Annual reports of by the Assembly of First Nations delivered at their annual Chiefs Assembly. Included are:

2018.008.011.001.001 "Ours to Build - Forward in Unity" Third annual Assembly of First Nations Conference April 20-22, 1982 Penticton, British Columbia

2018.008.011.001.002 Report to VI Annual Assembly of the Assembly of First Nations July 29-31, 1985 Vancouver, British Columbia

2018.008.011.001.003 Report to VIIIth Annual General Assembly June 24-26, 1987 Toronto, Ontario

2018.008.011.001.004 "Sovereignty and Self-Determination The Next Step" Assembly of First Nations Annual Report for the IXth General Assembly May 30-June 2, 1998 Edmonton, Alberta

2018.008.011.001.005 "Rebuilding First Nations" Assembly of First Nations Annual Report for the Xth Annual Chiefs Assembly July 5-7, 1989 Quebec City, Quebec. Also included is "Text of the Convention Concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries, submitted by the drafting committee".

2018.008.011.001.006 "Determining our Agenda Through Reconciliation of Our Past Lives" Assembly of First Nations Annual Report for the XIth Annual Chiefs Assembly May 4-7, 1990 Whitehorse, Yukon. Included with the report are some handouts from the assembly.

2018.008.011.001.007 "Our Land Our Government Our Heritage Our Future" Assembly of First Nations Annual Report for the XIIth Assembly of First Nations June 10-12, 1991 Winnipeg, Manitoba

Series contains reports, meeting kits, and publications on a variety of topics including treaties, residential schools, and education. Included are:
2018.008.011.001 Assembly of First Nations annual reports

2018.008.011.002 World Assembly of First Nations (WAFN) 82 magazine

2018.008.011.003 National Committee on Treaties/AFN Centre for Treaty Advocacy meeting kits

2018.008.011.004 National Treaty Conference final report

2018.008.011.005 Breaking the Silence - An interpretive study of Residential School impact and healing as illustrated by the stories of First Nations individuals

2018.008.011.006 "From the past, in the present; for the future" National Aboriginal Youth Conference report

2018.008.011.007 Reports on the Future Management of the Non-Insured Health Benefits Program

2018.008.011.008 Tradition and Education Towards a Vision of Our Future

2018.008.011.009 Lands, Revenues and Trusts (LRT) Review

File contains a variety of records. Included are:
1) Memorandum to Cabinet re: Long Term Response to R. v. Marshall
2) Consultation Strategy for First Nations Governance
3) AFN "National First Nations Policy Review on Fisheries" concept paper
4) AFN National Health Conference agenda and program, February 2001
5) Delgamuukw Implementation Strategy Committee Meetings materials
6) booklet of AFN resolutions regarding Delgamuukw principles and implementation
7) booklet of correspondence and other materials regarding Comprehensive Land Claims
8) Society for the Threatened Peoples Austria Working Circle for North American Indians campaign
9) DIANDS Key Priorities at the Start of a New Mandate
10) DIAND Communications strategy, 2001
11) Approach for Dealing with Section 35 Rights - Ministerial Recommendations to Cabinet

File contains a variety of documents. Included are:
1) Federal Government's Proposed "Non-assertion/Fall-back release technique": a preliminary assessment" by Paul Joffe
2) multiple copies of "Canada's Approach for Dealing with section 35 Rights" - Ministerial recommendations to Cabinet
3) Sun Peaks Resort expansion correspondence
4) Assembly of First Nations - Delgamuukw Implementation Strategic Committee Dec. 12, 2000 meeting kit

File contains records related to the Delgamuukw Implementation Strategic Committee and comprehensive claim policy. Included in the file is correspondence, and an information package re: Delgamuukw implementation.

File contains records related to the Delgamuukw Implementation Strategic Committee. Included in the file is correspondence, reports, and other materials related to claim policy and Delgamuukw.

File contains records related to the Delgamuukw Implementation Committee. Included in the file are:
1) newspaper clippings
2) meeting agendas and other materials
3) Kitasoo/Xaixais First Nation protocol on the environment
4) Nlaka'Pamux Aboriginal Title and Rights
5) Correspondence - Phil Fontaine, National Chief, Assembly of First Nations
6) Comprehensive Claims Policy Review meeting notes
7) Transcript of May 9, 2000 Assembly of First Nations / Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Comprehensive Land Claims Policy working session
8) AFN resolutions re: Delgamuukw and land claims
9) BC Treaty Commission annual report, 2000
10) information about other land claims

