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RCAP Analysis

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

4 Pillars - 9/90

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".

Oka - 1990

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

The Ontario Indian

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.

Union of Ontario Indians

Federal-Provincial & 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.

White Paper '69

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.

Sechelt /86

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.

Special Words & Tactics, 1987-88/1994

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

C-31 Legal Opinion, 7/87

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.

Band Debt: Funding

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".

Aboriginal Liberals

File contains records relating to the Federal Liberal Party's Aboriginal Peoples' Policy, the Aboriginal Peoples' Commission and the Liberal Aboriginal platform

Liberal Policy - 8/95

File contains:
1) New Release - Government Launches process for Negotiating Aboriginal Self-Government (2 copies)
2) Creating Opportunity - Progress on Commitments to Aboriginal Peoples report
3) Federal Policy on Aboriginal Self-Government - policy guide, backgrounder (2 copies), and executive summary (2 copies)
4) Divide and Conquer 1969 Revisited - A discussion paper exploring the Federal Liberal Government's recent agenda to undermine First Nations rights and processes - Assembly of First Nations

Sovereignty - AMC & R. Pangowish 84/92

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

Fed Policy 12/97

File contains:
1) newspaper clippings
2) Assembly of First Nations (AFN) memorandum re: Discussion on Canada's proposed response to RCAP and meeting with Fed. Government
3) Speaking notes from Jane Stewart, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, to standing committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development
4) News release re: National Aboriginal Financing Task Force

Inherent Rite Cab Doc 5/95

File contains an annotated copy of the memorandum to Cabinet re: Framework for the Implementation of the Inherent Right to the Negotiation of Self-Government.

Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC)

Auditor Gen. 9/96

File contains a copy of "Chapter 13 - Study of Accountability Practices from the Perspective of First Nations" from Volume 2 - September 1996 of the Auditor General's report to the House of Commons.

Office of the Auditor General of Canada

AG's Report - 1990

File contains pages from the Auditor General of Canada's report to the House of Commons dealing with comprehensive land claims.

Office of the Auditor General of Canada

Self Govt - AFN/91

File contains agenda and supporting documents for the Assembly of First Nations Conference "First Nations-Crown Relations" held April 25 - 27, 1991.

UOI Self Govt 3-4/94

File contains a terms of reference for the Tribal Councils Advisory Board to the Union of Ontario Indians; a memo from the Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres re: advisory committee; lists of tribal councils; a list of friendship centres; Anishinabek - Tribal Council Relations draft report prepared for the UOI by Peter Di Gangi; and a copy of "Declaration of the Anishinabek" November 1980.

Governance - RCAP 7/94

File contains Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples related materials. Included are: draft outline - Policy Options Paper: Aboriginal Governance; Minutes of 54th meeting Sept. 12-16, 1994; Memo to Treaty/Governance RCAP teams; and draft copy of The Treaty Relationship & Governance.

UOI Self Govt 12/98

File contains copies of the framework agreement with respect to governance between the Anishinabek Nation and The Federal Government (as representatives of the Queen). The file also contains a press release regarding the signing of the agreement.

Premiers Vol. I

File contains records relating to provincial/territorial social policy. Included in the file are:
1) news releases/newspaper clippings
2) Report - New Approaches to Canada's Social Union, prepared by the Provincial/Territorial Council on Social Policy Renewal
3) Social Policy Reform and Renewal - 37th annual Premiers' Conference
4) Renewing the Canadian Federation: An Ontario Perspective, Dianne Cunningham, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs
5) Ministerial Council on Social Policy Reform and Renewal - report to Premiers

Ont - Federalism 8/96

File contains a news release regarding the paper "Access: A Convention on the Canadian Economic and Social Systems" by Professor Thomas J. Courchene.

Taxation 1991-1993

File contains records related to Indian taxation . Included in the file is correspondence from Roger Obonsawin re: taxation; Department of Finance Working paper on Indian Taxation; Department of Finance - Indian Taxation Policy Review and accompanying materials; a report "Indian Monies Committee and Trust Fund Management: Current Initiatives of the Governance Working Group; and a brochure "What is Self Government" put out by the United Indian Councils.

AFN - Taxation - 10/91

File contains records relating to the Assembly of First Nations National Taxation meeting held in Ottawa October 3-4, 1991. Included in the file is a meeting summary; a brochure; handwritten notes; and correspondence with accompanying materials.

