File contains records related to the British Columbia Treaty Commission (BCTC). Included in the file are news releases and clippings, as well as:
1) brochures "Treaties in British Columbia" and "Treaty Making" from the First Nations Summit Perspective
2) brochure "The British Columbia Treaty Commission" from the UBCIC
3) brochure "Treaty Negotiations in B. C. ' an Overview" from the Federal Treaty Negotiation Office
4) "BCTC & The Land Question"
5) "BCTC 1997 Annual Report excerpts
6) Report on the Treaty Process in British Columbia
7) Musqueam Indian Band - Band Council Resolution
8) Understanding the B. C. Treaty Process - an opportunity for dialogue
9) newsletter "British Columbia Treaty Commission update"

File contains records related to the British Columbia Treaty Commission. Along with newspaper clippings, correspondence, and other related materials there are:
1) two copies of "Building a New Relationship with First Nations in British Columbia - Canada's response to the report of the B. C. Claims Task Force
2) newsletter "Pride in Partnership - British Columbia"
3) two copies of "British Columbia Treaty Commission Agreement"
4) newsletter "Treaty News" July 1995, and December 1996 editions
5) "The Report of The British Columbia Claims Task Force" July 28, 1991
6) "Aboriginal Rights and Title - A Made in B. C. Approach" by the Westbank Indian Council
7) Form 11 - Chief R. Kwasistala on behalf of the Lichkwilthach hereditary chiefs and others v. Canadian Government
8) Outline and background on BC Treaty Commission

File contains records related to British Columbia land claims. Included in the file are newspaper clippings; Provincial memo re: lands and resources component of treaty negotiations; and "New Confederation - Building the New Canada with a New Federalism" by Preston Manning, leader of Reform Party of Canada.

File contains a historical outline of land dealings in British Columbia and correspondence re: Cheslatta Carrier Nation specific land claim.

Annotated bibliography created by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.

Series contains records related to Land Claims and court cases in British Columbia. Includes records regarding claims policy, the B. C. Treaty Commission, the Nisga'a agreement in principle, the Douglas Treaties, the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs, and the First Nations Summit. Series has been divided into the following files/items:

2018.008.021.001 Select Annotated Bibliography on B. C. Indian Policy and Land Claims
2018.008.021.002 B. C. - Lands - History
2018.008.021.003 BC Claims 5%
2018.008.021.004 B. C. Treaty Comm Vol. I
2018.008.021.005 B. C. Treaty Comm Vol. II
2018.008.021.006 Nisga'a Agreement
2018.008.021.007 UBCIC - 10/96
2018.008.021.008 UBCIC Resource Kit
2018.008.021.009 UBCIC Posters
2018.008.021.010 UBCIC Vol. I
2018.008.021.011 B. C. Claims Vol. I & II
2018.008.021.012 UBCIC - Nov. 1999
2018.008.021.013 RCAP - Douglas Treaties
2018.008.021.014 Douglas Treaties - DIA
2018.008.021.015 Nisga'a AIP Analysis
2018.008.021.016 BC Interior
2018.008.021.017 BCTC - Spring 98
2018.008.021.018 Haida Timber Case 1/98
2018.008.021.019 Nisga'a AIP 95-96
2018.008.021.020 Nisga'a Agrmnt #1
2018.008.021.021 BCTC - 3/99
2018.008.021.022 BC - Ind Orgs
2018.008.021.023 BC - Fall 1999 - West Bank
2018.008.021.024 First Nations Congress Lands, Revenues, Trusts Community Review Workshops

File contains information kits for the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs annual general assemblies.

2018.008.023.010.001 21st Annual General Assembly Nov. 14-16, 1989 Vancouver, B. C.
2018.008.023.010.002 22nd Annual General Assembly Oct. 23-25, 1990 Vancouver, B. C. (loose materials inside)
2018.008.023.010.003 23rd Annual General Assembly Oct. 22-24, 1991 Fort Rupert, B. C.
2018.008.023.010.004 26th Annual General Assembly Nov. 22-24, 1994 Richmond, B. C.
2018.008.023.010.005 Special General Assembly - Crisis in Indian Country: Aboriginal and Treaty Rights at the Crossroads July 10-12, 1995 Merritt, B. C.
2018.008.023.010.006 28th Annual General Assembly Oct. 23-25, 1996 Saanich, B. C. (loose materials inside)
2018.008.023.010.007 29th Annual General Assembly Oct. 21-23, 1997 Tsa'kis (Fort Rupert), B. C. (loose page at back)
2018.008.023.010.008 31st Annual General Assembly Nov. 2-4, 1999 Kelowna, B. C. (loose materials inside)

File contains Volumes I and II and a highlights booklet for the comprehensive land claim agreement between the Sahtu Dene and Metis and the Government of Canada.

