of Alternatives to the Indian Act
16) Chiefs' Governance Working Group status report
17) Leadership Selections Act (draft)

File contains correspondence, a copy of the Chiefs' Governance Working Group Report, The Constitution and Self-Government information, and other records relating to self-governance.

Discussion paper "Social Assistance and Aboriginal People" by Allan Moscovitch and Andrew Webster. Paper was prepared for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

File contains records regarding taxation and introduction of the GST. Included is correspondence and accompanying materials, court case documentation; Report - First annual report of the Indian Taxation Advisory Board 1989/90; An Information Guide for Indian and Native Businesses on the Impact of GST; and the ABC's of GST and Indians.

File contains 2 copies of "A Working Paper on Indian Government Taxation"; story from the Manitoba Law Journal "Taxation of Aboriginals in Canada" by Howard L. Morry; memos from Ovide Mercredi, National Chief Assembly of First Nations re: taxation issues planning committee meetings; and court decision in Williams v. Canada.

Assembly of First Nations Chiefs' Economic Committee Council Fire: Managing Economic and Business Issues.

Brochure and highlights report from the Indian Governments and Tax: a conference exploring the nature and powers of tax, held November 12-15, 1991 in Whistler, British Columbia.

File contains a variety of papers and reports related to taxation. Included are:
1) "A First Nations Province" executive summary, Thomas J. Courchene and Lisa M. Powell
2) "A taxation potential estimate for the Le Pas First Nation".
3) "Judgement Day - the link between taxation jurisdiction and economic development for First Nations" by Andre Le Dressay, Indian Taxation Advisory Board
4) "Indian Government taxes and Services in British Columbia - alternatives under Bill C-115 and Bill 64" by Robert L. Bish, Eric G. Clemens, and Hector G. Topham
5) "Some Short Answers to Some Tough Tax Questions" Indian Taxation Advisory Board
6) "Taxation of Aboriginals in Canada" Howard L. Morry
7) Parliamentary Alert newsletter Vol. 12, No. 4 February 3, 1994

File contains copies of reports created by Goss Gilroy Inc. for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. The two reports are "Federal, Territorial and Provincial Expenditures relating to Aboriginal Peoples" and "Report on Assignment 2 The Costs of Policy and Program Failure". Also in the file is a working draft of a report "Current Practices in Financing Aborignal Government" by Torben Drewes and Harry Kitchen of Trent University.

File contains record relating to Canadian sales tax harmonization. Included is the booklet "Towards Replacing the Goods and Services Tax".

Annual publication of the Carleton University School of Public Administration. Number 18 in the series titled "Life under the Knife", edited by Gene Swimmer

Draft #2 of discussion paper "Jurisdiction & Social Development" prepared by Peter Di Gangi for the Social Development Program Assembly of First Nations.

Binder titled Aboriginal Strategic Initiative: Directed Research Component. Binder contains research frameworks and proposal being undertaken for the Initiative.

File contains records relating to the Government of Canada's Alternative Funding Arrangements for First Nations. In the file are and Alternative Funding Arrangements Managers Guide; New Indian Funding Arrangement Implementation strategy; and a copy of the agreement between the Federal Government and the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation.

Financial Transfer Arrangements Information Kit created by the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development for the First Nations' Chief and Councils.

File contains a copy of the Interim Evaluation of the Experiences to date with Financial Transfer Arrangements.

File contains agreements and other records related to Financial Transfer Agreements (FTA). Included in the file are:
1) draft 4 - January 18, 1996 of a Financial Transfer Agreement
2) Financial Transfer Arrangments management assessment workbook
3) Discussion paper on Accountability
4) Financial Transfer Agreement between the Federal Government and the Wagmatcook Band
5) Blank annotated FTA

Union of Ontario Indians Field Health Program Annual Report for 1990-1991.

File contains records pertaining to the Health Services Transfer agreement between the Federal Government and United Chiefs and Councils of Manitoulin (UCCM). Included are a copy of the agreement; UCCM report; news clippings; and other materials.

File contains a records relating to non-insured health benefits )NIHB) for First Nations peoples. Included are: a newspaper "First Nations Health Bulletin" Vol. 1 No. 2, published by the Assembly of First Nations; Health Canada 1995-1996 Annual report on NIHB program analysis division; a 2 page paper "Issues pertaining to the transfer of non-insured health benefits"; "Non-Insured Health Services: The Saskatchewan Experience, a paper to be delivered at the BEC meeting by Duane Adams; and a Federal Government Aide de Memoire pertaining to non-insured health benefits for status Indians and Inuit.