Taxation - Heather Caswell

File contains proposal, outline, and a working draft copy of the paper "First Nations Taxation Exemption and Jurisdiction: The Legal Context and Policy Options". Paper was authored for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

Caswell, Heather M.

ASI - Final Draft 3/98

File contains the research proposal (1997) and draft #3 of "Social Development and First Nation Jurisdiction - a discussion paper" prepared by Peter Di Gangi for the Assembly of First Nations Aboriginal Strategic Initiative.

Di Gangi, Peter

AFN Soc. Dev 4/97

File contains several reports dealing with Social Services and First Nations. Included are:
1) "Social Assistance Policy - Comparative Analysis" prepared for the Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nation Chiefs by Rosanna Stafford
2) "Mi'kmaw/Maliseet Self-Government in Social Services - Jurisdictional Possibilities for the Future" prepared for the Mi'kmaw & Maliseet First Nations Member Chiefs by the Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs secretariat
3) "Strategic Approaches to Social Services - a discussion paper on Exercising First Nations' Jurisdiction over Social Services"

Fiscal Update 10/97

File contains records created by the Department of Finance, specifically the October 1997 economic and fiscal update. Included in the file is the news release and presentation notes and a copy of "The Economic and Fiscal Update - Strong Economy Strong Society - Security & Opportunity".

FTA - 1/97

File contains notes and presentation materials related to the Financial Transfer Arrangement between First Nations and the Government of Canada.

FTA - Analysis 6/96

File contains records related to Financial Transfer Agreements (FTA). Included in the file are:
1) Fiscal Transfers and Dismantling of the Fiduciary Duty by Peter Di Gangi
2) Issue Summary - DIAND's New Funding Mechanism the FTA
3) Chiefs of Ontario bulletin Sept. 6, 1996
4) Briefing Note - FTA
5) notes
6) Assembly of First Nations working draft resolution on Fiscal Relationships
7) News release on Kee Tas Kee Now Tribal Council sigining of FTA

Health & Treaties

File contains records relating to First Nations health care and treaty rights. Included in the file are:
1) "Health Care and the Treaties - preliminary reports" compiled by the Centre for Treaty Advocacy for the National Committee on Treaties, Vancouver B. C. May 1-2, 1990
2) "The Aboriginal Right to Health, Treaty making and Indian Government Jurisdiction" prepared by the Centre for Treaty Advocacy for the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
3) "Issues in First Nations Health Care" notes for remarks by First Nations Health Commission Director Richard Saunders at Community Health Seminar held Oct. 3, 1990 at the University of Ottawa
4) Correspondence re: Treaty No. 6 Medicine Chest Clause
5) "Interpretation and Enforcement of Treaty Rights of First Nations" prepared by D. E. Worme for Peter Di Gangi, Director Centre for Treaty Advocacy
6) "The Structural Injunction as a Remedy for Violations of Aboriginal Constitutional Rights" by Phil Lancaster for the Canadian Bar Association Committee on Native Justice.

Program Review - Health

File contains a letter from Health and Welfare Canada to Ovide Mercredi in his role as National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations. Also in the file is an Indian and Inuit Health programs review.

Auditor General: NIHB 10/97

File contains news clippings and a a copy of Chapter 13 of the Auditor General's 1997 report "Health Canada - First Nations Health". Also in the file is correspondence regarding correspondence regarding the Lovelace v. The Queen in right of Ontario court case.

Health Stats

File contains two reports by Health Canada:
1) "Health Status of Canadian Indians and Inuit - update 1987" Indian and Northern Health Services, Medical Services Branch
2) "Health Status of Canadian Indians and Inuit - 1990"

Health Canada

Claims - ICO 90

File contains two copies of "Discussion Paper Regarding First Nation Land Claims" by the Indian Commission of Ontario. Attached to one of the reports is a letter to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

Chiefs Claims Committee - Aug./91

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.

CCC Ottawa, February 26/92

File contains records created by and related to the National Chiefs Claims Commission, the Assembly of First Nations, the Specific Claims Joint Working Group, and the Indian Claims Commission. Contents included correspondence and accompanying materials, updates, notes, resolutions, and draft resolutions.

JWG - 23-25 Feb 1993

File contains a copy of the meeting agenda and accompanying material for the Joint Working Group on Claims Policy held February 23-25, 1993 in Ottawa, Ontario. Included is information on the previous meetings held in Val D'Or, Winnipeg, and Ottawa.