File contains four documents:

2018.008.023.008.001 1994-1995 annual report
2018.008.023.008.002 1995-1996 annual report
2018.008.023.008.003 1996-1997 annual report
2018.008.023.008.004 1997-1998 annual report

File contains three documents:

2018.008.023.007.001 Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement Between Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada and The Gwich'in as represented by The Gwich'in Tribal Council, July 13, 1991

2018.008.023.007.002 Gwich'in Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement volumes 1 & 2, April 22, 1992

File contains two reports
2018.008.023.006.001 1992-1994 annual report
2018.008.023.006.002 1996-1997 annual report

Nunavut Implementation Commission booklet featuring members of the commission and background information.

"The Shuswap - One People with One Mind, One Heart and One Spirit"

"Shuswap Songs and Dances" book 7 of the Shuswap Cultural Series.

Booklet published by the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs.

File contains newsclipping packages put together by the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (UBCIC). File includes:

2018.008.023.001.001 December '95 edition
2018.008.023.001.002 January '96 edition
2018.008.023.001.003 July '97 edition
2018.008.023.001.004 September '97 edition
2018.008.023.001.005 August '97 edition
2018.008.023.001.006 September '97 edition
2018.008.023.001.007 December '97 edition
2018.008.023.001.008 January '98 edition
2018.008.023.001.009 February '98 edition
2018.008.023.001.010 April '98 edition

Series contains a variety of materials. They include:
2018.008.023.001 UBCIC Clippings
2018.008.023.002 Certainty: Canada's Struggle to Extinguish Aboriginal Title
2018.008.023.003 Shuswap Songs & Dances
2018.008.023.004 The Shuswap - One People with One Mind, One Heart and One Spirit
2018.008.023.005 Nunavut Implementation Commission
2018.008.023.006 Annual Reports of the Implementation Committee on the Implementation of the Gwich'in Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement
2018.008.023.007 Gwich'in Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement
2018.008.023.008 Annual Reports of the Implementation Committee - Sahtu Dene and Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement
2018.008.023.009 Sahtu Dene and Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement
2018.008.023.010 Union of B. C. Indian Chiefs annual general assembly kits

File contains two published documents:
2018.008.022.010.001 First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun Self-Government Agreement
2018.008.022.010.002 First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun Final Agreement

File contains two published documents:
2018.008.022.009.001 Tr'ondek Hwech'in Self-Government Agreement
2018.008.022.009.002 Tr'ondek Hwech'in Final Agreement

File contains two published documents:
2018.008.022.008.001 Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation Self-Government Agreement
2018.008.022.008.002 Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation Final Agreement

File contains two published documents:
2018.008.022.007.001 Entente sur L'Autonomie Gouvernementale de la Premiere Nation de Little Salmon/Carmacks
2018.008.022.007.002 Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation Final Agreement

Published copy of the agreement between the Inuit of the Nunavut Settlement Area and Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada.

File contains two published documents:
2018.008.022.005.001 Nisga'a Treaty Negotiations Agreement-in-Principle
2018.008.022.005.002 Nisga'a Final Agreement - Appendices

File contains two published documents:
2018.008.022.004.001 The Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Self-Government Agreement
2018.008.022.004.002 Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Final Agreement

Umbrella Final Agreement between the Yukon Government, the Council for Yukon Indians, and the Government of Canada.

File contains two published documents:
2018.008.022.002.001 Teslin Tlingit Council Self-Government Agreement
2018.008.022.002.002 Teslin Tlingit Council Final Agreement

File contains two published documents:
2018.008.022.001.001 Selkirk First Nation Self-Government Agreement
2018.008.022.001.002 Selkirk First Nation Final Agreement

Series contains published copies of self-government agreements and land title agreements between provincial/territorial governments, the federal government and the governing bodies of the First Nations involved. Included are:
2018.008.022.001 Selkirk First Nation
2018.008.022.002 Teslin Tlinglit Council
2018.008.022.003 Umbrella Final Agreement - Council for Yukon Indians
2018.008.022.004 Champagne and Aishihik First Nation
2018.008.022.005 Nisga'a Nation
2018.008.022.006 Agreement Between the Inuit of the Nunavut Settlement Area and Her Majesty the Queen in the right of Canada
2018.008.022.007 Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation
2018.008.022.008 Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation
2018.008.022.009 Tr'ondek Hwechi'in
2018.008.022.010 First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun

File contains records related to the Department of Justice Canada and Indigenous law. Included in the file are:
1) Trending in Native Law - Native Law, Public Law Sector - Department of Justice
2) Current Native Litigation Report, Issue No. 13 (April 1988) - Native Law, Public Law Sector - Department of Justice
3) memo from within the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development regarding the Sparrow c. The Queen court case

File contains a variety of critiques of, and information on Canada's comprehensive claims policy. Included are:
1) Analysis of Canada's Comprehensive Claims Policy - AFN - Land Rights Unit
2) The "Blackhole" of Specific Claims in Canada - Need it take another 500 years? by Ric Savino, presented to The Canadian Bar Association Continuing Legal Education seminar
3) The Implementation of Federal Claims Policy 1973-1980 - a working paper by Murray Angus
4) First Nations Submission on Claims - AFN
5) AFN's Crititique of Federal Government Land Claims Policies
6) Doublespeak of the 90's: A Comparison of Federal Government and First Nation Perception of Land Claims Process - AFN

File contains records related to the Comprehensive Claims Policy. Included in the file are:

1) National Overview of Comprehensive Claims Policy and the Constitution Act 1982 (draft - for discussion only)
2) Status report on Comprehensive Claims
3) Package of topics, issues, background information, talking points, and status dealing with comprehensive land claims across Canada.

File contains records related to the treaty process in British Columbia. Included in the file are:
1) British Columbia Treaty Commission dual report - Treaty Commission 2001 annual report/Looking Forward Looking Back a review of the BC Treaty Process
2) newspaper clipping re: BC treaty talks
3) news release re: referendum ballot from the Select Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs

File contains various analyses and reports regarding the impact of the Delamuukw decision. Included in the file are:
1) Union of British Columbia Municipalities - Conference on the Supreme Court of Canada Decision on Delgamuukw
2) three analysis by Bull, Housser & Tupper barristers and solicitor regarding decision
3) Specific claims and Delgamuukw by Mandell Pinder for UBCIC
4) Delgamuukw - a preliminary anaylsis of the Supreme Court of Canada's decision for a discussion with legal counsel for British Columbia and First Nations - Dept. of Justice

File contains a photocopy of the 2001 Report of the Auditor General of Canada to the House of Commons - other observations and appendices. Includes follow up of section 14 of the 1998 report "Indian and Northern Affairs Canada - Comprehensive Land Claims".

File contains a copy of section 14 of the Auditor General of Canada's 1998 report - "Indian and Northern Affairs Canada - Comprehensive Land Claims" and a copy of 22nd Report to the House (1999) regarding section 14 of the Auditor General's report.

File contains two transcripts from the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development meetings dated Thursday October 22, 1998 and Tuesday November 3, 1998.

File contains records related to comprehensive claims policy and information on specific claims. In the file is section 14 - "Indian and Northern Affairs Canada - Comprehensive Land Claims" of the Auditor General of Canada's 1998 report; Comprehensive Claims Policy and Status of Claims - Nov. 21, 1997 from Indigenous Affairs and Northern Development website; and transcript from the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Oct. 22, 1998 meeting.

File contains information on settled and in negotiation comprehensive claims between 1973 and March 1996.

Bound copy of the Agreement in Principle of a General Nature.

File contains records related to agreements between various Indigenous nations and mining corporations. Included in the file are:
1) Ntesinan Nteshiniminan Nteniunan - Between a Rock and a Hard Place - Innu Nation Task Force on Mining Activities final report
2) Memorandum of Understanding between the Innu Nation and Diamond Fields Resources Inc.
3) Morris/Rose/Ledgett memo - Summary of Impact Benefit Agreements

File contains Conseil Attikamekw-Montagnais records related to comprehensive claims and other records related to this.