Series contains files relating to Indigenous land claims policy and policy reform. The Series contains the following files/items:

2018.008.007.001 Claims - ADR - 91
2018.008.007.002 Claims - ICO 90
2018.008.007.003 Claims - Standing Committee - 1991
2018.008.007.004 Claims - Post Oka Vol. I
2018.008.007.005 Claims - Post Oka Vol. II
2018.008.007.006 Chiefs Claims Committee - Aug./91
2018.008.007.007 CCC - Vancouver Dec 9/91
2018.008.007.008 ICC - 1992
2018.008.007.009 Claims - Joint Wkg Group August - Sept/92
2018.008.007.010 CCC Dec-Jan/92
2018.008.007.011 CCC Ottawa, February 26/92
2018.008.007.012 Claims - JWG: December/92
2018.008.007.013 ADR - 1993 - D. Russell
2018.008.007.014 JWG - 23-25 Feb 1993
2018.008.007.015 CCC - Halifax April/93
2018.008.007.016 AFN Claims - 5/93
2018.008.007.017 Claims - CCC 7/93
2018.008.007.018 AFN Claims 14/9/94
2018.008.007.019 AFN Claims Jan/96
2018.008.007.020 AFN Claims 21/2/96

File contains records pertaining to First Nations Land Claims and the Federal Governments policies. Included in the file are correspondence, meeting minutes and notes, speech transcriptions, and reports from the Federal Government, Chiefs Committee on Claims and others.

File contains records pertaining to the Chiefs Committee Claims, specifically their meeting in Vancouver on December 9, 1991. Included is the agenda and accompanying materials for the meeting; an extract from the Auditor General of Canada's report on specific land claims; and speaking notes from Ovide Mercredi, National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, presentation to the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs.

File contains records from the Specific Claims Joint Working Group (First Nations and Government of Canada). Included are meeting minutes and updates from the meeting held August 17-19, 1992 in Kamloops, British Columbia and meeting minutes from the meeting held September 29-30, 1992 in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.

Native Alternative Dispute Resolution Systems: The Canadian Future in Light of the The American Past by Jonathan Rudin and Dan Russell for the Ontario Native Council on Justice.

Series contains records related to Indigenous land claims and the establishment of an Independent Claims Body (ICB). The series contains the following files/items:

2018.008.008.001 AFN/DIA Claims 2/96-
2018.008.008.002 AFN - Claims - 7/96
2018.008.008.003 ICC Review - 11/96
2018.008.008.004 AFN - ADR 12/96
2018.008.008.005 AFN Claims 7/97
2018.008.008.006 AFN Claims - 12/1997
2018.008.008.007 AFN Claims - 1997 Report
2018.008.008.008 AFN Claims - 5-6/98 I
2018.008.008.009 AFN Claims - 5-6/98 II
2018.008.008.010 AFN Claims - 9/1998
2018.008.008.011 AFN Claims - 11/98
2018.008.008.012 AFN Claims - 4/1999
2018.008.008.013 AFN/JTF - March 2001
2018.008.008.014 AFN-ICB - May 2001
2018.008.008.015 AFN/ICB- Toronto - June 2001
2018.008.008.016 ICB - Fall 2001
2018.008.008.017 ICB - 2001-2002
2018.008.008.018 CCC - Vancouver Feb 2002
2018.008.008.019 AFN-ICB- Feb-March 2002
2018.008.008.020 Assembly of First Nations Chiefs Committee on Claims
2018.008.008.021 Indian Claims Commission - Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range report on Canoe Lake Inquiry, Cold Lake Inquiry
2018.008.008.022 Indian Claims Commission Proceedings (1999) 11 ICCP
2018.008.008.023 Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Specific Claims Branch - status report

