File contains records related to Federal program review funding cuts. Included is a Federal Program Review synopsis for Indian Affairs, Privy Council, and Fisheries and Oceans, and 2 news stories from the Hill Times regarding the expenditure review.

File contains an agenda and accompanying materials from the Assembly of First Nations B.C. Region, First Nations Summit, and Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs special Chiefs Assembly held May 19-20, 2005. Also in the file is a letter between AFN Quebec-Labrador region and the Organization of United Reborn Survivors.

File contains records related to First Nations fiscal institutions and First Nation Land Management. Included in the file are:
1) Indian Taxation Advisory Board materials
2) First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Institutions Initiative materials
3) Framework Agreement on First Nation Land Management questions and answers

File contains copies of secret Federal Policy documents related to changes to Aboriginal Policy. Included are:
1) Policy Directions in the Six Areas of Focus
2) A Framework for Renewing Canada's Policies with Respect to Aboriginal and Treaty Rights

File contains a redacted Government pre-budget consultation report and a news story about Indigenous Affairs in the media.

File contains records related to Provincial/Territorial Organization (PTO) funding. Included is:
1) PTO Funding Policy, Feb. 26, 2003
2) memo and accompanying material regarding the PTO Funding Policy Technical Working Session, Feb. 26-27, 2003

File contains records related to First Nations Governance. Included in the file are:
1) news stories
2) Assembly of First Nations Bulletin re: Minister Nault's Governance Initiative Act
3) "A Report on the First Month's Work of Minister Nault's 'Joint Advisory Committee' on Governance Legislation"
4) "Putting the Nault Governance Act into Context: The Long History of Opposition"

File contains newspaper clippings about First Nations Governance and other Federal Policies relating to First Nations.

File contains two documents created by the Federal Government:
1) Aboriginal Policy: Legal and Constitutional Framework, Oct. 2001
2) Renewing Treaties, Claims and Self-Government Negotiation Processes to support a "Quality of Life" Agenda - Reference Group of Ministers on Aboriginal Policy, Feb. 2002

File contains records related to Bill C-7, the Federal Government's First Nations Governance Act. Included in the file is correspondence, a guide to Bill C-7, news releases, briefs, minutes, analyses, and newspaper clippings.

File contains a copy of a memorandum to Cabinet regarding First Nations Governance Legislation. Also in the file is a copy of the article "Colonialism 101 How Governments Keep Control" by Rarihokwats.

File contains "secret" advice to Minister regarding First Nations governance and an Ontario Government redacted briefing note regarding the Batchewana First Nation.

File contains records created by the Indian Claims Commission (ICC). Included in the file are:
1) 2 ICC information packages
2) Chippewas of the Thames First Nation report on: Clench Defalcation Inquiry
3) Mistawasis First Nation report on: 1911, 1917 and 1919 surrenders
4) ICC Annual reports for 1998/99, 1999/00 and 2000/01

A copy of the Native Council of Nova Scotia's "Mi'Kmaq Harvester Wildlife Conservation/Harvest Effort Record" booklet with detachable cards to be filled out and mailed to the Council.

Series contains records related to the Ontario Government, Indigenous Policy, Hunting and Fishing Rights, and Claims. It contains reports from The Fraser Institute and the Pacific Business and Law Institute. The series has been divided into the following files/items:

