File contains records related to Assembly of First Nations (AFN) restructuring. Included in the file is a copy of the AFN charter; three copies of the proposal for restructuring; two copies of the AFN mandate renewal; and a copy of AFN draft resolution no. 4/97 - AFN Restructuring.

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

File contains an Assembly of First Nations folder containing budget information for 1999/2000. Also in the file is "The AFN-CGA Accountability Project" final report.

File contains a variety of records including:
1) Joint Initiative for Policy Development focus group status report
2) Treaty Implementation & Enforcement Action - a strategic plan
3) A Report on the Aboriginal Government Transition Centre
4) Aboriginal Rights Coalition Solidarite bulletin, Spring 1999

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.

Copy of Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development working paper "Inventory of Redress Mechanisms".

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.

Series contains records related to First Nations Governance, fiscal management and government policy. Series has been divided into the following files and items:

2018.008.014.001 Dan Goodleaf 1993
2018.008.014.002 Frank Mag
2018.008.014.003 DIA Staff/Reorg: 91-93
2018.008.014.004 CH. Lands Vol. I - 91-92
2018.008.014.005 CH. Lands Vol. II - 92-93
2018.008.014.006 CH. Lands Vol. III - 94-96
2018.008.014.007 LRT - Mawiw - 1/91
2018.008.014.008 AFN/ Lands & Trusts
2018.008.014.009 Lands Act C-75 12/96
2018.008.014.010 Bill C-49 Lands Act 1999
2018.008.014.011 AFN - LTS - 9/98
2018.008.014.012 AFN - LTS - ATR Policy 11/98
2018.008.014.013 Liberal Trix 1997
2018.008.014.014 Fed Election 1997
2018.008.014.015 AFN- DIA Fiscal - Feb 2001
2018.008.014.016 DIA - AFN Fiscal - 2001
2018.008.014.017 AFN AGA 7/2000
2018.008.014.018 W. Rudnicki: Corbiere
2018.008.014.019 FNG - W. Rudnicki 5/2001
2018.008.014.020 Coalition Kit - 12/2001
2018.008.014.021 LTS - AFN - DIA 2001
2018.008.014.022 COO- Nov-Dec 2001
2018.008.014.023 Association of Iroquois & Allied Indians Annual Report 1992
2018.008.014.024 AFN Confederacy - 12/01
2018.008.014.025 AFN Resolutions Etc. 2001
2018.008.014.026 FNG Minutes - Nov-Dec/2001
2018.008.014.027 FNG 2002 Vol. I
2018.008.014.028 FNG - March 2002
2018.008.014.029 FNG - June 2002
2018.008.014.030 Fiscal Institutions - 2002

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

File contains stories published Frank Magazine between 1991-1995 about Bruce Rawson, Marc Eliesen, and Ernie Hobbs.

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

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 regarding the First Nations Lands Board and the First Nations Chartered Land Act. Included in the file are brochures, info kits, proposals and an analysis.

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

Final report of the Mawiw Council of Chiefs Lands/ Revenues/Trusts Consultative Process.

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 First Nations Land Management. Included in the file is a news release, a copy of Bill C-75, and a framework agreement on First Nation Land Management between the Government of Canada and the First Nations of Westbank, Musqueam, Lheit Lit'en, N'Quatqua, Squamish, Siksika, Muskoday, Cowessess, Opaskwayak Cree, Nipissing, Mississaugas of Scugog Island, Chippewas of Mnjikaning, and Chippewas of Georgina Island.

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 records related to the Lands and Trust Services. Included are regional involvement reports; background information; progress report; and other records.

File contains records pertaining to the Lands and Trust Service Additions to Reserve (ATR) policy. Included in the file are reports; meeting notes and other records.

File contains newspaper clippings related to then Prime Minister Jean Chretien and then Minister of Indian Affairs Ron Irwin.

File contains a copy of the Douglas Treaty Case Study by the Nanoose First Nation for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

File contains records related to the 1997 Federal Election. Included are party platform documents and handbooks created by the Assembly of First Nations. Also in the file are a variety of other publications regarding the election.

File contains a meeting kit for the Chiefs' Committee on Fiscal Relations - First Nations' Fiscal Institutions meeting held February 21, 2001.

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

File contains records related to the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) 21st Annual General Assembly in 2000. Included in the file are:
1) newspaper clippings
2) Delgamuukw Implementation Strategic Committee report of the co-chairs
3) draft agenda for assembly
4) "Living Languages, Lasting Culture" AFN 2000 Annual Report

File contains a copy of "The Corbiere Ruling - A Loaded Verdict" by Eagle Shield (Walter Rudnicki) for the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs.