File contains records related to the Dene/Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement. Included in the file are:
1) Correspondence
2) Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement between Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada and the Gwich'in as represented by the Gwich'in Tribal Council and supplement to the agreement
3) Dene/Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement in Principle
4) Analysis and Commentary: March 31, 1990 Draft of the Dene/Metis Claims Agreement - Assembly of First Nations Centre for Treaty Advocacy
5) Dene Leadership Meeting motions
6) Supreme Court of Canada appeal re: unpatented crown land in the Northwest Territories

File contains records related to Treaties 8 and 11. Included are:
1) Bay River Community Workshop: Resource materials - Assembly of First Nations Centre for Treaty Advocacy
2) Report of the Commission appointed to investigate the unfulfilled provisions of Treaties 8 and 11 as they apply to the Indians of the MacKenzie District, 1959
3) news release (2 copies) re: ratification of agreement with Treaty 8 Tribal Council
4) Treaty No. 11 (June 27, 1921) and Adhesion (July 17, 1922) with reports etc.
5) Treaty Research Report - Treaty Eleven

Copy of the comprehensive land claim between the Canadian government and the Dene/Metis Negotiations Secretariat.

Photocopy of the executive summary and report to the summit regarding special First Nations Chief Negotiators meeting regarding "Fee Simple Status". Included is a copy of the presentation by the Nisga'a Lisims Government "Nisga'a Lisims Government Lands Presentation".

Photocopy of the Review of Comprehensive Claims Process by the Departmental Audit Branch, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.

Photocopy of the agreement between the Vuntut Gwich'in First Nation, the Government of the Yukon, and the Government of Canada. Some of the agreement pages have handwritten notes on them.

File contains a copy of the Council for Yukon Indians Comprehensive Land Claims Agreement in Principle, a newspaper clipping, and correspondence between the Minister of Indian Affairs and the Council for Yukon Indians.

File contains records related to the Council of Yukon Indians and the Vuntut Gwich'in First Nation final agreement. Included in the file is background information, news clipping, news release, and highlights from the agreement.

Photocopy of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs "A National First Nations-Canada Treaty".

File contains records related to treaty making and non-extinguishment. Included are:
1) Indigenous Peoples Treaty Making Workshop
2) Treaty-Making and Title: A Non-extinguishment alternative for settling the land question in British Columbia, discussion paper #1 - UBCIC 21st annual general assembly, 1989
3) Inter-Tribal Treaties on the Land Question: B. C. Indians' Strategy for the 1990s, discussion paper #2 - UBCIC 21st annual general assembly, 1989
4) Presentation on claims, reserves, and self government
5) Memorandum - Alternatives to Extinguishment - Jeff Richstone, Inuit Committee on National Issues
6) Discussion paper on the Federal Government's Extinguishment Policy with Respect to Land Claims Agreements
7) General Statement on Extinguishment Policy - Conseil Atikamekw-Montagnais

File contains two items - a newspaper clipping from the Ottawa Citizen February 10, 1986 - "Natives should be able to keep aboriginal rights and have say in land development: task force"; and a report "Key Components for Required Change to the Federal Policy on Comprehensive Land Claims" Sept. 1990

File contains two copies of "Liberation Theology and Our Missions of Canada" by Jean-Guy Goulet.

Photocopy of "Land Rights for Indigenous People" by the World Council of Churches programme unit on Justice and Service, Commission on the Programme to Combat Racism.

File contains records relating to written works by Brian Slattery. Included in the file is a letter and accompanying synopsis of his work "The Land Rights of Indigenous Canadian Peoples" by Peter Di Gangi and a photocopy of "The Canadian Bar Review" Journal Vol. 66 No. 4, Dec. 1987 with an article "Understanding Aboriginal Rights" by Brian Slattery.

Photocopy of "Internal Canadian Imperialism and the Native Peoples" by Norman K. Zlotkin and Donald Colborne.

Photocopy of "Aboriginal Rights in Canada" by V. S. Salvino for the Indian Claims Commission.

Second of two folders from the Assembly of First Nations conference on Land Claims and Extinguishment. Included in the file is correspondence, reports and copies of:
1) "Indian Land Title Extinguishment" by Brian Davey, Nishnawbe-Aski Nation
2) "The James Bay Treaty and the Federal Government's Comprehensive Land Claims Policy"
3) The Unconscionable Treaty between the Crown and the Cree/Ojibway People of Northern Ontario" by Brian Davey, Nishnawbe-Aski Nation
4) "Alternative Approaches to Alaska Native Land and Governance" by Ralph W. Johnson for the Alaska Native Review Commission
5) "Extinguishment: An Analysis and Strategy" by Murray Angus for Dene-Metis Negotiations Secretariate
6) "Towards a New Federal Policy for Comprehensive Claims Settlements" John A. Olthuis, for AFN
7) "Extinguishment of Aboriginal Rights as a Result of Supersession by Law and Third Party Alienation" Squamish Nation
8) French and English version of "Condensed Version of the Review of the Comprehensive Claims Process"
9) "A New Proposal for Claims Resolution in Ontario" presentation by Association of Iroquois & Allied Indians, Grand Council Treaty #3, and Union of Ontario Indians to Minister of Indian Affairs
10) "The Political Economy of Native Land Claims in the Canadian North" J. I. Prattis
11) "The Black Hills Case - from the Dakota Nations" Cy Standing and Clair Henderson