File contains records related to the Delgamuukw decision and the Canadian Government. Included in the file are:
1) Delgamuukw Implementation Committee background materials and meeting minutes
2) draft strategy framework on the recognition & affirmation of Aboriginal title
3) agendas and accompanying materials related to the May 6-7, 2000 Comprehensive Claims Strategy meeting and the May 8-9, 2000 joint AFN/DOJ/DIAND working session on comprehensive claims policy review
4) Correspondence and press releases
5) Assembly of First Nations - Canada's Comprehensive Claims Policy: The Need for Fundamental Change
6) News release re: Fraser Valley Blockade

File contains records created by/related to the Interior Alliance. Included in the file are press releases, a page titled "Tripartite Political Accord on Treaty Negotiation", and a legal update on Logging Cases for the AFN Committee to Implement Delgamuukw.

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".

File contains records related to implementation of Delgamuukw. Included in the file is correspondence, papers, reports, and resolutions.

File contains records related to the implementation of the Delgamuukw decision. They include two copies of Resolution 7/00 - Delgamuukw Implementation of the Confederacy of Nations; multiple AFN resolutions regarding claims and claims policy; a meeting kit for the Recognition and Affirmation of Aboriginal Title Strategy Meeting; and other records.

File contains records relating to Delgamuukw strategy. Included are a copy of "Common Ground - Toward Reconciliation of Aboriginal & Crown Title" and records related to the Federal Government's Comprehensive Claims Policy and the need to change it.

File contains documents related to Delgammukw. They include "Common Ground - Toward Reconciliation of Aboriginal & Crown Title", press releases; multiple copies of "Statement on Review Developments" and "Statement on the Report of the Special Rapporteur", both presented to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations by Chief Arthur Manuel of the Interior Alliance; and information regarding AFN-AGA Resolution 5/99 "Motion to Implement the Delgamuukw Decision".

File contains correspondence, news clippings, and other materials related to the planning and implementation of the 1st Special National Conference on Delgamuukw held in Kamloops, British Columbia. Also in the file are meeting minutes regarding negotiations and a copy of the land use agreement between the Neskonlith Indian Band, The Adams Lake Indian Band and the Province of British Columbia.

One copy of "Truth Behind Treaty Making" by the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs.

File contains resolutions, clippings, correspondence and notes regarding the Degamuukw decision and implementing the decision. Also in the file is a booklet "People of the Plateau - Southern Carrier St'at'imc Secwepemc Nlaka'pamux Okanagan - Defending Our Forests".

File contains records relating to the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) - Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Developement (DIAND) Joint Technical Committee: Delgamuukw Review Process. Included in the file are:
1) AFN Delgamuukw National Review: Making Delgamuukw Come Alive - a summary of activities and plans
2) The Delgamuukw National Review Eastern and Western Fora - a short summary
3) Responding to Delgamuukw - a summary of a think tank sponsored by AFN and DIAND
4) Record of Decision - Meeting #2 of AFN-DIAND Joint Technicial Committee

File contains correspondence and draft proposals for the Assembly of First Nations "Delgamuukw: A National Review Process".

File contains correspondence, resolutions, notes and other materials related to Delgamuukw, treaties, and land claims.

File contains news clippings and press releases regarding treaty negotiations and Indigenous land claims in British Columbia after the Delgamuukw v. British Columbia Supreme Court ruling.

File contains a newspaper clipping, correspondence, an agenda for the "Aboriginal Title and Comprehensive Claims" conference, and a discussion paper "Common Ground - Toward Reconciliation of Aboriginal & Crown Title".

Conference kit for the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) "Title & Comprehensive Claims Conference" held February 24-25, 1998 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is unclear if all the materials were included in the kit or added later. Included in the file folder are:
1) Joint Statement on the Comprehensive Claims Policy, April 7, 1993
2) AFN Preliminary Assessment of the Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: RCAP Recommendations on Treaties, Lands and Resources, February 21, 1997
3) Extinguishing Extinguishment: Bringing an Era to an End by Ovide Mercredi, May 1995
4) Correspondence between Ministry of Indian and Northern Affairs and the Assembly of FIrst Nations
5) Federal Policy of the Settlement of Native Claims, March 1993
6) The Delgamuukw Case - What does it mean and what do we do now? by Melvin H. Smith Q.C., Feb. 10, 1998
7)Draft - Aboriginal Title and Comprehensive Claims Special Meeting notes
8) First Nations Summit - Analysis, Strategy and Statement on Delgamuukw, February 3, 1998
9) Newspaper and newspaper clippings
10) AFN Aboriginal Title & Comprehensive Claims conference report
11) background information and conference agenda

