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 an article "Do Treaty Indians have a Corporate Personality? A Note on the Pawis, Blackfoot and Bear Island Cases" by Geoffrey S. Lester. Published in the Canadian Native Law Reporter.

File contains a copy of "Exploring Concepts of Treaty Federalism - a Comparative Perspective" by Thomas O. Hueglin, Wilfred Laurier University. Paper was prepared for the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations - Queen's University on behalf of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

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 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 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 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 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

Report titled "Disputes about the Meanings of Indian Treaties between the Crown and First Nations" by the Indian Association of Alberta 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

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

Series contains records related to Treaty Policy. Series contains the following files/items:

2018.008.015.001 Treaties + Xting - Alan Pratt
2018.008.015.002 Treaty Interpretation
2018.008.015.003 IAA - Treaty Remedies
2018.008.015.004 RCAP Treaty Policy - April 1994
2018.008.015.005 AFN Treaty - April 92
2018.008.015.006 AFN - Treaty 4/92 Vol. II
2018.008.015.007 AFN Treaty Conf. 11/95
2018.008.015.008 Crown Treaty Policy
2018.008.015.009 Treaty Federalism
2018.008.015.010 Treaties - Legal Personality 1990
2018.008.015.011 Bilateral
2018.008.015.012 Bilateral - Alternative Mechanisms
2018.008.015.013 AFN Bilateral/FMC's/Tru resolutions etc.
2018.008.015.014 Free Trade - Treaty
2018.008.015.015 Aronson - Crown Treaty Authority
2018.008.015.016 Apamuwek
2018.008.015.017 Apamuwek Vol. II
2018.008.015.018 Fur Trade, Rites, Treaties
2018.008.015.019 O-I
2018.008.015.020 Water Rites V. I

File contains records related to the First Nations Fiscal Initiative. Included in the file are information kits, correspondence, briefing notes and other materials.

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

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 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 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 a copy of "Leadership" the 1992 annual report for the Association of Iroquois & Allied Indians.

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

File contains information kit "The Voice for First Nations: Planning for Change" for the AFN/INAC Joint Initiative for Policy Development (Lands and Trust Services).

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 a copy of "Made in Ottawa Governance (and other related initiatives) by Eagle Shield (Walter Rudnicki).

File contains a copy of "The Corbiere Ruling - A Loaded Verdict" by Eagle Shield (Walter Rudnicki) for the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs.

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

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

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

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 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 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.

Final report of the Mawiw Council of Chiefs Lands/ Revenues/Trusts Consultative Process.

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

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

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

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 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 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. 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"

Copy of Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development working paper "Inventory of Redress Mechanisms".

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

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.

Copy of "Documentation Regarding First Nations Formal Rejection of DIAND's Proposed Indian Act Amendments".

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

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

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

File contains a copy of the "Indian Act Amendment project phase II final report".

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 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.

Series contains records related to the Federal Government's Bill C-79: An Act to permit certain modifications in the application of the Indian Act to bands that desire them; and First Nations Governance. The series is divided into the following files/items:

2018.008.013.001 Assembly of First Nations XVII Annual General Assembly kit, 1996
2018.008.013.002 Indian Act - AFN July 1996
2018.008.013.003 Indian Act Amendment Project Final Report - Phase II March 1996
2018.008.013.004 Day of Action
2018.008.013.005 C-79 SCAA
2018.008.013.006 C-79 Docs
2018.008.013.007 S-9/S-10 Senate
2018.008.013.008 Indian Act II - Bill C-79
2018.008.013.009 AFN - ATIP 96-97
2018.008.013.010 Ind. Act: Clippings
2018.008.013.011 Ind. Act: Winnipeg 12/96
2018.008.013.012 Dec 1996
2018.008.013.013 Ind. Act - Rejections
2018.008.013.014 Ind. Act - Res/Bckgrnd
2018.008.013.015 AFN Election 7/97
2018.008.013.016 AFN Restructuring 2/97
2018.008.013.017 AFN Confederacy 12/98
2018.008.013.018 AFN Confederacy 12/99
2018.008.013.019 AFN Fiscal Relations 1999-2000
2018.008.013.020 AFN Confederacy 4/99
2018.008.013.021 AFN 2000 - Election etc.
2018.008.013.022 FNG - April 2001
2018.008.013.023 FNG - Redress - 3/2001
2018.008.013.024 FNG - May 2001 Confed.
2018.008.013.025 FNG - June/July 2001
2018.008.013.026 FNG Fall 2001

File contains records related to the Assembly of First Nations XVI Annual General Assembly. Included are a list of adopted resolutions, newspaper clippings, and a copy of "Reflection Unity Action" Assembly of First Nations Annual Report 1995.