File contains a copy of "Made in Ottawa Governance (and other related initiatives) by Eagle Shield (Walter Rudnicki).

File contains a brochure for the Federal Government's First Nations Governance Initiative, and an information kit for the First Nation Coalition for Inherent Rights. Kit includes briefing materials and a legal review.

File contains information kit "The Voice for First Nations: Planning for Change" for the AFN/INAC Joint Initiative for Policy Development (Lands and Trust Services).

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

File contains a copy of "Leadership" the 1992 annual report for the Association of Iroquois & Allied Indians.

File contains records related to/created for the Confederacy of Nations meetings held December 4-6, 2001. Included in the file is a draft agenda, opening address of National Chief Matthew Coon Come, Assembly of First Nations pre-budget submission, Confederacy of Nations report and other materials.

File contains 2 resolution reports:
1) Confederacy of Nations resolutions May 8-10, 2001
2) AFN 22nd Annual General Assembly resolutions July 17-19, 2001

File contains minutes and accompanying material for the November - December 2001 meetings of the Joint Ministerial Advisory Committee on the First Nations Governance legislation.

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

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

File contains records related to First Nations Governance. Included in the file are a brochure about the First Nations Governance Act (Bill C-61); information about governance activities and the National Day of Solidarity "Drums across the Nation" June 21, 2002; an e-note by four_arrows@canada.com "The Governance Embellishment: Still Tastes Like the Old Indian Act"; and a summary of the new First Nations Governance Act.

File contains records related to the First Nations Fiscal Initiative. Included in the file are information kits, correspondence, briefing notes and other materials.

Series contains records related to Treaty Policy. Series contains the following files/items:

2018.008.015.001 Treaties + Xting - Alan Pratt
2018.008.015.002 Treaty Interpretation
2018.008.015.003 IAA - Treaty Remedies
2018.008.015.004 RCAP Treaty Policy - April 1994
2018.008.015.005 AFN Treaty - April 92
2018.008.015.006 AFN - Treaty 4/92 Vol. II
2018.008.015.007 AFN Treaty Conf. 11/95
2018.008.015.008 Crown Treaty Policy
2018.008.015.009 Treaty Federalism
2018.008.015.010 Treaties - Legal Personality 1990
2018.008.015.011 Bilateral
2018.008.015.012 Bilateral - Alternative Mechanisms
2018.008.015.013 AFN Bilateral/FMC's/Tru resolutions etc.
2018.008.015.014 Free Trade - Treaty
2018.008.015.015 Aronson - Crown Treaty Authority
2018.008.015.016 Apamuwek
2018.008.015.017 Apamuwek Vol. II
2018.008.015.018 Fur Trade, Rites, Treaties
2018.008.015.019 O-I
2018.008.015.020 Water Rites V. I

Letter and accompanying discussion paper "The Numbered Treaties and Extinguishment: A Legal Analysis" authored by Alan Pratt for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

File contains authored papers regarding treaty interpretation. Included in the file are:
1) A People of Law - Paul Williams
2) The Incorporation of International Law in Domestic Law - Hutchins, Soroka & Dionne
3) The Nature and Status of the Oral Agreements as Distinct from the Written Terms of the Treaties - Delia Opekokew
4) The Interpretation of the Treaties Entered into by the First Nations and the Crown... - Delia Opekokew

Report titled "Disputes about the Meanings of Indian Treaties between the Crown and First Nations" by the Indian Association of Alberta for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

File contains four writings regarding treaty policy. In the file are:
1) Evolving New International Laws from the Fourth World - Rudolph C. Ryser
2) Will Canadian Accept the New Relationship - thoughts on the seminar on sovereignty, citizenship, and treaties - James Tully
3) Making Waves newsletter Vol. 4, No. 3 (August 1993)
4) The North and National Policy - Peter Jull

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 National Treaty Conference "Indigenous Treaties/Self-Determination" held April 6-9, 1992. Included in the file is correspondence, reports, addresses and associated materials related to the conference.

File contains records related to the National Treaty Gathering held November 21 - 23, 1995 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. File contains agendas, papers, correspondence and other records related to the gathering. There is also a copy of the National Treaty Conference book from the April 1992 gathering.

File contains a copy of the Federal Treaty Policy Study by Stephen Aronson and Ron Maguire; a copy of the completed Aboriginal Treaties questionnaire for RCAP - submitted by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada; and copies of the questionnaire question and a list of people it was sent to.