File contains three conference papers:
1) The Delgamuukw Decision Analysis prepared by Louise Mandell, Q.C. for the Pacific Business & Law Institute conference Feb. 12-13, 1998
2) The Definition and Proof of Aboriginal Title by Brian Slattery, Osgoode Law School for the Pacific Business & Law Institute conference Feb. 12-13, 1998
3) The SCC Decision in Delagamuukw comments by Denis de Keruzec, General Counsel Department of Justice, Canada for the conference "The Supreme Court of Canada Decision in Delgamuukw" Jan. 12-13, 1998

Copy of the meeting kit for the the Assembly of First Nations "Delgamuukw: A National Review" informal round table held October 1-2, 1998 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Series contains records related to the Delgamuukw Implementation Strategic Committee and Comprehensive Land Claims. The series is divided into items and files:
2018.008.001.001 Assembly of First Nations Delgamuukw: A National Review Informal Round Table
2018.008.001.002 Delgamuukw Vancouver
2018.008.001.003 Aboriginal Title & Comprehensive Claims conference
2018.008.001.004 AFN - Delgamuukw 2/98
2018.008.001.005 Delgamuukw clippings
2018.008.001.006 Delgamuukw Thing
2018.008.001.007 AFN Delgamuukw proposal 1998
2018.008.001.008 AFN Delgamuukw 7/1999
2018.008.001.009 InterTribal - Fall 1999
2018.008.001.010 UBCIC Treaties 11/99
2018.008.001.011 Kamloops Mtng 2/99
2018.008.001.012 Kamloops II - 2/99
2018.008.001.013 AFN Vancouver 1/00
2018.008.001.014 AFN Delg/April 2000
2018.008.001.015 DELG/CONFED April/00
2018.008.001.016 AFN DISC May 2000
2018.008.001.017 Interior Alliance 5/2000
2018.008.001.018 AFN Delg/May 2000
2018.008.001.019 DISC June 2000
2018.008.001.020 DISC July 2000
2018.008.001.021 DISC October 2000
2018.008.001.022 DISC December 2000
2018.008.001.023 AFN DISC Jan 2001

Published book of land claims agreements between The Government of Canada and the Inuit of Labrador.

Conference program for "Litigating Aboriginal Law" held in Ottawa, Ontario on June 6-7, 2002. Conference was given by the Pacific Business & Law Institute.

Conference program for "The Mechanics of Aboriginal Land Settlements - Preparing and Negotiating Claims" held September 30 - October 1, 1993 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

File contains the program for the "1st Special National Conference on Delgamuukw" held February 24-26, 1999. It was co-hosted by the Interior Alliance and the Assembly of First Nations.

File contains program for the "Delgamuukw: One Year After" conference. The conference was sponsored by The Aboriginal Policy Forum and The University of Victoria and was held February 18-19, 1999 in Victoria, British Columbia.

File contains records relating to the Fraser Institute and the conference "The Delgamuukw Case: Aboriginal Land Claims and Canada's Regions" held in Ottawa on May 26-27, 1999.
Included in the file are:
1) handwritten notes from conference
2) Conference kit
3) Conference paper #1 "The Probable Effects of Delgamuukw" by John Howard
4) Conference paper #2 "Aboriginal Title as a Constitutionally Protected Property Right" by Kent NcNeil
5) Conference paper #3 "Converting the Communal Aboriginal Interest into Private Property: Sarnia, Osoyoos, The Nisga'a Treaty, and other Post-Delgamuukw Developments" by Jack Woodward
6) Conference paper #4 "Aboriginal Title: Origins and Character" by Brian Slattery
7) Conference paper #5 "What My Elders Taught Me: Oral Traditions as Evidence in Aboriginal Litigation" by Alexander von Gernet
8) Conference paper #6 "The Delgamuukw Case: What does it mean and what do we do now?" by Melvin H. Smith
9) Conference paper #7 "Delgamuukw and Diplomacy: First Nations and Municipalities in British Columbia" by Paul Tennant
10) Conference paper #8 "The Effect of the Delgamuukw Decision upon Alberta Land Claims" by Tom Flanagan
11) Conference paper #9 "Will Delgamuukw Eclipse the Prairie Sun? The Implications of the Supreme Court's Decision for the Prairie Treaties" by Ken Tyler
12) Conference paper #10 "Delgamuukw and the Interpretation of the Prairie Treaties" by Norman Zlotkin
13) Conference paper #11 "Take your Time and Do It Right: Delgamuukw and the Dynamics of Self-Government Advocacy" by Kerry Wilkins
14) Conference paper #12 "Delgamuukw: Its Implications and Potential Effects in Quebec" by Paul Joffe
15) Conference paper #13 "The Delgamuukw Decision: An Invaluable Lever for Quebec's Aboriginal Communities" by Claude Bachand
16) Conference paper #14 "Rights and Wrongs: Finding a Just Middle Ground in Land Claim Disputes" by Don Cayo
17) Conference paper #15 "Impact of Delgamuukw Guidelines in Atlantic Canada" by James Sa'ke'j Youngblood Henderson
18) Conference paper #16 "The Impact of Delgamuukw in Newfoundland and Labrador" by Adrian Tanner
19) The Fraser Institute 1998 Annual Report
20) The Nisga'a Template: Facts the Government isn't sharing" Office of the Official Opposition Liberal Caucus of British Columbia
21) "A Principled Analysis of the Nisga'a Treaty" by Gordon Gibson, Public Policy Sources, No. 27

