One copy of the document "Health Related Legislation in Canada - the Constitutional Framework" by Legal Services, Health Canada. Document includes the "Participant's Manual - First Nations Health the Constitutional Framework", and "Fiduciary Relationship of the Crown with Aboriginal Peoples: Implementation and Management Issues, A guide for Managers".

Fact Sheet and copy of Audit Report "First Nations Indebtedness" project 93/01 of the Departmental Audit and Evaluation Branch of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.

File contains copies of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada's "Default Prevention and Management" document; a two page paper titled "First Nation Debt - Reduction and Analysis"; and two copies of Laurel Lemchuk-Favel's paper "Back to the Future - An Analysis of DIAND Funding Methods".

Series contains records regarding Inherent Right and Self-Government policies, Federal Government policies, and Auditor General reports related to the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. The series is divided into the following files/items:

2018.008.003.001 Band Debt: funding
2018.008.003.002 Band Debt: Audit/1995
2018.008.003.003 Health/Legal 11/95
2018.008.003.004 Fiduc/Health - 11/95
2018.008.003.005 Fed. Healing Fund Cab Doc 1998
2018.008.003.006 Bill C-79, 1997
2018.008.003.007 Indian Act, Sept/95
2018.008.003.008 Ind. Act By Law Book
2018.008.003.009 Mikmaq Constitution
2018.008.003.010 Creating Opportunity - the Liberal Plan for Canada
2018.008.003.011 The Liberal Plan, 1997 - Securing Our Future Together
2018.008.003.012 Aboriginal Liberals
2018.008.003.013 Red Book Critiques
2018.008.003.014 Liberal Policy - 8/95
2018.008.003.015 Liberal Policy - 4/95
2018.008.003.016 DIAND: Indian Population 1995
2018.008.003.017 Fed. Treaty Policy - 4/95
2018.008.003.018 Sovereignty - AMC & R. Pangowish 84/92
2018.008.003.019 Self Govt: 1994, Hutchins et. al
2018.008.003.020 Slattery: Decolonizing the Constitution 8/9/92
2018.008.003.021 Custom Law
2018.008.003.022 Treasury Board
2018.008.003.023 DIA - Partnership 1999
2018.008.003.024 Fed Treaty Policy - 96-98
2018.008.003.025 Fed Policy 12/97
2018.008.003.026 DIAND - 97/98 Plan
2018.008.003.027 Inherent Rite 5/95
2018.008.003.028 Self Govt - Fed Neg Mandate/97
2018.008.003.029 Liberal S. G. Policy Response
2018.008.003.030 Inherent Rite Cab Doc 5/95
2018.008.003.031 Auditor General 4/99
2018.008.003.032 Federal Budget 2/99
2018.008.003.033 Auditor Gen. 9/96
2018.008.003.034 Audit Gen: 1991 & 94
2018.008.003.035 AG Report - 1986
2018.008.003.036 AG's Report - 1990
2018.008.003.037 Audit Gen 93/Prog Eval
2018.008.003.038 Program Assessment & Review, 1994
2018.008.003.039 Trojan Buffalo 6/95
2018.008.003.040 Self Govt: PCO/CBSG 10/92

File contains a copy of the Self-Determination Symposium held in Toronto in 2000. Symposium was jointly organized by the Assembly of First Nations in association with the University of Toronto, Department of Indian Affairs, and the Ontario Attorney General's Office.

One copy of the report and an accompanying cover letter.

One copy of the report and an accompanying cover letter.

One copy of the report.

One copy of the report.

One copy of the report.

One copy of the report.

Copy of "...And the Last Shall be First" - Native Policy in the Era of Cutbacks. A discussion paper prepared by Murray Angus for the Aboriginal Rights Coalition (Project North).

Copy of "Federalism in the Era of Aboriginal Self-Government" by Alan Pratt of the Law Firm Blaney, McMurtry, Stapells.

