File contains two transcripts from the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development meetings dated Thursday October 22, 1998 and Tuesday November 3, 1998.

File contains records related to the Comprehensive Claims Policy. Included in the file are:

1) National Overview of Comprehensive Claims Policy and the Constitution Act 1982 (draft - for discussion only)
2) Status report on Comprehensive Claims
3) Package of topics, issues, background information, talking points, and status dealing with comprehensive land claims across Canada.

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

File contains two published documents:
2018.008.022.001.001 Selkirk First Nation Self-Government Agreement
2018.008.022.001.002 Selkirk First Nation Final Agreement

File contains records related to the Agreement in Principle between the Nisga'a Tribal Council and the Governments of Canada and British Columbia. Included in the file are "Nisga'a Treaty Negotiations - Agreement in Principle brief"; news clippings; and two copies of "Part I: Executive Summary and Analysis of the Nisga'a Treaty Negotiations Agreement in Principle" by Mandell Pinder LLP Barristers and Solicitors for the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs.

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 the British Columbia Treaty Commission. Included in the file are:
1) British Columbia Treaty Commission Feb. and Nov. 1999 update
2) Correspondence and accompanying material related to the First Nations Summit Task Group
3) News clippings
4) Speech by Honourable Dale Lovick to the First Nations Summit
5) B. C. Treaty Commission annual report 1999
6) Fax copy of the "Tripartite Review of the B. C. Treaty Process Report of the Working Group".

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 two papers:
1) "Specific Claims" - The Skeletons Come Out of the Closet (The Lower Kootenay Band & Harvey Gansner) by Peter Di Gangi
2) Crown Fiduciary Obligations in All Phases of Aboriginal Land Claims in Canada: Policy Development, Negotiations, Litigation and Settlement by Mary Ellen Turpel

File contains records relating to the Lubicon Settlement Commission. Included in the file are:
1) two copies of "The Lubicon Settlement Commission of Review Final Report" March 1993
2) info package regarding recommendations of Commission
3) Information package re: Lubicon Lake
4) Information package re: Woodland Cree Band-Governments of Canada and Alberta agreement
5) Correspondence to Peter Di Gangi re: Woodland Cree-Federal Government-Alberta Provincial Government agreement in principle

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

File contains records related to the National Treaty Conference "Indigenous Treaties/Self-Determination" held April 6-9, 1992. Included in the file is correspondence, reports, proposals, and other records related to the conference.

File contains records related to the Assembly of First Nations Chiefs Commission on the Bilateral Process. Included in the file are:
1) Commission highlights report
2) Final draft of Commission's report to the 5th Annual General Assembly
3) Correspondence
4) Treaty Indian Nations and the Government of Canada - Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Bands
5) Process for Treaty and Indian Government Implementation
6) Indian Treaty Rights - Federation of Saskatchewan Indians
7) Treaty Indian Nations Bilateral Process
8) FSIN - Canada Bilateral Agreements - Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations

File contains records relating to alternative mechanisms for treaty implementation. Included in the file are:
1)2 copies - Alternative Approaches to First Nations Inherent, Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Canada
2) Alternative Mechanisms for Treaty Implementation: A review of past and current approaches - AFN
3) A Brief Commentary on the Alternative Mechanisms
4) National Committee on Treaties - Working Group on Alternative Mechanisms meeting kit

File contains records created by the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) regarding treaties, treaty rights, and the bilateral constitutional task force. Included are:
1) Statement of the Right to Self-Government and Land
2) Making Political and Legal Sense of the Treaties discussion paper
3) Treaty Rights: AFN Positions/Initiatives 1986-1991
4) AFN resolutions
5) Constitutional Working Group members list, memos, meeting schedule and meeting minutes
6) Report of the Bilateral Constitutional Task Force on Treaties and Treaty Rights
7) Treaty Rights Unit report on Treaties for A. F. N. Special Assembly
8) AFN Position on First Nations Treaties: Treaty Rights, Treaty Making and Implementation
9) 1983 Constitutional Accord on Aboriginal Rights
10) Proposal for an amendment on Self-Government and Treaties by AFN
11) A National First Nations-Canada Treaty - Chiefs Assembly AFN
12) FSIN - Canada Bilateral Agreements - Indian Governments of Saskatchewan
13) Restoring the Path, Renewing our Nations - AFN