File contains a copy of "Exploring Concepts of Treaty Federalism - a Comparative Perspective" by Thomas O. Hueglin, Wilfred Laurier University. Paper was prepared for the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations - Queen's University on behalf of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

File contains an article "Do Treaty Indians have a Corporate Personality? A Note on the Pawis, Blackfoot and Bear Island Cases" by Geoffrey S. Lester. Published in the Canadian Native Law Reporter.

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 Free Trade and land claims settlement. Included in the file are:
1) The Free Trade Agreement as a Treaty - Centre for Treaty Advocacy
2) The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement and Native Land-Claims Settlement
3) The Canadian-U. S. Free Trade Agreement synopsis

Copy of Stephen Aronson's "The Authority of the Crown to Make Treaties with Indians".

Draft Final Report of "International Context of Crown-Aboriginal Treaties in Canada". Report was prepared by Russel Lawrence Barsh and James Youngblood Henderson, in their roles with the Apamuwek Institute, under contract to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

File contains report authored by Tony Hall for Leroy Little Bear and the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Report is in two parts: Part 1 - The Fur Trade and Aboriginal Rights: History, Education and Constitutional Meaning; and Part 2 - Aboriginal-Crown Treaties in the History and Constitution of Canada: Basic Principles, Basic Interpretations.

File contains copies of the the publication "Anasazi" published by Obomsawin Irwin Consulting Services. Included in the file are June 1995 - October 1996, February - June 1997. Also in the file is correspondence and draft copies of articles authored by Peter Di Gangi for the publication.

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

Series contains related to International Indigenous Rights. The majority of the records relate to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations. Series has been subdivided into the following files/items:

2018.008.016.001 United Nations Study of the Problem of Discrimination against Indigenous Populations vol. 1-5
2018.008.016.002 International Service for Human Rights - Human Rights in the UN General Assembly, 1988
2018.008.016.003 International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs Document 62: Critical Issues in Native North America
2018.008.016.004 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission - Setting International Standards: An Analysis of the United Nations Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
2018.008.016.005 UNGWIP - Treaty Study
2018.008.016.006 USA/INTNTL - Economist
2018.008.016.007 UNGWIP - AFN 87
2018.008.016.008 UN Anti-Racism
2018.008.016.009 Australia
2018.008.016.010 Indigenous - Interntl
2018.008.016.011 UNGWIP Vol. I
2018.008.016.012 International Latin America
2018.008.016.013 AFN/UN INTL - 3/96 VI
2018.008.016.014 AFN/UN INTL - 3/96 VII
2018.008.016.015 INTL - General
2018.008.016.016 United States
2018.008.016.017 INTNTL: Case Studies
2018.008.016.018 INT-Remedies
2018.008.016.019 Waitangi Treaty
2018.008.016.020 Cert - USA 80's
2018.008.016.021 International Countries 4th Russell Tribunal
2018.008.016.022 P. Hutchins News: INTL

Copy of the Study of the Problem of Discrimination against Indigenous Populations by Jose R. Martinez Cobo, special rapporteur of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. Study is divided into 5 volumes.

Copy of "Human Rights in the UN General Assembly 43rd session - 1988".

File contains two copies of Document 62 - Critical Issues in Native North America by the International Working Group for Indigenous Affairs and edited by Ward Churchill. File only contains section II of the document "Section II - Canada".

Copy of "Setting International Standards: An Analysis of the United Nations Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples" by Sarah Pritchard for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC).

File contains draft resolutions and Study on Treaties by the United Nations Economic and Social Council - Commission on Human Rights - sub-commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities.

File contains story clippings from the Economist Magazine regarding North American Indigenous populations. Also in the file is a pamphlet regarding Hopi land claims.

File contains records related to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations. Included in the file are:
1) Draft of the Universal Declaration on Indigenous Rights,
2) Presentation to the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations - Assembly of First Nations Centre for Treaty Advocacy
3) Intervention on Standard Setting before the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations
4) Submission to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations 7th session - Konrad Sioui, Vice-Chief Quebec, AFN
5) Report on the 4th European Meeting of the North American Indian Support Groups
6) United Nations Economic and Social Council - Commission on Human Rights - Sub-commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities "Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations - report of the Working Group on its 6th session"
7) United Nations Economic and Social Council - Commission on Human Rights - Sub-commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities "Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations - written statement submitted by Grand Council of the Crees (of Quebec)"
8) Presentation of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations - Assembly of First Nations Centre for Treaty Advocacy

File contains correspondence and discussion paper regarding Canada's consultations for the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance (WCAR).