File contains a pamphlet "Self-Government is Treason" put out by the Confederation of Shuswap/Okanagan Action Committee; "Reveille for First Nations: The Politics of Aggression and Defence" by Walter Rudnicki; and 4 copies of a pamphlet "Recent Trends and Initiatives in Indian Affairs".

Final draft of legal opinion of Arki & Nahwegahbow, Barristers Solicitors Notaries pertaining to the constitutional validity of "An Act to Amend the Indian Act. S. C., 1985, c.27.

File contains:
1) Discussion notes on Lands, Revenues and Trusts Sector - Mont Ste. Marie, January 27-29, 1988
2) Privy Council Office - Program Review Secretariet - Internal Communications to Support the Program Review, July 7, 1994
3) Draft precis re: Federal Policies, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, January 1988
4) James Bay Northern Quebec Agreement, Implementation Agreement Negotiations Strategic Communications Overview, April 1987

File contains several different reports. They include:
1) Report of the Ministerial Task Force on Native Programs, April 12, 1985
2) Indian and Native Programs - a study team report to the Task Force on Program Review, April 1985
3) Indians and Natives - Improved Program Delivery - a study team report to the Task Force on Program Review (2 copies)
Also in the file are two newspaper paper clippings - one about the Nielsen task force and the other about conflict in the Middle East.

Copy of memo and accompanying slides relating to the slide presentation for the Cabinet Committee. Slides contain information on the impact of governmental legislation and policy on Indian Rights.

File of newspaper and magazine clippings, the majority of which relate to Brian Mulroney's stepping down as Prime Minister. Also in the file is a copy of the Constitution of the National Progressive Conservative Aboriginal Caucus (1985).

File contains a copy of the Canadian Government's Treasury Board on the Devolution plan proposed by the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. The Devolution plan entailed "transfer of programs and service delivery to Indian Bands and other Indian Organizations".

File contains records relating to the Sechelt Indian Band and the Government of Canada. Included in the folder are correspondence regarding the Sechelt Band Comprehensive Claim; a copy of "A Practical Proposal for Resolving the Indian Land Claim in British Columbia as it Affects The Sechelt Indian Band" by the Sechelt Indian Band Council; 2 copies of the Sechelt Indian Band act; a copy of a Communique from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada regarding the renewal of federal self-government funding to the Sechelt Indian Band.

File contains a copy of Sally M. Weaver's "Self Government Policy for Indians 1980-1990: Political Transformation of Symbolic Gestures"; 2 copies of "Notes on Cabinet Documents Relating to Self-Government"; Copy of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Federal and Provincial governments and the Nishnawbe-Aksi Nation, 1985; and a copy of "Self Government Negotiations status report.

Copy of Bruce Doern's report "The Politics of Slow Progress: Federal Aboriginal Policy Processes". The study was prepared for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

File contains copies of Treaties - Native Rights in Canada a synopsis and a critique by the Indian-Eskimo Association of Canada's legal committee.

File contains a copy of "Wahbung - Our Tomorrows" by The Indian Tribes of Manitoba 1871-1971, Manitoba Indian Brotherhood. Also in the file is a letter from the Treaty & Aboriginal Rights Research Centre of Manitoba, Inc.

File contains a copy of the Brown Paper - A Declaration of Indian Rights, The B. C. Position paper prepared by the UBCIC (The Union of B. C. Indian Chiefs), dated November 17, 1970.
Also in the file is an invitation to the Spring graduation of the Institute of Indigenous Government in Burnaby B. C.

Copy of "Citizens +", a presentation by the Indian Chiefs of Alberta to Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau in June of 1970.

File contains correspondence and memorandums regarding issues surrounding the 1969 white paper, and Cabinet Document #747 "Developments in Indian Affairs".

Copy of "The Unfinished Tapestry - Indian Policy in Canada" delivered by Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Developement Jean Chretien as part of the Dunning Trust Lectures held at Queen's University on March 17, 1971.