File contains 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 records related to International Indigenous issues. Included in the file are:
1) "Indian Rights-Human Rights - Handbook for Indians on International Human Rights Complaints" Indian Law Resource Centre
2) United Nations List of Indigenous Organizations
3) Draft declaration as agreed upon by the members of the Working Group at its 11th session
4) "Implementation of the programme of action for the second decade to combat racism and racial discrimination" - Commission on Human Rights, United Nations
5) International Issues
6) "Advisory Services in the field of Human Rights - report of the Secretary General" Commission on Human Rights, United Nations
7) Report on the 5th General Assembly of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples, Lima Peru July 11-16, 1987

File contains copies of the Hutchins, Soroka & Dionne newsletter "Nouvelles Internationales HSD International News". Included in the file are Volume 1, Nos. 1-6; Volume 2, Nos. 1-3; Volume 3 No. 1-2; and Volume 4 No. 1-2.

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.

Two copies of "Study on treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and Indigenous populations" by Miguel Alfonso Martinez for the United Nations Economic and Social Council Commission on Human Rights sub-commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities.

File contains report created by the Grand Council of the Crees for the United Nations Economic and Social Council - "To the Edge of Cultural and Political Extinction" a response concerning the covenant rights of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada to the Government of Canada's fourth periodic report on the implementation of the international covenant on civil and political rights.

Two copies of "Reciting the Symptoms, Ignoring the Cause: The Systematic Dispossession of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada" a response to the Government of Canada's third periodic report on the implementation of the international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights.

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 the Federal NDP party. Included in the file are:
1) The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples final report - NDP stance
2) Aboriginal Rights Coalition questionnaire responses by Gordon Earle, Halifax West NDP Campaign.
3) NDP 1997 election platform in relation to Aboriginal Peoples.

File contains speeches and presentations. Included are:

1) The Crown-First Nations Relationship and the Treaties - a National Perspective
2) Presentation to the Senate of Canada - The Implications of the Meech Lake Accord on Treaties
3) Presentation to the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs regarding The Post-Secondary Education Assistance Program
4) Speaking notes for Regional Chief Lawrence Courtoreille to the Indian Association of Alberta
5) National Chief Georges Erasmus' Speaking Notes for Newsworld, Aug. 29, 1990
6) Assembly of First Nations submission to the Senate Committee on Aboriginal Affairs
7) Backgrounder on the current crisis in First Nation - Canada Relations

File contains records related to fiscal accountability. Included in the file are newspaper clippings and a copy of "CGA-AFN Accountability Project interim report, April 1999".

File contains two copies of a booklet for the Federal Steering Committee on Self-Government and Comprehensive Claims. Included are member lists and a process booklet.

File contains two papers -
1) Brian Slattery's presentation on the inherent right to self-government presented at the Self-Government Conference October 19, 1998
2) "How Can Infringements of the Constitutional Rights of Aboriginal Peoples be Justified" by Kent McNeil for the Centre for Constitutional Studies - Constitutional Forum.

File contains newspaper clippings, a press release and candidate biographical sketches for the Assembly of First Nations Grand Chief elections.

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 the Lands and Trust Services (LTS). Included in the file is correspondence, background information, AFN resolutions, and a copy of the AFN Land Rights Unit Inventory & Information Services Feasibility Study.

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 booklet "The First Nations' Fiscal Institutions Initiative - General Information and Business Plans".

