Facsimile copy of "Practical Talking Points for Discussing a Framework for a Mi'kmaq Constitution.

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

File contains records related to the Delgamuukw Strategic Implementation Committee. Also in the file is information on the Federal Government's Comprehensive Claim Policy and a copy of "Common Ground - Toward Reconciliation of Aboriginal & Crown Title".

Copy of the combined presentations made to the Constitutional Task Force on Treaties and Treaty Rights. Presentations took place February 3-5, 1987.

File contains copies of the judgement, commentary, and analysis on the Supreme Court of Canada ruling in Ronald Edward Sparrow v. Her Majesty the Queen and The National Indian Brotherhood/ Assembly of First Nations (intervenors).

File contains the judgement and newspaper clippings regarding Shubenacadie Indian Band lobster trapping court case in relation to R vs. Marshall.

File contains two papers:
1) "Specific Claims" - The Skeletons Come Out of the Closet (The Lower Kootenay Band & Harvey Gansner) by Peter Di Gangi
2) Crown Fiduciary Obligations in All Phases of Aboriginal Land Claims in Canada: Policy Development, Negotiations, Litigation and Settlement by Mary Ellen Turpel

File contains records related to the issue of First Nations border crossing rights. Included is correspondence, reports, and other related records.

File contains records related to the Indian Act. Included are:
1) Indian Act amendments chronology of events 1995-1996
2) News clipping
3) Proposal of the Union of Nova Scotia Indians for the revision of the Indian Act 2 August 1979
4) INAC press release