File contains papers related the the White paper released in 1969 "Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian Policy". Included in the file are: 2 copies of draft #3 "The Indian Act - proposed revision" November, 1967; 2 copies of the white paper; Letter/report from the Assistant Deputy Minister (Indian Consulation and Negotiation) to the Deputy Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development; Memorandum re: meeting held in 1971 between Prime Minister Trudeau, cabinet members, Chiefs and members at large of the Canadian Aboriginal communities regarding the Indian White paper and Red paper.

File contains correspondence, memorandums, and agreements in regards to the assignment of lands and natural resources in Alberta and Manitoba between the Federal and Provincial governments. Also in the file is a copy of the proceedings of the Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Commons on Indian Affairs held May 16, 1961, and a 2 page information sheet on Federal-Provincial responsibility for Indians.

File contains a copy of the proceedings of the Federal-Provincial Conference on Indian Affairs held in Ottawa in October 1964. Also in the file is a copy of a report created by the Department of Indian Affairs outlining government (Federal and Provincial) relations with Canada's Indigenous peoples.

Series contains records relating to Canada's 1969 White paper "Canada on Indian Policy", Canadian government policy and relations with Aboriginal peoples, termination policy, and Indigenous self-government. The series has been divided into file and items:

2008.008.002.001 Federal-Provincial & Indians
2018.008.002.002 Federal-Provincial & Indians pt. 2
2018.008.002.003 White Paper '69
2018.008.002.004 Jean Chretien - 1971
2018.008.002.005 White Paper - 1972
2018.008.002.006 Citizens +, 1970
2018.008.002.007 UBCIC Brown Paper
2018.008.002.008 MIB-Wahbung 1971
2018.008.002.009 Indian-Eskimo Association, 1970
2018.008.002.010 Bruce Doern - Federal Policy (For RCAP 10/1993)
2018.008.002.011 Self Govt Policy, 1986-1990
2018.008.002.012 Sechelt /86
2018.008.002.013 T. B. Devolution 11/86
2018.008.002.014 Tories 1983-
2018.008.002.015 Fed Policy 1984 - Memos
2018.008.002.016 Nielsen Rpt - 1985
2018.008.002.017 Special Words & Tactics, 1987-88/1994
2018.008.002.018 C-31 Legal Opinion, 7/87
2018.008.002.019 Buffalo Jump, 1987-88
2018.008.002.020 Fed-Prov Resp - Pratt
2018.008.002.021 Fed. Policy - ARC
2018.008.002.022 Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and the Canadian Polar Commission - Performance Report for the period ending March 31, 2003
2018.008.002.023 Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and the Canadian Polar Commission - Performance Report for the period ending March 31, 2004
2018.008.002.024 Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and the Canadian Polar Commission - 2004-2005 Estimates Part III - Report on Plans and Priorities
2018.008.002.025 Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and the Canadian Polar Commission - 2005-2006 Estimates Part III - Report on Plans and Priorities
2018.008.002.026 Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and Canadian Polar Commission and Indian Specific Claims Commission Performance Report - for the period ending March 31, 2006
2018.008.002.027 Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and Canadian Polar Commission and Indian Specific Claims Commission 2006-2007 estimates - Part III Report on Plans and Priorities

White t-shirt with sleeves torn off. Front of shirt has a person standing on top of an overturned police car. "Battle of Oka 1990 La Bataille d'Oka" is written on the shirt.

File contains copies of "Akwesasne Notes", a magazine published by the Program in American Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo and D-Q University. In the file are: Vol. II No. 2 May 1979; Vol. II No. 4 Autumn 1979; Vol. II No. 3 Summer 1979; Vol. II No. 5 Spring 1980; and Vol. 16 No. 4 Summer 1984.

File contains copies of "The Ontario Indian", a publication put out by the Union of Ontario Indians. Included in the file are: Vol. 1 No. 4 December 1978; Vol. 3 No. 6 June 1980; Vol. 3 No. 7 July 1980; Vol. 3 No. 8 August 1980; Vol. 3 No. 9 September 1980; Vol. 4 No. 6 June 1981; Vol. 4 No. 10 October 1981; and Vol. 4 No. 9 September 1981.