File contains newspaper and magazine clippings and two reports related to the Indigenous Peoples of Australia. Included in the file are two reports:
1) The Australian Law Reform Commissions Reference on the Recognition of Aboriginal Customary Law - Professor James Crawford
2) Aboriginal Lands Rights New South Wales - Comments on the N.S.W. Government Land Rights Proposals

File contains newspaper and magazine clippings of stories related to Indigenous Peoples internationally. Also in the file is a print out from the Centre for World Indigenous Studies.

File contains records relating to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations. Included in the file are:
1) United Nations press release - Resolution and Decisions adopted by General Assembly at its 15th Special Session
2) United Nations General Assembly - Joint Inspection Unit - "Some Reflections on reform of the United Nations note by the Secretary-General" Dec. 1985
3) United Nations Economic and Social Council Commission on Human Rights Sub-commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities "Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations - Report of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations" 1988
4) United Nations Economic and Social Council Commission on Human Rights Sub-commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities "Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations - Report of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations" 1990
5) United Nations Economic and Social Council Commission on Human Rights "Advisory Services in the Field of Human Rights - Report on the United Nations Seminar on the effects of racism and racial discrimination on the social and economic relations between Indigenous Peoples and States" 1989

File contains publications from the World Bank's Latin America and the Caribbean Technical Department. Included in the file are:
1) World Bank Operational Directive 4.20: Indigenous Peoples
2) The LAT Connection - newsletter of the Latin America and Caribbean Region Technical Department, Vol. 2 No. 2, Nov. 1992
3) Latin America and the Caribbean Technical Department Regional Studies program report No. 19 "Protecting Amerindian Lands: A Review of World Bank Experience with Indigenous Land - Regularization Programs in Lowland South America" by Alaka Wali and Shelton Davis

File contains records related to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Included in the file is correspondence, seminar information, drafts, and reports.

File contains records related to the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Included in the file is correspondence, copies of draft declaration, and reports from the United Nations regarding Indigenous Peoples and discrimination.

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 newspaper and magazine clippings, magazines, journals and other publications related to Indigenous Peoples in the United States. File also contains statements and reports regarding the U. S. Government and self-government.

File contains newspaper clippings, magazine stories, newsletters, and other publications related to Indigenous Peoples in countries around the world.

File contains two copies of "Indian Rights - Human Rights Handbook for Indians on International Human Rights Complaint Procedures" from the Indian Law Resource Centre in Washington D. C.

File contains records related to the Treaty of Waitangi and the Waitangi Tribunal in New Zealand. Included in the file are newspaper and magazine clippings, and a copy of the New Zealand Law Society seminar notes "The Treaty of Waitangi".

File contains records related to CERT - Council of Energy Resource Tribes. Included in the file are magazines, magazine stories, brochures, a report on the organization by Peter Di Gangi.

File contains records related to the Fourth Russell Tribunal on the Rights of the Indians of the Americas held in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1980. Included in the file are:
1) Report of the Fourth Russell Tribunal on the Rights of the Indians of the Americas conclusions, November 1980
2) transcription of testimony of the Grand Council Treaty No. 9
3) Russell Tribunal Rules in Favour of Nishnawbe-Aski Nation by Norman Zlotkin
4) Fourth Russell Tribunal - Rotterdam, Holland 1980 - Grand Treaty Council No. 9
5) Presentation to the IVth Russell Tribunal on the Rights of the Indians in North and Latin America presented by Grand Council Treaty No. 9 on behalf of the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation

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.

Series contains records related to the United Nations and the rights of Indigenous Peoples; Conference for Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE); House of Commons Special Committee on Indian Self-Government; self-government; and the Federal Government's response to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. The Series contains the following sub-series/files/items:

2018.008.017.001 4th World Goes Intntl - R. Diablo 1984
2018.008.017.002 UNations/Canada - 1998
2018.008.017.003 U. N. Treaty Study 5/99
2018.008.017.004 UN Treaty Study 6/99 (2 folders)
2018.008.017.005 UN/GCCQ 3-4/99
2018.008.017.006 UN Land Rites 6/99 (2 folders)
2018.008.017.007 UN/GCCQ 11-12/98
2018.008.017.008 Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE)
2018.008.017.009 Reserves - Powers
2018.008.017.010 Penner 83
2018.008.017.011 Penner - Trust Resp.
2018.008.017.012 Penner - Thalassa
2018.008.017.013 Self Govt - AFN - 89
2018.008.017.014 Self Govt - Walpole
2018.008.017.015 Self Govt - Ian J./3/93
2018.008.017.016 Self Govt - CBA
2018.008.017.017 Self Govt - Intnl 83
2018.008.017.018 C-79 Master Kit - Xerox
2018.008.017.019 FSIN Intergovt
2018.008.017.020 Federal Cabinet 1991-April & July/93
2018.008.017.021 Cabinet Nov/98
2018.008.017.022 Cabinet - Urban Strategy 5/98
2018.008.017.022 Languages

Copy of J. Russell Diabo's paper "The Emergence of Fourth World Politics at the International Arena". Paper was presented at the Western Social Sciences Association Conference held April 25-28, 1984 in San Diego, California.

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.

Copy of the U.N. report by Miguel Alfonso Martinez "Study on Treaties, Agreements and other Constructive Arrangements between States and Indigenous Populations".

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 "Indigenous People and their Relationship to Land" second progress report on the working paper prepared by Mrs. Erica-Irene A. Daes, special rapporteur. Report prepared for the United Nations Economic and Social Council Commission on Human Rights Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities.

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.

Sub-series contains documents related to the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe.

Copy of the Charter of Paris for a New Europe signed at the 1990 Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe by attendees. This includes Helmut Kohl, Federal Chancellor of Germany; George Bush, President of The United States of America; Franz Vranitzky, Federal Chancellor of Austria; Wilfried Martens, Prime Minister of Belgium; Jelyu Jelev, President of Bulgaria; Brian Mulroney, Prime Minister of Canada; George Vassiliou, President of Cyprus; Poul Schluter, Prime Minister of Denmark; Felipe Gonzalez Marquez, Prime Minister of Spain; Mauno Koivisto, President of Finland; Francois Mitterrand, President of France; Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; Constantin Mitsotakis, Prime Minister of Greece; Jozsef Antall, Prime Minister of Hungary; Charles J. Haughey, Taoiseach of Ireland; Steingrimur Hermannsson, Prime Minister of Iceland; Giulio Andreotti, President of the Council of Ministers and Jacques Delors, President of the Commission of the European Communitites, Italy; Hans Brunhart, Head of Government of Liechtenstein; Jacques Santer, Prime Minister of Luxembourg; Edward Fenech Adami, Prime Minister of Malta; Jean Ausseil, Minister of State of the Principality Monaco; Gro Harlem Brundtland, Prime Minister of Norway; Ruud F. M. Lubbers, Prime Minister of the Netherlands; Tadeusz Mazowiecki, President of the Council of Ministers Poland; Anibel Cavaco Silva, Prime Minister of Portugal; Ion Iliescu, President of Romania; Gabriele Gatti, Secretary of State for Foreign and Political Affairs San Marino; Cardinal Agostiono Casaroli, Secretary of State of His Holiness The Vatican; Ingvar Carlsson, Prime Minister of Sweden; Arnold Koller, President of the Confederation, Head of the Federal Department of Justice and Police for the Swiss Confederation; Vaclav Havel, President of the Czeck and Slovak Federal Republic; Turgut Ozal, President of Turkey; Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the U. S. S. R.; and Borisav Jovic, President of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

File contains 11 pages from the larger "The Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe : analysis and basic documents, 1972-1993" edited by Arie Bloed. Pages taken from "Two Decades of the CSCE Process".

File contains 4 final reports from the Conference on Security on Co-operation in Europe held between 1977 and 1990. Included are:
2018.008.017.003.001 Concluding Document of the Belgrade Meeting 1977 of Representatives of the Participating States of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe
2018.008.017.003.002 Concluding Document of the Madrid Meeting of Representatives of the Participating States of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, 1983
2018.008.017.003.003 Concluding Document of the Vienna Meeting 1986 of Representatives of the Participating States of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe
2018.008.017.003.006 Document of the Copenhagen Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE, 1990

File contains three reports about Canada's Indian Reserves authored by William B. Henderson for the Research Branch of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. They include:
1) Canada's Indian Reserves: Legislative Powers, 1981
2) Canada's Indian Reserves: Legislative Powers An Update, 1985
3) Canada's Indian Reserves: The Usufruct in our Constitution, 1980

Second report of the Special Committee on Indian Self-Government presented to the House of Commons October 12 and 20, 1983.