Fonds 2018.008 - Peter Di Gangi Papers

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Peter Di Gangi Papers

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2018.008

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  • 1906-2011 (Creation)
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    Di Gangi, Peter

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35 boxes of textual material.

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Peter Di Gangi is a land rights researcher and analyst with Sicani Research. He has worked with Indigenous communities across Canada with a focus on historical, legal and cultural research. His experience includes working on the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the Assembly of First Nations, and a variety of associations, tribal councils and First Nations in Atlantic Canada, Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia. He was the Director of Policy and Research, Algonquin Nation Secretariat and an Advisory Board Member at Yellowhead Institute (2018-2020).

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The fonds contains records created by Peter Di Gangi (Sicani Research), containing research related to Indigenous governance in Canada. The content includes published and unpublished materials and topics include: policy and research papers on Indigenous law and policy, federal government reports and statistics, Ontario government reports and statistics (focused on northern and northwestern Ontario), draft reports and intervenor submissions prepared for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP), Assembly of First Nations reports and committee kits, records from the Centre for Treaty Advocacy, policy papers on federal legislation and the Indian Act, social programs, taxation, lands, various court cases and decisions with analyses, materials on the evolution of federal Claims policy and efforts at reform, some material related to United States Indian policy and treaties.

The fonds has been divided into series by box (35 in total) and further divided into files and items. The series, file, and item titles were provided by the donor (with some exceptions).

Names and terminology used in the scope and content field reflect the names and terminology used in the files and on the items and is often outdated and out of use. (i.e. Department of Indian Affairs (DIA); Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations). Every attempt has been made to utilize the current names in the creator and access points fields in the records (i. e. Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC); Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN).

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Any records that were bound have been unbound (wherever possible) for conservation reasons

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Partially Restricted. Some records have been redacted for privacy issues.

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