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

File contains a program for the Assembly of First Nations National Land Claims Conference held in Quebec City November 5-6, 1997. Also in the file is a "Joint First Nations - Crown Task Force on Claims Policy Reform" (also found in the conference program) and "First Nations Independent Claims Commission Act" by Bruce Gilpin.

Assembly of First Nations National Land Claims Conference report. Conference held in Quebec City on November 5-6, 1997.

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

File contains 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 Joint First Nations/Canada Task Force (JTF) on Specific Claims Reform and lobbying of an Independent Claims Body. Included in the file are:
1) Assembly of First Nations/Fraternite Nationale des Indiens - "First Nations Specific Claims Commission and Tribunal" cabinet lobby update
2) "The Joint FIrst Nations-Canada Task Force on Specific Claims Reform" by Rolland Pangowish
3) Lists of reserves by province
4) "Rapport du Groupe de Travail Mixte Premieres Nations - Canada sur la Reforme de la Politique sur les Revendications Particulieres"

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

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

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.

File contains records relating to the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) Independent Claims Body (ICB) technical team and initiative. In the file is correspondence, meeting agenda and other materials and a copy of "Landmark" Vol. 8 No. 3.

Copy of the program from the Assembly of First Nations Chiefs Committee on Claims - Independent Claims Body (ICB) meeting held in Vancouver, British Columbia on February 13-14, 2002. Included in the program is background information on ICB, the ICB proposal, claims updates, and other related materials.

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

Assembly of First Nations Chiefs Committee on Claims meeting kit. Meeting was held September 26, 2002 in Vancouver BC.

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

Indian Claims Commission proceedings volume 11. Included are reports on: Gamblers First Nation Treaty Land Entitlement inquiry; Nekaneet First Nation Agricultural and other benefits under Treaty 4 inquiry; Moose Deer Point First Nation Pottawatomi Rights inquiry. Also in the volume are responses from the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development to Gamblers First Nation Treaty Land Entitlement inquiry and response regarding the Qu'Appelle Valley Indian Development Authority flooding claim inquiry to the Muscowpetung First Nation, Pasqua First Nation, Standing Buffalo First Nation, Sakimay First Nation, Cowessess First Nation, and Ochapowace First Nations.

DIAND Specific Claims Branch specific claims tatus reports for Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, and the Yukon.

Series contains records and files pertaining to effects of the Delgamuukw v. British Columbia decision and it effect on land claims in Canada. Series contains the following files/items:

2018.008.009.001 Tribal Council & Board Advisory Services Workshop kit
2018.008.009.002 UBCIC - Delgamuukw 3/99
2018.008.009.003 Delgamuukw Analysis 1998
2018.008.009.004 Delgamuukw: Fraser 5/99
2018.008.009.005 Delgamuukw - One Year After conference
2018.008.009.006 1st Special National Conference on Delgamuukw
2018.008.009.007 The Mechanics of Aboriginal Land Settlements: Preparing and Negotiating Claims - A National Conference
2018.008.009.008 Litigating and Aboriginal Law
2018.008.009.009 Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement

File contains kit handed out to attendees at the Tribal Council and Band Advisory Services Program Workshop held December 10 and 11, 2002 in Gatineau, Quebec.