File contains records relating to the court case "Delgamuukw vs. British Columbia". Included in the file are:
1) Delgamuukw vs British Columbia: Issues Analysis by Peter DiGangi
2) Regarding Delgamuukw: Where do we go from here? Office of M. P. Darrel Stinson
3) Aboriginal claims and the forestry industry: claims processess and recent developments in the courts by R. David House
4) The Delgamuukw Decision - Implications for the Forest Sector - The Forestry Chronicle, Vol. 74, No. 3 1998
5) Open Letter to Aboriginal Rights Council from the Interior Alliance of British Columbia
6) Supreme Court of Canada Delgamuukw Decision backgrounder - Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
7) Supreme Court of Canada - Brief newsletter by Lang Michener Barristers & Solicitors
8) Delgamuukw analysis by Mandell Pindell Barristers & Solicitors
9) Analysis of Delgamuukw decision and its implications for treaty negotiations by Ratcliff & Company Barristers & Solicitors
10) Research Implications of the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in Delgamuukw v. British Columbia by Peter Douglas Elias
11) Delgamuukw v. BC and Canada synopsis and implications for Ontario - Ministry of Natural Resources
12) Delgamuukw versus British Columbia preliminary summary

File contains records relating to three conferences:
1) Notes and agenda for "Implementing Delgamuuk'w - legal implications for Aboriginal title research in BC" held March 1-3 in Vancouver, British Columbia
2) Program for conference "Delgamuuk'w: One Year After" held February 18-19 in Victoria, British Columbia
3) Program for First Nations GIS mini conference "GeoSolutions: Integrating our World" held March 1-4 in Vancouver, British Columbia
Also in the file is "$3 treaty script" and "Delgammuukw Report Card - Canada's Record One Year Later".

File contains kit handed out to attendees at the Tribal Council and Band Advisory Services Program Workshop held December 10 and 11, 2002 in Gatineau, Quebec.

Series contains records and files pertaining to effects of the Delgamuukw v. British Columbia decision and it effect on land claims in Canada. Series contains the following files/items:

2018.008.009.001 Tribal Council & Board Advisory Services Workshop kit
2018.008.009.002 UBCIC - Delgamuukw 3/99
2018.008.009.003 Delgamuukw Analysis 1998
2018.008.009.004 Delgamuukw: Fraser 5/99
2018.008.009.005 Delgamuukw - One Year After conference
2018.008.009.006 1st Special National Conference on Delgamuukw
2018.008.009.007 The Mechanics of Aboriginal Land Settlements: Preparing and Negotiating Claims - A National Conference
2018.008.009.008 Litigating and Aboriginal Law
2018.008.009.009 Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement

DIAND Specific Claims Branch specific claims tatus reports for Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, and the Yukon.

Indian Claims Commission proceedings volume 11. Included are reports on: Gamblers First Nation Treaty Land Entitlement inquiry; Nekaneet First Nation Agricultural and other benefits under Treaty 4 inquiry; Moose Deer Point First Nation Pottawatomi Rights inquiry. Also in the volume are responses from the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development to Gamblers First Nation Treaty Land Entitlement inquiry and response regarding the Qu'Appelle Valley Indian Development Authority flooding claim inquiry to the Muscowpetung First Nation, Pasqua First Nation, Standing Buffalo First Nation, Sakimay First Nation, Cowessess First Nation, and Ochapowace First Nations.

Indian Claims Commission Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range reports on the Cold Lake First Nations and Canoe Lake Cree Nation land claims.

Assembly of First Nations Chiefs Committee on Claims meeting kit. Meeting was held September 26, 2002 in Vancouver BC.

