File contains several reports including:
1) Assembly of First Nations Aboriginal Title & Comprehensive Claims conference report
2) Workplan for a Joint Review of Canada's Comprehensive Claims Policy
3) Assembly of First Nations after Delgamuukw: Canada's Comprehensive Claims Policy - a national review submitted by Herb George
4) Political Lobby Strategy for a New, Independent and Fair Specific Claims Policy and Process

File contains a briefing package for the Joint First Nations-Canada Task Force on Claims Policy Reform and accompanying materials.

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 Assembly of First Nations (AFN) and the Independent Claims Body (ICB) initiative. In the file is a resolution on the ICB; memorandum; and information on the AFN ICB Technical Group.

Indian Claims Commission Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range reports on the Cold Lake First Nations and Canoe Lake Cree Nation land claims.

File contains records relating to three conferences:
1) Notes and agenda for "Implementing Delgamuuk'w - legal implications for Aboriginal title research in BC" held March 1-3 in Vancouver, British Columbia
2) Program for conference "Delgamuuk'w: One Year After" held February 18-19 in Victoria, British Columbia
3) Program for First Nations GIS mini conference "GeoSolutions: Integrating our World" held March 1-4 in Vancouver, British Columbia
Also in the file is "$3 treaty script" and "Delgammuukw Report Card - Canada's Record One Year Later".

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

Conference kit for the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) "Title & Comprehensive Claims Conference" held February 24-25, 1998 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is unclear if all the materials were included in the kit or added later. Included in the file folder are:
1) Joint Statement on the Comprehensive Claims Policy, April 7, 1993
2) AFN Preliminary Assessment of the Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: RCAP Recommendations on Treaties, Lands and Resources, February 21, 1997
3) Extinguishing Extinguishment: Bringing an Era to an End by Ovide Mercredi, May 1995
4) Correspondence between Ministry of Indian and Northern Affairs and the Assembly of FIrst Nations
5) Federal Policy of the Settlement of Native Claims, March 1993
6) The Delgamuukw Case - What does it mean and what do we do now? by Melvin H. Smith Q.C., Feb. 10, 1998
7)Draft - Aboriginal Title and Comprehensive Claims Special Meeting notes
8) First Nations Summit - Analysis, Strategy and Statement on Delgamuukw, February 3, 1998
9) Newspaper and newspaper clippings
10) AFN Aboriginal Title & Comprehensive Claims conference report
11) background information and conference agenda

File contains a newspaper clipping, correspondence, an agenda for the "Aboriginal Title and Comprehensive Claims" conference, and a discussion paper "Common Ground - Toward Reconciliation of Aboriginal & Crown Title".

File contains correspondence and draft proposals for the Assembly of First Nations "Delgamuukw: A National Review Process".

File contains correspondence, news clippings, and other materials related to the planning and implementation of the 1st Special National Conference on Delgamuukw held in Kamloops, British Columbia. Also in the file are meeting minutes regarding negotiations and a copy of the land use agreement between the Neskonlith Indian Band, The Adams Lake Indian Band and the Province of British Columbia.

File contains records related to the implementation of the Delgamuukw decision. They include two copies of Resolution 7/00 - Delgamuukw Implementation of the Confederacy of Nations; multiple AFN resolutions regarding claims and claims policy; a meeting kit for the Recognition and Affirmation of Aboriginal Title Strategy Meeting; and other records.

File contains records created by/related to the Interior Alliance. Included in the file are press releases, a page titled "Tripartite Political Accord on Treaty Negotiation", and a legal update on Logging Cases for the AFN Committee to Implement Delgamuukw.

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

One copy of the magazine/program for the World Assembly of First Nations held in Regina, Saskatchewan July 18-25, 1982.

