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

Report authored by Andrew J. Siggner, David Perley, and Debra A. Young for the Research Branch, Corporate Policy of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.

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

Second edition of the Native Studies in Canada - A Research Guide by Robert S. Allen, Deputy Chief Treaties and Historical Research Centre for Research Branch, Corporate Policy - Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.

Series contains records created by/for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Included is information on the Intervener Participation Program; policy; creation of the commission; and RCAP's Folio infobase. The series is divided into the following sub-series/files/items:

2018.008.027.001 RCAP Begins 1991
2018.008.027.002 RCAP Guidelines
2018.008.027.003 RCAP Policy Process
2018.008.027.004 RCAP Intervenors 1993
2018.008.027.005 RCAP Research - All
2018.008.027.006 Folio/IMU
2018.008.027.007 Treaty Info Base IMU
2018.008.027.008 Folio Search Results
2018.008.027.009 Justice Brief Book
2018.008.027.010 Walt's Draft
2018.008.027.011 RCAP Intl - D. Sanders
2018.008.027.012 Economy - Policy
2018.008.027.013 Lands/Resources - Hearings & I. P. P.
2018.008.027.014 S 35: Who's Included?
2018.008.027.015 Lands & Reserve Policy
2018.008.027.016 RCAP - Health
2018.008.027.017 Multicultural Charter
2018.008.027.018 RCAP - Treaty Focus - 3/93
2018.008.027.019 RCAP - S. Aronson
2018.008.027.020 Slattery - Urban Gov't
2018.008.027.021 Off Reserve Vol. I
2018.008.027.022 Off Reserve - Lithman
2018.008.027.023 Urban Reserve - Sask.
2018.008.027.024 Urban - Winnipeg
2018.008.027.025 Relocation
2018.008.027.026 Urban Needs - Stats NCC
2018.008.027.027 Nfld - Landbase
2018.008.027.028 Claims - Nfld

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

File contains four copies of the "Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Final Draft - Ethical Guidelines for Research".

File contains memos, schedules, minutes and other records related to the various policy teams under the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Majority of information is on the Policy Committee on Treaties.

File contains records related to the RCAP Intervenor Participation Program. Included in the file are two intervenor characteristic reports; and a Project Description Abstracts report.

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

File contains information on and instructions for using the RCAP Folio V. I. P. database.

Treaty References in RCAP's infobase report created by the Information Management Unit.

Sub-series contains folders containing records related to the RCAP's Folio infobase and is divided into 5 files.

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

File contains print out of results from Folio infobase under search terms "Treat Implen" - Treaty Implementation and "clai implen" - Claims Implementation.

File contains print out of results from Folio infobase under search terms "treaty making negotiatio" - Treaty making negotiations and "Treaty making".

File contains print out of results from Folio infobase under search terms "treaty rem" - Treaty Perspective remedies. Also in the file is a report created from the search results.

File contains print out of results from Folio infobase under search terms "rcap hear consent" - Treaty Hearings Consent

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

File contains handwritten text by Walter Rudnicki for his Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples reports - "The Bilateral Dilemma" and "Saskatchewan Treaty Commission".

Copy of Professor Douglas Sander's "The Current Status of International Indigenous Issues Affecting the Aboriginal People of Canada".

Copy of "Economics Policy" prepared for the Commissioners of the The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples by the RCAP Policy Team.

Collection of results from RCAP hearings and Intervener Participation Program submissions regarding lands and resources.

File contains copy of "The Beneficiaries of Section 35" by Dale Gibson.

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

Health and Family Wellness References in RCAP's Infobase prepared by the Information Management Unit of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

Copy of Will Kymlicka's "Multicultural Citizenship: a liberal theory of minority rights".

File contains records related to the March 17-18, 1993 RCAP Treaties and Governance workshop. Included in the file is an agenda; handwritten notes; a discussion paper "Treaty Perspectives and Obstacles to Recognition"; summary notes; paper "Aboriginal Self-Government and Treaties: A Discussion" by Leroy Little Bear; and "Dispute Settlement among the Naidanac.