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

File contains records relating to the Fraser Institute and the conference "The Delgamuukw Case: Aboriginal Land Claims and Canada's Regions" held in Ottawa on May 26-27, 1999.
Included in the file are:
1) handwritten notes from conference
2) Conference kit
3) Conference paper #1 "The Probable Effects of Delgamuukw" by John Howard
4) Conference paper #2 "Aboriginal Title as a Constitutionally Protected Property Right" by Kent NcNeil
5) Conference paper #3 "Converting the Communal Aboriginal Interest into Private Property: Sarnia, Osoyoos, The Nisga'a Treaty, and other Post-Delgamuukw Developments" by Jack Woodward
6) Conference paper #4 "Aboriginal Title: Origins and Character" by Brian Slattery
7) Conference paper #5 "What My Elders Taught Me: Oral Traditions as Evidence in Aboriginal Litigation" by Alexander von Gernet
8) Conference paper #6 "The Delgamuukw Case: What does it mean and what do we do now?" by Melvin H. Smith
9) Conference paper #7 "Delgamuukw and Diplomacy: First Nations and Municipalities in British Columbia" by Paul Tennant
10) Conference paper #8 "The Effect of the Delgamuukw Decision upon Alberta Land Claims" by Tom Flanagan
11) Conference paper #9 "Will Delgamuukw Eclipse the Prairie Sun? The Implications of the Supreme Court's Decision for the Prairie Treaties" by Ken Tyler
12) Conference paper #10 "Delgamuukw and the Interpretation of the Prairie Treaties" by Norman Zlotkin
13) Conference paper #11 "Take your Time and Do It Right: Delgamuukw and the Dynamics of Self-Government Advocacy" by Kerry Wilkins
14) Conference paper #12 "Delgamuukw: Its Implications and Potential Effects in Quebec" by Paul Joffe
15) Conference paper #13 "The Delgamuukw Decision: An Invaluable Lever for Quebec's Aboriginal Communities" by Claude Bachand
16) Conference paper #14 "Rights and Wrongs: Finding a Just Middle Ground in Land Claim Disputes" by Don Cayo
17) Conference paper #15 "Impact of Delgamuukw Guidelines in Atlantic Canada" by James Sa'ke'j Youngblood Henderson
18) Conference paper #16 "The Impact of Delgamuukw in Newfoundland and Labrador" by Adrian Tanner
19) The Fraser Institute 1998 Annual Report
20) The Nisga'a Template: Facts the Government isn't sharing" Office of the Official Opposition Liberal Caucus of British Columbia
21) "A Principled Analysis of the Nisga'a Treaty" by Gordon Gibson, Public Policy Sources, No. 27

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.

File contains the program for the "1st Special National Conference on Delgamuukw" held February 24-26, 1999. It was co-hosted by the Interior Alliance and the Assembly of First Nations.

Conference program for "The Mechanics of Aboriginal Land Settlements - Preparing and Negotiating Claims" held September 30 - October 1, 1993 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Conference program for "Litigating Aboriginal Law" held in Ottawa, Ontario on June 6-7, 2002. Conference was given by the Pacific Business & Law Institute.

Published book of land claims agreements between The Government of Canada and the Inuit of Labrador.

Series contains records related to the Delgamuukw Implementation Strategic Committee and Comprehensive Land Claims. The series is divided into items and files:
2018.008.001.001 Assembly of First Nations Delgamuukw: A National Review Informal Round Table
2018.008.001.002 Delgamuukw Vancouver
2018.008.001.003 Aboriginal Title & Comprehensive Claims conference
2018.008.001.004 AFN - Delgamuukw 2/98
2018.008.001.005 Delgamuukw clippings
2018.008.001.006 Delgamuukw Thing
2018.008.001.007 AFN Delgamuukw proposal 1998
2018.008.001.008 AFN Delgamuukw 7/1999
2018.008.001.009 InterTribal - Fall 1999
2018.008.001.010 UBCIC Treaties 11/99
2018.008.001.011 Kamloops Mtng 2/99
2018.008.001.012 Kamloops II - 2/99
2018.008.001.013 AFN Vancouver 1/00
2018.008.001.014 AFN Delg/April 2000
2018.008.001.015 DELG/CONFED April/00
2018.008.001.016 AFN DISC May 2000
2018.008.001.017 Interior Alliance 5/2000
2018.008.001.018 AFN Delg/May 2000
2018.008.001.019 DISC June 2000
2018.008.001.020 DISC July 2000
2018.008.001.021 DISC October 2000
2018.008.001.022 DISC December 2000
2018.008.001.023 AFN DISC Jan 2001