Sub-series contains National Committee on Treaties/Centre for Treaty Advocacy information kits that coverage a range of issues including claims, treaties, Aboriginal titles, MBCA, border crossing, litigation updates, and federal/provincial policy. Included are:

2018.008.011.003.001 Treaty Rights Unit Activities Report, Ottawa, Ontario March 4, 1987

2018.008.011.003.002 Treaty Rights Conference Ottawa, Ontario January 14, 1987

2018.008.011.003.003 National Committee on Treaties briefing book Kamloops, British Columbia, Sept. 20-21, 1988

2018.008.011.003.004 National Committee on Treaties meeting Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 9-10, 1988

2018.008.011.003.005 National Committee on Treaties briefing book - IXth Annual AFN Assembly Edmonton, Alberta May 20-June 2, 1988

2018.008.011.003.006 National Committee on Treaties briefing book Ottawa, Ontario July 11-12, 1988

2018.008.011.003.007 National Committee on Treaties Quebec City, Quebec July 4, 1989

2018.008.011.003.008 National Centre for Treaties briefing kit Halifax, Nova Scotia September 28-29, 1989

2018.008.011.003.009 National Committee on Treaties Edmonton, Alberta March 6-7, 1990

2018.008.011.003.010 National Committee on Treaties Vancouver, British Columbia May 1-2, 1990

2018.008.011.003.011 National Committee on Treaties Hay River, Northwest Territories June 27-28, 1990

2018.008.011.003.012 National Committee on Treaties - Grand Council Treaty #8 Nations Edmonton, Alberta Sept. 19-20, 1990

2018.008.011.003.013 National Committee on Treaties summary of activities Oct. 1, 1990

Series contains records relating to Federal Government First Ministers' Meetings and Constitutional reform. Series is divided into the following files/items:
2018.008.012.001 Proposal on the Constitution
2018.008.012.002 NIB/AFN: 1975-1982
2018.008.012.003 NIB/AFN 1982
2018.008.012.004 W. Rudnicki- 1982 Patriation Debate
2018.008.012.005 FMC's: 1982-
2018.008.012.006 FMC - 1983-84
2018.008.012.007 Presentation to Constitutional Task Force on Treaties and Treaty Rights
2018.008.012.008 FMC - 1987
2018.008.012.009 Report of the Special Joint Committee on a Renewed Canada
2018.008.012.010 AFN 91-93
2018.008.012.011 AFN Confed 3/91
2018.008.012.012 AFN Election 1991
2018.008.012.013 Constitution - 1991
2018.008.012.014 CWG - Jan. 1992 - April/92
2018.008.012.015 AFN Circle on Constitution April 1992
2018.008.012.016 Constitution Sept 1/92
2018.008.012.017 Constitution Oct/92
2018.008.012.018 Constitution Oct/92
2018.008.012.019 W. Rudnicki - Sting Oct/1992
2018.008.012.020 AFN Treaties - 2/93
2018.008.012.021 AFN Assembly 7/95

File contains four publications:
1) Indian News - Special Edition, Vol. 23 No. 2 May 1982 Indian and Inuit Affairs Program
2) Coalition of First Nations: Sovereignty & Nationhood
3) National Indian Brotherhood 1975
4) Statement by Dr. David Ahenakew, National Chief Assembly of First Nations

File contains records related to the First Ministers' Conference. Included are:
1) Strategical Planning and Defence Analysis - Situation Report and Recommendations Respecting the First Ministers' Conference 1987
2) First Ministers' Conference on Aboriginal Constitutional Matters - notes for opening address by Don. R. Getty
3) Our Land is Our Future - UBCIC
4) Assembly of First Nations (AFN)brochure
5) Security Intelligence Review Committee Annual Report 1989-1990
6) Assembly of First Nations Treaties and Treaty Rights - Some Preliminary Considerations by Paul Joffe
7) Treaty Rights Unit Report on Treaties for AFN Special Assembly
8) memos re: funding for Treaty Research and Advocacy Center
9) AFN Bulletin, Vol. 4 No. 3 Oct/Nov 1986
10) National Committee on Treaties Briefing Book - 6th annual AFN Assembly
11) Task Force on Treaties and Treaty Rights
12) Letter to AFN from Prairie Treaty Nations Alliance
13) Newspaper clippings
14) memo from Union of Ontario Indians and AFN
15) Agenda - AFN Special All Chiefs' Assembly

File contains newspaper clippings, memos, resolutions and other records relating to restructuring of the Assembly of First Nations, Ovide Mercredi, and constitutional process.