File contains related to the Independent Claims Body (ICB). Included in the file are:
1) "Made in Ottawa Governance (and other initiatives)" by Eagle Shield (Walter Rudnicki)
2) memorandum and accompanying materials - Assembly of First Nations (AFN) ICB
3) update on ICB
4) Report of the Joint First Nations-Canada Task Force on Specific Claims Policy Reform
5) booklet of documents by the AFN regarding land claims
6) notes for an address by Daniel J. Bellegarde, Commissioner - Indian Land Claims Commission to the Aboriginal Law Conference
7) INAC document - proposed ICB model

Copy of the program from the Assembly of First Nations Chiefs Committee on Claims - Independent Claims Body (ICB) meeting held in Vancouver, British Columbia on February 13-14, 2002. Included in the program is background information on ICB, the ICB proposal, claims updates, and other related materials.

File contains records relating to the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) Independent Claims Body (ICB) technical team and initiative. In the file is correspondence, meeting agenda and other materials and a copy of "Landmark" Vol. 8 No. 3.

File contains records relating to the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) and the Independent Claims Body (ICB) initiative. In the file is a resolution on the ICB; memorandum; and information on the AFN ICB Technical Group.

File contains records related to the establishment of an Independent Claims Body (ICB). Included in the file is correspondence, updates, a proposed ICB model, and other related materials.

File contains records related to the establishment of an Independent Claims Body. Included is correspondence between Matthew Coon Come, National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations and Robert D. Nault, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development; Assembly of First Nations update: Independent Claims Body - AFN Confederacy report; and other records.

File contains records relating to the Assembly of First Nations and the First Nations-Canada Joint Task Force (JST) on Specific Claims Reform. Included in the file are:
1) correspondence between Robert D. Nault, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Matthew Coon Come, National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations re: Independent Claims Body
2) Presentation "Proposed Independent Claims Body"
3) JTF/Chiefs Council on Claims meeting related records

File contains records relating to the Joint First Nations/Canada Task Force (JTF) on Specific Claims Reform and lobbying of an Independent Claims Body. Included in the file are:
1) Assembly of First Nations/Fraternite Nationale des Indiens - "First Nations Specific Claims Commission and Tribunal" cabinet lobby update
2) "The Joint FIrst Nations-Canada Task Force on Specific Claims Reform" by Rolland Pangowish
3) Lists of reserves by province
4) "Rapport du Groupe de Travail Mixte Premieres Nations - Canada sur la Reforme de la Politique sur les Revendications Particulieres"

File contains records relating to the Joint First Nations-Canada Task Force on Claims Policy Reform and the creation of an independent claims body. Included in the file are correspondence; meeting minutes; memorandum and:
1) Drafts "First Nations Specific Claims Resolution Act"
2) First Nations Specific Claims Commission Tribunal Joint AFN-DIAND communication plan

File contains a briefing package for the Joint First Nations-Canada Task Force on Claims Policy Reform and accompanying materials.

File contains several reports including:
1) Assembly of First Nations Aboriginal Title & Comprehensive Claims conference report
2) Workplan for a Joint Review of Canada's Comprehensive Claims Policy
3) Assembly of First Nations after Delgamuukw: Canada's Comprehensive Claims Policy - a national review submitted by Herb George
4) Political Lobby Strategy for a New, Independent and Fair Specific Claims Policy and Process

File contains records relating claims, and claims resolution. Included are:
1) "Assessing the Fiscal Impacts of Settling Specific Claims" presented to the Assembly of First Nations and the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development by Fiscal Realities
2) "Specific Claims" by P. King
3) Indian Claims Commission - Status of Claims as of May 15, 1998
4) "A First Nations Specific Claims Process - models in other countries" by Douglas Saunders
5) "A First Nations Specific Claims Process - Constitutional Issues" by Douglas Saunders
6) other assorted draft reports, notes, correspondence related to land claims

Assembly of First Nations National Land Claims Conference report. Conference held in Quebec City on November 5-6, 1997.

File contains a program for the Assembly of First Nations National Land Claims Conference held in Quebec City November 5-6, 1997. Also in the file is a "Joint First Nations - Crown Task Force on Claims Policy Reform" (also found in the conference program) and "First Nations Independent Claims Commission Act" by Bruce Gilpin.

File contains records relating to claims policy reform. Included in the file are:
1) Joint First Nations - Crown Task Force on Claims Policy Reform
2) Report to the AFN Chiefs Committee on Claims
3) Joint Task Force meeting summaries
4) Deputy's Paper for the Australian Reconciliation Convention (ARC)
5) "Natural Justice and Procedural Fairness" by Bruce Gilpin

File contains a copy of "Land Rights Unit Report Volume II - Litigation, Dispute Resolution and First Nations Land Rights" by the Assembly of First Nations. Also in the file are copies of the "In Brief" newsletter by Lang Michener Barristers & Solicitors with stories about ADR - alternative dispute resolution.

