File contains records relating to the 1996 Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development program review and budget. Included are an info package released by DIAND and correspondence and information from an access to information request regarding the review.

File contains Insight Research Canada polling reports for 1996-1997. Reports received as part of and Access to Information request by Peter Di Gangi. Included in the file are:
1) Pollara - Perspectives Canada Vol. VI, No. 1 First Quarter 1997 subscriber analysis - DIAND
2) Perspectives Canada Fall 1994 and Winter 1995 - Department of Indian and Northern Affairs
3) Perspectives Canada Vol. IV, No. 2 - Subscriber analysis: Department of Indian and Northern Affairs
4) Perspectives Canada Vol. IV, No. 3 - Subscriber analysis: Department of Indian and Northern Affairs
5) Perspectives Canada Vol. IV, No. 4 - Subscriber analysis: Department of Indian and Northern Affairs
6) Insight Canada Poll Results - Feb. 1996
7) Perspectives Canada Vol. V, No. 3 - Subscriber analysis: Department of Indian and Northern Affairs
8) Perspectives Canada Vol. V, No. 4 Fall 1996 - subscriber analysis - DIAND
9) Contract between Insight Research Canada and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada for the surveys.

File contains records related to the First Ministers' Conference, Land Claims, and Self-Government. Included in the file are:
1) A New Covenant - Towards the Constitutional Recognition and Protection of Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada
2) Bill S-18 - An Act to further the aspirations of the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada
3) Senate news release re: Aboriginal Peoples Act
4) Address by Chief Ted Moses, Eastmain Band, James Bay June 13, 1988, Yellowknift, N. W. T.
5) Minister's Letter - Issue 5, April 1984
6) Correspondence re: proposed constitutional amendments, 1981
7) Copy of notes and actual speech given by National Chief to open the First Ministers' Constitutional Conference, 1983
8) Strength in Unity - Association of Iroquois and Allied Nations newsletter
9) The Implementation of Federal Claims Policy 1973-1980 - a working paper - Murray Angus
10) Public Lands, Native Land Claims and Land Use - Peter A. Cumming
11) The Federal-Indian Trust Relationship: An Historical Overview and Discussion of Some Current Issues - Jeffrey A. Ross
12) The Political Economy of Land Claims: Critical Reflections on the 1973 Federal Policy Statement on Native Claims in Canada - James Murray Angus
13) Towards a New Federal Policy for Comprehensive Claims Settlements

File contains records related to Inuit Government and Treaty Rights. File contains a trip report "Inuit Tapirisat of Canada Roundtables" in Pangnirtung, NWT; and a report by Wendy Moss "A Review of Inuit Perspectives on Treaty Rights and Governance Issues".

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 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

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 correspondence, a copy of the Chiefs' Governance Working Group Report, The Constitution and Self-Government information, and other records relating to self-governance.

File contains materials relating to self-government. Included are newspaper clippings; correspondence; records relating to the Chiefs' Governance Working Group; press releases; Assembly of First Nations bulletins; a copy of "Building Blocks towards Constitutionalizing First Nations Self-Government"; "Approach to First Nations Government"; and an information sheet "Indian Act Alternatives".

File contains correspondence, a draft report and a copy of "Negotiating Self-Government Agreements - The Experience of First Nations Involved in Self Government Negotiations".

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.

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 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 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 correspondence, reports, and news clippings regarding British Columbia First Nations treaty negotiations, and materials from the First Nations Summit. Included are annual reports from the B. C. Treaty Commission, and information packages from the First Nations Summit.

File contains a variety of newspaper clippings, correspondence and brochures regarding Indigenous Nations of Interior British Columbia.

File contains a variety of critiques of, and information on Canada's comprehensive claims policy. Included are:
1) Analysis of Canada's Comprehensive Claims Policy - AFN - Land Rights Unit
2) The "Blackhole" of Specific Claims in Canada - Need it take another 500 years? by Ric Savino, presented to The Canadian Bar Association Continuing Legal Education seminar
3) The Implementation of Federal Claims Policy 1973-1980 - a working paper by Murray Angus
4) First Nations Submission on Claims - AFN
5) AFN's Crititique of Federal Government Land Claims Policies
6) Doublespeak of the 90's: A Comparison of Federal Government and First Nation Perception of Land Claims Process - AFN

File contains records related to treaty making and non-extinguishment. Included are:
1) Indigenous Peoples Treaty Making Workshop
2) Treaty-Making and Title: A Non-extinguishment alternative for settling the land question in British Columbia, discussion paper #1 - UBCIC 21st annual general assembly, 1989
3) Inter-Tribal Treaties on the Land Question: B. C. Indians' Strategy for the 1990s, discussion paper #2 - UBCIC 21st annual general assembly, 1989
4) Presentation on claims, reserves, and self government
5) Memorandum - Alternatives to Extinguishment - Jeff Richstone, Inuit Committee on National Issues
6) Discussion paper on the Federal Government's Extinguishment Policy with Respect to Land Claims Agreements
7) General Statement on Extinguishment Policy - Conseil Atikamekw-Montagnais

File contains records relating to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Claims Focus Group. Included in the file are handwritten notes by Peter Di Gangi, contact lists, discussion papers, and a copy of "Federal Policy for the Settlement of Native Claims".