File contains records relating to Meech Lake and constitutional proposals. Included in the file are:
1) 2 copies of "Rolling Draft of Constitution Act, 1992 related to Aboriginal Peoples Mi'kmaq titles"
2) Report of the Atlantic First People's Constitutional Forum
3) First Nations Parallel Constitutional Process - AFN
4) Notes from Ad Hoc Committee on the Constitution - AFN
5) Shaping Canada's Future Together - proposals
6) Notes for an address by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney on the launch of the Government's Constitutional Proposals

File contains records relating to the Charlottetown Accord. Included in the file are: two copies of "Draft Legal Text"; Your Guide to Canada's Proposed Constitutional Changes; newspaper clippings; and correspondence.

File contains records related to work with the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples(RCAP). Specifically relating to treaty research. Included in the file are:
1) Assembly of First Nations Preliminary Work Plan of Intervenor Activities before the RCAP
2) Draft Outline - Land and Resource Base - AFN-RCAP

File contains Assembly of First Nations (AFN) General Assembly information kit and newspaper clippings. Included in the kit is an agenda; resolution proceedures and resolutions; charter; first draft of "Declaration of First Nations Sovereign Relationships"; a proposal for the political restructuring of the Assembly of First Nations; "Aboriginal Strategic Initiatives Proposal - final draft; assembly opening remarks and speeches; and a copy of the AFN annual report for 1996.

File contains kit "Indian Act Amendments - briefing and background materials" created for the Assembly of First Nations General Assembly held July 8-10, 1996.

File contains the "Emergency Assembly on the Indian Act Amendments" information kit and Peter Di Gangi's handwritten notes on the meeting.

File contains two published documents:
2018.008.022.009.001 Tr'ondek Hwech'in Self-Government Agreement
2018.008.022.009.002 Tr'ondek Hwech'in Final Agreement

Booklet published by the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs.

File contains three documents:

2018.008.023.007.001 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, July 13, 1991

2018.008.023.007.002 Gwich'in Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement volumes 1 & 2, April 22, 1992

File contains four documents:

2018.008.023.008.001 1994-1995 annual report
2018.008.023.008.002 1995-1996 annual report
2018.008.023.008.003 1996-1997 annual report
2018.008.023.008.004 1997-1998 annual report

File contains Volumes I and II and a highlights booklet for the comprehensive land claim agreement between the Sahtu Dene and Metis and the Government of Canada.

Annotated bibliography created by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.

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

The majority of the file contains invitations, programs, and fact sheets for the "Voice of the Peoples" gathering at Cayoose Creek Indian Band Campgrounds, Stl'Atl'Imx Territory in Lillooet, British Columbia. Gathering was held July 11-12, 1997. Also in the file is a booklet created by the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs titled "Certainty: Canada's Struggle to Extinguish Aboriginal Title".

Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs Aboriginal Rights Position Paper Resource Kit.

File contains a variety of documents created/collected by the Union of British Columbia Chiefs (UBCIC). Included in the file are:
1) brochures - Shuswap Cultural Working Committee
2) booklets -Shuswap Nation Tribal Council
3) Press releases and press statements from UBCIC
4) National Committee on Treaties - Resolution Respecting Treaty-Making & the Constitutional Definition of Aboriginal Rights
5) First Nations' Meeting agenda and accompanying materials Oct. 23-24, 1990
6) Inter-Tribal Treaties on Land Question: B. C. Indian Nations' Strategy for the 1990s discussion paper 2 - UBCIC
7) UBCIC Statement of Principles and Interim Process on Aboriginal Fishing in British Columbia
8) UBCIC Aboriginal Title and Rights Position Paper
9) Constitution of The Provisional Government of The Confederacy of Aboriginal Nations draft #5
10) Philip Christopher Paul memorial booklet
11) Meeting and speech notes

Copy of Aboriginal Royal Commission: B. C. Issues by Mandell Pinder and created for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

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

File contains "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.

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

File contains newspaper clippings and stories regarding logging and fishing in British Columbia.

File contains correspondence, news clippings and stories regarding the Nisga'a Agreement in Principle with the Governments of British Columbia and Canada. Also in the file are Nisga'a Land Claim Negotiation brochures; a copy of framework agreement; and a copy of a statement of Claim by the Pacific Fishermen's Defence Alliance, and others against the Government of Canada, with the Nisga'a Tribal Council as the Intervenor.

The First Nations Congress Lands, Revenues, and Trusts Review Community Workshops were held in March of 1990 in British Columbia. The Congress was the precursor to the First Nations Summit. The meeting kit includes agenda and accompanying materials for the workshops.