File contains records relating to federal land claims policy reform. Included in the file are:
1) Press statement - Assembly of First Nations (AFN)
2) blank protocol agreement between AFN and the Federal Government
3) Land Rights Update - XVII Annual General Assembly
4) Rolling Draft IV - AFN Chiefs Committee on Claims and AFN Land Rights Unit
5) Correspondence between Chiefs Committee on Claims and Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
6) Nation Indian Brotherhood/Assembly of First Nations Land Rights Unit Report - dispute resolution and First Nations land rights
7) National Indian Brotherhood/Assembly of First Nations Land Rights Unit - Claims Policy Reform annotated bibliography

File contains records relating claims, and claims resolution. Included are:
1) "Assessing the Fiscal Impacts of Settling Specific Claims" presented to the Assembly of First Nations and the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development by Fiscal Realities
2) "Specific Claims" by P. King
3) Indian Claims Commission - Status of Claims as of May 15, 1998
4) "A First Nations Specific Claims Process - models in other countries" by Douglas Saunders
5) "A First Nations Specific Claims Process - Constitutional Issues" by Douglas Saunders
6) other assorted draft reports, notes, correspondence related to land claims

File contains several reports including:
1) Assembly of First Nations Aboriginal Title & Comprehensive Claims conference report
2) Workplan for a Joint Review of Canada's Comprehensive Claims Policy
3) Assembly of First Nations after Delgamuukw: Canada's Comprehensive Claims Policy - a national review submitted by Herb George
4) Political Lobby Strategy for a New, Independent and Fair Specific Claims Policy and Process

File contains a briefing package for the Joint First Nations-Canada Task Force on Claims Policy Reform and accompanying materials.

File contains records relating to the Joint First Nations-Canada Task Force on Claims Policy Reform and the creation of an independent claims body. Included in the file are correspondence; meeting minutes; memorandum and:
1) Drafts "First Nations Specific Claims Resolution Act"
2) First Nations Specific Claims Commission Tribunal Joint AFN-DIAND communication plan

File contains records relating to the Assembly of First Nations and the First Nations-Canada Joint Task Force (JST) on Specific Claims Reform. Included in the file are:
1) correspondence between Robert D. Nault, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Matthew Coon Come, National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations re: Independent Claims Body
2) Presentation "Proposed Independent Claims Body"
3) JTF/Chiefs Council on Claims meeting related records

File contains records relating to the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) and the Independent Claims Body (ICB) initiative. In the file is a resolution on the ICB; memorandum; and information on the AFN ICB Technical Group.

Indian Claims Commission Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range reports on the Cold Lake First Nations and Canoe Lake Cree Nation land claims.

File contains records relating to three conferences:
1) Notes and agenda for "Implementing Delgamuuk'w - legal implications for Aboriginal title research in BC" held March 1-3 in Vancouver, British Columbia
2) Program for conference "Delgamuuk'w: One Year After" held February 18-19 in Victoria, British Columbia
3) Program for First Nations GIS mini conference "GeoSolutions: Integrating our World" held March 1-4 in Vancouver, British Columbia
Also in the file is "$3 treaty script" and "Delgammuukw Report Card - Canada's Record One Year Later".

File contains records relating to the court case "Delgamuukw vs. British Columbia". Included in the file are:
1) Delgamuukw vs British Columbia: Issues Analysis by Peter DiGangi
2) Regarding Delgamuukw: Where do we go from here? Office of M. P. Darrel Stinson
3) Aboriginal claims and the forestry industry: claims processess and recent developments in the courts by R. David House
4) The Delgamuukw Decision - Implications for the Forest Sector - The Forestry Chronicle, Vol. 74, No. 3 1998
5) Open Letter to Aboriginal Rights Council from the Interior Alliance of British Columbia
6) Supreme Court of Canada Delgamuukw Decision backgrounder - Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
7) Supreme Court of Canada - Brief newsletter by Lang Michener Barristers & Solicitors
8) Delgamuukw analysis by Mandell Pindell Barristers & Solicitors
9) Analysis of Delgamuukw decision and its implications for treaty negotiations by Ratcliff & Company Barristers & Solicitors
10) Research Implications of the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in Delgamuukw v. British Columbia by Peter Douglas Elias
11) Delgamuukw v. BC and Canada synopsis and implications for Ontario - Ministry of Natural Resources
12) Delgamuukw versus British Columbia preliminary summary

