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 newspaper clippings, brochures, and other records related to the National Day of Action April 17, 1997.

File contains records related to Bill C-79 and the Senate Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development. Included in the file are notes, Committee meeting transcripts, news releases, meeting announcements and other records.

File contains records related to Bill C-79. Included in the file are:
1) Chiefs Committee on Enforcement of First Nations- Crown Relationship folder
2) Bill C-79
3) AFN resolutions and correspondence
4) Action plan re: Indian Act II
5) Analysis of Proposed Indian Act Amendments - Roger Jones
6) notes

File contains two copies Bill S-9 - An Act providing for self-government by the First Nations of Canada (1996) and one copy of Bill S-10 - An Act providing for self-government by the First Nations of Canada (1995)

File contains records related to Bill C-79 "An Act to permit certain modifications in the application of the Indian Act to bands that desire them". Included in the file are briefing and preliminary notes re: the bill; meeting minutes; Kill the Bill list of tasks; and other related records.

File contains Access to Information and Privacy requests by Peter Di Gangi to the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada regarding the costs associated with Bill C-79.

File contains newspaper clippings and an Assembly of First Nations bulletin regarding the proposed changes to the Indian Act.

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 newspaper clippings, a press release and candidate biographical sketches for the Assembly of First Nations Grand Chief elections.

File contains records related to Assembly of First Nations (AFN) restructuring. Included in the file is a copy of the AFN charter; three copies of the proposal for restructuring; two copies of the AFN mandate renewal; and a copy of AFN draft resolution no. 4/97 - AFN Restructuring.

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 records related to the Assembly of First Nations Confederacy of Nations meeting held in December 1999. Included in the file are:
1) speaking notes for Robert D. Nault
2) notes
3) resolutions
4) Facilitator's Report on the Special Workshop on the Delgamuukw, Marshall, and Corbiere Decisions, Dec. 8/99
5) memorandum - state of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Canadian Case Law
6) speech by Phil Fontaine
7) Reducing the Debt of the Poorest: Challenges and Opportunities - John E. Serieux
8) Preliminary analysis of Corbiere v. Canada and the Batchewana Band
9) Report on Corbiere - report and revised work plan for Response to Corbiere Decision
10) wrap-up dialogue "Finding a Way to Work Together"

File contains an Assembly of First Nations folder containing budget information for 1999/2000. Also in the file is "The AFN-CGA Accountability Project" final report.

File contains a variety of records including:
1) Joint Initiative for Policy Development focus group status report
2) Treaty Implementation & Enforcement Action - a strategic plan
3) A Report on the Aboriginal Government Transition Centre
4) Aboriginal Rights Coalition Solidarite bulletin, Spring 1999

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.

File contains records related to First Nations Governance. Included in the file is:
1) correspondence
2) Communities First: First Nations Governance consultation package - INAC
3) Confederacy of Nations 2001 booklets (4) "AFN Briefing on the Governance Initiative"

File contains records related to First Nations Governance. Included in the file are:
1) news clippings
2) correspondence
3) draft "Facilitating the Exercise of Self Government: a co-operative approach between Canada and the Assembly of First Nations"
4) briefing notes
5) Anasazi newsletter Vol. 7 No. 1
6) "Is There Life After the Indian Act? Part 1

File contains records related to First Nations Governance. It includes correspondence, analysis, newspaper clippings and reports primarily related to the joint Assembly of First Nations - Department of Indian and Northern Development work plans for self government.

File contains clippings, correspondence and other records related to Deputy Minister of Indian Affairs Dan Goodleaf's trip to Europe.

File contains stories published Frank Magazine between 1991-1995 about Bruce Rawson, Marc Eliesen, and Ernie Hobbs.