File contains records related to Bill C-6 The Specific Claims Resolution Act. Included in the file is correspondence, meeting minutes, and draft discussion papers.

File contains records related to Bill C-6 and Bill C-60. Included are emails, notes, press releases, strategy documents, papers, and presentations from various bodies in reaction to the Bills. Also included are copies of the Bills themselves.

File contains papers and articles written about Residential Schools. Included in the file are:
1) Anglican Journal April 2000 and May 2000
2) Presbyterian Record, January 2003
3) Federal Rules of Engagement - The Government's War Against Survivors and the Churches by Alvin Tolley
4) Article for Anasazi - "Federal Rules of Engagement: Canada's War Against Survivors and the Churches"

File contains records relating to British Columbia claims and claims policy. Included in the file are two copies of "Truth Behind Treaty Making: Canada's 1986 Comprehensive Claims Policy"; UBCIC 1999 case highlights; resolutions; correspondence; and a news clipping.

File contains records related to the Federal Government's Migratory Birds Convention Act (MBCA) and Indigenous peoples. Included in the file are legal documents, correspondence, and other related materials.

File contains records related to the Federal Government's Migratory Birds Convention Act (MBCA) and Indigenous Peoples. Included in the file are a copy of the act; correspondence; clippings; legal documents related to criminal cases; Migratory Birds Working Group notes; and a copy of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan.

File contains three conference papers:
1) The Delgamuukw Decision Analysis prepared by Louise Mandell, Q.C. for the Pacific Business & Law Institute conference Feb. 12-13, 1998
2) The Definition and Proof of Aboriginal Title by Brian Slattery, Osgoode Law School for the Pacific Business & Law Institute conference Feb. 12-13, 1998
3) The SCC Decision in Delagamuukw comments by Denis de Keruzec, General Counsel Department of Justice, Canada for the conference "The Supreme Court of Canada Decision in Delgamuukw" Jan. 12-13, 1998

File contains records pertaining to/created by the Chiefs Committee on Claims. Included in the file are meeting minutes, briefing notes, memorandums, reports, and correspondence.

File contains records relating to the Fraser Institute and the conference "The Delgamuukw Case: Aboriginal Land Claims and Canada's Regions" held in Ottawa on May 26-27, 1999.
Included in the file are:
1) handwritten notes from conference
2) Conference kit
3) Conference paper #1 "The Probable Effects of Delgamuukw" by John Howard
4) Conference paper #2 "Aboriginal Title as a Constitutionally Protected Property Right" by Kent NcNeil
5) Conference paper #3 "Converting the Communal Aboriginal Interest into Private Property: Sarnia, Osoyoos, The Nisga'a Treaty, and other Post-Delgamuukw Developments" by Jack Woodward
6) Conference paper #4 "Aboriginal Title: Origins and Character" by Brian Slattery
7) Conference paper #5 "What My Elders Taught Me: Oral Traditions as Evidence in Aboriginal Litigation" by Alexander von Gernet
8) Conference paper #6 "The Delgamuukw Case: What does it mean and what do we do now?" by Melvin H. Smith
9) Conference paper #7 "Delgamuukw and Diplomacy: First Nations and Municipalities in British Columbia" by Paul Tennant
10) Conference paper #8 "The Effect of the Delgamuukw Decision upon Alberta Land Claims" by Tom Flanagan
11) Conference paper #9 "Will Delgamuukw Eclipse the Prairie Sun? The Implications of the Supreme Court's Decision for the Prairie Treaties" by Ken Tyler
12) Conference paper #10 "Delgamuukw and the Interpretation of the Prairie Treaties" by Norman Zlotkin
13) Conference paper #11 "Take your Time and Do It Right: Delgamuukw and the Dynamics of Self-Government Advocacy" by Kerry Wilkins
14) Conference paper #12 "Delgamuukw: Its Implications and Potential Effects in Quebec" by Paul Joffe
15) Conference paper #13 "The Delgamuukw Decision: An Invaluable Lever for Quebec's Aboriginal Communities" by Claude Bachand
16) Conference paper #14 "Rights and Wrongs: Finding a Just Middle Ground in Land Claim Disputes" by Don Cayo
17) Conference paper #15 "Impact of Delgamuukw Guidelines in Atlantic Canada" by James Sa'ke'j Youngblood Henderson
18) Conference paper #16 "The Impact of Delgamuukw in Newfoundland and Labrador" by Adrian Tanner
19) The Fraser Institute 1998 Annual Report
20) The Nisga'a Template: Facts the Government isn't sharing" Office of the Official Opposition Liberal Caucus of British Columbia
21) "A Principled Analysis of the Nisga'a Treaty" by Gordon Gibson, Public Policy Sources, No. 27