File contains miscellaneous periodicals:
1) Self-Government is Treason pamphlet
2) letter to Chiefs of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (2 copies)
4) Page 12 from "Anasazi" periodical (4 copies)
5) Cartoon by Bill [Powless] (3)
6) Recent Trends and Initiatives in Indian Affairs pamphlet
7) Reader's Digest, March 1997 - correspondence to Magazine regarding article
8) The Beaver, Winter 1979
9) Alternatives - Perspectives on Society and Environment A Special Issue on the North, Autumn 1978
10) Lang Michener Barristors & Solicitors newsletter "In Brief" Summer 1997
11) Changing Course - A Study Guide for Canadian Social Analysis (2 copies)
12) The Catalyst - a publication of Citizens for Public Justice, Dec/Jan 2000; Apr/May 2000; June/July 2000; Aug/Sept 2000; Oct/Nov 2001
13) Jubilee Initiative petition on Aboriginal Land Rights
14) News clipping "Obidiah" from The First Perspective
15) This Country Canada Vol. 1 No. 1, Summer 1992

File contains copies of the the publication "Anasazi" published by Obonsawin Irwin Consulting Services. Copies in file include: August 1997; October 1997; January 1998; Vol 5 No. 1, 2; Vol 6 No. 1, 2; Vol 7 No. 2; Vol 8 No. 1, 2; Vol 9 No. 2.

File contains:
1) clippings and articles
2) draft discussion paper ""Alternative Approaches to First Nations Inherent, Aboriginal & Treaty Rights in Canada, Centre for Treaty Advocacy, October 17, 1990
3) Notes for statement by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney ""Canada and the 21st Century"" November 1, 1990
4) Release and accompanying materials - Citizen's Forum on Canada's Future"

One photocopy of a pamphlet titled "Indian Government at White Fish Bay".

One photocopy of Louis Karoniaktajeh Hall's "Rebuilding the Iroquois Confederacy".

File contains materials relating to the events at Oka in 1990. Included in the file are:
1) correspondence
2) Maclean's Magazine, September 10, 1990
3) Soldier of Fortune magazine, December 1990
4) "The Summer of 1990" - fifth report of the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs, May 1991
5) "Shaping Canada's Future Together" highlights booklet
6) "Shaping Canada's Future Together" proposals

File contains notes for an address to the House of Commons by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney on the House Resolution with respect to Oka, Sept. 25, 1990 and a copy of "Building a New Relationship - the Native Agenda - 4 Pillars".

File contains news clippings, newspapers and other materials regarding Akwesasne in 1979 and Kanesatake (Oka) in 1990.

File contains a copy of the agreement between The Mohawks of Kanesatake and the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development regarding governance of the Kanesatake Mohawk lands.

File contains:
1) AFN RCAP Strategies for implementation discussion paper draft #1 Feb. 22, 1997
2) AFN RCAP Final Report and Recommendations preliminary analysis and commentary draft #3 Feb. 22, 1997
3) AFN RCAP preliminary assessment of the report of RCAP - recommendations on treaties, land and resources - AFN Land Rights Unit Feb. 21, 1997
4) correspondence
5) Summary and Issues Analysis of the Recommendations and Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples for Chiefs in Ontario, January 1997
6) Preliminary Assessment of the Report on the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - recommendations on residential schools

File contains notes, correspondence and other materials relating to Assembly of First Nations and their response to the RCAP final report.

File contains:
1) newspaper clippings
2) copy of "An Agenda for Action with First Nations" Govt of Canada
3) copy of "Gathering Strength - Canada's Aboriginal Action Plan"
4) Agenda for Action with First Nations
5) Backgrounder newsletters from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
6) speeches and news releases re: "Gathering Strength - Canada's Aboriginal Action Plan"
7) Assembly of First Nations (AFN) proposed response to RCAP plan"