Conference kit for the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) "Title & Comprehensive Claims Conference" held February 24-25, 1998 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is unclear if all the materials were included in the kit or added later. Included in the file folder are:
1) Joint Statement on the Comprehensive Claims Policy, April 7, 1993
2) AFN Preliminary Assessment of the Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: RCAP Recommendations on Treaties, Lands and Resources, February 21, 1997
3) Extinguishing Extinguishment: Bringing an Era to an End by Ovide Mercredi, May 1995
4) Correspondence between Ministry of Indian and Northern Affairs and the Assembly of FIrst Nations
5) Federal Policy of the Settlement of Native Claims, March 1993
6) The Delgamuukw Case - What does it mean and what do we do now? by Melvin H. Smith Q.C., Feb. 10, 1998
7)Draft - Aboriginal Title and Comprehensive Claims Special Meeting notes
8) First Nations Summit - Analysis, Strategy and Statement on Delgamuukw, February 3, 1998
9) Newspaper and newspaper clippings
10) AFN Aboriginal Title & Comprehensive Claims conference report
11) background information and conference agenda

File contains a newspaper clipping, correspondence, an agenda for the "Aboriginal Title and Comprehensive Claims" conference, and a discussion paper "Common Ground - Toward Reconciliation of Aboriginal & Crown Title".

File contains correspondence and draft proposals for the Assembly of First Nations "Delgamuukw: A National Review Process".

File contains correspondence, news clippings, and other materials related to the planning and implementation of the 1st Special National Conference on Delgamuukw held in Kamloops, British Columbia. Also in the file are meeting minutes regarding negotiations and a copy of the land use agreement between the Neskonlith Indian Band, The Adams Lake Indian Band and the Province of British Columbia.

File contains records related to the implementation of the Delgamuukw decision. They include two copies of Resolution 7/00 - Delgamuukw Implementation of the Confederacy of Nations; multiple AFN resolutions regarding claims and claims policy; a meeting kit for the Recognition and Affirmation of Aboriginal Title Strategy Meeting; and other records.

File contains records created by/related to the Interior Alliance. Included in the file are press releases, a page titled "Tripartite Political Accord on Treaty Negotiation", and a legal update on Logging Cases for the AFN Committee to Implement Delgamuukw.

File contains records related to the Delgamuukw decision and the Canadian Government. Included in the file are:
1) Delgamuukw Implementation Committee background materials and meeting minutes
2) draft strategy framework on the recognition & affirmation of Aboriginal title
3) agendas and accompanying materials related to the May 6-7, 2000 Comprehensive Claims Strategy meeting and the May 8-9, 2000 joint AFN/DOJ/DIAND working session on comprehensive claims policy review
4) Correspondence and press releases
5) Assembly of First Nations - Canada's Comprehensive Claims Policy: The Need for Fundamental Change
6) News release re: Fraser Valley Blockade

File contains records related to the Delgamuukw Implementation Strategic Committee. Included in the file is correspondence, reports, and other materials related to claim policy and Delgamuukw.

File contains a variety of documents. Included are:
1) Federal Government's Proposed "Non-assertion/Fall-back release technique": a preliminary assessment" by Paul Joffe
2) multiple copies of "Canada's Approach for Dealing with section 35 Rights" - Ministerial recommendations to Cabinet
3) Sun Peaks Resort expansion correspondence
4) Assembly of First Nations - Delgamuukw Implementation Strategic Committee Dec. 12, 2000 meeting kit

File contains a variety of records. Included are:
1) Memorandum to Cabinet re: Long Term Response to R. v. Marshall
2) Consultation Strategy for First Nations Governance
3) AFN "National First Nations Policy Review on Fisheries" concept paper
4) AFN National Health Conference agenda and program, February 2001
5) Delgamuukw Implementation Strategy Committee Meetings materials
6) booklet of AFN resolutions regarding Delgamuukw principles and implementation
7) booklet of correspondence and other materials regarding Comprehensive Land Claims
8) Society for the Threatened Peoples Austria Working Circle for North American Indians campaign
9) DIANDS Key Priorities at the Start of a New Mandate
10) DIAND Communications strategy, 2001
11) Approach for Dealing with Section 35 Rights - Ministerial Recommendations to Cabinet

One copy of the magazine/program for the World Assembly of First Nations held in Regina, Saskatchewan July 18-25, 1982.