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

File contains records related to police/government fishing raids on the Restigouche [Restitouche] Reserve in June of 1981 and the Tobique Reserve in August of 1982. Included in the file are a band council resolution re: legal action; Saturday Night Magazine story; transcript of phone conversation; and Press Release re: Tobique Reserve.

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

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

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

File contains 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 fiscal institutions and First Nation Land Management. Included in the file are:
1) Indian Taxation Advisory Board materials
2) First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Institutions Initiative materials
3) Framework Agreement on First Nation Land Management questions and answers

File contains records related to First Nations Governance. Included in the file are:
1) news stories
2) Assembly of First Nations Bulletin re: Minister Nault's Governance Initiative Act
3) "A Report on the First Month's Work of Minister Nault's 'Joint Advisory Committee' on Governance Legislation"
4) "Putting the Nault Governance Act into Context: The Long History of Opposition"

File contains 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 the Government of Ontario's Interim Enforcement Policy (IEP). Included in the file are:
1) letter to the editor re: changes to the IEP, 1997
2) letter from Ministry of Natural Resouces and accompanying draft of IEP guidelines to West Bay First Nation, 1997
3) News release and accompanying statement to legislature re: introduction of IEP, 1991

File contains records related to Ontario's Mining Policy. Included in the file are:
1) Ontario's Mineral Development Strategy, 2006 [ENG/FR]
2) Toward Developing an Aboriginal Consultation Approach for Mineral Sector Activities - a discussion paper, Winter 2007

File contains records related to the Reform Party of Canada. Included in the file are:
1) newspaper clippings
2) Reform Party of Canada Aboriginal Affairs Task Force report, Sept. 1995
3) Reform Party of Canada Assembly '96 policy resolution vote results
4) correspondence
5) multiple copies of "Background paper - Aboriginal Affairs Task Force"

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

File contains two copies of "Putting Nature First: Conservation Principles to Guide Settlement of Aboriginal Land Claims" a brief for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples by the Land Claims Work Group of the Federation of Ontario Naturalists. One of the copies is complete, the other is only the odd numbered pages of the report.

File contains records related to the Ontario Federation of Anglers & Hunters. Included in the file are clippings, correspondence and a copy of "Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters position paper on Co-management of Crown Lands and Resources in Ontario".

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

File contains records pertaining to the Citizens for Public Justice (CPJ). The majority of the file contains copies of "The Catalyst" the CPJ's newsletter. Also in the file is their 1996 annual report and "CPJ in the News" - containing 2 articles from other publications.

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

File contains copies of the the publication "Anasazi" published by Obonsawin Irwin Consulting Services. Copies in file include: August 1997; October 1997; January 1998; Vol 5 No. 1, 2; Vol 6 No. 1, 2; Vol 7 No. 2; Vol 8 No. 1, 2; Vol 9 No. 2.

File contains miscellaneous periodicals:
1) Self-Government is Treason pamphlet
2) letter to Chiefs of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (2 copies)
4) Page 12 from "Anasazi" periodical (4 copies)
5) Cartoon by Bill [Powless] (3)
6) Recent Trends and Initiatives in Indian Affairs pamphlet
7) Reader's Digest, March 1997 - correspondence to Magazine regarding article
8) The Beaver, Winter 1979
9) Alternatives - Perspectives on Society and Environment A Special Issue on the North, Autumn 1978
10) Lang Michener Barristors & Solicitors newsletter "In Brief" Summer 1997
11) Changing Course - A Study Guide for Canadian Social Analysis (2 copies)
12) The Catalyst - a publication of Citizens for Public Justice, Dec/Jan 2000; Apr/May 2000; June/July 2000; Aug/Sept 2000; Oct/Nov 2001
13) Jubilee Initiative petition on Aboriginal Land Rights
14) News clipping "Obidiah" from The First Perspective
15) This Country Canada Vol. 1 No. 1, Summer 1992

File contains copies of "Akwesasne Notes", a magazine published by the Program in American Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo and D-Q University. In the file are: Vol. II No. 2 May 1979; Vol. II No. 4 Autumn 1979; Vol. II No. 3 Summer 1979; Vol. II No. 5 Spring 1980; and Vol. 16 No. 4 Summer 1984.