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

One copy of Walter Rudnicki's "The Aboriginal Constitutional Package, Its Hidden Sting".

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 relating to the Canadian Constitution and Constitutional reform. Included in the file are:
1) Treaty Indigenous Peoples and the Charlottetown Accord: the Message in the Breeze
2) Aboriginal Self-Government: Paramountcy of Laws by Peter W. Hogg
3) Constitution Act drafts 1867, 1982
4) The Charlottetown Agreement: A Consensus Legal Opinion
5) AFN brochure "Aboriginal Reforms in Canada's Constitution - Restoring the Path, Renewing our Nations"
6) Rolling Draft of Constitution Act, 1992 related to Aboriginal Peoples Mi'kmaq titles
7) Continuing Committee on the Constitution group III - Rolling Draft - May 29, 1992

File contains records relating to Canada's Constitution and constitutional amendments. Included in the the file is correspondence and:
1) The Process for Amending the Constitution of Canada - the report of the Special Joint Committee of the Senate and the House of Commons, June 1991
2) First Ministers' Meeting on the Constitution final political accords
3) Political Accords - the Multilateral Meetings on the Constitution, Aug. 1992
4) Consensus Report on the Constitution - Charlottetown Aug. 28, 1992

Copy of the "To The Source" a commissioners' report from the Assembly of First Nations First Nations Circle on the Constitution.

File contains records related to the Charlottetown accord, Special Joint Committee on a Renewed Canada, and the AFN Constitutional Working Group. Included in the file are clippings, memos and:
1) Charlottetown Referendum results by Reserve
2) Submission to the Special Joint Committee on a Renewed Canada - AFN
3) AFN Constitutional Working group papers
4) First Nations Circle on the Constitution papers
5) Notes for speech by Joe Clark, president of the Privy Council and Minister responsible for Constitutional Affairs.

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 mostly newspaper clippings regarding the 1991 election for National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations. Also included in the file is a memo from the Indian Governments of Saskatechewan re: candidates questionnaire.

File contains draft agenda and accompanying materials for the Confederacy of Nations Meeting held in Ottawa, Ontario on March 19-20th, 1991.

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

Copy of the Report of the Special Joint Committee on a Renewed Canada. Gerald A. Beaudoin and Dorothy Dobbie were the joint chairpersons.

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

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 federal communication strategy, background papers, and Ontario Government analysis related to FMC (First Ministers' Conference) . Included are:
1) Aboriginal Issues - a background paper, March 1983
2) Correspondence and Communication Strategy for the Constitutional Conference on Aboriginal Rights
3) Media Activities related to FMC (First Ministers' Conference
4) Press Paper - FMC pre-conference media activities
5) Indian Sovereignty and Self-Determination - first draft, Optional position paper No. 3 Assembly of First Nations
6) The Constitution Act, 1982: Potential Impact of The Provisions Regarding the Aboriginal Peoples, and Options for Ontario.

File contains a variety of presentations. Included are:
1) "Strength in Unity" Association of Iroquois and Allied Nations special edition
2) Grand Chief Wally McKay presentation to Nishnawbe-Aski Nation conference "Constitution" - Nishnawbe-Aski Chiefs' General Assembly, Moose Factory Island, Ontario Aug. 23-27, 1982
3) Up-Date on March 15-16, 1983 Canadian Constitutional Conference on Treaty and Aboriginal Rights. Presented to the Nishnawbe-Aski Chiefs by Dennis Cromarty, March 2, 1983
4) constitutional amendments
5) Opening Statement on Aboriginal and Treaty Rights to the Federal/Provincial/Aboriginal Ministerial Meeting by Grand Chief Billy Diamond, Grand Council of the Crees on behalf of the Assembly of First Nations, Feb. 28, 1983
6) Address of the Ontario Vice Chief, Assembly of First Nations to the Chiefs of the Anishnawbe-Aski Nation, by Tobasonakwut Peter (Kelly) Kinew, March 3, 1983

File contains several copies of brochure "Support the Right to Self-Government" put out by the Assembly of First Nations, and a copy of "Indian Development Issues Post-Patriation" notes from a speech given by W. Rudnicki at McMaster University, June 2, 1982.