File contains copies of the judgement, commentary, and analysis on the Supreme Court of Canada ruling in Delbert Guerin, Joseph Becker, Eddie Campbell, Mary Charles, Gertrude Guerin and Gail Sparrow suing on their own behalf and on the behalf of all other members of the Musqueam Indian Band v. Her Majesty the Queen and The National Indian Brotherhood (Intervenors).

File contains the following documents:
1) Canada's Approach for Dealing with Section 35 rights
2) Consultation strategy for First Nation Governance (FNG)
3) DIAND's Key Priorities at the Start of a New Mandate
4) DIAND Communication Strategy
5) Memorandum to cabinet re: long term response to R. v. Marshall
6) newsclippings on FNG

Copy of Fiduciary Principles and the Compensation Guidelines of "Outstanding Business" by Alan Pratt of Blaney, McMurty, Stapells Barristers and Solicitors.

Copy of Peter W. Hutchins paper for the Continuing Legal Education Committee and the National Native Justice Section of the Canadian Bar Association.

File contains a copy of E. Davie Fulton's "Lubicon Lake Indian Band - Inquiry" discussion paper and a paper "Indian Tribal Councils".

File contains annual reports produced by the Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. Included in the file are:
2018.008.026.002.001 Annual Report 1984-1985
2018.008.026.002.002 Annual Report 1985-1986
2018.008.026.002.003 Annual Report 1986-1987
2018.008.026.002.004 Annual Report 1990-1991
2018.008.026.002.005 Performance Report for the Period Ending March 21, 1996

Second report of the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs for the House of Commons.

Report (in two volumes) prepared by Bernard R. Blishen, Alexander Lockhart, Prudence Craib, and Elizabeth Lockhart for the Research Branch, Policy, Research and Evaluation Group in the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs.

File contains records related to the establishment of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP). Included in the file are:
1) Press release and terms of reference for the commission
2) Press release re: appointment of David Crombie as chairman of intervenor participation program
3) Copies of "The Circle" Vol. 1 No. 1 and No.2 - newsletter of RCAP

File contains records related to the RCAP Treaties and Lands research. Included in the file is a project outline; Integrated research plan; two copies of the Treaty/Lands Research Project outlines; and RCAP Treaties & Lands Research revised projects outlines draft #3 Dec. 1992.

File contains research results from searchers conducted on the RCAP Folio infobase. Topics include Off reserve; territory and overlaps; representation, beneficiaries, off reserve; and aboriginal laws.

File contains a copy of "Justice Briefing Book" and a copy of the presentation by the Swampy Cree Tribal Council to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

Lands & Resources Policy prepared for the Commissioners of The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples by the RCAP Lands & Resources Team.

Submission of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples by the Inuit Tapiriiksat Kanatami (Inuit Tapirisat of Canada).

Report authored by Frank Tough and Leah Dorion "the claims of the Half-breeds...have been finally closed: A Study of Treaty Ten and Treaty Five Adhesion Scrip" for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

Report "Metis National Council Report of the Development and Implementation of a National Registry System for the Metis People of Canada" for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

File contains records related to the proposed amendments to the Indian Act. Included in the file is correspondence and an Assembly of First Nations "Resolutions and Related Correspondence" packet of documents.

File contains records related to the Assembly of First Nations Confederacy of Nations meetings. Included in the file are:
1) 1998 Meeting booklet
2) reports
3) correspondence
4) booklet of 1998 resolutions
5) resolution status reports for Confederacy of Nations 1998, 1999 and 19th Annual General Assembly, 1998

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

File contains 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.

File contains an agenda and accompanying materials from the Assembly of First Nations B.C. Region, First Nations Summit, and Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs special Chiefs Assembly held May 19-20, 2005. Also in the file is a letter between AFN Quebec-Labrador region and the Organization of United Reborn Survivors.