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 the Brown Paper - A Declaration of Indian Rights, The B. C. Position paper prepared by the UBCIC (The Union of B. C. Indian Chiefs), dated November 17, 1970.
Also in the file is an invitation to the Spring graduation of the Institute of Indigenous Government in Burnaby B. C.

File contains a copy of "Wahbung - Our Tomorrows" by The Indian Tribes of Manitoba 1871-1971, Manitoba Indian Brotherhood. Also in the file is a letter from the Treaty & Aboriginal Rights Research Centre of Manitoba, Inc.

File contains a copy of Sally M. Weaver's "Self Government Policy for Indians 1980-1990: Political Transformation of Symbolic Gestures"; 2 copies of "Notes on Cabinet Documents Relating to Self-Government"; Copy of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Federal and Provincial governments and the Nishnawbe-Aksi Nation, 1985; and a copy of "Self Government Negotiations status report.

File of newspaper and magazine clippings, the majority of which relate to Brian Mulroney's stepping down as Prime Minister. Also in the file is a copy of the Constitution of the National Progressive Conservative Aboriginal Caucus (1985).

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 a copy of the Self-Determination Symposium held in Toronto in 2000. Symposium was jointly organized by the Assembly of First Nations in association with the University of Toronto, Department of Indian Affairs, and the Ontario Attorney General's Office.

File contains records relating to the Liberal Parties' policies specifically relating to their Aboriginal platform.

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 memo from Brian Slattery to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Affairs regarding his personal research plan and a copy of his paper "Decolonizing the Constitution".

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 excerpts from the Auditor General of Canada's April 1999 report. Included are Chapter 5: Collaborative Arrangements: Issues for the Federal Government; Chapter 10: Funding Arrangements for First Nations: Follow-Up; and Chapter 2: Revenue Canada: The Underground Economy Initiative.

File contains a copies of the 1999 Federal Budget Analysis and a newspaper clipping

Copy of Chapter 11 Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development from the Auditor General of Canada's 1986 report to the House of Commons.

Copy of chapters 8-10 Program Evaluation of the Auditor General of Canada's 1993 report to the House of Commons.

File contains information regarding Community Based Self Government in relations to the United Indian Councils of the Mississauga and Chippewa Nations. Included are:
1) booklet - Indian Government: Treaties, Rights and Development
2) booklet - Traditional Territories - Rights, Jurisdiction, & Co-existence
3) booklet - Economic Self Sufficiency & Self Determination
4) News release - United Anishnaabeg Councils Sign First Self Government Agreement in Principle
5) Listing of Missassauga Nation Treaties
6) Discussion paper - United Indian Councils of Mississauga and Chippewa Nations Self Government Negotiations, prepared by the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development's Self-Government Negotiations team

File contains a copy of the The North Shore First Nations and North Shore Tribal Council Self-Government Initiative information package.

File contains meeting minutes from the the Union of Ontario Indians (UOI) /Tribal Council Relationship meetings and accompanying materials. Those materials include a draft working paper on protocol between Native Political Organizations and First Nations created by the United Chiefs and Councils of Manitoulin; a report on UOI/Tribal Council Relationships; Union of Ontario Indians relationship with Superior First Nations; United Indian Councils (UIC)'s Indian Government Institutions Inter-relationships & Protocol; and a copy of North Shore First Nations and North Shore Tribal Council Self Government Initiative.

File contains two documents pertaining to self-government in the Yukon Territories. The first is a copy of the Teslin Tlingit Council self-goverment agreement implementation plan and the second is the First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun self-government agreement between The Government of the Yukon, The Government of Canada, and the First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun.