First of two folders filled with materials from the November 1984 Assembly of First Nations conference on Land Claims and Extinguishment. Also in the file are meeting notes from the Land Claims Steering Committee meetings held in October of that year.

File contain records relating to the Honourable Alvin C. Hamilton's role as fact finder for the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. This role's purpose was to find alternatives to "surrender provisions" used in claim settlements and was initiated in response to a special report by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Included in the file are "Extinguishing Extinguishment: Bringing an Era to an End" presented by Ovide Mercredi in his role as National Chief of Assembly of First Nations; copies of background paper "Achieving Certainty in Comprehensive Land Claims Settlements"; correspondence; and other materials related to this research.

File contains a copy of "Canada and Aboriginal Peoples - A New Partnership" report of the Honourable A. C. Hamilton Fact Finder for Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development; draft copy of "Analysis of the Report of The Honourable A. C. Hamilton, Fact Finder for the Minister of Indian & Northern Development"; news release regarding the report release; and correspondence regarding the Assembly of First Nations report analysis.

Series contains records related to comprehensive land claims, policies, extinguishment, and agreements. The series is divided into files and items:
2018.008.021.001 Xting - Hamilton 9/95
2018.008.021.002 Xting: Fact Finder
2018.008.021.003 Xting 84 Vol. I
2018.008.021.004 Xting 84 Vol. II
2018.008.021.005 I. C. C. AB. Rites v. Savino 1975
2018.008.021.006 Internal Cdn. Imperialism - Zlotkin + Colborne, 1975
2018.008.021.007 Slattery 1982-87
2018.008.021.008 Land Rites - WCC/83
2018.008.021.009 Librtn Theology
2018.008.021.010 Coolican Rpt.
2018.008.021.011 Non-xting Treaty
2018.008.021.012 Natnl Treaty - 91
2018.008.021.013 CYI-Bckgrnd
2018.008.021.014 C. Y. I. Umbrella
2018.008.021.015 CYI - Bands
2018.008.021.016 DIA Audit - CCP - 10/1983
2018.008.021.017 Nisga'a Fee Simple
2018.008.021.018 Dene/Metis - 90
2018.008.021.019 Treaties 8 & 11
2018.008.021.020 Dene
2018.008.021.021 CAM
2018.008.021.022 Innu Impacts - Voisey/98
2018.008.021.023 Agreement in Principle of a General Nature between the First Nations of Mamuitun and Nutashkuan and the Government of Quebec and the Government of Canada
2018.008.021.024 Comp. Claims Status 3/96
2018.008.021.025 Auditor General CCP 9/98
2018.008.021.026 SCAA + Comp Claims - 10-11/98
2018.008.021.027 Auditor General CCP 1998-1999
2018.008.021.028 Auditor General - CCP - 2001
2018.008.021.029 Delgamuukw - Govts
2018.008.021.030 BCTC - Sept. 2001
2018.008.021.031 MC CCP 1986 + More
2018.008.021.032 Claims - Critiques of Policies
2018.008.021.033 Justice Opinions - General

Copy of the 1998 report of the Cree-Naskapi Commission. Report is written in English, French, Cree and Naskapi.

Copy of the 1996 annual report for the JBNQA and NGA agreements.

Photocopy of the Cree-Naskapi (of Quebec) Act of 1984.

File contains records related to the Cree-Quebec agreement of 2002. Included in the file are excerpts from the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement (1975); excerpts from the Cree-Quebec agreement; and notes by Peter Di Gangi regarding the 2002 agreement.