AFN Claims - 5/93

File contains records created by or related to the Specific Claims Joint Working Group (JWG). Included are meeting minutes, correspondence and other materials relating to JWG, National Chiefs Committee on Claims, and the Assembly of First Nations.

AFN-ICB- Feb-March 2002

File contains related to the Independent Claims Body (ICB). Included in the file are:
1) "Made in Ottawa Governance (and other initiatives)" by Eagle Shield (Walter Rudnicki)
2) memorandum and accompanying materials - Assembly of First Nations (AFN) ICB
3) update on ICB
4) Report of the Joint First Nations-Canada Task Force on Specific Claims Policy Reform
5) booklet of documents by the AFN regarding land claims
6) notes for an address by Daniel J. Bellegarde, Commissioner - Indian Land Claims Commission to the Aboriginal Law Conference
7) INAC document - proposed ICB model

Delgamuukw Thing

File contains correspondence, resolutions, notes and other materials related to Delgamuukw, treaties, and land claims.

InterTribal - Fall 1999

File contains resolutions, clippings, correspondence and notes regarding the Degamuukw decision and implementing the decision. Also in the file is a booklet "People of the Plateau - Southern Carrier St'at'imc Secwepemc Nlaka'pamux Okanagan - Defending Our Forests".

DISC June 2000

File contains records related to the Delgamuukw Implementation Committee. Included in the file are:
1) newspaper clippings
2) meeting agendas and other materials
3) Kitasoo/Xaixais First Nation protocol on the environment
4) Nlaka'Pamux Aboriginal Title and Rights
5) Correspondence - Phil Fontaine, National Chief, Assembly of First Nations
6) Comprehensive Claims Policy Review meeting notes
7) Transcript of May 9, 2000 Assembly of First Nations / Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Comprehensive Land Claims Policy working session
8) AFN resolutions re: Delgamuukw and land claims
9) BC Treaty Commission annual report, 2000
10) information about other land claims

Tradition and Education Towards a Vision of Our Future

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

Assembly of First Nations/National Indian Brotherhood

W. Rudnikick - 1982 Patriation Debate

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.

AFN Confed 3/91

File contains draft agenda and accompanying materials for the Confederacy of Nations Meeting held in Ottawa, Ontario on March 19-20th, 1991.

AFN Election 1991

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.

AFN Assembly 7/95

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.

S-9/S-10 Senate

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)

Ind. Act: Clippings

File contains newspaper clippings and an Assembly of First Nations bulletin regarding the proposed changes to the Indian Act.

AFN Restructuring 2/97

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.

AFN Confederacy 4/99

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

AFN-DIA Fiscal - Feb 2001

File contains a meeting kit for the Chiefs' Committee on Fiscal Relations - First Nations' Fiscal Institutions meeting held February 21, 2001.

AFN AGA 7/2000

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

Coalition Kit - 12/2001

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.

Treaties & Xting - Alan Pratt

Letter and accompanying discussion paper "The Numbered Treaties and Extinguishment: A Legal Analysis" authored by Alan Pratt for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

Pratt, Alan

Treaty Interpretation

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

AFN Treaty Conf. 11/95

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.

Crown Treaty Policy

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.

USA/INTNTL-Economist

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

International - Latin America

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

United States

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.

INT - Remedies

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.

Indian Law Resource Center

Waitangi Treaty

File contains records related to the Treaty of Waitangi and the Waitangi Tribunal in New Zealand. Included in the file are newspaper and magazine clippings, and a copy of the New Zealand Law Society seminar notes "The Treaty of Waitangi".

International Countries - 4th Russell Tribunal

File contains records related to the Fourth Russell Tribunal on the Rights of the Indians of the Americas held in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1980. Included in the file are:
1) Report of the Fourth Russell Tribunal on the Rights of the Indians of the Americas conclusions, November 1980
2) transcription of testimony of the Grand Council Treaty No. 9
3) Russell Tribunal Rules in Favour of Nishnawbe-Aski Nation by Norman Zlotkin
4) Fourth Russell Tribunal - Rotterdam, Holland 1980 - Grand Treaty Council No. 9
5) Presentation to the IVth Russell Tribunal on the Rights of the Indians in North and Latin America presented by Grand Council Treaty No. 9 on behalf of the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation

UN Land Rites 6/99

Two copies of "Indigenous People and their Relationship to Land" second progress report on the working paper prepared by Mrs. Erica-Irene A. Daes, special rapporteur. Report prepared for the United Nations Economic and Social Council Commission on Human Rights Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities.