Copy of the meeting kit for the the Assembly of First Nations "Delgamuukw: A National Review" informal round table held October 1-2, 1998 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

File contains three conference papers:
1) The Delgamuukw Decision Analysis prepared by Louise Mandell, Q.C. for the Pacific Business & Law Institute conference Feb. 12-13, 1998
2) The Definition and Proof of Aboriginal Title by Brian Slattery, Osgoode Law School for the Pacific Business & Law Institute conference Feb. 12-13, 1998
3) The SCC Decision in Delagamuukw comments by Denis de Keruzec, General Counsel Department of Justice, Canada for the conference "The Supreme Court of Canada Decision in Delgamuukw" Jan. 12-13, 1998

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 news clippings and press releases regarding treaty negotiations and Indigenous land claims in British Columbia after the Delgamuukw v. British Columbia Supreme Court ruling.

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

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

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

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

One copy of "Truth Behind Treaty Making" by the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs.

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 documents related to Delgammukw. They include "Common Ground - Toward Reconciliation of Aboriginal & Crown Title", press releases; multiple copies of "Statement on Review Developments" and "Statement on the Report of the Special Rapporteur", both presented to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations by Chief Arthur Manuel of the Interior Alliance; and information regarding AFN-AGA Resolution 5/99 "Motion to Implement the Delgamuukw Decision".

File contains records relating to Delgamuukw strategy. Included are a copy of "Common Ground - Toward Reconciliation of Aboriginal & Crown Title" and records related to the Federal Government's Comprehensive Claims Policy and the need to change it.

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 related to implementation of Delgamuukw. Included in the file is correspondence, papers, reports, and resolutions.

File contains records related to the Delgamuukw Strategic Implementation Committee. Also in the file is information on the Federal Government's Comprehensive Claim Policy and a copy of "Common Ground - Toward Reconciliation of Aboriginal & Crown Title".

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

File contains 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 records related to the Delgamuukw Implementation Strategic Committee and comprehensive claim policy. Included in the file is correspondence, and an information package re: Delgamuukw implementation.

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

Series contains reports, meeting kits, and publications on a variety of topics including treaties, residential schools, and education. Included are:
2018.008.011.001 Assembly of First Nations annual reports

2018.008.011.002 World Assembly of First Nations (WAFN) 82 magazine

2018.008.011.003 National Committee on Treaties/AFN Centre for Treaty Advocacy meeting kits

2018.008.011.004 National Treaty Conference final report

2018.008.011.005 Breaking the Silence - An interpretive study of Residential School impact and healing as illustrated by the stories of First Nations individuals

2018.008.011.006 "From the past, in the present; for the future" National Aboriginal Youth Conference report

2018.008.011.007 Reports on the Future Management of the Non-Insured Health Benefits Program

2018.008.011.008 Tradition and Education Towards a Vision of Our Future

2018.008.011.009 Lands, Revenues and Trusts (LRT) Review

Annual reports of by the Assembly of First Nations delivered at their annual Chiefs Assembly. Included are:

2018.008.011.001.001 "Ours to Build - Forward in Unity" Third annual Assembly of First Nations Conference April 20-22, 1982 Penticton, British Columbia

2018.008.011.001.002 Report to VI Annual Assembly of the Assembly of First Nations July 29-31, 1985 Vancouver, British Columbia

2018.008.011.001.003 Report to VIIIth Annual General Assembly June 24-26, 1987 Toronto, Ontario

2018.008.011.001.004 "Sovereignty and Self-Determination The Next Step" Assembly of First Nations Annual Report for the IXth General Assembly May 30-June 2, 1998 Edmonton, Alberta

2018.008.011.001.005 "Rebuilding First Nations" Assembly of First Nations Annual Report for the Xth Annual Chiefs Assembly July 5-7, 1989 Quebec City, Quebec. Also included is "Text of the Convention Concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries, submitted by the drafting committee".