File contains two documents created by the Federal Government:
1) Aboriginal Policy: Legal and Constitutional Framework, Oct. 2001
2) Renewing Treaties, Claims and Self-Government Negotiation Processes to support a "Quality of Life" Agenda - Reference Group of Ministers on Aboriginal Policy, Feb. 2002

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

File contains records created by the Indian Claims Commission (ICC). Included in the file are:
1) 2 ICC information packages
2) Chippewas of the Thames First Nation report on: Clench Defalcation Inquiry
3) Mistawasis First Nation report on: 1911, 1917 and 1919 surrenders
4) ICC Annual reports for 1998/99, 1999/00 and 2000/01

Series contains records related to the Ontario Government, Indigenous Policy, Hunting and Fishing Rights, and Claims. It contains reports from The Fraser Institute and the Pacific Business and Law Institute. The series has been divided into the following files/items:

2018.008.035.001 Human Rights - a compilation of international instruments, United Nations
2018.008.035.002 Living Arctic report and catalogue
2018.008.035.003 The Canadian Bar Review, Vol. 66 No. 4 December 1987
2018.008.035.004 Aboriginal Rights in Canada: An Agenda for Action, The Canadian Bar Association Committee Report
2018.008.035.005 Aboriginal Rights in Canada, Library and Archives Canada
2018.008.035.006 Ontario Policies - 1970's - 1980's
2018.008.035.007 Ontario - NDP Policy
2018.008.035.008 Ont. Claims 93
2018.008.035.009 Ont - H&F Regs 91
2018.008.035.010 1995 Ontario Election
2018.008.035.011 Ontario Policy 1996-98
2018.008.035.012 Ont - Interim Enf. Policy - 8/97
2018.008.035.013 Harris - Casino
2018.008.035.014 Ontario Policy 1995-99
2018.008.035.015 Ontario Claims Policy 2000
2018.008.035.016 Ont. Aboriginal Policy - 05 2005
2018.008.035.017 Ontario Mining Policy 2007
2018.008.035.018 Reform 12/95
2018.008.035.019 Reform - Aboriginal Benefits - 8/1997
2018.008.035.020 Reform & Aboriginal Media coverage - 1990's
2018.008.035.021 Ont. Fed. Nature - RCAP
2018.008.035.022 H & F: OFAH 1993
2018.008.035.023 OFAH to RCAP 1993
2018.008.035.024 OFAH - June 1994
2018.008.035.025 Hunt/Fish Steve Aronson
2018.008.035.026 Ont. H & F - Davidson
2018.008.035.027 Ont H & F: Frank Tough
2018.008.035.028 Fed. Can. Mun
2018.008.035.029 Municipalites - RCAP
2018.008.035.030 ARC: Land Claims 1991
2018.008.035.031 Fraser Instititute 25 years!
2018.008.035.032 Fraser Instit. Claims - 12/95
2018.008.035.033 Delgamuukw 1991: Early Analysis
2018.008.035.034 BC: Economic Impact of Claims 1996
2018.008.035.035 Litig. Updt -AFN 1990
2018.008.035.036 Litigating Aboriginal Law
2018.008.035.037 PBLI: Specific Claims 2002
2018.008.035.038 Catalyst periodical 1996-1999
2018.008.035.039 Red Alert!!

Copy of the "Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North" an exhibition at the Museum of Mankind sponsored by Indigenous Survival International (Canada) 1987-1990. Book is a report and exhibit catalogue. Exhibit was a the British Museum in London, England.

File contains records related to Ontario's Land Claim and Natural Resource use policies. Included in the file are:
1) Land Claims policy analysis - Peter Di Gangi
2) correspondence re: fur trapping
3) correspondence re: commercial fisheries
4) Ministry of Natural Resources - Office of Indian Resources Policy info package
5) Grand Council Treaty #9 "Opinions - Ontario Government Policies for Dealing with Indian Land Claims"
6) correspondence re: constitutional amendments
7) correspondence re: Indian Land Claims Policies (policy statements)

File contains newspaper clippings regarding Ontario's Government. Also in the file are two listings - on of members of parliament and the other for members of the cabinet.

File contains faxed copies of the Ontario Native Affairs Secretariat land claims policy fact sheets. Included are:
1) Aboriginal Land Claims and the Federal and Provincial Governments
2) Ontario's Approach to Aboriginal Land Claims: the highlights
3) Aboriginal Land Claims and Ontario's Negotiation Process
4) Aboriginal Land Claims and Public Involvement
5) Aboriginal Land Claim Settlements

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

File contains announcement and copy of "Change and Choice: A Policy Vision for British Columbia - Out of Our Past: A New Perspective on Aboriginal Land Claims in British Columbia".

