File contains two copies of "Indian Rights - Human Rights Handbook for Indians on International Human Rights Complaint Procedures" from the Indian Law Resource Centre in Washington D. C.

File contains newspaper clippings, magazine stories, newsletters, and other publications related to Indigenous Peoples in countries around the world.

File contains newspaper and magazine clippings, magazines, journals and other publications related to Indigenous Peoples in the United States. File also contains statements and reports regarding the U. S. Government and self-government.

File contains records related to International Indigenous issues. Included in the file are:
1) "Indian Rights-Human Rights - Handbook for Indians on International Human Rights Complaints" Indian Law Resource Centre
2) United Nations List of Indigenous Organizations
3) Draft declaration as agreed upon by the members of the Working Group at its 11th session
4) "Implementation of the programme of action for the second decade to combat racism and racial discrimination" - Commission on Human Rights, United Nations
5) International Issues
6) "Advisory Services in the field of Human Rights - report of the Secretary General" Commission on Human Rights, United Nations
7) Report on the 5th General Assembly of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples, Lima Peru July 11-16, 1987

File contains records related to the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Included in the file is correspondence, copies of draft declaration, and reports from the United Nations regarding Indigenous Peoples and discrimination.

File contains records related to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Included in the file is correspondence, seminar information, drafts, and reports.

File contains publications from the World Bank's Latin America and the Caribbean Technical Department. Included in the file are:
1) World Bank Operational Directive 4.20: Indigenous Peoples
2) The LAT Connection - newsletter of the Latin America and Caribbean Region Technical Department, Vol. 2 No. 2, Nov. 1992
3) Latin America and the Caribbean Technical Department Regional Studies program report No. 19 "Protecting Amerindian Lands: A Review of World Bank Experience with Indigenous Land - Regularization Programs in Lowland South America" by Alaka Wali and Shelton Davis

File contains records relating to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations. Included in the file are:
1) United Nations press release - Resolution and Decisions adopted by General Assembly at its 15th Special Session
2) United Nations General Assembly - Joint Inspection Unit - "Some Reflections on reform of the United Nations note by the Secretary-General" Dec. 1985
3) United Nations Economic and Social Council Commission on Human Rights Sub-commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities "Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations - Report of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations" 1988
4) United Nations Economic and Social Council Commission on Human Rights Sub-commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities "Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations - Report of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations" 1990
5) United Nations Economic and Social Council Commission on Human Rights "Advisory Services in the Field of Human Rights - Report on the United Nations Seminar on the effects of racism and racial discrimination on the social and economic relations between Indigenous Peoples and States" 1989

File contains newspaper and magazine clippings of stories related to Indigenous Peoples internationally. Also in the file is a print out from the Centre for World Indigenous Studies.

File contains newspaper and magazine clippings and two reports related to the Indigenous Peoples of Australia. Included in the file are two reports:
1) The Australian Law Reform Commissions Reference on the Recognition of Aboriginal Customary Law - Professor James Crawford
2) Aboriginal Lands Rights New South Wales - Comments on the N.S.W. Government Land Rights Proposals

File contains correspondence and discussion paper regarding Canada's consultations for the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance (WCAR).

File contains records related to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations. Included in the file are:
1) Draft of the Universal Declaration on Indigenous Rights,
2) Presentation to the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations - Assembly of First Nations Centre for Treaty Advocacy
3) Intervention on Standard Setting before the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations
4) Submission to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations 7th session - Konrad Sioui, Vice-Chief Quebec, AFN
5) Report on the 4th European Meeting of the North American Indian Support Groups
6) United Nations Economic and Social Council - Commission on Human Rights - Sub-commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities "Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations - report of the Working Group on its 6th session"
7) United Nations Economic and Social Council - Commission on Human Rights - Sub-commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities "Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations - written statement submitted by Grand Council of the Crees (of Quebec)"
8) Presentation of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations - Assembly of First Nations Centre for Treaty Advocacy

File contains story clippings from the Economist Magazine regarding North American Indigenous populations. Also in the file is a pamphlet regarding Hopi land claims.

File contains draft resolutions and Study on Treaties by the United Nations Economic and Social Council - Commission on Human Rights - sub-commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities.

File contains two copies of Document 62 - Critical Issues in Native North America by the International Working Group for Indigenous Affairs and edited by Ward Churchill. File only contains section II of the document "Section II - Canada".

Copy of the Study of the Problem of Discrimination against Indigenous Populations by Jose R. Martinez Cobo, special rapporteur of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. Study is divided into 5 volumes.

File contains records related to Indigenous water rights. Included in the file are:
1) Correspondence - International Indian Water Rights Coalition
2) Indian Resource and Water Rights - Kenneth J. Tyler
3) Title to the Water Bed: The Legal History of the Ad Medium Filum Aquae Rule - Rose Boyko Wuerscher
4) Indian Water Rights in the Western United States: An Historical Overview and Discussion of Some Current Issues - Jeffrey A. Ross
5) Peigan Nation Administration water rights lawsuit
6) Carrier Sekani Tribal Council legal documents re: Kemano II project

File contains copies of the the publication "Anasazi" published by Obomsawin Irwin Consulting Services. Included in the file are June 1995 - October 1996, February - June 1997. Also in the file is correspondence and draft copies of articles authored by Peter Di Gangi for the publication.

File contains report authored by Tony Hall for Leroy Little Bear and the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Report is in two parts: Part 1 - The Fur Trade and Aboriginal Rights: History, Education and Constitutional Meaning; and Part 2 - Aboriginal-Crown Treaties in the History and Constitution of Canada: Basic Principles, Basic Interpretations.

Draft Final Report of "International Context of Crown-Aboriginal Treaties in Canada". Report was prepared by Russel Lawrence Barsh and James Youngblood Henderson, in their roles with the Apamuwek Institute, under contract to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

File contains records related to Free Trade and land claims settlement. Included in the file are:
1) The Free Trade Agreement as a Treaty - Centre for Treaty Advocacy
2) The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement and Native Land-Claims Settlement
3) The Canadian-U. S. Free Trade Agreement synopsis

File contains records created by the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) regarding treaties, treaty rights, and the bilateral constitutional task force. Included are:
1) Statement of the Right to Self-Government and Land
2) Making Political and Legal Sense of the Treaties discussion paper
3) Treaty Rights: AFN Positions/Initiatives 1986-1991
4) AFN resolutions
5) Constitutional Working Group members list, memos, meeting schedule and meeting minutes
6) Report of the Bilateral Constitutional Task Force on Treaties and Treaty Rights
7) Treaty Rights Unit report on Treaties for A. F. N. Special Assembly
8) AFN Position on First Nations Treaties: Treaty Rights, Treaty Making and Implementation
9) 1983 Constitutional Accord on Aboriginal Rights
10) Proposal for an amendment on Self-Government and Treaties by AFN
11) A National First Nations-Canada Treaty - Chiefs Assembly AFN
12) FSIN - Canada Bilateral Agreements - Indian Governments of Saskatchewan
13) Restoring the Path, Renewing our Nations - AFN

File contains records relating to alternative mechanisms for treaty implementation. Included in the file are:
1)2 copies - Alternative Approaches to First Nations Inherent, Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Canada
2) Alternative Mechanisms for Treaty Implementation: A review of past and current approaches - AFN
3) A Brief Commentary on the Alternative Mechanisms
4) National Committee on Treaties - Working Group on Alternative Mechanisms meeting kit

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 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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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"

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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