2018.008.011.001.006 "Determining our Agenda Through Reconciliation of Our Past Lives" Assembly of First Nations Annual Report for the XIth Annual Chiefs Assembly May 4-7, 1990 Whitehorse, Yukon. Included with the report are some handouts from the assembly.

2018.008.011.001.007 "Our Land Our Government Our Heritage Our Future" Assembly of First Nations Annual Report for the XIIth Assembly of First Nations June 10-12, 1991 Winnipeg, Manitoba

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

One copy of the National Treaty Conference "Indigenous Treaties - Self-Determination Past Present Future" final report. The Conference was held April 6-9, 1992 in Edmonton, Alberta.

Assembly of First Nations published "Breaking the Silence - an interpretive study of Residential School impact and healing as illustrated by the stories of First Nations individuals".

National Aboriginal Youth Conference "from the past, in the present; for the future" was held in Ottawa, Ontario on Feb 10-13, 1989.

File contains volumes 1 and 2 of the report and recommendations of the joint Assembly of First Nations and Health Canada - Medical Services Branch task force on the future management of the non-insured health benefits program.

Tradition and Education - Towards a Vision of Our Future four volume publication published by the Assembly of First Nations.
1) A Declaration of First Nations Jurisdiction over Education
2) Volume I - National Review of First Nations Education
3) Volume II - National Review of First Nations Education
4) Volume III - Executive Summary

Sub-series contains reports and associated materials from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada's Lands, Revenues and Trusts Review. Included are:

2018.008.011.009.001 LRT Phase I Report, 1988

2018.008.011.009.002 LRT Phase I Report #7 Ligitation [sic] - Office of the Comptroller General of Canada, Econosault-Lavalin, DPA Group Inc. and MacLeod Lyle Smith McManus, November 1987

2018.008.011.009.003 LRT Phase II Report

2018.008.011.009.004 LRT Phase II Report Appendix B By-laws/Enforcement Indian Justice System Options - Lang Michener Lash Johnston Barristers & Solicitors

2018.008.011.009.005 LRT Phase II Report Appendix C Substantive Guidelines and Model By-laws

2018.008.011.009.006 LRT Phase II Final Report First Nations Law Executive Summary

2018.008.011.009.007 LRT Phase II Final Report Powers of Bands and Band Councils - Gowling, Strathy & Henderson Barristers & Solicitors - Sept. 1989

2018.008.011.009.008 LRT Phase II Final Report Elections - Eliasson, Apostle, Patterson and Associates - Dec. 9, 1988

2018.008.011.009.009 LRT Phase II Final Report Individual Accounts - Price Waterhouse - Aug. 3, 1989

2018.008.011.009.010 LRT Phase II Final Report Membership - Aug, 1989

2018.008.011.009.011 LRT Phase II Final Report Band Moneys - Price Waterhouse - Aug. 15, 1989

2018.008.011.009.012 LRT Phase II Report Indian Government Issues Elections of Chiefs and Band Councils - Potential Changes to Legislation, Regulations and The Appeal Process - Eliasson, Apostle, Patterson and Associates - Dec. 8, 1988

2018.008.011.009.013 LRT Review of the Legal Liaison and Support Directorate - Stevenson Kellogg Ernst & Whinney Management Consultants - Jan. 1989

2018.008.011.009.014 Executive Summary of the DIAND LRT Review Phase II Reports - AFN LRT Review

2018.008.011.009.015 The Lands, Revenues and Trusts (LRT) Review - The Great Debate

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

Copy of "Proposals on the Constitution 1971-1978" published by the Canadian Intergovernmental Conference Secretariat.