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 Chiefs' Alternative Lands Legislation. Included in the file are:
1) AFN bulletin April 1991 "LRT Review Ends"
2) Comprehensive briefing package by Indian and Northern Affairs re: Chiefs' Alternative Lands Legislation
3) First Nations Chartered Land Act - Chiefs Steering Committee - correspondence, info and proposal
4) New Optional Lands Legislation - Chief Robert Louie's comments to the Union of Ontario Indians' Assembly

File contains records regarding the First Nations Lands Board and the First Nations Chartered Land Act. Included in the file are brochures, info kits, proposals and an analysis.

File contains records relating to the framework agreement on land management between First Nations and the Canadian Government. Included in the file is correspondence, news releases, draft and copy of framework agreement, and other records.

File contains records related to the Lands and Trust Services (LTS). Included in the file is correspondence, background information, AFN resolutions, and a copy of the AFN Land Rights Unit Inventory & Information Services Feasibility Study.

File contains records related to First Nations Land Management. Included in the file is a news release, a copy of Bill C-75, and a framework agreement on First Nation Land Management between the Government of Canada and the First Nations of Westbank, Musqueam, Lheit Lit'en, N'Quatqua, Squamish, Siksika, Muskoday, Cowessess, Opaskwayak Cree, Nipissing, Mississaugas of Scugog Island, Chippewas of Mnjikaning, and Chippewas of Georgina Island.

File contains records related to Federal Bill C-49 and Lands and Trusts Services (LTS). Included in the file is correspondence; news clippings; Lands and Trusts Services Issues Analysis by Peter Di Gangi; planning documents; Joint Initiative on Lands and Governance report and draft workplan; LTS Kit - AFN Executive; AFN/INAC Joint Initiative for Policy Development (LTS) kit; Bill C-49.

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 a copy of the Douglas Treaty Case Study by the Nanoose First Nation for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

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 a meeting kit for the Chiefs' Committee on Fiscal Relations - First Nations' Fiscal Institutions meeting held February 21, 2001.

File contains booklet "The First Nations' Fiscal Institutions Initiative - General Information and Business Plans".

File contains records related to the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) 21st Annual General Assembly in 2000. Included in the file are:
1) newspaper clippings
2) Delgamuukw Implementation Strategic Committee report of the co-chairs
3) draft agenda for assembly
4) "Living Languages, Lasting Culture" AFN 2000 Annual Report

File contains a brochure for the Federal Government's First Nations Governance Initiative, and an information kit for the First Nation Coalition for Inherent Rights. Kit includes briefing materials and a legal review.

File contains newspaper clippings and a Chiefs of Ontario position statement regarding proposed Government policy and policy changes.

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 relating to First Nations Governance. Included are newspaper clippings, correspondence, meeting kits, and other materials.

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 First Nations Fiscal Initiative. Included in the file are information kits, correspondence, briefing notes and other materials.

Letter and accompanying discussion paper "The Numbered Treaties and Extinguishment: A Legal Analysis" authored by Alan Pratt for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

File contains authored papers regarding treaty interpretation. Included in the file are:
1) A People of Law - Paul Williams
2) The Incorporation of International Law in Domestic Law - Hutchins, Soroka & Dionne
3) The Nature and Status of the Oral Agreements as Distinct from the Written Terms of the Treaties - Delia Opekokew
4) The Interpretation of the Treaties Entered into by the First Nations and the Crown... - Delia Opekokew

File contains four writings regarding treaty policy. In the file are:
1) Evolving New International Laws from the Fourth World - Rudolph C. Ryser
2) Will Canadian Accept the New Relationship - thoughts on the seminar on sovereignty, citizenship, and treaties - James Tully
3) Making Waves newsletter Vol. 4, No. 3 (August 1993)
4) The North and National Policy - Peter Jull

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, proposals, and other records related to the conference.

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 the National Treaty Gathering held November 21 - 23, 1995 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. File contains agendas, papers, correspondence and other records related to the gathering. There is also a copy of the National Treaty Conference book from the April 1992 gathering.

File contains a copy of the Federal Treaty Policy Study by Stephen Aronson and Ron Maguire; a copy of the completed Aboriginal Treaties questionnaire for RCAP - submitted by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada; and copies of the questionnaire question and a list of people it was sent to.