File contains a news release, summary report and final reports by ARA Consulting Group for the Government of British Columbia. Report was titled "Social and Economic Impacts of Aboriginal Land Claim Settlements".

File contains litigation related documents created by the Assembly of First Nations. Included in the file are:
1) 2 copies of memorandum "Review of Section 35 Case Law and a Discussion of Concepts that may Generate Future Dialogue on the content of Treaties and the Enforceability of Treaty Rights" - includes synopsis of some case law
2) National Committee on Treaties Litigation Update, May 1990 - Flett, Mik'maq Fishery, The Queen vs. Ireland & Jamieson, Oldman Dam, and Barriere Lake
3) National Committee on Treaties Litigation Update - analysis of potential impact of recent supreme court decisions on Aboriginal and Treaty Rights, Sparrow Case, and Sioui Case.

File contains copies of papers given at the "Litigating Aboriginal Law" hosted by the Pacific Business and Law Institute in Ottawa on June 6 & 7, 2002. Papers include:
1) "When does the Obligation of Aboriginal Consultation Arise?" John J. L. Hunter
2) "The Benoit Case and Treaty Interpretation" Alan Pratt
3) "Litigation Based on Breach of Fiduciary Obligation" Ben A. Jetten
4) "The Crown's Fiduciary Obligations to Consult and Accomodate First Nations" Maria Morellato
5) "Finding and Keeping Money: Funding Aboriginal Litigation, Litigation Alternatives and Making Litigation and Negotiated Settlement Stick" Nancy Kleer
6) "Money in the Battle for Rights - Financing Aboriginal Title Litigation" Stuart Rush
7) "Proof of Aboriginal Title - Interpreting Delgamuukw" Stuart Rush
8) "The Use of Oral History as Evidence - The Benoit Decision" Heather L. Treacy
9) "Expert Witnesses and Litigation on Aboriginal and Treaty Rights" Anjali Choksi
10) "The Pros and Cons of Litigating Specific Claims" Kathleen Lickers

File contains copies of papers given at the "The New Specific Claims Resolution Act" conference hosted by the Pacific Business and Law Institute in Ottawa on September 19 & 20, 2002. Papers include:
1) "The Future of Specific Claims" Phil Fontaine
2) "Specific Claims, Bill C-60 and the Provinces" Neil Reddekopp
3) "A Sobering Second Thought" Kathleen Lickers
4) The Michipicoten Pilot Project for Specific Claims" Kim Fullerton
5) "The Primrose Lake Inquiry" Alan Pratt
6) "The Specific Claims Policy and the Law - some thoughts from a Claim Practitioner's Perspective" Alan Pratt
7) "Lessons from Australia, New Zealand and the United States" Bradford Morse and Christina Vechsler
8) "Will the New Specific Claims Process Address the Faults of the Current Process? - The Position of the Assembly of First Nations" Rolland Pangowish
9) "Legal Analysis of Bill C-60" Bryan Schwartz
10) "12 Suggestions to Improve Crown/First Nation Claim and Rights Settlement Negotiations" Jerome Slavik
11) "Indian Claims Commission - Mediation" Ralph Brant
12) "Bill C-60 Process for Specific Claims Resolution or Management?" David Knoll

File contains correspondence between Harry Daniels and Jean Chretien re: land claim; Memorandum of Understanding between the Metis Nation and the Royal Commission on Aborginal Peoples; Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples research - Metis Claims Group Workshop papers; and a copy of the Metis National Council's Intervenor report for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

Copy of the Metis Policy Paper.

Report authored by Don McMahon and Fred Martin for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples titled "The Metis and 91(24): Is Inclusion the Issue?".

File contains two copies of the report "Submission to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Affairs: Metis Land Rights in Canada" by Louise Mandell of Mandell Pinder barristers solicitors.