Daes, Erica-Irene A.

Reserves - Powers

File contains three reports about Canada's Indian Reserves authored by William B. Henderson for the Research Branch of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. They include:
1) Canada's Indian Reserves: Legislative Powers, 1981
2) Canada's Indian Reserves: Legislative Powers An Update, 1985
3) Canada's Indian Reserves: The Usufruct in our Constitution, 1980

Henderson, William B.

Languages

File contains records related to Indigenous languages. Included in the file are news stories and a copy of "Beyond Rhetoric - exploring the linkages between language, literacy and First Nations social security programming" by Emily Faries, Mary Ann Corbiere, and Roger Spielmann.

Deficits/Surplus - Policy

File contains records related to Federal budgets. Included in the file are newspaper clippings and a copy of "Canada's Current Economic and Fiscal Situation" - Dept. of Finance, Oct. 1992.

DIAND Polls - 1995-3/97

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.

Right Wing - 2000

File contains newspaper clippings, brochures and other records related to negative reactions to Indigenous Rights and Self-Government.

Residential Schools

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"

DIA Audits - 1/95

File contains copies of departmental audit reports for Indian Affairs and Northern Development. Included in the file are:

1) news release and associated executive summaries for: Environmental Management Audit of Northern Affairs Program, Land & Water Management Activities Associated with Mining; Environmental Management Audit of the Land & Trust Sector, Land Management Activities Associated with Mining; Self-Assessment of the Funding Management Process; Indian Economic Development Fund (IEDF) and Eskimo Loan Fund (ELF) of the Headquarters and Quebec Regional Offices; Year End Expenditures for the 1994-1995 Fiscal Year; and Geological Mapping of the Northwest Territories Region.

2)Audit Report on the Office of the Treaty Commissioner

3) Audit of Specific Claims final report

4) Audit of the Indian Registration System audit report

5) Real Property Disposals audit report

6) Audit of Selected 1992-1993 Capital Projects report

7) Audit of Selected Databanks Nominal Roll System audit report

8) Audit of The Management of Receivables audit report

9) Training audit report

10) Audit of the Management of Automated Systems in the Land Management Function

Priorities DIA 6/95

File contains correspondence about and copies of "DIAND's Framework for Action (a work in progress)" and three copies of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada "The Outlook in Priorities and Expenditures 1995-1996 to 1997-1998".

U. S. Claims Commission

File contains copies of "The U. S. Indian Claims Commission (a comprehensive digest)" by the U. S. Office of Native Claims and parts of "Indian Land Claims Policy in the United States" by Russel Lawrence Barsh and Sakej Y. Henderson.

Ontario PTOs RE: Claims 1981

File contains 2 copies of the joint presentation "A New Proposal for Claims Resolution in Ontario" by the Executive Councils of the Association of Iroquois & Allied Indians, Grand Council Treaty #3, and the Union of Ontario Indians to the Minister of Indian Affairs Honourable John Munro.

I. C. O. 82-

File contains records related to the Indian Commission of Ontario. Included in the file are:
1) The Tripartite Council resolution and memorandum of reference (unsigned)
2) An Introduction to the Indian Commission of Ontario
3) Claims in Ontario: P. T. C. Discussions - Nishnawbe-Aski Nation
4) Correspondence re: Ontario Research Directors' Meeting
5) article from Anishinabek News re: Mississauga #8 settlement ratification

FMC & Claims & Self Govt. 1980s

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

Claims Directions 2/97

File contains records related to land claims and land claim policy. Included in the file are:
1) Pages from "Indian and Inuit Affairs Program"
2) Correspondence and accompanying records re: Chiefs Committee on Claims
3) "An Analysis of the Costs and Settlements of Canada's Current Claims Policy" discussion draft
4) Draft "Protocol for the Joint First Nations/Canada Task Force on the Specific Claims Policy"

C-60/C-6 - "ICB" Kit

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.

Bill C-6 - Spring 2003

File contains records related to the Bills C-6 and C-60. Included are news clippings, notes, correspondence, and other materials including a copy of Bill C-60.