File contains records related to the Assembly of First Nations Chiefs Commission on the Bilateral Process. Included in the file are:
1) Commission highlights report
2) Final draft of Commission's report to the 5th Annual General Assembly
3) Correspondence
4) Treaty Indian Nations and the Government of Canada - Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Bands
5) Process for Treaty and Indian Government Implementation
6) Indian Treaty Rights - Federation of Saskatchewan Indians
7) Treaty Indian Nations Bilateral Process
8) FSIN - Canada Bilateral Agreements - Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations

File contains records relating to alternative mechanisms for treaty implementation. Included in the file are:
1)2 copies - Alternative Approaches to First Nations Inherent, Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Canada
2) Alternative Mechanisms for Treaty Implementation: A review of past and current approaches - AFN
3) A Brief Commentary on the Alternative Mechanisms
4) National Committee on Treaties - Working Group on Alternative Mechanisms meeting kit

File contains records created by the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) regarding treaties, treaty rights, and the bilateral constitutional task force. Included are:
1) Statement of the Right to Self-Government and Land
2) Making Political and Legal Sense of the Treaties discussion paper
3) Treaty Rights: AFN Positions/Initiatives 1986-1991
4) AFN resolutions
5) Constitutional Working Group members list, memos, meeting schedule and meeting minutes
6) Report of the Bilateral Constitutional Task Force on Treaties and Treaty Rights
7) Treaty Rights Unit report on Treaties for A. F. N. Special Assembly
8) AFN Position on First Nations Treaties: Treaty Rights, Treaty Making and Implementation
9) 1983 Constitutional Accord on Aboriginal Rights
10) Proposal for an amendment on Self-Government and Treaties by AFN
11) A National First Nations-Canada Treaty - Chiefs Assembly AFN
12) FSIN - Canada Bilateral Agreements - Indian Governments of Saskatchewan
13) Restoring the Path, Renewing our Nations - AFN

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

Draft Final Report of "International Context of Crown-Aboriginal Treaties in Canada". Report was prepared by Russel Lawrence Barsh and James Youngblood Henderson, in their roles with the Apamuwek Institute, under contract to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

File contains report authored by Tony Hall for Leroy Little Bear and the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Report is in two parts: Part 1 - The Fur Trade and Aboriginal Rights: History, Education and Constitutional Meaning; and Part 2 - Aboriginal-Crown Treaties in the History and Constitution of Canada: Basic Principles, Basic Interpretations.

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 records related to Indigenous water rights. Included in the file are:
1) Correspondence - International Indian Water Rights Coalition
2) Indian Resource and Water Rights - Kenneth J. Tyler
3) Title to the Water Bed: The Legal History of the Ad Medium Filum Aquae Rule - Rose Boyko Wuerscher
4) Indian Water Rights in the Western United States: An Historical Overview and Discussion of Some Current Issues - Jeffrey A. Ross
5) Peigan Nation Administration water rights lawsuit
6) Carrier Sekani Tribal Council legal documents re: Kemano II project

Copy of the Study of the Problem of Discrimination against Indigenous Populations by Jose R. Martinez Cobo, special rapporteur of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. Study is divided into 5 volumes.

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 story clippings from the Economist Magazine regarding North American Indigenous populations. Also in the file is a pamphlet regarding Hopi land claims.

