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 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.

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 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:
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 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".

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

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

File contains records dealing with Federal/Provincial fiscal and social programs for First Nations.

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"

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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

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".

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.

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

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 status reports on specific land claims in Canada. The claims reports are generated by province and all are from 1992.

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"

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 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.

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 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

File contains two published documents:
2018.008.022.010.001 First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun Self-Government Agreement
2018.008.022.010.002 First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun Final Agreement

File contains materials related to the Nisga'a Agreement with the Federal and Provincial governments. Included along with the news clippings are:
1) Notes for remarks by Tom Siddon, Minister of Indian Affairs at Nisga'a Ceremony
2) newsletter "British Columbia Treaty Commission update"
3) Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs information bulletin re: legal opinion involving Nisga'a Final Agreement
4) Interior Alliance press release denouncing Nisga'a agreement
5) Press release re: Kincolith Hereditary Chiefs Treaty

File contains copies of the judgement, commentary, and analysis on the Supreme Court of Canada ruling in Ronald Edward Sparrow v. Her Majesty the Queen and The National Indian Brotherhood/ Assembly of First Nations (intervenors).

File contains articles, papers, memos, and reports. Included in the file are:
1) Presentation by the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
2) memo from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada Re: exploratory actions needed as result of the Guerin Case
3) Briefing Memorandum on Musqueam Case
4) The Meaning of Trust by Walter Rudnicki
5) Instructions to the Crown in Right of Canada and to the Governor General in Council acting in the Fiduciary Capacity respecting all unsurrendered lands the Aboriginal title to which remains vested in the Shuswap Nation
6) UFO's - Unidentified Fiduciary Obligations - when do fiduciary obligations arise? by Peter W. Hutchins
7) In Sparrow we Trust: Federal and Provincial Fiduciary Responsibilities by M. E. Turpei
8) Lac Minerals Ltd v International Corona Resources Ltd: Confidential Geological Information in the Supreme Court of Canada by Barry Barton - Newsletter of the Canadian Institute of Resources Law, No. 28 (Fall 1989)
9) Lac Minerals Ltd. v. International Corona Resources Ltd. by Donovan W. M. Waters - The Canadian Bar Review, Vol. 69
10) Fiduciary Relationship of the Crown with Aboriginal Peoples: Implementation and Management Issues a Guide for Managers - report of an interdisciplinary working group to the Committee of Deputy Ministers on Justice and Legal Affairs

File contains records related to Treaty No. 9 (James Bay Treaty). Included in the file are background materials on the treaty and discussion papers.

File contains a redacted Government pre-budget consultation report and a news story about Indigenous Affairs in the media.

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 records related to the Dene/Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement. Included in the file are:
1) Correspondence
2) Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement between Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada and the Gwich'in as represented by the Gwich'in Tribal Council and supplement to the agreement
3) Dene/Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement in Principle
4) Analysis and Commentary: March 31, 1990 Draft of the Dene/Metis Claims Agreement - Assembly of First Nations Centre for Treaty Advocacy
5) Dene Leadership Meeting motions
6) Supreme Court of Canada appeal re: unpatented crown land in the Northwest Territories

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 records related to Batchewana Indian Band v. Canada (Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs). Included in the file is a copy of the decision, notes by Pete Di Gangi, and "Response to Corbiere" by the Assembly of First Nations.

File contains performance and expenditure reports from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and the Canadian Polar Commission. Included in the file are:
2018.008.026.003.001 1993-1994 Estimates Part III
2018.008.026.003.002 1997-1998 Estimates - A Report on Plans and Priorities Pilot Document (2 copies)
2018.008.026.003.003 Estimates Performance Report for the period ending March 31, 1998
2018.008.026.003.004 1998-1999 Estimates Part III - Report on Plans and Priorities
2018.008.026.003.005 Estimates Performance Report for the period ending March 31, 1999
2018.008.023.003.006 1999-2000 Estimates Part III - Report on Plans and Priorities
2018.008.023.003.007 2000-2001 Estimates Part III - Report on Plans and Priorities

File contains records related to the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation. Included are:
1) Nishnawbi-Aski Resource Development Project (NARDP Historical and Archival Research Project) re: Detour Mine by Peter Di Gangi, 1983
2) Nishnawbe-Aski Sovereignty - a right to self-determination through self-governance
3) correspondence re: Indigenous treaty and land rights
4) Nishnawbe-Aski Nation brochure

File contains records related to Indigenous harvesting/hunting/trapping. Included in the file are:
1) Workplan to develop a manual for harvest studies
2) handwritten meeting notes re: hunting/fishing
3) Report on the Fur Development Program Proposal to Develop a National Database for Aboriginal Harvesters
4) Framework for Discussions on the Possibility of a Bilateral Treaty Process between the Assembly of First Nations and the Federal Crown
5) Research Initiative: Creation of a Quantitative Database on the Importance of Trapping/Hunting in Canada to Aboriginal Peoples and other Indigenous Lifestyles

File contains a variety of reports related to the Environment, Environmental Policy and the Resources Access Negotiations Program. Included in the file are:
1) Building a Future - Summary of Socio-Economic Agreements - Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
2) Resource Access Negotiations Program status report 1992-1996 - Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
3) National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy - a report to Canadians 1989-1990
4) Canadian Biodiversity Strategy 1995 - Environment Canada

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

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

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 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 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 contains 2 copies of the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs (DIAND) draft policy on population statistics for on-and off reserve indigenous populations. Also in the file is Peter Di Gangi's analysis of the document, created for the Union of Nova Scotia Indians.

File contains several documents relating to Federal Government treaties. Included are:
1) Preliminary Views on Treaties and the Treaty Relationship - Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations, July 15-17, 1997
2) Speaking notes for Jane Stewart, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development in reply to throne speech, Oct. 2, 1997
3) Treaty implementation issues papers
4) list of historic Indian treaties

File contains a copy of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development's Framework for Action 1997-1998, and related materials.

File contains a copy of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development's Framework for Action 1997-1998, and related materials.

File contains records relating to taxation and First Nations. File contains two copies of the Skuppah First Nation assessment by-law; news releases about appointment to Indian Taxation Advisory Board; and a copy of "Why Tax? - Considerations for First Nations Councils".

File contains correspondence and a draft copy of the Financial Transfer Agreement (FTA).

File contains records created by/for the Specific Claims Joint Working Group (JWG). Records included correspondence; draft resolutions; JWG meeting minutes - Ottawa December 8-9, 1992; chronology of JWG meetings and discussions; JWG meeting minutes - Winnipeg January 26-27, 1993; Chiefs Committee on Claims meeting agenda, January 28-29, 1993; JWG meeting minutes - Val D'Or, Quebec November 3-5, 1992; and report - consultation on ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) systems.

File contains records created by or regarding the Assembly of First Nations and land claims reform. Some of the records in the file are: Land Rights Unit update; First Nations Land Rights in Canada seminar; Rolling draft #4 - Claims Policy Reform; letter to Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development re: reform of Federal claims policies.

File contains records relating to claims policy reform. Included in the file are:
1) Joint First Nations - Crown Task Force on Claims Policy Reform
2) Report to the AFN Chiefs Committee on Claims
3) Joint Task Force meeting summaries
4) Deputy's Paper for the Australian Reconciliation Convention (ARC)
5) "Natural Justice and Procedural Fairness" by Bruce Gilpin

File contains records related to the establishment of an Independent Claims Body. Included is correspondence between Matthew Coon Come, National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations and Robert D. Nault, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development; Assembly of First Nations update: Independent Claims Body - AFN Confederacy report; and other records.

File contains records related to First Nations Governance. Included in the file is:
1) correspondence
2) Communities First: First Nations Governance consultation package - INAC
3) Confederacy of Nations 2001 booklets (4) "AFN Briefing on the Governance Initiative"

File contains records related to First Nations Governance. Included in the file are:
1) news clippings
2) correspondence
3) draft "Facilitating the Exercise of Self Government: a co-operative approach between Canada and the Assembly of First Nations"
4) briefing notes
5) Anasazi newsletter Vol. 7 No. 1
6) "Is There Life After the Indian Act? Part 1

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 records related to the Chiefs' Alternative Lands Legislation. Included in the file are:
1) AFN bulletin April 1991 "LRT Review Ends"
2) Comprehensive briefing package by Indian and Northern Affairs re: Chiefs' Alternative Lands Legislation
3) First Nations Chartered Land Act - Chiefs Steering Committee - correspondence, info and proposal
4) New Optional Lands Legislation - Chief Robert Louie's comments to the Union of Ontario Indians' Assembly

File contains records related to Federal Bill C-49 and Lands and Trusts Services (LTS). Included in the file is correspondence; news clippings; Lands and Trusts Services Issues Analysis by Peter Di Gangi; planning documents; Joint Initiative on Lands and Governance report and draft workplan; LTS Kit - AFN Executive; AFN/INAC Joint Initiative for Policy Development (LTS) kit; Bill C-49.

File contains newspaper clippings and a Chiefs of Ontario position statement regarding proposed Government policy and policy changes.

File contains records related to Indigenous water rights. Included in the file are:
1) Correspondence - International Indian Water Rights Coalition
2) Indian Resource and Water Rights - Kenneth J. Tyler
3) Title to the Water Bed: The Legal History of the Ad Medium Filum Aquae Rule - Rose Boyko Wuerscher
4) Indian Water Rights in the Western United States: An Historical Overview and Discussion of Some Current Issues - Jeffrey A. Ross
5) Peigan Nation Administration water rights lawsuit
6) Carrier Sekani Tribal Council legal documents re: Kemano II project

File contains news clippings and United Nations reports regarding Canada and its Indigenous Peoples. United Nations reports are from United Nations Economic and Social Council.

File contains master copies of legal briefs, analyses, speaking notes, and other records related to Bill C-79 - an act to permit certain modifications in the application of the Indian Act to bands that desire them created/collected by the Assembly of First Nations. Included are:
1) Preliminary notes on Bill C-79
2) correspondence between Assembly of First Nations and Nahwegahbow, Nadjiwan Barrister and Solicitors
3) Framework for Analysis: Diand's proposed Indian Act amendments
4) Remarks on Bill C-79. the 'Optional Indian Act Modification Act'
5) Submission to Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development on the Optional Indian Act Modification Act by the North Shore Tribal Council
6) copy of Bill C-79

File contains records related to the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND). Included in the file are DIAND news releases; Human Resources Development Canada news releases; correspondence; "You Wanted to Know" printouts from the DIAND website; and several audits of DIAND initiatives.

File contains records related to specific claims and the claims process. Included are news paper clippings, correspondence and accompanying materials.

File contains records related to the creation of an independent claims body in Canada. Included are newsclippings, correspondence and reports.

File contains a paper and a report regarding Indigenous land claims in Northern Canada. Included in the file are:
1) The Political Economy of Native Land Claims in the Canadian North by J. I. Prattis
2) A Survey of the History and Claims of the Native Peoples of Northern Canada by William R. Morrison for Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

First of two folders filled with materials from the November 1984 Assembly of First Nations conference on Land Claims and Extinguishment. Also in the file are meeting notes from the Land Claims Steering Committee meetings held in October of that year.

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

File contains copies of "Guidelines for Federal Self-Government Negotiators"; a draft discussion paper "Possible consequences of Recognizing Self-Government Agreements as Treaties under section 35 of the Constitution Act; a presentation re: implementation of inherent right and negotiation of self-government; and other related records.

File contains what appears to be a workbook of information from the Chiefs' Governance Working Group. Included in the workbook are:
1) Approach to First Nations Government: Governance
2) The Mawiw Council of Chiefs proposal respecting the exploration, development and negotiation of an "Indian Court System"
3) Governance Community-Level Constitution chart
4) Governance
5) Building Blocks Towards Constitutionalizing First Nations Self-Government
6) Chiefs' Governance Working Group Chairman's Working paper on Leadership Selection - Draft #1
7) Chiefs' Governance Working Group Chairman's Discussion Paper on Process
8) Chiefs' Governance Working Group Chairman's Discussion Paper: Need for a Communication Strategy
9) Chiefs' Governance Working Group Chairman's Discussion Paper: Objectives and Means in Changing Crown-First Nations Relationship
10) Concept paper Training Element for Inclusion to Work Plans
11) Discussion paper - Leadership Selection
12) Proposal on Accountability
13) Proposal for First Nations Governance Issue: Legal Status and Capacity
14) A Framework for a Leadership Selection Act (by Voting)
15) Principles Guiding the Development of Alternatives to the Indian Act
16) Chiefs' Governance Working Group status report
17) Leadership Selections Act (draft)

File contains records relating to the Government of Canada's Alternative Funding Arrangements for First Nations. In the file are and Alternative Funding Arrangements Managers Guide; New Indian Funding Arrangement Implementation strategy; and a copy of the agreement between the Federal Government and the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation.

File contains a copy of the Interim Evaluation of the Experiences to date with Financial Transfer Arrangements.

File contains agreements and other records related to Financial Transfer Agreements (FTA). Included in the file are:
1) draft 4 - January 18, 1996 of a Financial Transfer Agreement
2) Financial Transfer Arrangments management assessment workbook
3) Discussion paper on Accountability
4) Financial Transfer Agreement between the Federal Government and the Wagmatcook Band
5) Blank annotated FTA

File contains records pertaining to First Nations Land Claims and the Federal Governments policies. Included in the file are correspondence, meeting minutes and notes, speech transcriptions, and reports from the Federal Government, Chiefs Committee on Claims and others.

File contains records relating to federal land claims policy reform. Included in the file are:
1) Press statement - Assembly of First Nations (AFN)
2) blank protocol agreement between AFN and the Federal Government
3) Land Rights Update - XVII Annual General Assembly
4) Rolling Draft IV - AFN Chiefs Committee on Claims and AFN Land Rights Unit
5) Correspondence between Chiefs Committee on Claims and Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
6) Nation Indian Brotherhood/Assembly of First Nations Land Rights Unit Report - dispute resolution and First Nations land rights
7) National Indian Brotherhood/Assembly of First Nations Land Rights Unit - Claims Policy Reform annotated bibliography

File contains records relating claims, and claims resolution. Included are:
1) "Assessing the Fiscal Impacts of Settling Specific Claims" presented to the Assembly of First Nations and the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development by Fiscal Realities
2) "Specific Claims" by P. King
3) Indian Claims Commission - Status of Claims as of May 15, 1998
4) "A First Nations Specific Claims Process - models in other countries" by Douglas Saunders
5) "A First Nations Specific Claims Process - Constitutional Issues" by Douglas Saunders
6) other assorted draft reports, notes, correspondence related to land claims

File contains records relating to the Joint First Nations-Canada Task Force on Claims Policy Reform and the creation of an independent claims body. Included in the file are correspondence; meeting minutes; memorandum and:
1) Drafts "First Nations Specific Claims Resolution Act"
2) First Nations Specific Claims Commission Tribunal Joint AFN-DIAND communication plan

File contains records relating to the Assembly of First Nations and the First Nations-Canada Joint Task Force (JST) on Specific Claims Reform. Included in the file are:
1) correspondence between Robert D. Nault, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Matthew Coon Come, National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations re: Independent Claims Body
2) Presentation "Proposed Independent Claims Body"
3) JTF/Chiefs Council on Claims meeting related records

File contains records relating to the court case "Delgamuukw vs. British Columbia". Included in the file are:
1) Delgamuukw vs British Columbia: Issues Analysis by Peter DiGangi
2) Regarding Delgamuukw: Where do we go from here? Office of M. P. Darrel Stinson
3) Aboriginal claims and the forestry industry: claims processess and recent developments in the courts by R. David House
4) The Delgamuukw Decision - Implications for the Forest Sector - The Forestry Chronicle, Vol. 74, No. 3 1998
5) Open Letter to Aboriginal Rights Council from the Interior Alliance of British Columbia
6) Supreme Court of Canada Delgamuukw Decision backgrounder - Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
7) Supreme Court of Canada - Brief newsletter by Lang Michener Barristers & Solicitors
8) Delgamuukw analysis by Mandell Pindell Barristers & Solicitors
9) Analysis of Delgamuukw decision and its implications for treaty negotiations by Ratcliff & Company Barristers & Solicitors
10) Research Implications of the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in Delgamuukw v. British Columbia by Peter Douglas Elias
11) Delgamuukw v. BC and Canada synopsis and implications for Ontario - Ministry of Natural Resources
12) Delgamuukw versus British Columbia preliminary summary

File contains records related to the Delgamuukw decision and the Canadian Government. Included in the file are:
1) Delgamuukw Implementation Committee background materials and meeting minutes
2) draft strategy framework on the recognition & affirmation of Aboriginal title
3) agendas and accompanying materials related to the May 6-7, 2000 Comprehensive Claims Strategy meeting and the May 8-9, 2000 joint AFN/DOJ/DIAND working session on comprehensive claims policy review
4) Correspondence and press releases
5) Assembly of First Nations - Canada's Comprehensive Claims Policy: The Need for Fundamental Change
6) News release re: Fraser Valley Blockade

File contains records related to the Delgamuukw Implementation Strategic Committee. Included in the file is correspondence, reports, and other materials related to claim policy and Delgamuukw.

File contains a variety of documents. Included are:
1) Federal Government's Proposed "Non-assertion/Fall-back release technique": a preliminary assessment" by Paul Joffe
2) multiple copies of "Canada's Approach for Dealing with section 35 Rights" - Ministerial recommendations to Cabinet
3) Sun Peaks Resort expansion correspondence
4) Assembly of First Nations - Delgamuukw Implementation Strategic Committee Dec. 12, 2000 meeting kit

File contains a variety of records. Included are:
1) Memorandum to Cabinet re: Long Term Response to R. v. Marshall
2) Consultation Strategy for First Nations Governance
3) AFN "National First Nations Policy Review on Fisheries" concept paper
4) AFN National Health Conference agenda and program, February 2001
5) Delgamuukw Implementation Strategy Committee Meetings materials
6) booklet of AFN resolutions regarding Delgamuukw principles and implementation
7) booklet of correspondence and other materials regarding Comprehensive Land Claims
8) Society for the Threatened Peoples Austria Working Circle for North American Indians campaign
9) DIANDS Key Priorities at the Start of a New Mandate
10) DIAND Communications strategy, 2001
11) Approach for Dealing with Section 35 Rights - Ministerial Recommendations to Cabinet