File contains a print out of a resolution to "Acknowledge the contribution of the Iroquois Confederacy of Nations to the development of the U. S. Constitution" from the 100th Congress of the U. S. A. and a copy of "The Authority of the Crown to Make Treaties with Indians". by Stephen Aronson.

"The Constitutional Basis of Aboriginal Self- Government in Urban Areas" by Brian Slattery.

File contains three intervener participation program reports. The reports are from the Winnipeg First Nations Tribal Council, the Saskatoon Treaty and First Nations Assembly Inc./The Aboriginal Women's Council of Saskatchewan Inc., and the New Brunswick Aboriginal Peoples Council.

Copy of untitled draft report by Yngve Georg Lithman. Report annotated with post it notes.

Copy of "McKnight Commercial Centre - an Urban Reserve Case Study"

Copy of the report to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Intervener Program by the Winnipeg First Nations Tribal Council.

Copy of "Relocation of Indigenous Peoples of Canada" by Rarihokwats for Walter Rudnicki and the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

Optima Consultants report "NCC Survey to Assess the Needs of Urban Aboriginal Peoples" for the Native Council of Canada.

File contains submissions to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples from Newfoundland Indigenous Peoples. Presentation given at the Gander, Newfoundland hearings held November 5, 1992. Included in the file are:
1) Federation of Newfoundland Indians presentation by Gerard Webb
2) Aboriginal Self-Government - Port-au-Port Indian Band
3) presentation by Stephenville Crossing Band Council
4) statement by Chief Lawrence Jeddore, Glenwood Indian Band Council
5) presentation by Gander Bay Indian Band Council, Chief Calvin Francis
6) St. George's Indian Band Council, Victor Muise Jr.
7) Bartlett's Harbour Indian Band Council report
8) Benoit's Cove Indian Band Council, Chief Walter Barry
9) statement from the Miawpukek Band by Chief Geraldine Kelly
10) Corner Brook Indian Band Council presentation
11) presentation by Exploit's Valley Native Indian Band Council
12) The Endless Story by Tony John
13) presentation by Flat Bay Indian Band Council

File contains copy of "Proposal from Newfoundland: Accelerated Land Claims".

The series contains records created for or related to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Topics include treaty rights, land claims, and self-government. The series is divided into the following files/items:

2018.008.028.001 Inuit - Govt Treaty
2018.008.028.002 Nunvut - Impl. Needs
2018.008.028.003 Inuit Tapirisat - IPP
2018.008.028.004 Inuit Comp.
2018.008.028.005 NWT & Govt of Canada
2018.008.028.006 Treaty #10/#5: Scrip
2018.008.028.007 Metis - Enumeration
2018.008.028.008 MNC - I. P. P.
2018.008.028.009 Metis Policy - 8/94
2018.008.028.010 Metis Land Rights
2018.008.028.011 Metis & 91(24)
2018.008.028.012 Metis & 91(24) B. Morse
2018.008.028.013 Metis Claims - History
2018.008.028.014 Metis Land - Nexus
2018.008.028.015 Metis Land Rites - Pinder
2018.008.028.016 Treaty Audit
2018.008.028.017 "The Land" P. Williams
2018.008.028.018 Treaties & Self Govt
2018.008.028.019 Innu & Governance
2018.008.028.020 Self-Govt - Macklem
2018.008.028.021 Maori Governance
2018.008.028.022 Rupert's Land Treaties
2018.008.028.023 NRTA & Treaties - Pratt
2018.008.028.024 AB Govts & Charter
2018.008.028.025 USA Governance I
2018.008.028.026 USA Governance II
2018.008.028.027 ADR & Claims

File contains records related to Inuit Government and Treaty Rights. File contains a trip report "Inuit Tapirisat of Canada Roundtables" in Pangnirtung, NWT; and a report by Wendy Moss "A Review of Inuit Perspectives on Treaty Rights and Governance Issues".