File contains records related to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations. Included in the file are:
1) Draft of the Universal Declaration on Indigenous Rights,
2) Presentation to the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations - Assembly of First Nations Centre for Treaty Advocacy
3) Intervention on Standard Setting before the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations
4) Submission to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations 7th session - Konrad Sioui, Vice-Chief Quebec, AFN
5) Report on the 4th European Meeting of the North American Indian Support Groups
6) 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 its 6th session"
7) United Nations Economic and Social Council - Commission on Human Rights - Sub-commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities "Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations - written statement submitted by Grand Council of the Crees (of Quebec)"
8) Presentation of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations - Assembly of First Nations Centre for Treaty Advocacy

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 newspaper and magazine clippings and two reports related to the Indigenous Peoples of Australia. Included in the file are two reports:
1) The Australian Law Reform Commissions Reference on the Recognition of Aboriginal Customary Law - Professor James Crawford
2) Aboriginal Lands Rights New South Wales - Comments on the N.S.W. Government Land Rights Proposals

File contains newspaper and magazine clippings of stories related to Indigenous Peoples internationally. Also in the file is a print out from the Centre for World Indigenous Studies.

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 publications from the World Bank's Latin America and the Caribbean Technical Department. Included in the file are:
1) World Bank Operational Directive 4.20: Indigenous Peoples
2) The LAT Connection - newsletter of the Latin America and Caribbean Region Technical Department, Vol. 2 No. 2, Nov. 1992
3) Latin America and the Caribbean Technical Department Regional Studies program report No. 19 "Protecting Amerindian Lands: A Review of World Bank Experience with Indigenous Land - Regularization Programs in Lowland South America" by Alaka Wali and Shelton Davis

File contains records related to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Included in the file is correspondence, seminar information, drafts, and reports.

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 records related to International Indigenous issues. Included in the file are:
1) "Indian Rights-Human Rights - Handbook for Indians on International Human Rights Complaints" Indian Law Resource Centre
2) United Nations List of Indigenous Organizations
3) Draft declaration as agreed upon by the members of the Working Group at its 11th session
4) "Implementation of the programme of action for the second decade to combat racism and racial discrimination" - Commission on Human Rights, United Nations
5) International Issues
6) "Advisory Services in the field of Human Rights - report of the Secretary General" Commission on Human Rights, United Nations
7) Report on the 5th General Assembly of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples, Lima Peru July 11-16, 1987

File contains newspaper and magazine clippings, magazines, journals and other publications related to Indigenous Peoples in the United States. File also contains statements and reports regarding the U. S. Government and self-government.

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

File contains two copies of "Indian Rights - Human Rights Handbook for Indians on International Human Rights Complaint Procedures" from the Indian Law Resource Centre in Washington D. C.

File contains records related to the Treaty of Waitangi and the Waitangi Tribunal in New Zealand. Included in the file are newspaper and magazine clippings, and a copy of the New Zealand Law Society seminar notes "The Treaty of Waitangi".

File contains records related to CERT - Council of Energy Resource Tribes. Included in the file are magazines, magazine stories, brochures, a report on the organization by Peter Di Gangi.

File contains records related to the Fourth Russell Tribunal on the Rights of the Indians of the Americas held in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1980. Included in the file are:
1) Report of the Fourth Russell Tribunal on the Rights of the Indians of the Americas conclusions, November 1980
2) transcription of testimony of the Grand Council Treaty No. 9
3) Russell Tribunal Rules in Favour of Nishnawbe-Aski Nation by Norman Zlotkin
4) Fourth Russell Tribunal - Rotterdam, Holland 1980 - Grand Treaty Council No. 9
5) Presentation to the IVth Russell Tribunal on the Rights of the Indians in North and Latin America presented by Grand Council Treaty No. 9 on behalf of the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation

File contains copies of the Hutchins, Soroka & Dionne newsletter "Nouvelles Internationales HSD International News". Included in the file are Volume 1, Nos. 1-6; Volume 2, Nos. 1-3; Volume 3 No. 1-2; and Volume 4 No. 1-2.

File contains news clippings and United Nations reports regarding Canada and its Indigenous Peoples. United Nations reports are from United Nations Economic and Social Council.

Two copies of "Study on treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and Indigenous populations" by Miguel Alfonso Martinez for the United Nations Economic and Social Council Commission on Human Rights sub-commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities.

