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 newspaper clippings, a press release and candidate biographical sketches for the Assembly of First Nations Grand Chief elections.

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 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 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