File contains a "Review of the Indian Specific Claims Commission" by Concorde Inc. and a newspaper clipping about the Commission.

File contains records relating to federal land claims policy reform. Included in the file are:
1) Press statement - Assembly of First Nations (AFN)
2) blank protocol agreement between AFN and the Federal Government
3) Land Rights Update - XVII Annual General Assembly
4) Rolling Draft IV - AFN Chiefs Committee on Claims and AFN Land Rights Unit
5) Correspondence between Chiefs Committee on Claims and Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
6) Nation Indian Brotherhood/Assembly of First Nations Land Rights Unit Report - dispute resolution and First Nations land rights
7) National Indian Brotherhood/Assembly of First Nations Land Rights Unit - Claims Policy Reform annotated bibliography

File contains records created by or regarding the Assembly of First Nations and land claims reform. Some of the records in the file are: Land Rights Unit update; First Nations Land Rights in Canada seminar; Rolling draft #4 - Claims Policy Reform; letter to Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development re: reform of Federal claims policies.

Series contains records related to Indigenous land claims and the establishment of an Independent Claims Body (ICB). The series contains the following files/items:

2018.008.008.001 AFN/DIA Claims 2/96-
2018.008.008.002 AFN - Claims - 7/96
2018.008.008.003 ICC Review - 11/96
2018.008.008.004 AFN - ADR 12/96
2018.008.008.005 AFN Claims 7/97
2018.008.008.006 AFN Claims - 12/1997
2018.008.008.007 AFN Claims - 1997 Report
2018.008.008.008 AFN Claims - 5-6/98 I
2018.008.008.009 AFN Claims - 5-6/98 II
2018.008.008.010 AFN Claims - 9/1998
2018.008.008.011 AFN Claims - 11/98
2018.008.008.012 AFN Claims - 4/1999
2018.008.008.013 AFN/JTF - March 2001
2018.008.008.014 AFN-ICB - May 2001
2018.008.008.015 AFN/ICB- Toronto - June 2001
2018.008.008.016 ICB - Fall 2001
2018.008.008.017 ICB - 2001-2002
2018.008.008.018 CCC - Vancouver Feb 2002
2018.008.008.019 AFN-ICB- Feb-March 2002
2018.008.008.020 Assembly of First Nations Chiefs Committee on Claims
2018.008.008.021 Indian Claims Commission - Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range report on Canoe Lake Inquiry, Cold Lake Inquiry
2018.008.008.022 Indian Claims Commission Proceedings (1999) 11 ICCP
2018.008.008.023 Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Specific Claims Branch - status report

File contains records relating to land claims and land claim process reform. Some of the items included in the file are:
1) "Beyond Lawful Obligation" by Michael Bossin
2) "First Nations Land Rights in Ontario and the Canadian Land Claims Process - a proposal for change" Ontario Land Rights Working Group
3) draft copies of "Claims Policy Reforms" by the Chiefs Committee on Claims
4) "Technical Requirements for the Establishment of an Independent Body"
5) memorandum regarding 1963 draft bill C-130 "An Act to provide for the Disposition of Indian Claims".
6) "Draft Recommendations Prepared by Neutral" - Singleton Urquhart MacDonald

File contains records related to Land Claims, policy and procedural reform. Included are background documents on litigation, independent claims bodies etc and an annotated bibliography on claims reform.

File contains records relating to the land claims reform process. Included are:
1) AFN proposal - Land Claims Reform Process: Towards an Adequate First Nation Land and Resource Base
2) Summary report on the Reform of Federal Land Claims Policies
3) draft summary of notes from Chiefs Committee meeting held June 1-2, 1994 in Winnipeg, Manitoba
4) draft proposal on reform of Federal Claims Policy
5) Background & Approach to Changing the Federal Claims Process.

File contains records created by or related the the National Chiefs Committee on Claims. Records include meeting related correspondence; a summary of notes from the April 15-16, 1993 meeting in Halifax, Nova Scotia; Draft Recommendations prepared by Neutral (Singleton Urquhart MacDonald); and a bound book "Specific Claims Joint Working Group" Vol. I (background documents).

File contains records created by or related to the Specific Claims Joint Working Group (JWG). Included are meeting minutes, correspondence and other materials relating to JWG, National Chiefs Committee on Claims, and the Assembly of First Nations.

File contains records created by or related for the National Chiefs Committee on Claims. Included in the file are:
1) Summary notes from April 15-16 meeting held in Halifax, Nova Scotia
2) Chiefs Assembly resolutions on land claims
3) Specific Claims Joint Working Group (JWG) chronology of meetings and discussions
4) First Nations Submission on Claims - Dec. 14, 1990
5) Draft objectives for new First Nations claims resolution process and accompanying materials
6) Quarterly report from JWG

File contains a copy of the meeting agenda and accompanying material for the Joint Working Group on Claims Policy held February 23-25, 1993 in Ottawa, Ontario. Included is information on the previous meetings held in Val D'Or, Winnipeg, and Ottawa.

Native Alternative Dispute Resolution Systems: The Canadian Future in Light of the The American Past by Jonathan Rudin and Dan Russell for the Ontario Native Council on Justice.

File contains records created by/for the Specific Claims Joint Working Group (JWG). Records included correspondence; draft resolutions; JWG meeting minutes - Ottawa December 8-9, 1992; chronology of JWG meetings and discussions; JWG meeting minutes - Winnipeg January 26-27, 1993; Chiefs Committee on Claims meeting agenda, January 28-29, 1993; JWG meeting minutes - Val D'Or, Quebec November 3-5, 1992; and report - consultation on ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) systems.

File contains records created by and related to the National Chiefs Claims Commission, the Assembly of First Nations, the Specific Claims Joint Working Group, and the Indian Claims Commission. Contents included correspondence and accompanying materials, updates, notes, resolutions, and draft resolutions.

File contains the agenda and accompanying materials for the December 9, 1991 meeting of the National Chiefs Commission on Claims held in Vancouver, British Columbia. Also in the file are a meeting follow-up, correspondence, speaking notes, and an extract from the Auditor General of Canada's report.

File contains records from the Specific Claims Joint Working Group (First Nations and Government of Canada). Included are meeting minutes and updates from the meeting held August 17-19, 1992 in Kamloops, British Columbia and meeting minutes from the meeting held September 29-30, 1992 in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.

File contains records pertaining to the Chiefs Committee Claims, specifically their meeting in Vancouver on December 9, 1991. Included is the agenda and accompanying materials for the meeting; an extract from the Auditor General of Canada's report on specific land claims; and speaking notes from Ovide Mercredi, National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, presentation to the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs.

File contains records pertaining to/created by the Chiefs Committee on Claims. Included in the file are meeting minutes, briefing notes, memorandums, reports, and correspondence.

File contains records pertaining to First Nations Land Claims and the Federal Governments policies. Included in the file are correspondence, meeting minutes and notes, speech transcriptions, and reports from the Federal Government, Chiefs Committee on Claims and others.

File contains records pertaining to First Nations Land Claims and the Federal Governments policies. Included in the file are meeting notes and reports of the First Nations Task Force on Claims, Assembly of First Nations critique of Federal policies, correspondence, and meeting notes and radio interview with Tom Siddon, Federal Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs.

File contains speaking notes for Ovide Mercredi, National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, for the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs on December 12, 1991. The File also contains a transcript of the December 10, 1991 meeting of the Indian Specific Claim Commission.

File contains two copies of "Discussion Paper Regarding First Nation Land Claims" by the Indian Commission of Ontario. Attached to one of the reports is a letter to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

Preliminary study "The Use of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Specific Claims". Prepared for Specific Claims Branch, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Canada by Ben Hoffman of Concorde Inc.

Series contains files relating to Indigenous land claims policy and policy reform. The Series contains the following files/items:

2018.008.007.001 Claims - ADR - 91
2018.008.007.002 Claims - ICO 90
2018.008.007.003 Claims - Standing Committee - 1991
2018.008.007.004 Claims - Post Oka Vol. I
2018.008.007.005 Claims - Post Oka Vol. II
2018.008.007.006 Chiefs Claims Committee - Aug./91
2018.008.007.007 CCC - Vancouver Dec 9/91
2018.008.007.008 ICC - 1992
2018.008.007.009 Claims - Joint Wkg Group August - Sept/92
2018.008.007.010 CCC Dec-Jan/92
2018.008.007.011 CCC Ottawa, February 26/92
2018.008.007.012 Claims - JWG: December/92
2018.008.007.013 ADR - 1993 - D. Russell
2018.008.007.014 JWG - 23-25 Feb 1993
2018.008.007.015 CCC - Halifax April/93
2018.008.007.016 AFN Claims - 5/93
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2018.008.007.018 AFN Claims 14/9/94
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Community Healing and Aboriginal Social Security Reform - a study prepared for the Assembly of First Nations Aboriginal Social Security Reform Strategic Initiative. Study was prepared by Michael Bopp, Judie Bopp, and Phil Lane, Jr.