File contains report created by the Grand Council of the Crees for the United Nations Economic and Social Council - "To the Edge of Cultural and Political Extinction" a response concerning the covenant rights of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada to the Government of Canada's fourth periodic report on the implementation of the international covenant on civil and political rights.

Two copies of "Indigenous People and their Relationship to Land" second progress report on the working paper prepared by Mrs. Erica-Irene A. Daes, special rapporteur. Report prepared for the United Nations Economic and Social Council Commission on Human Rights Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities.

Two copies of "Reciting the Symptoms, Ignoring the Cause: The Systematic Dispossession of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada" a response to the Government of Canada's third periodic report on the implementation of the international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights.

File contains 4 final reports from the Conference on Security on Co-operation in Europe held between 1977 and 1990. Included are:
2018.008.017.003.001 Concluding Document of the Belgrade Meeting 1977 of Representatives of the Participating States of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe
2018.008.017.003.002 Concluding Document of the Madrid Meeting of Representatives of the Participating States of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, 1983
2018.008.017.003.003 Concluding Document of the Vienna Meeting 1986 of Representatives of the Participating States of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe
2018.008.017.003.006 Document of the Copenhagen Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE, 1990

File contains three reports about Canada's Indian Reserves authored by William B. Henderson for the Research Branch of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. They include:
1) Canada's Indian Reserves: Legislative Powers, 1981
2) Canada's Indian Reserves: Legislative Powers An Update, 1985
3) Canada's Indian Reserves: The Usufruct in our Constitution, 1980

File contains records relating to self-government. Included are:
1) Assembly of First Nations Self-Determination Symposium summary report, Oct. 1-3, 1990
2) Assembly of First Nations First Nations Government Planning Session information package
3) Council for Yukon Indians discussion paper re: Aboriginal Self-Government

File contains master copies of legal briefs, analyses, speaking notes, and other records related to Bill C-79 - an act to permit certain modifications in the application of the Indian Act to bands that desire them created/collected by the Assembly of First Nations. Included are:
1) Preliminary notes on Bill C-79
2) correspondence between Assembly of First Nations and Nahwegahbow, Nadjiwan Barrister and Solicitors
3) Framework for Analysis: Diand's proposed Indian Act amendments
4) Remarks on Bill C-79. the 'Optional Indian Act Modification Act'
5) Submission to Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development on the Optional Indian Act Modification Act by the North Shore Tribal Council
6) copy of Bill C-79

File contain a news story and press releases regarding Canadian Government cabinet shuffles, and the reorganization of the Federal-Provincial Relations Office.

File contains clippings and documents related to "Gathering Strength" the Federal Government's response to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

File contains a copy of the Cabinet analysis regarding creation of urban multipurpose Aboriginal youth centres.

File contains records related to Indigenous languages. Included in the file are news stories and a copy of "Beyond Rhetoric - exploring the linkages between language, literacy and First Nations social security programming" by Emily Faries, Mary Ann Corbiere, and Roger Spielmann.

File has records related to Federal Government budget information for 1998. Included are newspaper clippings; papers; and Indian Affairs and Northern Development budget information.

File contains two documents: Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and Canadian Polar Commission 1998-1999 estimates - a report on plans and priorities; and Comprehensive Claims Policy and Status of Claims, Nov. 21, 1997.

File contains records related to various Federal budgets. Included in the file are:
1) newspaper clippings
2) Lang Michener "In Brief" - Spring 1997, Spring 1995
3) News release re: DIAND program review and accompanying report
4) Presentation to the Assembly of First Nations on 1995-1996 Expenditures for Aboriginal Peoples
5) The Budget in Grief - Assembly of First Nations, March 15, 1990

File contains records related to Federal budgets. Included in the file are newspaper clippings and a copy of "Canada's Current Economic and Fiscal Situation" - Dept. of Finance, Oct. 1992.

File contains records related to the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND). Included in the file are DIAND news releases; Human Resources Development Canada news releases; correspondence; "You Wanted to Know" printouts from the DIAND website; and several audits of DIAND initiatives.