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 the United Indian Councils (UIC). Included in the file are:
1) The United Indian Councils and the Canadian Provincial Government Co-Management Seminar and Workshops kit. Nov. 23-24, 1991
2) Correspondence and accompanying materials re: UIC co-management workshop
3) Indian Treaty Rights Newsletter Vol. 2 No. 2
4) UIC newspaper - Smoke Signals

Yellow folder with label - "MacKenzie Valley Pipline Inquiry Commissioner Mr. Justice Thomas R. Berger". Inside folder are a press release, chronology of events, fact sheet, synopsis, and maps relating to the inquiry. Also in the folder is a booklet "The Dene - Land and Unity for the Native People of the MacKenzie Valley" and two oversized newsletters "Denendeh - The Dene Struggle for a Pluralist Province".

File contains records related to fishing rights for the Chippewas of Nawash, Saugeen First Nation., and he Haida Nation. Included is correspondence, Dibaudjimoh newsletter, press release, and newspaper clippings.

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

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

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".

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

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

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 Centre for Excellence in Municipal-Aboriginal Relations. Included in the file are press releases, newspaper clippings, job postings, and two copies of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and Aboriginal Peoples proposal to establish a Centre for Municipal-Aboriginal Relations.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 contain newspaper clippings regarding the Ontario Harris Government and casinos.

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 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 "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

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

File contains a report on the status of Comprehensive Claims from the Department of Indian Affairs as of February 2003.

File contains records related to Federal Indigenous policy. Included in the file are:
1) memo and accompanying report on Assembly of First Nations Special Chiefs' Assembly on Renewal
2) two copies of "Our Nations, Our Governments: Choosing our own Paths" the final report of the Joint Committee of Chiefs and Advisors on the Recognition and Implementation of First Nations Governments
3) Actions for Change - Working with Aboriginal Peoples of Canada on an Agenda for Change
4) "On the Right Path Together: A Sustainable Future for First Nations, Inuit and Northern Communities" Sustainable Development Strategy 2004-2006

File contains a conference program "Redifining Relationships: Learning from a Decade of Land Claims Implementation" held November 11-14, 2003 in Ottawa. Also in the file is a brochure from the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs "The British Columbia Treaty Commission".

File contains records related to amendments to the Indian Act. Included in the file is a speech by DIAND Minister Ronald Irwin; DIAND press release and accompanying proposed changes to Indian Act; and an annotated summary of DIAND's Indian Act Amendments.

File contains photocopies of documents from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada regarding Alberta Indian consultations on amendments to the Indian Act between 1967-1968.

File contains a memo and attached "Indian Act Project: Research Component Workplan Outline Draft #1" by Peter Di Gangi.

File contains photocopies of documents from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada regarding Saskatchewan Indian consultations on amendments to the Indian Act between 1958-1970.

File contains records related to amendments to the Indian Act. Included in the file is a speech by Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Ronald Irwin; correspondence and attached proposed amendments to act from DIAND; and a letter from Minister Irwin to Ovide Mercredi, National Chief AFN.

File contains records related to the Indian Act. Included are:
1) Indian Act amendments chronology of events 1995-1996
2) News clipping
3) Proposal of the Union of Nova Scotia Indians for the revision of the Indian Act 2 August 1979
4) INAC press release

File contains photocopies of documents from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada regarding Manitoba Indian consultations on amendments to the Indian Act between 1963-1968.

File contains records created and maintained by the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs between 1950-1969. The main topic appears to be the Indian Act and Community consultations.

File contains documents recreated by Indigenous groups who have signed modern treaty agreements with the Federal Governments. Included in the file are:
1) correspondence
2) "A New Land Claims Implementation Policy" Land Claim Agreement Coalition
3) "Negotiating in Good Faith - an Analysis of the Negotiations to Update the Nunavut Implementation Contract" Nunavut Tunngavik

File contains records related to the Assembly of First Nations Chiefs' Committee on Enforcement of First Nations-Crown Relationship. Included are meeting minutes, notes, correspondence, and other materials.

File contains records related to Indian Act Amendments by the Federal Government. Included in the file is information regarding the proposed amendments, the Assembly of First Nations Chiefs' Committee on Enforcement of First Nations-Crown Relationship and other records.