File contains various reports and papers related to the National Indian Brotherhood - Assembly of First Nations. Included in the file are:
1) Background - The Assembly of First Nations: A History of Challenge
2) "Report on Problem and Resolutions related to the Assembly of First Nations' Operations, Structure and Organization" from the IVth annual Assembly of First Nations held May 16-18, 1983 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Prepared by Dennia Cromarty, Commissioner Nishnawbe-Aski Commission
3) Letter to Chiefs of Ontario from Peter Kelly/Kinew, Onigaming Indian Reserve
4) Listing of working committees on structure within the Assembly of First Nations
5) Organizational Structure of the Assembly of First Nations background papers
6) Resolutions passed at the Special Assembly of First Nations Conference held Feb. 6-8, 1984 in Toronto, Ontario
7) A Guide to Native Political Associations in Canada by Wayne Daugherty, Treaties and Historical Research Centre

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

Copy of "Proposals on the Constitution 1971-1978" published by the Canadian Intergovernmental Conference Secretariat.

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

Sub-series contains reports and associated materials from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada's Lands, Revenues and Trusts Review. Included are:

2018.008.011.009.001 LRT Phase I Report, 1988

2018.008.011.009.002 LRT Phase I Report #7 Ligitation [sic] - Office of the Comptroller General of Canada, Econosault-Lavalin, DPA Group Inc. and MacLeod Lyle Smith McManus, November 1987

2018.008.011.009.003 LRT Phase II Report

2018.008.011.009.004 LRT Phase II Report Appendix B By-laws/Enforcement Indian Justice System Options - Lang Michener Lash Johnston Barristers & Solicitors

2018.008.011.009.005 LRT Phase II Report Appendix C Substantive Guidelines and Model By-laws

2018.008.011.009.006 LRT Phase II Final Report First Nations Law Executive Summary

2018.008.011.009.007 LRT Phase II Final Report Powers of Bands and Band Councils - Gowling, Strathy & Henderson Barristers & Solicitors - Sept. 1989

2018.008.011.009.008 LRT Phase II Final Report Elections - Eliasson, Apostle, Patterson and Associates - Dec. 9, 1988

2018.008.011.009.009 LRT Phase II Final Report Individual Accounts - Price Waterhouse - Aug. 3, 1989

2018.008.011.009.010 LRT Phase II Final Report Membership - Aug, 1989

2018.008.011.009.011 LRT Phase II Final Report Band Moneys - Price Waterhouse - Aug. 15, 1989

2018.008.011.009.012 LRT Phase II Report Indian Government Issues Elections of Chiefs and Band Councils - Potential Changes to Legislation, Regulations and The Appeal Process - Eliasson, Apostle, Patterson and Associates - Dec. 8, 1988

2018.008.011.009.013 LRT Review of the Legal Liaison and Support Directorate - Stevenson Kellogg Ernst & Whinney Management Consultants - Jan. 1989

2018.008.011.009.014 Executive Summary of the DIAND LRT Review Phase II Reports - AFN LRT Review

2018.008.011.009.015 The Lands, Revenues and Trusts (LRT) Review - The Great Debate

Tradition and Education - Towards a Vision of Our Future four volume publication published by the Assembly of First Nations.
1) A Declaration of First Nations Jurisdiction over Education
2) Volume I - National Review of First Nations Education
3) Volume II - National Review of First Nations Education
4) Volume III - Executive Summary

File contains volumes 1 and 2 of the report and recommendations of the joint Assembly of First Nations and Health Canada - Medical Services Branch task force on the future management of the non-insured health benefits program.

National Aboriginal Youth Conference "from the past, in the present; for the future" was held in Ottawa, Ontario on Feb 10-13, 1989.

Assembly of First Nations published "Breaking the Silence - an interpretive study of Residential School impact and healing as illustrated by the stories of First Nations individuals".

One copy of the National Treaty Conference "Indigenous Treaties - Self-Determination Past Present Future" final report. The Conference was held April 6-9, 1992 in Edmonton, Alberta.

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

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