Sub-series contains National Committee on Treaties/Centre for Treaty Advocacy information kits that coverage a range of issues including claims, treaties, Aboriginal titles, MBCA, border crossing, litigation updates, and federal/provincial policy. Included are:

2018.008.011.003.001 Treaty Rights Unit Activities Report, Ottawa, Ontario March 4, 1987

2018.008.011.003.002 Treaty Rights Conference Ottawa, Ontario January 14, 1987

2018.008.011.003.003 National Committee on Treaties briefing book Kamloops, British Columbia, Sept. 20-21, 1988

2018.008.011.003.004 National Committee on Treaties meeting Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 9-10, 1988

2018.008.011.003.005 National Committee on Treaties briefing book - IXth Annual AFN Assembly Edmonton, Alberta May 20-June 2, 1988

2018.008.011.003.006 National Committee on Treaties briefing book Ottawa, Ontario July 11-12, 1988

2018.008.011.003.007 National Committee on Treaties Quebec City, Quebec July 4, 1989

2018.008.011.003.008 National Centre for Treaties briefing kit Halifax, Nova Scotia September 28-29, 1989

2018.008.011.003.009 National Committee on Treaties Edmonton, Alberta March 6-7, 1990

2018.008.011.003.010 National Committee on Treaties Vancouver, British Columbia May 1-2, 1990

2018.008.011.003.011 National Committee on Treaties Hay River, Northwest Territories June 27-28, 1990

2018.008.011.003.012 National Committee on Treaties - Grand Council Treaty #8 Nations Edmonton, Alberta Sept. 19-20, 1990

2018.008.011.003.013 National Committee on Treaties summary of activities Oct. 1, 1990

Series contains records relating to Federal Government First Ministers' Meetings and Constitutional reform. Series is divided into the following files/items:
2018.008.012.001 Proposal on the Constitution
2018.008.012.002 NIB/AFN: 1975-1982
2018.008.012.003 NIB/AFN 1982
2018.008.012.004 W. Rudnicki- 1982 Patriation Debate
2018.008.012.005 FMC's: 1982-
2018.008.012.006 FMC - 1983-84
2018.008.012.007 Presentation to Constitutional Task Force on Treaties and Treaty Rights
2018.008.012.008 FMC - 1987
2018.008.012.009 Report of the Special Joint Committee on a Renewed Canada
2018.008.012.010 AFN 91-93
2018.008.012.011 AFN Confed 3/91
2018.008.012.012 AFN Election 1991
2018.008.012.013 Constitution - 1991
2018.008.012.014 CWG - Jan. 1992 - April/92
2018.008.012.015 AFN Circle on Constitution April 1992
2018.008.012.016 Constitution Sept 1/92
2018.008.012.017 Constitution Oct/92
2018.008.012.018 Constitution Oct/92
2018.008.012.019 W. Rudnicki - Sting Oct/1992
2018.008.012.020 AFN Treaties - 2/93
2018.008.012.021 AFN Assembly 7/95

File contains four publications:
1) Indian News - Special Edition, Vol. 23 No. 2 May 1982 Indian and Inuit Affairs Program
2) Coalition of First Nations: Sovereignty & Nationhood
3) National Indian Brotherhood 1975
4) Statement by Dr. David Ahenakew, National Chief Assembly of First Nations

File contains records related to the First Ministers' Conference. Included are:
1) Strategical Planning and Defence Analysis - Situation Report and Recommendations Respecting the First Ministers' Conference 1987
2) First Ministers' Conference on Aboriginal Constitutional Matters - notes for opening address by Don. R. Getty
3) Our Land is Our Future - UBCIC
4) Assembly of First Nations (AFN)brochure
5) Security Intelligence Review Committee Annual Report 1989-1990
6) Assembly of First Nations Treaties and Treaty Rights - Some Preliminary Considerations by Paul Joffe
7) Treaty Rights Unit Report on Treaties for AFN Special Assembly
8) memos re: funding for Treaty Research and Advocacy Center
9) AFN Bulletin, Vol. 4 No. 3 Oct/Nov 1986
10) National Committee on Treaties Briefing Book - 6th annual AFN Assembly
11) Task Force on Treaties and Treaty Rights
12) Letter to AFN from Prairie Treaty Nations Alliance
13) Newspaper clippings
14) memo from Union of Ontario Indians and AFN
15) Agenda - AFN Special All Chiefs' Assembly

File contains newspaper clippings, memos, resolutions and other records relating to restructuring of the Assembly of First Nations, Ovide Mercredi, and constitutional process.