2018.008.035.001 Human Rights - a compilation of international instruments, United Nations
2018.008.035.002 Living Arctic report and catalogue
2018.008.035.003 The Canadian Bar Review, Vol. 66 No. 4 December 1987
2018.008.035.004 Aboriginal Rights in Canada: An Agenda for Action, The Canadian Bar Association Committee Report
2018.008.035.005 Aboriginal Rights in Canada, Library and Archives Canada
2018.008.035.006 Ontario Policies - 1970's - 1980's
2018.008.035.007 Ontario - NDP Policy
2018.008.035.008 Ont. Claims 93
2018.008.035.009 Ont - H&F Regs 91
2018.008.035.010 1995 Ontario Election
2018.008.035.011 Ontario Policy 1996-98
2018.008.035.012 Ont - Interim Enf. Policy - 8/97
2018.008.035.013 Harris - Casino
2018.008.035.014 Ontario Policy 1995-99
2018.008.035.015 Ontario Claims Policy 2000
2018.008.035.016 Ont. Aboriginal Policy - 05 2005
2018.008.035.017 Ontario Mining Policy 2007
2018.008.035.018 Reform 12/95
2018.008.035.019 Reform - Aboriginal Benefits - 8/1997
2018.008.035.020 Reform & Aboriginal Media coverage - 1990's
2018.008.035.021 Ont. Fed. Nature - RCAP
2018.008.035.022 H & F: OFAH 1993
2018.008.035.023 OFAH to RCAP 1993
2018.008.035.024 OFAH - June 1994
2018.008.035.025 Hunt/Fish Steve Aronson
2018.008.035.026 Ont. H & F - Davidson
2018.008.035.027 Ont H & F: Frank Tough
2018.008.035.028 Fed. Can. Mun
2018.008.035.029 Municipalites - RCAP
2018.008.035.030 ARC: Land Claims 1991
2018.008.035.031 Fraser Instititute 25 years!
2018.008.035.032 Fraser Instit. Claims - 12/95
2018.008.035.033 Delgamuukw 1991: Early Analysis
2018.008.035.034 BC: Economic Impact of Claims 1996
2018.008.035.035 Litig. Updt -AFN 1990
2018.008.035.036 Litigating Aboriginal Law
2018.008.035.037 PBLI: Specific Claims 2002
2018.008.035.038 Catalyst periodical 1996-1999
2018.008.035.039 Red Alert!!

Copy of the United Nations publication "Human Rights - a compilation of international instruments".

Copy of the "Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North" an exhibition at the Museum of Mankind sponsored by Indigenous Survival International (Canada) 1987-1990. Book is a report and exhibit catalogue. Exhibit was a the British Museum in London, England.

Copy of "The Canadian Bar Review" Vol. 66 No. 4 from December 1987. Included in the edition are:
1) The Problem of Price Adequacy in Foreclosure Sales - Joseph T. Robertson
2) Understanding Aboriginal Rights - Brian Slattery
3) Duplication in Personal Injury Damages Awards - Bruce Feldthusen
4) Arctic Baselines: A Litore Usque Ad Litus - J. Bruce McKinnon

Copy of the Canadian Bar Association Committee on Aboriginal Rights in Canada's "An Agenda for Action".

Copy of "Aboriginal Rights in Canada" by Alfred Odjig (Fisher) with materials found in Library and Archives Canada.

File contains records related to Ontario's Land Claim and Natural Resource use policies. Included in the file are:
1) Land Claims policy analysis - Peter Di Gangi
2) correspondence re: fur trapping
3) correspondence re: commercial fisheries
4) Ministry of Natural Resources - Office of Indian Resources Policy info package
5) Grand Council Treaty #9 "Opinions - Ontario Government Policies for Dealing with Indian Land Claims"
6) correspondence re: constitutional amendments
7) correspondence re: Indian Land Claims Policies (policy statements)

File contains records related to NDP government policy in regards to Canada's Indigenous peoples. Inlcuded in the file are news clippings, policy notices, Ontario Native Affairs Secretariat information, a copy of "Conserving Ontario's Old Growth Forest Ecosystems", and copies of "Statement of Political Relationship" between First Nations and the Government of Ontario.

File contains records related to the Ontario Native Affairs Secretariat. Included in the file is the report "Self-Government and Land Claims Task Group" and an accompanying letter.

File contains a copy of the Ontario Government's Interim Enforcement Policy in regards to hunting and fishing by Indigenous Peoples.

File contains newspaper clippings regarding Ontario's Government. Also in the file are two listings - on of members of parliament and the other for members of the cabinet.

File contains records related to the Ontario Government's policies regarding Indigenous Peoples. Included in the file are newspaper clippings; two copies of discussion paper "Aboriginal Land Claim Negotiations: Ontario's Participation discussion paper; The Aboriginal Policy Framework and accompanying records; Ministry of Natural Resources restructuring plan; Ministry of the Attorney General restructuring plan; correspondence; and "Doing Better for Less - Ministry Core Business Summaries".