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 various reports and papers related to the National Indian Brotherhood - Assembly of First Nations. Included in the file are:
1) Background - The Assembly of First Nations: A History of Challenge
2) "Report on Problem and Resolutions related to the Assembly of First Nations' Operations, Structure and Organization" from the IVth annual Assembly of First Nations held May 16-18, 1983 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Prepared by Dennia Cromarty, Commissioner Nishnawbe-Aski Commission
3) Letter to Chiefs of Ontario from Peter Kelly/Kinew, Onigaming Indian Reserve
4) Listing of working committees on structure within the Assembly of First Nations
5) Organizational Structure of the Assembly of First Nations background papers
6) Resolutions passed at the Special Assembly of First Nations Conference held Feb. 6-8, 1984 in Toronto, Ontario
7) A Guide to Native Political Associations in Canada by Wayne Daugherty, Treaties and Historical Research Centre

File contains several copies of brochure "Support the Right to Self-Government" put out by the Assembly of First Nations, and a copy of "Indian Development Issues Post-Patriation" notes from a speech given by W. Rudnicki at McMaster University, June 2, 1982.

File contains a variety of presentations. Included are:
1) "Strength in Unity" Association of Iroquois and Allied Nations special edition
2) Grand Chief Wally McKay presentation to Nishnawbe-Aski Nation conference "Constitution" - Nishnawbe-Aski Chiefs' General Assembly, Moose Factory Island, Ontario Aug. 23-27, 1982
3) Up-Date on March 15-16, 1983 Canadian Constitutional Conference on Treaty and Aboriginal Rights. Presented to the Nishnawbe-Aski Chiefs by Dennis Cromarty, March 2, 1983
4) constitutional amendments
5) Opening Statement on Aboriginal and Treaty Rights to the Federal/Provincial/Aboriginal Ministerial Meeting by Grand Chief Billy Diamond, Grand Council of the Crees on behalf of the Assembly of First Nations, Feb. 28, 1983
6) Address of the Ontario Vice Chief, Assembly of First Nations to the Chiefs of the Anishnawbe-Aski Nation, by Tobasonakwut Peter (Kelly) Kinew, March 3, 1983

File contains federal communication strategy, background papers, and Ontario Government analysis related to FMC (First Ministers' Conference) . Included are:
1) Aboriginal Issues - a background paper, March 1983
2) Correspondence and Communication Strategy for the Constitutional Conference on Aboriginal Rights
3) Media Activities related to FMC (First Ministers' Conference
4) Press Paper - FMC pre-conference media activities
5) Indian Sovereignty and Self-Determination - first draft, Optional position paper No. 3 Assembly of First Nations
6) The Constitution Act, 1982: Potential Impact of The Provisions Regarding the Aboriginal Peoples, and Options for Ontario.

Copy of the combined presentations made to the Constitutional Task Force on Treaties and Treaty Rights. Presentations took place February 3-5, 1987.

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

Copy of the Report of the Special Joint Committee on a Renewed Canada. Gerald A. Beaudoin and Dorothy Dobbie were the joint chairpersons.

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

File contains mostly newspaper clippings regarding the 1991 election for National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations. Also included in the file is a memo from the Indian Governments of Saskatechewan re: candidates questionnaire.

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 related to the Charlottetown accord, Special Joint Committee on a Renewed Canada, and the AFN Constitutional Working Group. Included in the file are clippings, memos and:
1) Charlottetown Referendum results by Reserve
2) Submission to the Special Joint Committee on a Renewed Canada - AFN
3) AFN Constitutional Working group papers
4) First Nations Circle on the Constitution papers
5) Notes for speech by Joe Clark, president of the Privy Council and Minister responsible for Constitutional Affairs.

Copy of the "To The Source" a commissioners' report from the Assembly of First Nations First Nations Circle on the Constitution.