File contains records relating to Meech Lake and constitutional proposals. Included in the file are:
1) 2 copies of "Rolling Draft of Constitution Act, 1992 related to Aboriginal Peoples Mi'kmaq titles"
2) Report of the Atlantic First People's Constitutional Forum
3) First Nations Parallel Constitutional Process - AFN
4) Notes from Ad Hoc Committee on the Constitution - AFN
5) Shaping Canada's Future Together - proposals
6) Notes for an address by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney on the launch of the Government's Constitutional Proposals

File contains records relating to the Charlottetown Accord. Included in the file are: two copies of "Draft Legal Text"; Your Guide to Canada's Proposed Constitutional Changes; newspaper clippings; and correspondence.

File contains records related to work with the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples(RCAP). Specifically relating to treaty research. Included in the file are:
1) Assembly of First Nations Preliminary Work Plan of Intervenor Activities before the RCAP
2) Draft Outline - Land and Resource Base - AFN-RCAP

File contains Assembly of First Nations (AFN) General Assembly information kit and newspaper clippings. Included in the kit is an agenda; resolution proceedures and resolutions; charter; first draft of "Declaration of First Nations Sovereign Relationships"; a proposal for the political restructuring of the Assembly of First Nations; "Aboriginal Strategic Initiatives Proposal - final draft; assembly opening remarks and speeches; and a copy of the AFN annual report for 1996.

File contains kit "Indian Act Amendments - briefing and background materials" created for the Assembly of First Nations General Assembly held July 8-10, 1996.

File contains the "Emergency Assembly on the Indian Act Amendments" information kit and Peter Di Gangi's handwritten notes on the meeting.

File contains records related to the proposed amendments to the Indian Act. Included in the file is correspondence and an Assembly of First Nations "Resolutions and Related Correspondence" packet of documents.

File contains records related to the Assembly of First Nations Confederacy of Nations meetings. Included in the file are:
1) 1998 Meeting booklet
2) reports
3) correspondence
4) booklet of 1998 resolutions
5) resolution status reports for Confederacy of Nations 1998, 1999 and 19th Annual General Assembly, 1998

File contains a variety of Assembly of First Nations (AFN) records. Included are:
1) AFN/Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada joint initiative National Gathering Info. Kit, July 2000
2) Election brochure - candidates profiles
3) draft First Nations Languages Act
4) Record of AFN resolutions July 1999 to June 2000
5) The Delgamuukw/Gisday'wa Nation process folder with information inside
6) Living Languages Lasting Cultures AFN Conference Book 2000

File contains records related to the April 11, 2001 meeting between Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) and the Assembly of First Nations regarding the Federal Government's proposed legislative initiatve on First Nations' Governance. Included in the file are handwritten notes; meeting overview document; correspondence; and a meeting kit.

Series contains records related to First Nations Governance, fiscal management and government policy. Series has been divided into the following files and items:

2018.008.014.001 Dan Goodleaf 1993
2018.008.014.002 Frank Mag
2018.008.014.003 DIA Staff/Reorg: 91-93
2018.008.014.004 CH. Lands Vol. I - 91-92
2018.008.014.005 CH. Lands Vol. II - 92-93
2018.008.014.006 CH. Lands Vol. III - 94-96
2018.008.014.007 LRT - Mawiw - 1/91
2018.008.014.008 AFN/ Lands & Trusts
2018.008.014.009 Lands Act C-75 12/96
2018.008.014.010 Bill C-49 Lands Act 1999
2018.008.014.011 AFN - LTS - 9/98
2018.008.014.012 AFN - LTS - ATR Policy 11/98
2018.008.014.013 Liberal Trix 1997
2018.008.014.014 Fed Election 1997
2018.008.014.015 AFN- DIA Fiscal - Feb 2001
2018.008.014.016 DIA - AFN Fiscal - 2001
2018.008.014.017 AFN AGA 7/2000
2018.008.014.018 W. Rudnicki: Corbiere
2018.008.014.019 FNG - W. Rudnicki 5/2001
2018.008.014.020 Coalition Kit - 12/2001
2018.008.014.021 LTS - AFN - DIA 2001
2018.008.014.022 COO- Nov-Dec 2001
2018.008.014.023 Association of Iroquois & Allied Indians Annual Report 1992
2018.008.014.024 AFN Confederacy - 12/01
2018.008.014.025 AFN Resolutions Etc. 2001
2018.008.014.026 FNG Minutes - Nov-Dec/2001
2018.008.014.027 FNG 2002 Vol. I
2018.008.014.028 FNG - March 2002
2018.008.014.029 FNG - June 2002
2018.008.014.030 Fiscal Institutions - 2002

File contains bulletins, memos, and other records related to the staffing and re-organization of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.