File contains records relating to self-government for the Siksika First Nation. File includes a copy of the agreement between The Siksika and the Federal Government and four documents prepared for the Siksika First Nation by Robert A. Reiter - titled "Accountability Legislation", "First Nation Government Finance Act", "First Nation Governance Recognition Act", and "First Nation Government Act".

File contains records relating to the First Nation Forest Resources Management Act and the National Aboriginal Forestry Association (NAFA). Included in the file are:
1) NAFA (National Aboriginal Forestry Association) brochure
2) Correspondence re: First Nation Forest Resources Management Act
3) An analysis of the proposed First Nation Forest Resources Management Act, prepared for the Native Council of Canada
4) NAFA drafts No. 4 and draft No. 5 - Proposal for a First Nation Forest Resources Management Act
5) NAFA Quarterly newsletter - Summer 1992, Summer 1993
6) Lands, Revenues and Trusts Forestry Review - Intertribal Forestry Association of British Columbia, December 1990

File contains records relating to the framework agreement initiative and the Association of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC). The file includes newsclippings; correspondence; a brochure "Moving Beyond Talk - A first step to restoring jurisdictions to Manitoba First Nations; news releases; copy of the memorandum of understanding between AMC and the Federal Government; copies of the framework; and other related materials.

File contains records relating to Provincial/Territorial Premier meetings regarding social reform. Included are:
1) newspaper clippings/news releases
2) correspondence
3) Report No. 2 - Provincial Territorial Council on Social Policy Renewal progress report to Premiers.

File contains newspaper clippings, and a copy of the draft interim report regarding public accounts and the Specific Claims branch of the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs.

File of newspaper and magazine clippings regarding taxation, debt, and economics.

File contains two copies of "Introduction to Real Property Taxation on Reserve" by the Indian Taxation Advisory Board, Indian and Northern Affairs.

File contains records relating to Parliament Bill C-115 - an act to amend the Indian Act. In the file is a info sheet "Band Property Taxation Powers on Reserves" and a background report on Bill C-115.

File contains a newsclipping and copies of the Kamloops Indian Band's bylaws pertaining to taxation and property assessment.

File contains correspondence, news releases and other records related to taxation and First Nations.

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 records relating created in conjunction with the Assembly of First Nations/Aboriginal Strategic Initiative regarding First Nations social services. Included in the file are:
1) Towards a National Framework for a First Nations Social Security System - a discussion document (2 copies)
2) Selected Executive Summaries Aboriginal Strategic Initiative Comprehensive Research and Effective Practices on Social Security Reform (2 copies)
3) Discussion Paper - A First Nations' Agenda for the National Child Benefit
4) Towards a Framework for a First Nations Social Security System - Our Challenge Our Responsibility Facilitator Information Kit
5) ASI Jurisdiction History outline
6) Executive Summary Report on First Nations Children, Our Future; A Comprehensive Review on the Cultural Conflicts Contributing to First Nation Child Poverty
7) Memorandum of Agreement between Assembly of First Nations/Aboriginal Strategic Initiative and Peter Di Gangi

File contains a final report by Windiroflow Consulting Inc. for the Assembly of First Nations titled "First Nations Social Security Systems - a review of literature for Assembly of First Nations". Also in the file are two copies of the Assembly of First Nations Social Security Reform newsletter, Vol. 1 No. 3 - October 1997.

File contains reports and other materials. Included are:
1) Assembly of First Nations Report of the Proceedings of the National Symposium on Sharing Solutions: First Nations Social Security, held in Aylmer, Quebec May 5-7, 1997
2) Assembly of First Nations Social Security Reform Newsletter - Vol. 1, No's 1 and 2
3) Four Worlds International Institute for Human and Community Development resource catalogue
4) First Nations Child Poverty Issues Research Paper prepared for the Assembly of First Nations Aboriginal Strategic Initiative by Louise Lahache

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

File contains speaking notes for Ovide Mercredi, National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, for the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs on December 12, 1991. The File also contains a transcript of the December 10, 1991 meeting of the Indian Specific Claim Commission.

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.