Copy of "Socio-Economic Impact Model for Northern Development Vol. I" prepared by Bernard R. Blishen, Alexander Lockhart, Prudence Craib, and Elizabeth Lockhart for the Research Branch, Policy Research Evaluation Group, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs.

File contains maps, promotional, and informational materials related to the creation of Nunavut. The information pages are written in the three official languages of Nunvut - Inuit Language (Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun), English, and French.

File contains records relating to the Migratory Birds Convention Act and Indigenous Peoples. Included in the file are resolutions; correspondence and other records regarding amendments to the act; a copy of "Migratory Birds Convention Amendments - a discussion paper by the Canadian Wildlife Service; Canadian Arctic Resources consultation workshops information.

File contains records relating to the Migratory Birds Convention Act and Indigenous Peoples. Included in the file correspondence re: Migratory Birds Convention Act revisions; Migratory Birds Working Group notes; Canadian Arctic Resources Committee; and Environment Canada's 1992 Migratory Game Bird Hunting Regulations proposal.

Yellow folder with label - "MacKenzie Valley Pipline Inquiry Commissioner Mr. Justice Thomas R. Berger". Inside folder are a press release, chronology of events, fact sheet, synopsis, and maps relating to the inquiry. Also in the folder is a booklet "The Dene - Land and Unity for the Native People of the MacKenzie Valley" and two oversized newsletters "Denendeh - The Dene Struggle for a Pluralist Province".

File contains newspaper clippings. Subjects include Gustafsen Lake, Ipperwash, Fishing rights, and Oka.

File contains records related to fishing rights for the Chippewas of Nawash, Saugeen First Nation., and he Haida Nation. Included is correspondence, Dibaudjimoh newsletter, press release, and newspaper clippings.

File contains records related to the occupation of Ipperwash Provincial Park and the death of Dudley George. The majority of the file consists of newspaper clippings but there is also a draft press release from the United Chiefs and Councils of Manitoulin; notes from an Assembly of First Nations conference call; and a Chiefs of Ontario bulletin about the event.

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

File contains the conference kit for "Building the Momentum" the Indigenous Bar Association Conference held April 22-24, 1999, including acetates from a conference presentation. Also in the file is a serious of correspondence/announcements from the Five Nations Iroquois Confederacy regarding self-government policy.

File contains magazines, newspaper clippings and other miscellaneous records. Topics include Indigenous Land Claims, Accurate Indigenous History, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, and the Listuguj Mi'gmaq First Nation barricade at Pointe-a-la-Croix, Quebec.

File contains records to meetings and conferences organized by the Assembly of First Nations. Included are:
1) AFN Confederacy of Nations meeting, Ottawa Nov. 25-26, 1996
2) Chiefs' Committee on Enforcement of First Nations-Crown Relationship info package
3) brochure "Strengthening Mother Earth - the Environmental Challenge - a First Nations Environment conference, Dec. 10-12, 1996
4) AFN Conference listing for 1996-1997
5) AFN Social Development Project brief

File contains records related to the Assembly of First Nations Chiefs' Committee on Enforcement of First Nations-Crown Relationship. Included in the file is a meeting kit, correspondence, notes and other records related to the October 17-18, 1996 meeting held in Regina, Saskatchewan.

File contains records related to amendments to the Indian Act. Included in the file is a speech by Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Ronald Irwin; correspondence and attached proposed amendments to act from DIAND; and a letter from Minister Irwin to Ovide Mercredi, National Chief AFN.

File contains records related to the Indian Act. Included are:
1) Indian Act amendments chronology of events 1995-1996
2) News clipping
3) Proposal of the Union of Nova Scotia Indians for the revision of the Indian Act 2 August 1979
4) INAC press release

File contains photocopies of documents from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada regarding Manitoba Indian consultations on amendments to the Indian Act between 1963-1968.

File contains a report on the status of Comprehensive Claims from the Department of Indian Affairs as of February 2003.

File contains background information about the Government of Canada's Treasury Board. Included in the file are a listing of people working on the Board. speech notes, new releases, and outlook documents.

File contains records relating to the response to the Federal Liberal Government's self-government policy. It includes newspaper clippings; an analysis of the policy framework by the Chiefs of Ontario; the 1995 White paper; a copy of "Government Renewal of the '69 White Paper"; Assembly of First Nations response; and other materials.

File contains correspondence, a draft report and a copy of "Negotiating Self-Government Agreements - The Experience of First Nations Involved in Self Government Negotiations".

File contains materials relating to self-government. Included are newspaper clippings; correspondence; records relating to the Chiefs' Governance Working Group; press releases; Assembly of First Nations bulletins; a copy of "Building Blocks towards Constitutionalizing First Nations Self-Government"; "Approach to First Nations Government"; and an information sheet "Indian Act Alternatives".

File contains a work book from the Anishinabek Special Chiefs Assembly "Restoring Anishinabek Jurisdiction" held December 11-12, 1995 in North Bay.

File contains records relating to First Nations money management. Included in the file are:
1) An analysis of Indian Act Alternatives on Indian Moneys, prepared for the Native Council of Canada
2) "secret" draft legislation - First Nations Moneys Management Act
3) Monies Committee - Legislative Section
4) Indian Monies Committee and Trust Fund Management: Current Initiatives of the Governance Working Group, prepared by Peter Di Gangi

One copy of "Aboriginal Issues Study - Alerts Bulletin" by the Angus Reid Group, April 1994. Report looked at Aboriginal Rights and Government Services, Native Land Claims, Control of Natural Resources, Aboriginal Self-Government, Public Reaction to recent Initiatives, Confidence in players and institutions, and Aboriginal Leadership and Tactics.

Report prepared by Ovide Mercredi for the Assembly of First Nations.

File contains two copies of the discussion report on Indian Taxation by W. E. Daugherty and released by the Treaties and Historical Research Centre.

One copy of the draft Property Tax By-law written by the Indian Taxation Advisory Board.

File contains records relating to the Canadian Health and Social Transfer from the Federal to Provincial/Territorial Governments. Included in the file is correspondence; newspaper clippings; report "Social Policy Beyond the Budget" by the Canadian Council on Social Development; report "Looking for Mr. Good-Transfer, a guide to the CHST negotiations" by Michael Mendelson, Caledon Institute of Social Policy; draft #3 "Aboriginal Social Assistance Programs" by Allan Moscovitch and Andrew Webster; "Canadian Health and Social Transfer - Bill C-76 First Nations Impacts" Linden A. Pinay for the Assembly of First Nations; and copies of "Canadian Perspectives" the Council of Canadian magazine.

Annual publication of the Carleton University School of Public Administration. Number 20 in the series titled "Shape Shifting: Canadian Governance Toward the 21st Century" edited by Leslie A. Pal.

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

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

File contains records relating to the Joint Health Canada - Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development approach to the Financial Transfer Arrangements/Agreements.

File contains correspondence, notes, and newspapers. Topics include the First Nations Health Forum; First Nations Health and the Federal Government; and Non-insured health benefits.

File contains two reports by Health Canada:
1) "Health Status of Canadian Indians and Inuit - update 1987" Indian and Northern Health Services, Medical Services Branch
2) "Health Status of Canadian Indians and Inuit - 1990"

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

File contains brochures, information booklets, and information packages about the Indian Claims Commission. Also in the file are two copies of the Indian Claims Review newsletter Spring 1995.

File contains the agenda and accompanying materials for the December 9, 1991 meeting of the National Chiefs Commission on Claims held in Vancouver, British Columbia. Also in the file are a meeting follow-up, correspondence, speaking notes, and an extract from the Auditor General of Canada's report.

File contains records created by or related for the National Chiefs Committee on Claims. Included in the file are:
1) Summary notes from April 15-16 meeting held in Halifax, Nova Scotia
2) Chiefs Assembly resolutions on land claims
3) Specific Claims Joint Working Group (JWG) chronology of meetings and discussions
4) First Nations Submission on Claims - Dec. 14, 1990
5) Draft objectives for new First Nations claims resolution process and accompanying materials
6) Quarterly report from JWG

File contains records relating to land claims and land claim process reform. Some of the items included in the file are:
1) "Beyond Lawful Obligation" by Michael Bossin
2) "First Nations Land Rights in Ontario and the Canadian Land Claims Process - a proposal for change" Ontario Land Rights Working Group
3) draft copies of "Claims Policy Reforms" by the Chiefs Committee on Claims
4) "Technical Requirements for the Establishment of an Independent Body"
5) memorandum regarding 1963 draft bill C-130 "An Act to provide for the Disposition of Indian Claims".
6) "Draft Recommendations Prepared by Neutral" - Singleton Urquhart MacDonald

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.

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) 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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

One copy of the Assembly of First Nations submission to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

File contains:
1) newspaper clippings
2) copy of "An Agenda for Action with First Nations" Govt of Canada
3) copy of "Gathering Strength - Canada's Aboriginal Action Plan"
4) Agenda for Action with First Nations
5) Backgrounder newsletters from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
6) speeches and news releases re: "Gathering Strength - Canada's Aboriginal Action Plan"
7) Assembly of First Nations (AFN) proposed response to RCAP plan"

File contains notes, correspondence and other materials relating to Assembly of First Nations and their response to the RCAP final report.

White t-shirt with sleeves torn off. Front of shirt has a person standing on top of an overturned police car. "Battle of Oka 1990 La Bataille d'Oka" is written on the shirt.

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

File contains copies of Treaties - Native Rights in Canada a synopsis and a critique by the Indian-Eskimo Association of Canada's legal committee.

Copy of Bruce Doern's report "The Politics of Slow Progress: Federal Aboriginal Policy Processes". The study was prepared for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

File contains a copy of the Canadian Government's Treasury Board on the Devolution plan proposed by the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. The Devolution plan entailed "transfer of programs and service delivery to Indian Bands and other Indian Organizations".

File contains several different reports. They include:
1) Report of the Ministerial Task Force on Native Programs, April 12, 1985
2) Indian and Native Programs - a study team report to the Task Force on Program Review, April 1985
3) Indians and Natives - Improved Program Delivery - a study team report to the Task Force on Program Review (2 copies)
Also in the file are two newspaper paper clippings - one about the Nielsen task force and the other about conflict in the Middle East.

Copy of "...And the Last Shall be First" - Native Policy in the Era of Cutbacks. A discussion paper prepared by Murray Angus for the Aboriginal Rights Coalition (Project North).

One copy of the report.

Series contains records regarding Inherent Right and Self-Government policies, Federal Government policies, and Auditor General reports related to the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. The series is divided into the following files/items:

2018.008.003.001 Band Debt: funding
2018.008.003.002 Band Debt: Audit/1995
2018.008.003.003 Health/Legal 11/95
2018.008.003.004 Fiduc/Health - 11/95
2018.008.003.005 Fed. Healing Fund Cab Doc 1998
2018.008.003.006 Bill C-79, 1997
2018.008.003.007 Indian Act, Sept/95
2018.008.003.008 Ind. Act By Law Book
2018.008.003.009 Mikmaq Constitution
2018.008.003.010 Creating Opportunity - the Liberal Plan for Canada
2018.008.003.011 The Liberal Plan, 1997 - Securing Our Future Together
2018.008.003.012 Aboriginal Liberals
2018.008.003.013 Red Book Critiques
2018.008.003.014 Liberal Policy - 8/95
2018.008.003.015 Liberal Policy - 4/95
2018.008.003.016 DIAND: Indian Population 1995
2018.008.003.017 Fed. Treaty Policy - 4/95
2018.008.003.018 Sovereignty - AMC & R. Pangowish 84/92
2018.008.003.019 Self Govt: 1994, Hutchins et. al
2018.008.003.020 Slattery: Decolonizing the Constitution 8/9/92
2018.008.003.021 Custom Law
2018.008.003.022 Treasury Board
2018.008.003.023 DIA - Partnership 1999
2018.008.003.024 Fed Treaty Policy - 96-98
2018.008.003.025 Fed Policy 12/97
2018.008.003.026 DIAND - 97/98 Plan
2018.008.003.027 Inherent Rite 5/95
2018.008.003.028 Self Govt - Fed Neg Mandate/97
2018.008.003.029 Liberal S. G. Policy Response
2018.008.003.030 Inherent Rite Cab Doc 5/95
2018.008.003.031 Auditor General 4/99
2018.008.003.032 Federal Budget 2/99
2018.008.003.033 Auditor Gen. 9/96
2018.008.003.034 Audit Gen: 1991 & 94
2018.008.003.035 AG Report - 1986
2018.008.003.036 AG's Report - 1990
2018.008.003.037 Audit Gen 93/Prog Eval
2018.008.003.038 Program Assessment & Review, 1994
2018.008.003.039 Trojan Buffalo 6/95
2018.008.003.040 Self Govt: PCO/CBSG 10/92

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

File contains two volumes of readings from the Continuing Legal Education Program's annual meeting held in Toronto in 1994.
The two volumes contain:
1) "The Inherent Right of Aboriginal Self-Goverment - the Aboriginal right to self-goverment and the Canadian constitution: the ghost in the machine" by Peter Hutchins, Carol Hilling, Diane Soroka, and David Schulze
2) "Reflexions sur 'Partenaires au sein de la Confederation' et le Droit 'Inherent' a L'Autonomie Gouvernementale" by Sylvain Lussier
3) "Collective and Individual Rights" by Sharon D. McIvor
4) "The Inherent Right of Self-Government as an Aboriginal and Treaty Right" by Delia Opekokew
5) "First Nations and the Constitution: A Question of Trust" by Dr. Brian Slattery
6) "Another Opinion: A Critique of the Paper Prepared by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Entitled: 'Partners in Confederation'" by Kenneth J. Tyler

File contains records relating to self-government. Included are:
1) Assembly of First Nations Self-Determination Symposium summary report, Oct. 1-3, 1990
2) Assembly of First Nations First Nations Government Planning Session information package
3) Council for Yukon Indians discussion paper re: Aboriginal Self-Government

Copy of the report "The Government of Aboriginal Peoples" prepared for the sub-committee on Indian Self-Government of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Indian Affairs and Northern Development.

Series contains records related to the federal budget, DIAND program audits, self-government and other topics. It is divided into to the following files/items:

2018.008.018.001 Federal Budget
2018.008.018.002 DIA - 98/99 Estimates
2018.008.018.003 Fed. 1994 Budget
2018.008.018.004 Federal Budgets
2018.008.018.005 Deficits/Surplus - Policy
2018.008.018.006 DIAND - Bckgrnd - 96
2018.008.018.007 Fed NDP - 1997
2018.008.018.008 DIAND Polls - 1995-3/97
2018.008.018.009 AFN Speeches 1990
2018.008.018.010 AFN Treaty Mtg - 8/01
2018.008.018.011 AB. Healing Foundation 2003
2018.008.018.012 Right Wing - 2000
2018.008.018.013 Self Govt - Accountability
2018.008.018.014 Residential Schools
2018.008.018.015 Federal Steering Cmittee 2001
2018.008.018.016 Govt Bios
2018.008.018.017 PCO Research - 96
2018.008.018.018 Program Review: PCO
2018.008.018.019 Deputies - Horizontal 12/96
2018.008.018.020 Deputies Policy 12/96
2018.008.018.021 Ind. Act. Govt.
2018.008.018.022 Ind. Act - Case law
2018.008.018.023 McNeil/Slattery 1998
2018.008.018.024 DIAN - Treaty $
2018.008.018.025 FN Leaders Poll 95
2018.008.018.026 DIA Audits 1/95
2018.008.018.027 Priorities DIA 6/95
2018.008.018.028 CBSG Audit 2/93
2018.008.018.029 Social Assistance
2018.008.018.030 Ind Orgs. Vol. I
2018.008.018.031 Alternatives

File contains a copy of Andrew Webster's "The Impact of Spring 1994 Federal Budget Changes in INAC on First Nations - a preliminary analysis prepared for the Assembly of First Nations".

File contains chapter 10 "Aboriginal Issues" of a report put out by the Privy Council Office (Canada).

File contains records relating to the 1996 Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development program review and budget. Included are an info package released by DIAND and correspondence and information from an access to information request regarding the review.

File contains a copy of the report "Indian Government under Indian Act Legislation, 1868-1951" by Wayne Daugherty and Dennis Madill for the Treaties and Historical Research Centre, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs.

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

File contains a news clippings; handwritten notes ; and a copy of "The Lands and Trust Services Initiative: Its potential Impact on the Federal Government's Fiduciary Obligations" by Kent McNeil.

Specific Claims report for Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Sasketchewan, and the Yukon. Issued April 6, 1998 by the Specific Claims Branch of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.

File contains a copy of the report "Update on Bill C-6: Specific Claims Resolution Act" generated by the Lands, Resources & Treaties Unit of the Assembly of First Nations.

File contains correspondence regarding Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development meetings and a copy of the June 1994 meeting minutes and accompanying 5th and 6th reports - Committee Report on Extinguishment and Committee Report on the Kaska Nation and the Yukon Umbrella Final Agreement.

File contains records relating to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples claims working group and research on claims and extinguishment. File contains two copies of the paper "Extinguishment and Federal Comprehensive Claims Policy Recommendations for Alternatives: A report prepared for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples" by Michael Asch.

Copy of "The Aboriginal Lands and Treaties Tribunal - a section of the Lands and Resources Chapter of the Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples" by John M. Evans.

File contains records related to the Royal Commission on Aboriginals Peoples Land and Resources Policy team and their work on dispute resolution mechanisms.

File contains records related to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Extinguishment of Rights of Aboriginal Peoples Governance project. In the file are:
1) RCAP extinguishment project detailed research plan
2) RCAP Extinguishment of rights interim report - Paul Joffe, Dick Spaulding, Chris Tennant, Mary Ellen Turpel
3) Alternatives to Extinguishment - a report prepared for RCAP - Michael Jackson

Letter regarding and copy of final draft of the report "Analysis of Canada's Comprehensive and Specific Claims Policies and Suggested Alternatives". Report created by Morris/Rose/Ledgett Barristers and Solicitors for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

Copy of "Negotiating a Way of Life" by Ingatius E. La Rusic, Serge Bouchard, Alan Penn, Taylor Brelsford, Jean-Guy Deschenes, and Richard F. Salisbury. Report was created for the Research Division, Policy, Research and Evaluation group of the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs.

File contains a copy of "Canada and Aboriginal Peoples - A New Partnership" report of the Honourable A. C. Hamilton Fact Finder for Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development; draft copy of "Analysis of the Report of The Honourable A. C. Hamilton, Fact Finder for the Minister of Indian & Northern Development"; news release regarding the report release; and correspondence regarding the Assembly of First Nations report analysis.

File contain records relating to the Honourable Alvin C. Hamilton's role as fact finder for the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. This role's purpose was to find alternatives to "surrender provisions" used in claim settlements and was initiated in response to a special report by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Included in the file are "Extinguishing Extinguishment: Bringing an Era to an End" presented by Ovide Mercredi in his role as National Chief of Assembly of First Nations; copies of background paper "Achieving Certainty in Comprehensive Land Claims Settlements"; correspondence; and other materials related to this research.

Second of two folders from the Assembly of First Nations conference on Land Claims and Extinguishment. Included in the file is correspondence, reports and copies of:
1) "Indian Land Title Extinguishment" by Brian Davey, Nishnawbe-Aski Nation
2) "The James Bay Treaty and the Federal Government's Comprehensive Land Claims Policy"
3) The Unconscionable Treaty between the Crown and the Cree/Ojibway People of Northern Ontario" by Brian Davey, Nishnawbe-Aski Nation
4) "Alternative Approaches to Alaska Native Land and Governance" by Ralph W. Johnson for the Alaska Native Review Commission
5) "Extinguishment: An Analysis and Strategy" by Murray Angus for Dene-Metis Negotiations Secretariate
6) "Towards a New Federal Policy for Comprehensive Claims Settlements" John A. Olthuis, for AFN
7) "Extinguishment of Aboriginal Rights as a Result of Supersession by Law and Third Party Alienation" Squamish Nation
8) French and English version of "Condensed Version of the Review of the Comprehensive Claims Process"
9) "A New Proposal for Claims Resolution in Ontario" presentation by Association of Iroquois & Allied Indians, Grand Council Treaty #3, and Union of Ontario Indians to Minister of Indian Affairs
10) "The Political Economy of Native Land Claims in the Canadian North" J. I. Prattis
11) "The Black Hills Case - from the Dakota Nations" Cy Standing and Clair Henderson

File contains records related to treaty making and non-extinguishment. Included are:
1) Indigenous Peoples Treaty Making Workshop
2) Treaty-Making and Title: A Non-extinguishment alternative for settling the land question in British Columbia, discussion paper #1 - UBCIC 21st annual general assembly, 1989
3) Inter-Tribal Treaties on the Land Question: B. C. Indians' Strategy for the 1990s, discussion paper #2 - UBCIC 21st annual general assembly, 1989
4) Presentation on claims, reserves, and self government
5) Memorandum - Alternatives to Extinguishment - Jeff Richstone, Inuit Committee on National Issues
6) Discussion paper on the Federal Government's Extinguishment Policy with Respect to Land Claims Agreements
7) General Statement on Extinguishment Policy - Conseil Atikamekw-Montagnais

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