"Aboriginal Self-Government in the United States - A Qualitative Political Analysis" by Russel Lawrence Barsh for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

"Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in the Resolution of Comprehensive Aboriginal Claims: Power Imbalance Between Aboriginal Claimants and Governments" by Andrea McCallum

Series contains a variety of reports and publications. The majority of the series contains individual Indigenous Nation and organization reports (through the Intervenor Participation Program) submitted to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. The Series is divided into items and files:
2018.008.029.001 C. A. R. C. - claims
2018.008.029.002 Oral Hist - J. Cruickshank
2018.008.029.003 AB Treaties + Cdn Law
2018.008.029.004 Fish - Native Bro. B. C. IPP
2018.008.029.005 NAFA - RCAP
2018.008.029.006 Land Use - Usher
2018.008.029.007 T #4 - RCAP
2018.008.029.008 Fish - Saugeen - IPP
2018.008.029.009 Treaty #5 - Manitoba
2018.008.029.010 Northern Flood T #5
2018.008.029.011 Treaty #9 - Windigo
2018.008.029.012 RCAP Treaty #7
2018.008.029.013 Manitoba: T#4, 5, 6
2018.008.029.014 AMC
2018.008.029.015 FSIN Vol. I and Vol. II
2018.008.029.016 AFN - I. P. P.
2018.008.029.017 C. O. O. - I. P. P.
2018.008.029.018 U. O. I. - I. P. P.
2018.008.029.019 Nishnawbe-Aski - I. P. P.
2018.008.029.020 N. S. Women - I. P. P.
2018.008.029.021 Trapper Support - Ig. La Rusic
2018.008.029.022U. C. C. M./Wikwemikong Justice Project: Report and Proposal
2018.008.029.023 The Report of the Race Relations and Policing Task Force
2018.008.029.024 Seen But Not Heard - Native People in the Inner City

Photocopy of Canadian Arctic Resources Committee "Aboriginal Peoples, Comprehensive Land Claims, and Sustainable Development in the Territorial North". The brief was created for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

File contains copy of the report submitted to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples by the Touchwood File Hills Qu'Appelle Tribal Council.

File contains a copy of "The Northern Flood Agreement - History of Negotiation and Implementation, and Recommendations for Improvement" a report prepared for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples by The Northern Flood Committee, Inc. and Patrica A. Cobb of Symbion Consultants.

File contains copies of "Justice in Our Land" by the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs for the Manitoba Constitutional Task Force; and "Planning Change" a report to the 5th annual Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs and submission to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

Copy of the Union of Ontario Indians "Anishinabek Traditional Governing - a new era for the Anishinabek: Understanding the past for the challenges of tomorrow" submission to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

Copy of "Subsidies for Substance - The Place of income security programs in supporting hunting, fishing and trapping as a way of life in Canada's Aboriginal communities". This copy is a preliminary working draft submission of the report for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples by Ignatius E. La Rustic.

File contains records related to the environment. Included are "Guidelines for Wildlife Policy in Canada"; First Nations Environmental Focus Group; news clippings; United Nations Conference on Environment and Development; and Imprimis newsletter.

File contains two reports generated by Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak Inc. regarding the First Nations Environmental Assessment project. File contains the initial report (March 1990) and an interim report (April 1990).

File contains two copies of a paper authored by Henry Lickers comparing environmental law in the U. S. and Canada and the power that Indigenous peoples in both countries have in relation to the natural environment.

File contains related to the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation. Included in the file are:
1) The Unconscionable Treaty between The Crown and The Cree/Ojibway People of Northern Ontario - Brian Davey
2) The People and the Land are One pamphlet - Grand Council Treaty Number 9
3) The James Bay Treaty and the Federal Government's Comprehensive Land Claims Policy
4)Nishnawbe-Aski The People and the Land brochures
5) The Thunder Bay Pact - a Manifesto of the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation
6) A Declaration of Nishnawbe-Aski (the People and the Land) by the Ojibway-Cree Nation of Treaty #9 to the People of Canada
7) Basic Issues & Priorities of Grand Council Treaty No. 9 summary of activities
8) Realities of Resource Development in the Eastern Area of the Nishnawbe-Aski Territory
9) information about the Nishnawbe-Aski Resource Development Project
10) Third Annual Keewaywin Nishnawbe-Aski Nation Chiefs' Conference resolutions, 1983

File contains a copy of task 3 "Treaty Rights in the Moose River Basin" from Aboriginal, Treaty and Riparian Rights in the Moose River Basin: The Potential Impact of the Ontario Hydraulic Plan - a report for the Moose River/James Bay Coalition by Kent McNeil and Patrick Macklem. Attached to the report section is a letter to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples regarding the report.