File contains records to meetings and conferences organized by the Assembly of First Nations. Included are:
1) AFN Confederacy of Nations meeting, Ottawa Nov. 25-26, 1996
2) Chiefs' Committee on Enforcement of First Nations-Crown Relationship info package
3) brochure "Strengthening Mother Earth - the Environmental Challenge - a First Nations Environment conference, Dec. 10-12, 1996
4) AFN Conference listing for 1996-1997
5) AFN Social Development Project brief

File contains records related to the Assembly of First Nations Chiefs' Committee on Enforcement of First Nations-Crown Relationship. Included in the file is a meeting kit, correspondence, notes and other records related to the October 17-18, 1996 meeting held in Regina, Saskatchewan.

File contains magazines, newspaper clippings and other miscellaneous records. Topics include Indigenous Land Claims, Accurate Indigenous History, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, and the Listuguj Mi'gmaq First Nation barricade at Pointe-a-la-Croix, Quebec.

File contains copy of Court of Appeal for British Columbia case between Delgamuukw ( Earl Muldoe), suing on his own behalf and on behalf of all members of the Houses of Delgamuukw, Haaxw, Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en, and Government of British Columbia and the Attorney General of Canada reasons for judgement. Also in the file are summaries of judgements, not part of the bound Court of Appeal document.

File contains various census documents created by Reserves and Trusts - Indian and Inuit Affairs Program, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs. Included are:
1) Estimated Registered Indian Population by Settlement as of December 31, 1979
2) Registered Indian Population by age, sex and residence for region 3 (Ontario) districts, 1982
3) Registered Indian Population as of December 31, 1982 by Electoral District Pursuant to the 1976 Representation Order
4) Registered Indian Population by sex and residence, 1981

File contains records related to the issue of First Nations border crossing rights. Included is correspondence, reports, and other related records.

File contains agenda and papers from the Indigenous Bar Association "Blessing or Curse: Provincial Role in Land Claims" conference held Nov. 1 - 2, 1991 in Montreal. Included in the file are:
1) agenda
2) handwritten notes
3) "Delgamuukw and others v. Her Majesty the Queen in Right of The Province of British Columbia and the Attorney General of Canada - Fiduciary Duty" E. Robert A. Edwards
4) National History Study Group newsletter, Oct. 1991
5) The Fiduciary Obligation: St. Catherines Milling Revisited
6) Indian Title as a "celestial institution": David Mills and the St. Catherine's Milling Case by S. Barry Cottam
7) The Metis Settlements' Accord - A Modern Treaty by Larry Chartrand
8) Indigenous Bar Association Indigenous Lawyers List, Oct. 1991
9) draft discussion paper "Aboriginal Land Issues: Federal-Provincial Problems and Practical Solutions by Mark Stevenson

File contains two Indian and Northern Affairs Canada reports:
1) Indian Register Population by Sex and Residence 1994
2) Migration Projections of Registered Indians, 1982-1996

File contains various documents created by the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs. Include are:
1) What You Wanted to Know - Some answers to the most often asked questions about programs and services for Registered Indians in Canada
2) Indians and Inuit of Canada booklet and map
3) Special Edition of "Intercom" newsletter, January 1991

File contains the conference kit for "Globalization: Indigenous Law in the International Context" Indigenous Bar Association conference held Oct. 20-22, 2000 in Ottawa.

File contains records related to the issue of First Nations border crossing rights. Included is correspondence, reports, and other related records.

File contains the conference kit for "Building the Momentum" the Indigenous Bar Association Conference held April 22-24, 1999, including acetates from a conference presentation. Also in the file is a serious of correspondence/announcements from the Five Nations Iroquois Confederacy regarding self-government policy.

File contains legal documents regarding the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan (Algonquin Golden Lake First Nation) land claim.

File contains records related to Operation Rainbow - a Ministry of Natural Resources sting operation targeting Indigenous Harvesters on Manitoulin Island. The majority of the file contains newspapers and newspaper clippings, but also contains an agenda for a United Chiefs and Councils of Manitoulin special assembly; a warning to all UCCM First Nation Harvesters regarding Operation Rainbow; and a United Indian Councils of the Mississauga and Chippewa Nations report "Ontario Indian Position on Ontario Game & Fish Regulations 1922".

File contains newsclippings, legal findings and other documents related to lawyer Bruce Clark and his representation of Indigenous peoples at Gustafsen Lake, and in the Temagami (Bear Island) Land Claim case.

File contains newspaper clippings. Subjects include Gustafsen Lake, Ipperwash, Fishing rights, and Oka.

File contains records related to the occupation of Ipperwash Provincial Park and the death of Dudley George. The majority of the file consists of newspaper clippings but there is also a draft press release from the United Chiefs and Councils of Manitoulin; notes from an Assembly of First Nations conference call; and a Chiefs of Ontario bulletin about the event.