C-6 Senate - June 2003

File contains records related to Bill C-6. Included in the file is correspondence; briefing notes; presentations to Senate Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Senate Standing Committee on Aboriginal Peoples; and minutes from Standing Committee on Aboriginal Peoples meetings in April and May 2003 regarding Bill C-6.

C-19 - FN Statistical & Fiscal Act

File contains records related to Bill C-19 First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Management Act. Included in the file is correspondence and accompanying materials, and an official report of the House of Commons Debate Thursday January 30, 2003 - Vol. 138 No. 049 2nd session - 37th Parliament.

RCAP Claims Vol. I 6/93

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".

Turpel - Xting Vols. 1-3

Two file folders contains the three volume "Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Extinguishment of Rights of Aboriginal Peoples Governance Project - Extinguishment of the Rights of Aboriginal Peoples: Problems and Alternatives".

James Bay - Quebec

File contains records pertaining to the James Bay & Northern Quebec Agreement. Included in the file are:
1) Highlights of the Negotiations leading to the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement - Grand Chief Billy Diamond
2) Macleans magazine, June 1, 1981
3) Grand Council of the Crees annual report, 1982
4) article "Grand Council of the Crees (of Quebec) - Marsha G. Smoke
5) Cree School Board annual report, 1982
6) James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement implementation review, February 1982

JBNQA - 1975-2002

File contains records related to the Cree-Quebec agreement of 2002. Included in the file are excerpts from the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement (1975); excerpts from the Cree-Quebec agreement; and notes by Peter Di Gangi regarding the 2002 agreement.

Slattery 1982-87

File contains records relating to written works by Brian Slattery. Included in the file is a letter and accompanying synopsis of his work "The Land Rights of Indigenous Canadian Peoples" by Peter Di Gangi and a photocopy of "The Canadian Bar Review" Journal Vol. 66 No. 4, Dec. 1987 with an article "Understanding Aboriginal Rights" by Brian Slattery.

Treaties 8 & 11

File contains records related to Treaties 8 and 11. Included are:
1) Bay River Community Workshop: Resource materials - Assembly of First Nations Centre for Treaty Advocacy
2) Report of the Commission appointed to investigate the unfulfilled provisions of Treaties 8 and 11 as they apply to the Indians of the MacKenzie District, 1959
3) news release (2 copies) re: ratification of agreement with Treaty 8 Tribal Council
4) Treaty No. 11 (June 27, 1921) and Adhesion (July 17, 1922) with reports etc.
5) Treaty Research Report - Treaty Eleven

CAM

File contains Conseil Attikamekw-Montagnais records related to comprehensive claims and other records related to this.

Innu Impacts - Voisey/98

File contains records related to agreements between various Indigenous nations and mining corporations. Included in the file are:
1) Ntesinan Nteshiniminan Nteniunan - Between a Rock and a Hard Place - Innu Nation Task Force on Mining Activities final report
2) Memorandum of Understanding between the Innu Nation and Diamond Fields Resources Inc.
3) Morris/Rose/Ledgett memo - Summary of Impact Benefit Agreements

Auditor General - CCP - 2001

File contains a photocopy of the 2001 Report of the Auditor General of Canada to the House of Commons - other observations and appendices. Includes follow up of section 14 of the 1998 report "Indian and Northern Affairs Canada - Comprehensive Land Claims".

Delgamuukw - Govt's

File contains various analyses and reports regarding the impact of the Delamuukw decision. Included in the file are:
1) Union of British Columbia Municipalities - Conference on the Supreme Court of Canada Decision on Delgamuukw
2) three analysis by Bull, Housser & Tupper barristers and solicitor regarding decision
3) Specific claims and Delgamuukw by Mandell Pinder for UBCIC
4) Delgamuukw - a preliminary anaylsis of the Supreme Court of Canada's decision for a discussion with legal counsel for British Columbia and First Nations - Dept. of Justice

Justice Opinions - General

File contains records related to the Department of Justice Canada and Indigenous law. Included in the file are:
1) Trending in Native Law - Native Law, Public Law Sector - Department of Justice
2) Current Native Litigation Report, Issue No. 13 (April 1988) - Native Law, Public Law Sector - Department of Justice
3) memo from within the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development regarding the Sparrow c. The Queen court case

Teslin Tlinglit Council

File contains two published documents:
2018.008.022.002.001 Teslin Tlingit Council Self-Government Agreement
2018.008.022.002.002 Teslin Tlingit Council Final Agreement

Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC)

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