File contains records pertaining to the James Bay & Northern Quebec Agreement. Included in the file are:
1) Highlights of the Negotiations leading to the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement - Grand Chief Billy Diamond
2) Macleans magazine, June 1, 1981
3) Grand Council of the Crees annual report, 1982
4) article "Grand Council of the Crees (of Quebec) - Marsha G. Smoke
5) Cree School Board annual report, 1982
6) James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement implementation review, February 1982

Copy of "Negotiating a Way of Life" by Ingatius E. La Rusic, Serge Bouchard, Alan Penn, Taylor Brelsford, Jean-Guy Deschenes, and Richard F. Salisbury. Report was created for the Research Division, Policy, Research and Evaluation group of the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs.

File contains a variety of information related to the James Bay Northern Quebec Agreement and the Northeastern Quebec Agreement. Included in the file are:
1) Article in Nature Canada Spring 1991 - "The Geese have lost their way..." by Jamie Linton
2) memo "Naskapi: Committees, Commissions and Boards" re: the Northeastern Quebec Agreement
3) "Implementation of the Cree/Naskapi (of Quebec) Act and the Implications for Indian Programs"
4) "The James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement - general information"
5) "Development of the James Bay Crees (of Quebec) since the signing of the James Bay Agreement 1975-1985"
6) Address by Chief Ted Moses, Eastmain Band, James Bay 13 June 1988
7) The Ouje-Bougoumou Cree Nation vs Her Majesty the Queen in the Right of Canada
8) Equinox magazine January/February 1992

File contains a paper and a report regarding Indigenous land claims in Northern Canada. Included in the file are:
1) The Political Economy of Native Land Claims in the Canadian North by J. I. Prattis
2) A Survey of the History and Claims of the Native Peoples of Northern Canada by William R. Morrison for Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

File contains three reports created for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP).
1) Comprehensive Claims Agreements as Tools for Local/Regional Development - Roy Erasmus
2) A Brief to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Intervenor Participation Program - Alliance Tribal Council of Delta British Columbia
3) Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Final Report, July 30, 1993

Letter regarding and copy of final draft of the report "Analysis of Canada's Comprehensive and Specific Claims Policies and Suggested Alternatives". Report created by Morris/Rose/Ledgett Barristers and Solicitors for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

File folder containing the report "Northern Comprehensive Aboriginal Claims Agreements" prepared for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples by Letha J. MacLachlan, barrister and solicitor. Also in the file are charts of information on each of the 14 comprehensive land claims examined for the report.

Two file folders contains the three volume "Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Extinguishment of Rights of Aboriginal Peoples Governance Project - Extinguishment of the Rights of Aboriginal Peoples: Problems and Alternatives".

File contains records related to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Extinguishment of Rights of Aboriginal Peoples Governance project. In the file are:
1) RCAP extinguishment project detailed research plan
2) RCAP Extinguishment of rights interim report - Paul Joffe, Dick Spaulding, Chris Tennant, Mary Ellen Turpel
3) Alternatives to Extinguishment - a report prepared for RCAP - Michael Jackson

Report by Michael Jackson, prepared for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, titled "A New Covenant Chain: An Alternative Model to Extinguishment for Land Claims Agreements".

File contains letter and copy of "Treaty-making in the Spirit of Co-existence: Alternatives to Extinguishment in Comprehensive Land Claims Agreements" second draft by Patrick Macklem.

File contains records related to the Royal Commission on Aboriginals Peoples Land and Resources Policy team and their work on dispute resolution mechanisms.

Copy of "The Aboriginal Lands and Treaties Tribunal - a section of the Lands and Resources Chapter of the Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples" by John M. Evans.

File contains records relating to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples claims working group and research on claims and extinguishment. File contains two copies of the paper "Extinguishment and Federal Comprehensive Claims Policy Recommendations for Alternatives: A report prepared for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples" by Michael Asch.

File contains records relating to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Claims Focus Group. Included in the file are handwritten notes by Peter Di Gangi, contact lists, discussion papers, and a copy of "Federal Policy for the Settlement of Native Claims".

File contains correspondence regarding Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development meetings and a copy of the June 1994 meeting minutes and accompanying 5th and 6th reports - Committee Report on Extinguishment and Committee Report on the Kaska Nation and the Yukon Umbrella Final Agreement.

File contains a copy of the report "Update on Bill C-6: Specific Claims Resolution Act" generated by the Lands, Resources & Treaties Unit of the Assembly of First Nations.

File contains a copy of the report "Update on the Proposed Independent Claims Body (ICB) generated by the Lands, Resources & Treaties Unit of the Assembly of First Nations.

Specific Claims report for Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Sasketchewan, and the Yukon. Issued April 6, 1998 by the Specific Claims Branch of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.