File contains records relating to Canada's Constitution and constitutional amendments. Included in the the file is correspondence and:
1) The Process for Amending the Constitution of Canada - the report of the Special Joint Committee of the Senate and the House of Commons, June 1991
2) First Ministers' Meeting on the Constitution final political accords
3) Political Accords - the Multilateral Meetings on the Constitution, Aug. 1992
4) Consensus Report on the Constitution - Charlottetown Aug. 28, 1992

File contains records relating to the Canadian Constitution and Constitutional reform. Included in the file are:
1) Treaty Indigenous Peoples and the Charlottetown Accord: the Message in the Breeze
2) Aboriginal Self-Government: Paramountcy of Laws by Peter W. Hogg
3) Constitution Act drafts 1867, 1982
4) The Charlottetown Agreement: A Consensus Legal Opinion
5) AFN brochure "Aboriginal Reforms in Canada's Constitution - Restoring the Path, Renewing our Nations"
6) Rolling Draft of Constitution Act, 1992 related to Aboriginal Peoples Mi'kmaq titles
7) Continuing Committee on the Constitution group III - Rolling Draft - May 29, 1992

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.

One copy of Walter Rudnicki's "The Aboriginal Constitutional Package, Its Hidden Sting".

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 records related to the Assembly of First Nations XVI Annual General Assembly. Included are a list of adopted resolutions, newspaper clippings, and a copy of "Reflection Unity Action" Assembly of First Nations Annual Report 1995.

Series contains records related to the Federal Government's Bill C-79: An Act to permit certain modifications in the application of the Indian Act to bands that desire them; and First Nations Governance. The series is divided into the following files/items:

2018.008.013.001 Assembly of First Nations XVII Annual General Assembly kit, 1996
2018.008.013.002 Indian Act - AFN July 1996
2018.008.013.003 Indian Act Amendment Project Final Report - Phase II March 1996
2018.008.013.004 Day of Action
2018.008.013.005 C-79 SCAA
2018.008.013.006 C-79 Docs
2018.008.013.007 S-9/S-10 Senate
2018.008.013.008 Indian Act II - Bill C-79
2018.008.013.009 AFN - ATIP 96-97
2018.008.013.010 Ind. Act: Clippings
2018.008.013.011 Ind. Act: Winnipeg 12/96
2018.008.013.012 Dec 1996
2018.008.013.013 Ind. Act - Rejections
2018.008.013.014 Ind. Act - Res/Bckgrnd
2018.008.013.015 AFN Election 7/97
2018.008.013.016 AFN Restructuring 2/97
2018.008.013.017 AFN Confederacy 12/98
2018.008.013.018 AFN Confederacy 12/99
2018.008.013.019 AFN Fiscal Relations 1999-2000
2018.008.013.020 AFN Confederacy 4/99
2018.008.013.021 AFN 2000 - Election etc.
2018.008.013.022 FNG - April 2001
2018.008.013.023 FNG - Redress - 3/2001
2018.008.013.024 FNG - May 2001 Confed.
2018.008.013.025 FNG - June/July 2001
2018.008.013.026 FNG Fall 2001

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 a copy of the "Indian Act Amendment project phase II final report".

File contains newspaper clippings, brochures, and other records related to the National Day of Action April 17, 1997.

File contains records related to Bill C-79 and the Senate Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development. Included in the file are notes, Committee meeting transcripts, news releases, meeting announcements and other records.

File contains records related to Bill C-79. Included in the file are:
1) Chiefs Committee on Enforcement of First Nations- Crown Relationship folder
2) Bill C-79
3) AFN resolutions and correspondence
4) Action plan re: Indian Act II
5) Analysis of Proposed Indian Act Amendments - Roger Jones
6) notes

File contains two copies Bill S-9 - An Act providing for self-government by the First Nations of Canada (1996) and one copy of Bill S-10 - An Act providing for self-government by the First Nations of Canada (1995)

File contains records related to Bill C-79 "An Act to permit certain modifications in the application of the Indian Act to bands that desire them". Included in the file are briefing and preliminary notes re: the bill; meeting minutes; Kill the Bill list of tasks; and other related records.

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.

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

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

Copy of "Documentation Regarding First Nations Formal Rejection of DIAND's Proposed Indian Act Amendments".

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