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 copies of several articles and papers. They include:
1) Native Self-Government - I: Closing the Circle by Roland Pangowish. The New Federation, Jan-Feb, 1992
2) Indian Sovereignty Re-examined: Are Indian Nations still harnessed with faulty paradigms by Lloyd W. Stevenson
3) Restoring and Reaffirming First Nation Goverment - a discussion paper on self-determination and self-goverment by Lloyd W. Stevenson
4) Sovereignty: Its meaning in words and practice by Inger Weibust

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 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