Specific Claims report for Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Sasketchewan, and the Yukon. Issued March 31, 1998 by the Specific Claims Branch of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.

Series contains records relating to claims, independent claims bodies, extinguishment, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, the Northeastern Quebec Agreement, and the Cree- Naskapi Act. The series is divided into the following files and items:

2018.008.020.001 Specific Claims Status Report, 1998
2018.008.020.002 Claims - Status Report, 1999
2018.008.020.003 Assembly of First Nations - update on the proposed Independent Claims Body (ICB), 2002
2018.008.020.004 Assembly of First Nations - update on Bill C-6: Specific Claims Resolution Act, 2003
2018.008.020.005 Xting SCAA 1994
2018.008.020.006 RCAP Claims Vol. I 6/93
2018.008.020.007 Xting Vol. I
2018.008.020.008 Tribunal - J. Evans 5/95
2018.008.020.009 RCAP ADR 1994
2018.008.020.010 Xting: Macklem 4/94
2018.008.020.011 Xting Alt's: Jackson
2018.008.020.012 Xting - Research Vol. I
2018.008.020.013 Turpel - Xting Vols. 1-3
2018.008.020.014 RCAP: Comp. Claims
2018.008.020.015 Olthuis et al. 4/94
2018.008.020.016 Comp. Cl. Cases
2018.008.020.017 Claims - North
2018.008.020.018 JBNQA Info
2018.008.020.019 JBNQA - Negs
2018.008.020.020 James Bay - Quebec
2018.008.020.021 JBNQA - 1975-2002
2018.008.020.022 Cree-Naskapi Act
2018.008.020.023 The James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement and the Northeastern Quebec Agreement 1996 Annual Report
2018.008.020.024 Report of the Cree-Naskapi Commission, 1988

File contains records related to Bill C-19 First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Management Act. Included in the file is correspondence and accompanying materials, and an official report of the House of Commons Debate Thursday January 30, 2003 - Vol. 138 No. 049 2nd session - 37th Parliament.

File contains records related to Bill C-6. Included in the folder are meeting agenda and minutes, correspondence, briefs and other records created by the Assembly of First Nations, the Algonquin Nation Secretariat, the Chiefs' Committee on Claims, and the Indian Governments of Saskatchewan.

File contains records related to Bill C-6. Included in the file is correspondence; briefing notes; presentations to Senate Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Senate Standing Committee on Aboriginal Peoples; and minutes from Standing Committee on Aboriginal Peoples meetings in April and May 2003 regarding Bill C-6.

File contains records related to the Bills C-6 and C-60. Included are news clippings, notes, correspondence, and other materials including a copy of Bill C-60.

File contains records related to the Chiefs Committee on Claims and the proposal for an independent claims body. Included in the file are meeting agendas and minutes, updates, and a copy of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Legislative Process manual.

File contains records related to Bill C-6 and Bill C-60. Included are emails, notes, press releases, strategy documents, papers, and presentations from various bodies in reaction to the Bills. Also included are copies of the Bills themselves.

File contains records related to Bill C-6 The Specific Claims Resolution Act. Included in the file is correspondence, meeting minutes, and draft discussion papers.

File contains records related to Bill C-60 Specific Claims bill. Included in the file are:
1) Assembly of First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Chiefs' Strategic Committee reports
2) Assembly of First Nations Chiefs Committee on Claims records
3) Indian Claims Commission records
4) Correspondence
5) Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Legislative Process booklet

File contains a copy of the final report by Grand Chief Edward John of the Tl'atz'en First Nation on the Federal Government's proposed independent claims body.
The Federal Bill was ultimately rejected by First Nations.

File contains records related to the creation of an independent claims body in Canada. Included are newsclippings, correspondence and reports.

File contains records related to specific claims and the claims process. Included are news paper clippings, correspondence and accompanying materials.

File contains records related to the Premiers' and Territorial Leaders communique and framework for discussion on Canadian Unity. File also contains records related to land titles and comprehensive claims and claim policy.

File contains records related to land claims and land claim policy. Included in the file are:
1) Pages from "Indian and Inuit Affairs Program"
2) Correspondence and accompanying records re: Chiefs Committee on Claims
3) "An Analysis of the Costs and Settlements of Canada's Current Claims Policy" discussion draft
4) Draft "Protocol for the Joint First Nations/Canada Task Force on the Specific Claims Policy"