One copy of the Assembly of First Nations submission to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples released a CD-ROM containing the records for the hearings, and reports created by the Commission. In 2016, for the 20th anniversary of the reports release, a database was created containing all the original CD-ROM materials plus expanded content including over 18000 photographs. The CD-ROMS are no longer functional on current operating systems. http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/aboriginal-heritage/royal-commission-aboriginal-peoples/Pages/introduction.aspx

File contains:
1) invitation to sunrise ceremony to commemorate the completion of commission's work
2) address for the launch of the report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (2 copies)
3) Economist article ""The Wisdom of King George"" 1996
4) Guide to the principal findings and recommendations of the final report of The Royal Commission on Aborginal Peoples
5) Assembly of First Nations response and associated materials"

File contains newspaper and magazine clippings relating to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) report and the reports release.

Sub-series consists of 13 books/booklets/brochures published by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. They include

2018.008.001.001.001 RCAP Public Hearings Discussion Paper 1 - Framing the Issues
2018.008.001.001.002 RCAP Public Hearings Discussion Paper 2 - Focusing the Dialogue
2018.008.001.001.003 RCAP Public Hearings Overview of the First Round
2018.008.001.001.004 RCAP Public Hearings Exploring the Options Overview of the third round
2018.008.001.001.005 The Circle newsletter Volume 1, No. 3
2018.008.001.001.006 RCAP - The Mandate
2018.008.001.001.007 RCAP - terms of reference
2018.008.001.001.008 Opening Statements on the Occasion of the Launch of the Public Hearings of RCAP
2018.008.001.001.009 RCAP Sharing the Harvest - the road to self reliance
2018.008.001.001.010 RCAP Integrated research plan (2 copies)
2018.008.001.001.011 RCAP People to People, Nation to Nation
2018.008.001.001.012 RCAP Partners in Confederation - Aboriginal Peoples, Self-Government, and the Constitution
2018.008.001.001.013 RCAP - The Right of Aboriginal Self-Government and the Constitution - a commentary

Series consists of records relating to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) and the Oka/Kanesatake blockades. The series has been divided into the following files and items:

2018.008.001.001 [RCAP terms of reference, research plans, publications]
2018.008.001.002 RCAP - Clippings
2018.008.001.003 RCAP release: 11/96
2018.008.001.004 For Seven Generations - An information Legacy of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
2018.008.001.005 Reclaiming Our Nationhood Strengthening Our Heritage
2018.008.001.006 RCAP: Fed Response 1/98
2018.008.001.007 AFN RCAP Assembly 2/97
2018.008.001.008 RCAP Analysis
2018.008.001.009 Agreement with Respect to Kanesatake Governance of the Interim Land Base
2018.008.001.010 Oka - Akwesasne
2018.008.001.011 4 Pillars - 9/90
2018.008.001.012 Oka - 1990
2018.008.001.013 Rebuilding the Iroquois Confederacy
2018.008.001.014 Post Oka
2018.008.001.015 Anasazi
2018.008.001.016 Miscellaneous periodicals
2018.008.001.017 The Ontario Indian
2018.008.001.018 Akwesasne Notes
2018.008.001.019 Battle of Oka t-shirt

The fonds contains records created by Peter Di Gangi (Sicani Research), containing research related to Indigenous governance in Canada. The content includes published and unpublished materials and topics include: policy and research papers on Indigenous law and policy, federal government reports and statistics, Ontario government reports and statistics (focused on northern and northwestern Ontario), draft reports and intervenor submissions prepared for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP), Assembly of First Nations reports and committee kits, records from the Centre for Treaty Advocacy, policy papers on federal legislation and the Indian Act, social programs, taxation, lands, various court cases and decisions with analyses, materials on the evolution of federal Claims policy and efforts at reform, some material related to United States Indian policy and treaties.

The fonds has been divided into series by box (35 in total) and further divided into files and items. The series, file, and item titles were provided by the donor (with some exceptions).

Names and terminology used in the scope and content field reflect the names and terminology used in the files and on the items and is often outdated and out of use. (i.e. Department of Indian Affairs (DIA); Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations). Every attempt has been made to utilize the current names in the creator and access points fields in the records (i. e. Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC); Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN).