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AFA Jan 1986 - Native Funding

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.

AFN - ATIP 96-97

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.

AFN - CCC - 22 May 2002

File contains records related to the Chiefs Committee on Claims and the proposal for an independent claims body. Included in the file are meeting agendas and minutes, updates, and a copy of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Legislative Process manual.

AFN - Claims - 7/96

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

AFN 2000 - Election etc.

File contains a variety of Assembly of First Nations (AFN) records. Included are:
1) AFN/Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada joint initiative National Gathering Info. Kit, July 2000
2) Election brochure - candidates profiles
3) draft First Nations Languages Act
4) Record of AFN resolutions July 1999 to June 2000
5) The Delgamuukw/Gisday'wa Nation process folder with information inside
6) Living Languages Lasting Cultures AFN Conference Book 2000

AFN Claims - 11/98

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

AFN Claims - 5-6/98 I

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

AFN Claims 5/2000

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

AFN Claims 7/97

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

AFN Claims Jan 99

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

AFN Confederacy 12/99

File contains records related to the Assembly of First Nations Confederacy of Nations meeting held in December 1999. Included in the file are:
1) speaking notes for Robert D. Nault
2) notes
3) resolutions
4) Facilitator's Report on the Special Workshop on the Delgamuukw, Marshall, and Corbiere Decisions, Dec. 8/99
5) memorandum - state of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Canadian Case Law
6) speech by Phil Fontaine
7) Reducing the Debt of the Poorest: Challenges and Opportunities - John E. Serieux
8) Preliminary analysis of Corbiere v. Canada and the Batchewana Band
9) Report on Corbiere - report and revised work plan for Response to Corbiere Decision
10) wrap-up dialogue "Finding a Way to Work Together"

AFN DISC Jan 2001

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

AFN Delg/May 2000

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

AFN Delgamuukw 7/1999

File contains records relating to the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) - Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Developement (DIAND) Joint Technical Committee: Delgamuukw Review Process. Included in the file are:
1) AFN Delgamuukw National Review: Making Delgamuukw Come Alive - a summary of activities and plans
2) The Delgamuukw National Review Eastern and Western Fora - a short summary
3) Responding to Delgamuukw - a summary of a think tank sponsored by AFN and DIAND
4) Record of Decision - Meeting #2 of AFN-DIAND Joint Technicial Committee

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"

AFN-DIA Mar. 2005

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

AFN-ICB - May 2001

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.

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

AFN/DIA Claims 2/96-

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.

AFN/ICB- Toronto - June 2001

File contains records related to the establishment of an Independent Claims Body (ICB). Included in the file is correspondence, updates, a proposed ICB model, and other related materials.

AFN/JTF - March 2001

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

Auditor General CCP 9/98

File contains records related to comprehensive claims policy and information on specific claims. In the file is section 14 - "Indian and Northern Affairs Canada - Comprehensive Land Claims" of the Auditor General of Canada's 1998 report; Comprehensive Claims Policy and Status of Claims - Nov. 21, 1997 from Indigenous Affairs and Northern Development website; and transcript from the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Oct. 22, 1998 meeting.

B. C. Treaty Comm Vol. I

File contains records related to the British Columbia Treaty Commission. Along with newspaper clippings, correspondence, and other related materials there are:
1) two copies of "Building a New Relationship with First Nations in British Columbia - Canada's response to the report of the B. C. Claims Task Force
2) newsletter "Pride in Partnership - British Columbia"
3) two copies of "British Columbia Treaty Commission Agreement"
4) newsletter "Treaty News" July 1995, and December 1996 editions
5) "The Report of The British Columbia Claims Task Force" July 28, 1991
6) "Aboriginal Rights and Title - A Made in B. C. Approach" by the Westbank Indian Council
7) Form 11 - Chief R. Kwasistala on behalf of the Lichkwilthach hereditary chiefs and others v. Canadian Government
8) Outline and background on BC Treaty Commission

B. C. Treaty Comm Vol. II

File contains records related to the British Columbia Treaty Commission (BCTC). Included in the file are news releases and clippings, as well as:
1) brochures "Treaties in British Columbia" and "Treaty Making" from the First Nations Summit Perspective
2) brochure "The British Columbia Treaty Commission" from the UBCIC
3) brochure "Treaty Negotiations in B. C. ' an Overview" from the Federal Treaty Negotiation Office
4) "BCTC & The Land Question"
5) "BCTC 1997 Annual Report excerpts
6) Report on the Treaty Process in British Columbia
7) Musqueam Indian Band - Band Council Resolution
8) Understanding the B. C. Treaty Process - an opportunity for dialogue
9) newsletter "British Columbia Treaty Commission update"

BC - Fall 1999 - West Bank

File contains records related to land claims and specific court cases related to logging in British Columbia. There are affidavits and reasons for judgement in the Supreme Court of British Columbia cases - Ron Derrickson et al. v. Province of British Columbia, and Chief Dan Wilson et. al v. Province of British Columbia.

BC Interior

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

BCTC - Spring 98

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.

Band Debt: Audit/1995

Fact Sheet and copy of Audit Report "First Nations Indebtedness" project 93/01 of the Departmental Audit and Evaluation Branch of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.

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".

Bill C-49 Lands Act 1999

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.

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.

Bill C-60 - Sept 2002

File contains records related to Bill C-60 Specific Claims bill. Included in the file are:
1) Assembly of First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Chiefs' Strategic Committee reports
2) Assembly of First Nations Chiefs Committee on Claims records
3) Indian Claims Commission records
4) Correspondence
5) Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Legislative Process booklet

Border Crossing - Jan. '89

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

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.

C-6: Ed John Report

File contains a copy of the final report by Grand Chief Edward John of the Tl'atz'en First Nation on the Federal Government's proposed independent claims body.
The Federal Bill was ultimately rejected by First Nations.

C-79 Master Kit - xerox

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

C. Y. I. Umbrella

File contains a copy of the Council for Yukon Indians Comprehensive Land Claims Agreement in Principle, a newspaper clipping, and correspondence between the Minister of Indian Affairs and the Council for Yukon Indians.

CBSG Audit 2/93

File contains records related to DIAND's "Audit of Community Based Self-Government Program". Included in the file are two copies of report, audit notes, and two copies of a newspaper article "Native Frustration".

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.

CH. Lands Vol. I - 91/92

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

CH. Lands Vol. III - 94-96

File contains records relating to the framework agreement on land management between First Nations and the Canadian Government. Included in the file is correspondence, news releases, draft and copy of framework agreement, and other records.

COO - Nov-Dec 2001

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

CYI - Bands

Photocopy of the agreement between the Vuntut Gwich'in First Nation, the Government of the Yukon, and the Government of Canada. Some of the agreement pages have handwritten notes on them.

Cabinet Nov/98

File contains clippings and documents related to "Gathering Strength" the Federal Government's response to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

Citizens +, 1970

Copy of "Citizens +", a presentation by the Indian Chiefs of Alberta to Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau in June of 1970.

Claims - ADR - 91

Preliminary study "The Use of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Specific Claims". Prepared for Specific Claims Branch, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Canada by Ben Hoffman of Concorde Inc.

Hoffman, Ben

Claims - JWG: December/92

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.

Claims - North

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

Claims - Post Oka Vol. I

File contains records pertaining to First Nations Land Claims and the Federal Governments policies. Included in the file are meeting notes and reports of the First Nations Task Force on Claims, Assembly of First Nations critique of Federal policies, correspondence, and meeting notes and radio interview with Tom Siddon, Federal Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs.

Claims - Post Oka Vol. II

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.

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"

Corbiere

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.

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.

Custom Law

One copy of "Native Customs and the Law" authored by William B. Henderson for the Research Branch, Corporate Policy Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.

DIA - 98/99 Estimates

File contains two documents: Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and Canadian Polar Commission 1998-1999 estimates - a report on plans and priorities; and Comprehensive Claims Policy and Status of Claims, Nov. 21, 1997.

DIA - Partnership 1999

Discussion reports "Strengthening the Partnership: Let's Commit to It!" from the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development's National Manager's Meeting held in Montreal in 1999.

Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC)

DIA - Staff/Reorg: 9/93

File contains bulletins, memos, and other records related to the staffing and re-organization of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.

DIA Audit - CCP - 10/1983

Photocopy of the Review of Comprehensive Claims Process by the Departmental Audit Branch, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.

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

DIAN - Treaty $

File contains a single correspondence between the Assembly of First Nations and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada regarding First Nations funding from the Federal Government.

DIAND - 97/98 Plan

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

Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC)

DIAND - Bckgrnd - 96

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.

DIAND - Stats & Propog

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

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.

DIAND: Indian Population 1995

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.

DISC December 2000

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

DISC July 2000

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.

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

Dan Goodleaf 1993

File contains clippings, correspondence and other records related to Deputy Minister of Indian Affairs Dan Goodleaf's trip to Europe.

Dec 1996

File contains records related to Bill C-79. Included in the file is correspondence; a booklet on the proposed Indian Act amendments; notes and meeting minutes.

Delgamuukw - One Year After conference

File contains program for the "Delgamuukw: One Year After" conference. The conference was sponsored by The Aboriginal Policy Forum and The University of Victoria and was held February 18-19, 1999 in Victoria, British Columbia.

Delgamuukw Analysis 1998

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

Delgamuukw Thing

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

Dene

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

Dene/Metis - 90

Copy of the comprehensive land claim between the Canadian government and the Dene/Metis Negotiations Secretariat.

Douglas Treaties - DIA

File contains "The Vancouver Island Treaties (1850-1854) by Dennis Madill; "B. C. Indian Treaties in Historical Perspective" by Dennis Madill, published by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada; and correspondence between The First Nations of South Island to Deputy Minister Harry Swain re: Treaty and Aboriginal Rights.

Environment

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

FED CAN MUN

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.

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

FNG - 2002 Vol. I

File contains records relating to First Nations Governance. Included are newspaper clippings, correspondence, meeting kits, and other materials.

FNG - Governance 2006

File contains "secret" advice to Minister regarding First Nations governance and an Ontario Government redacted briefing note regarding the Batchewana First Nation.

FNG - June/July 2001

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

FNG - March 2002

File contains records related to the Federal Government's "Communities First: First Nations Governance" initiative. Included in the file are correspondence; an assessment of the consultation process by Peter Douglas Elias; and a First Nations Governance Community Consultations summary report by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.

FNG - May 2001 Confed.

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"

FNG April 2001

File contains records related to the April 11, 2001 meeting between Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) and the Assembly of First Nations regarding the Federal Government's proposed legislative initiatve on First Nations' Governance. Included in the file are handwritten notes; meeting overview document; correspondence; and a meeting kit.

FNG Bckgrnd - 3/2003

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.

FNG Fall 2001

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.

FTA - 1/97

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

FTA - 5/96

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

FTA - AFN Docs 96-97

File contains records relating to Financial Transfer Agreements between the Federal Government and First Nations. Included in the file are:
1) Fiscal Relations - Dependency or Development? - discussion paper draft #2
2) Financial Transfer Arrangements: background information
3) Memorandum of Understanding Establishing a Fiscal Relations Table between the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Canada, Minister of Intergovernmental and Aboriginal Affairs Saskatchewan, and the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations.
4) Assembly of First Nations correspondence and resolutions
5) News releases, notes and other materials.

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

FTA - COO - DIA Draft 6/97

File contains a draft Financial Transfer Agreement between The Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and First Nations.

FTA - July 1999

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

FTA Info - DIAND - 6/96

Financial Transfer Arrangements Information Kit created by the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development for the First Nations' Chief and Councils.

Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC)

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