File contains records related to the Government of Ontario's Interim Enforcement Policy (IEP). Included in the file are:
1) letter to the editor re: changes to the IEP, 1997
2) letter from Ministry of Natural Resouces and accompanying draft of IEP guidelines to West Bay First Nation, 1997
3) News release and accompanying statement to legislature re: introduction of IEP, 1991

File contain newspaper clippings regarding the Ontario Harris Government and casinos.

File contains records related to Ontario Governmental Policy. The file consists of mostly newspaper clippings, but there is some correspondence and PC Party documents.

File contains faxed copies of the Ontario Native Affairs Secretariat land claims policy fact sheets. Included are:
1) Aboriginal Land Claims and the Federal and Provincial Governments
2) Ontario's Approach to Aboriginal Land Claims: the highlights
3) Aboriginal Land Claims and Ontario's Negotiation Process
4) Aboriginal Land Claims and Public Involvement
5) Aboriginal Land Claim Settlements

File contains records related to Ontario's Aboriginal Policy. Included in the are two copies of "Ontario's New Approach to Aboriginal Affairs - Prosperous and Healthy Aboriginal Communities Create a Better Future for Aboriginal Children and Youth"; and a newspaper article critiquing the new approach and the Federal Government's policy.

File contains records related to Ontario's Mining Policy. Included in the file are:
1) Ontario's Mineral Development Strategy, 2006 [ENG/FR]
2) Toward Developing an Aboriginal Consultation Approach for Mineral Sector Activities - a discussion paper, Winter 2007

File contains records related to the Reform Party of Canada. Included in the file are:
1) newspaper clippings
2) Reform Party of Canada Aboriginal Affairs Task Force report, Sept. 1995
3) Reform Party of Canada Assembly '96 policy resolution vote results
4) correspondence
5) multiple copies of "Background paper - Aboriginal Affairs Task Force"

File contains two reports:
1) Aboriginal Benefits in Canada - A Reform Party of Canada Research Study, Aug. 1997
2) When History Meets Law: Specific Claims and the Role of Historical Research - by Lisa Patterson, Indian Claims Commission

File contains correspondence, brochures, and clippings related to the Reform Party of Canada, and Canada's Indigenous peoples.

File contains two copies of "Putting Nature First: Conservation Principles to Guide Settlement of Aboriginal Land Claims" a brief for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples by the Land Claims Work Group of the Federation of Ontario Naturalists. One of the copies is complete, the other is only the odd numbered pages of the report.

File contains records related to the Ontario Federation of Anglers & Hunters. Included in the file are clippings, correspondence and a copy of "Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters position paper on Co-management of Crown Lands and Resources in Ontario".

Copy of the Ontario Federation of Anglers & Hunters submission to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples "Self-Government and Co-management in Ontario".

File contains records related to the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters. Included is correspondence regarding anti-aboriginal harvesting campaign, and a copy of "A Strategy for the Conservation of Ontario Fish and Wildlife specific to Government/Aboriginal Agendas".

Copy of Stephen Aronson's final report "Selected Documents Concerning Indian Treaties in Canada and Hunting and Fishing Rights". Report created for the Department of Indian Affairs.

Copy of "The Formative Period in the Subjugation of Ontario Indians to the Game Laws, 1892-1916"

Copy of Frank Tough's "Ontario's Appropriation of Indian Hunting: Provincial Conservation Policies vs. Aboriginal and Treaty Rights, ca. 1892-1930". Report authored for the Ontario Native Affairs Secretariat.

Copy of the submission "Municipalities and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada" by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities in co-operation with the Canadian Association of Municipal Administrators to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

Aboriginal Rights Coalition "Together on Turtle Island - Land Rights Information Primer" kit containing a map, Aboriginal Organizations contact list, and information booklet.

File contains correspondence and a copy of "Challenging Perceptions: Twenty-five Years of Influential Ideas - The Fraser Institute A retrospective".

File contains announcement and copy of "Change and Choice: A Policy Vision for British Columbia - Out of Our Past: A New Perspective on Aboriginal Land Claims in British Columbia".

File contains records related to the Delgamuukw Decision. Included in the file are early analyses; notes; correspondence; and news clippings.

File contains a news release, summary report and final reports by ARA Consulting Group for the Government of British Columbia. Report was titled "Social and Economic Impacts of Aboriginal Land Claim Settlements".

File contains litigation related documents created by the Assembly of First Nations. Included in the file are:
1) 2 copies of memorandum "Review of Section 35 Case Law and a Discussion of Concepts that may Generate Future Dialogue on the content of Treaties and the Enforceability of Treaty Rights" - includes synopsis of some case law
2) National Committee on Treaties Litigation Update, May 1990 - Flett, Mik'maq Fishery, The Queen vs. Ireland & Jamieson, Oldman Dam, and Barriere Lake
3) National Committee on Treaties Litigation Update - analysis of potential impact of recent supreme court decisions on Aboriginal and Treaty Rights, Sparrow Case, and Sioui Case.

File contains copies of papers given at the "Litigating Aboriginal Law" hosted by the Pacific Business and Law Institute in Ottawa on June 6 & 7, 2002. Papers include:
1) "When does the Obligation of Aboriginal Consultation Arise?" John J. L. Hunter
2) "The Benoit Case and Treaty Interpretation" Alan Pratt
3) "Litigation Based on Breach of Fiduciary Obligation" Ben A. Jetten
4) "The Crown's Fiduciary Obligations to Consult and Accomodate First Nations" Maria Morellato
5) "Finding and Keeping Money: Funding Aboriginal Litigation, Litigation Alternatives and Making Litigation and Negotiated Settlement Stick" Nancy Kleer
6) "Money in the Battle for Rights - Financing Aboriginal Title Litigation" Stuart Rush
7) "Proof of Aboriginal Title - Interpreting Delgamuukw" Stuart Rush
8) "The Use of Oral History as Evidence - The Benoit Decision" Heather L. Treacy
9) "Expert Witnesses and Litigation on Aboriginal and Treaty Rights" Anjali Choksi
10) "The Pros and Cons of Litigating Specific Claims" Kathleen Lickers

File contains copies of papers given at the "The New Specific Claims Resolution Act" conference hosted by the Pacific Business and Law Institute in Ottawa on September 19 & 20, 2002. Papers include:
1) "The Future of Specific Claims" Phil Fontaine
2) "Specific Claims, Bill C-60 and the Provinces" Neil Reddekopp
3) "A Sobering Second Thought" Kathleen Lickers
4) The Michipicoten Pilot Project for Specific Claims" Kim Fullerton
5) "The Primrose Lake Inquiry" Alan Pratt
6) "The Specific Claims Policy and the Law - some thoughts from a Claim Practitioner's Perspective" Alan Pratt
7) "Lessons from Australia, New Zealand and the United States" Bradford Morse and Christina Vechsler
8) "Will the New Specific Claims Process Address the Faults of the Current Process? - The Position of the Assembly of First Nations" Rolland Pangowish
9) "Legal Analysis of Bill C-60" Bryan Schwartz
10) "12 Suggestions to Improve Crown/First Nation Claim and Rights Settlement Negotiations" Jerome Slavik
11) "Indian Claims Commission - Mediation" Ralph Brant
12) "Bill C-60 Process for Specific Claims Resolution or Management?" David Knoll

File contains records pertaining to the Citizens for Public Justice (CPJ). The majority of the file contains copies of "The Catalyst" the CPJ's newsletter. Also in the file is their 1996 annual report and "CPJ in the News" - containing 2 articles from other publications.

File contains two posters "Red Alert!! - Special Chiefs' Assembly: Canada's Termination Policy and DIAND's Proposed Amendments to the Indian Act, Sept. 23-24, 1996 Winnipeg, Manitoba.

File contains records related to Bill C-79. Included in the file is correspondence; a booklet on the proposed Indian Act amendments; notes and meeting minutes.

Copy of chapters 8-10 Program Evaluation of the Auditor General of Canada's 1993 report to the House of Commons.