File contains records related to the Lands and Trust Services. Included are regional involvement reports; background information; progress report; and other records.

File contains records pertaining to the Lands and Trust Service Additions to Reserve (ATR) policy. Included in the file are reports; meeting notes and other records.

File contains newspaper clippings related to then Prime Minister Jean Chretien and then Minister of Indian Affairs Ron Irwin.

File contains records related to the 1997 Federal Election. Included are party platform documents and handbooks created by the Assembly of First Nations. Also in the file are a variety of other publications regarding the election.

File contains records related to/created for the Confederacy of Nations meetings held December 4-6, 2001. Included in the file is a draft agenda, opening address of National Chief Matthew Coon Come, Assembly of First Nations pre-budget submission, Confederacy of Nations report and other materials.

File contains 2 resolution reports:
1) Confederacy of Nations resolutions May 8-10, 2001
2) AFN 22nd Annual General Assembly resolutions July 17-19, 2001

File contains minutes and accompanying material for the November - December 2001 meetings of the Joint Ministerial Advisory Committee on the First Nations Governance legislation.

File contains records related to the Federal Government's "Communities First: First Nations Governance" initiative. Included in the file are correspondence; an assessment of the consultation process by Peter Douglas Elias; and a First Nations Governance Community Consultations summary report by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.

File contains records related to First Nations Governance. Included in the file are a brochure about the First Nations Governance Act (Bill C-61); information about governance activities and the National Day of Solidarity "Drums across the Nation" June 21, 2002; an e-note by four_arrows@canada.com "The Governance Embellishment: Still Tastes Like the Old Indian Act"; and a summary of the new First Nations Governance Act.

File contains records related to the National Treaty Conference "Indigenous Treaties/Self-Determination" held April 6-9, 1992. Included in the file is correspondence, reports, addresses and associated materials related to the conference.

File contains records related to Free Trade and land claims settlement. Included in the file are:
1) The Free Trade Agreement as a Treaty - Centre for Treaty Advocacy
2) The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement and Native Land-Claims Settlement
3) The Canadian-U. S. Free Trade Agreement synopsis

File contains copies of the the publication "Anasazi" published by Obomsawin Irwin Consulting Services. Included in the file are June 1995 - October 1996, February - June 1997. Also in the file is correspondence and draft copies of articles authored by Peter Di Gangi for the publication.

File contains two copies of Document 62 - Critical Issues in Native North America by the International Working Group for Indigenous Affairs and edited by Ward Churchill. File only contains section II of the document "Section II - Canada".

File contains draft resolutions and Study on Treaties by the United Nations Economic and Social Council - Commission on Human Rights - sub-commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities.

File contains correspondence and discussion paper regarding Canada's consultations for the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance (WCAR).

File contains records relating to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations. Included in the file are:
1) United Nations press release - Resolution and Decisions adopted by General Assembly at its 15th Special Session
2) United Nations General Assembly - Joint Inspection Unit - "Some Reflections on reform of the United Nations note by the Secretary-General" Dec. 1985
3) United Nations Economic and Social Council Commission on Human Rights Sub-commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities "Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations - Report of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations" 1988
4) United Nations Economic and Social Council Commission on Human Rights Sub-commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities "Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations - Report of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations" 1990
5) United Nations Economic and Social Council Commission on Human Rights "Advisory Services in the Field of Human Rights - Report on the United Nations Seminar on the effects of racism and racial discrimination on the social and economic relations between Indigenous Peoples and States" 1989

File contains records related to the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Included in the file is correspondence, copies of draft declaration, and reports from the United Nations regarding Indigenous Peoples and discrimination.

File contains newspaper clippings, magazine stories, newsletters, and other publications related to Indigenous Peoples in countries around the world.