File contains two reports by Health Canada:
1) "Health Status of Canadian Indians and Inuit - update 1987" Indian and Northern Health Services, Medical Services Branch
2) "Health Status of Canadian Indians and Inuit - 1990"

File contains two reports by Health Canada:
1) "Health Status of Canadian Indians and Inuit - update 1987" Indian and Northern Health Services, Medical Services Branch
2) "Health Status of Canadian Indians and Inuit - 1990"

File contains news clippings and a a copy of Chapter 13 of the Auditor General's 1997 report "Health Canada - First Nations Health". Also in the file is correspondence regarding correspondence regarding the Lovelace v. The Queen in right of Ontario court case.

File contains a records relating to non-insured health benefits )NIHB) for First Nations peoples. Included are: a newspaper "First Nations Health Bulletin" Vol. 1 No. 2, published by the Assembly of First Nations; Health Canada 1995-1996 Annual report on NIHB program analysis division; a 2 page paper "Issues pertaining to the transfer of non-insured health benefits"; "Non-Insured Health Services: The Saskatchewan Experience, a paper to be delivered at the BEC meeting by Duane Adams; and a Federal Government Aide de Memoire pertaining to non-insured health benefits for status Indians and Inuit.

The Treaty Right to Health - legal opinion for David Harris, National Health and Welfare by Marie LaForest, Counsel, Native Law Section.

File contains a letter from Health and Welfare Canada to Ovide Mercredi in his role as National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations. Also in the file is an Indian and Inuit Health programs review.

File contains records pertaining to the Health Services Transfer agreement between the Federal Government and United Chiefs and Councils of Manitoulin (UCCM). Included are a copy of the agreement; UCCM report; news clippings; and other materials.

File contains correspondence, notes, and newspapers. Topics include the First Nations Health Forum; First Nations Health and the Federal Government; and Non-insured health benefits.

Union of Ontario Indians Field Health Program Annual Report for 1990-1991.

File contains records relating to First Nations health care and treaty rights. Included in the file are:
1) "Health Care and the Treaties - preliminary reports" compiled by the Centre for Treaty Advocacy for the National Committee on Treaties, Vancouver B. C. May 1-2, 1990
2) "The Aboriginal Right to Health, Treaty making and Indian Government Jurisdiction" prepared by the Centre for Treaty Advocacy for the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
3) "Issues in First Nations Health Care" notes for remarks by First Nations Health Commission Director Richard Saunders at Community Health Seminar held Oct. 3, 1990 at the University of Ottawa
4) Correspondence re: Treaty No. 6 Medicine Chest Clause
5) "Interpretation and Enforcement of Treaty Rights of First Nations" prepared by D. E. Worme for Peter Di Gangi, Director Centre for Treaty Advocacy
6) "The Structural Injunction as a Remedy for Violations of Aboriginal Constitutional Rights" by Phil Lancaster for the Canadian Bar Association Committee on Native Justice.

File contains correspondence and a draft copy of the Financial Transfer Agreement (FTA).

File contains records relating to the Joint Health Canada - Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development approach to the Financial Transfer Arrangements/Agreements.

File contains agreements and other records related to Financial Transfer Agreements (FTA). Included in the file are:
1) draft 4 - January 18, 1996 of a Financial Transfer Agreement
2) Financial Transfer Arrangments management assessment workbook
3) Discussion paper on Accountability
4) Financial Transfer Agreement between the Federal Government and the Wagmatcook Band
5) Blank annotated FTA

File contains a copy of the Interim Evaluation of the Experiences to date with Financial Transfer Arrangements.

File contains records related to Financial Transfer Agreements (FTA). Included in the file are:
1) Fiscal Transfers and Dismantling of the Fiduciary Duty by Peter Di Gangi
2) Issue Summary - DIAND's New Funding Mechanism the FTA
3) Chiefs of Ontario bulletin Sept. 6, 1996
4) Briefing Note - FTA
5) notes
6) Assembly of First Nations working draft resolution on Fiscal Relationships
7) News release on Kee Tas Kee Now Tribal Council sigining of FTA

File contains a draft Financial Transfer Agreement between The Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and First Nations.

File contains notes and presentation materials related to the Financial Transfer Arrangement between First Nations and the Government of Canada.

Financial Transfer Arrangements Information Kit created by the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development for the First Nations' Chief and Councils.

File contains records created by the Department of Finance, specifically the October 1997 economic and fiscal update. Included in the file is the news release and presentation notes and a copy of "The Economic and Fiscal Update - Strong Economy Strong Society - Security & Opportunity".