Preliminary report authored by K. Knight "Institutional and Human Resource Development Implications of the Nunavut Agreement".

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

File contains parts of two reports created for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Included are:
1) Institutional and Human Resource Development Implications of the Nunavut Agreement preliminary report by K. Knight - Chapters I and III
2) Nunavut: Aboriginal Self-Determination through Public Government by Gurston Dacks - Parts 1, 2, 5, 6 and appendices

Cover letter and report "Canadian Government and Aboriginal Peoples - The Northwest Territories" by Gurston Dacks.

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

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

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

Copy of the Metis Policy Paper.

File contains a copy of the draft final report by Public Policy Nexus Group Inc. titled "Metis Land Rights - Legal and Historical Issues" created for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. File also includes correspondence and invoices regarding the creation of the report.

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

Report authored by Bradford W. Morse and John Giokas for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples titled "Do the Metis Fall Within Section 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867 and if so, What are the Ramifications in 1993?".

Copy of "Administrative History of Metis Claims" by D. N. Sprague.

Draft final report to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples "Metis Land Rights - Legal and Historical Issues".

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

File contains regards related to the Indigenous Nations of Sasketchewan and treaties signed. File includes a report and presentation by First Nations Consultants Inc and Coopers & Lybrand titled "An Assessment of the Benefits Received and Forgone by the Indian Nations as a Result of the Treaties signed between the Crown and the Indian Nations of Saskatchewan".

"Corlaer's Moon - Aboriginal Laws and the Spirit of the Land" by Paul Williams for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

File contains records related to treaties and Indigenous self-government. Included are:
1) Aboriginal Self-Government and Treaties: A Discussion - Leroy Little Bear
2) Treaties and Governance project write up
3) memorandum from RCAP - Governance and Treaties

File contains records related to the Innu Nation. Included are:
1) Everything has been said, we all know the solutions...a time to change and a time to act - Foundation Analysis of the Political Development of the Innu of Ntesinan by Armand Mckenzie
2) Response of the Innu Nation to the discussion paper of the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador "An Accelerated Approach to Aboriginal Land Claims Settlement".

"Normative Dimensions of the Right of Aboriginal Self-Government" by Patrick Macklem.

File contains correspondence and accompanying report "Country Study - New Zealand Indigenous Governance" by Tipene O'Regan, Aoraki Consultant Services.

File contains records articles about Indigenous Land title and treaty rights. Articles include:
1) "Reclaiming the land: Aboriginal title, treaty rights and land claims in Canada" by Peter J. Usher, Frank J. Tough, and Robert M. Galois. Published in Applied Geography (1992), 12, 109-132.
2) "Aboriginal Rights Versus the Deed of Surrender: The Legal Rights of Native Peoples and Canada's Acquisition of the Hudson's Bay Company Territory" by Frank J. Tough. Published in Prairie Forum, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Fall 1992) pp. 225-250
3) "Economic Aspects of Aboriginal Title in Northern Manitoba: Treaty 5 Adhesions and Metis Scrip" by Frank Tough. Published in Manitoba History, No. 15, Spring 1988

"Interim Discussion paper regarding Natural Resources Transfer Agreements and Treaty Policy Issues" authored by Alan Pratt for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

"Aboriginal Governments and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: A Legal Perspective" by Kent McNeil.

"Self Government of Native Nations in the United States" by Theresa Julnes for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

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

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

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

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

Copy of "Oral Tradition and Oral History: Reviewing Some Issues" by Julie Cruikshank, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of British Columbia. Paper was presented at the Canadian Ethnology Society Meetings in B. C. May 5 - 8, 1994.

Copy of "Aboriginal Treaties and Canadian Law" by Sebastien Grammond.

Copy of the submission put forward by the Native Brotherhood of British Columbia to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

Copy of the letter and submission by the National Aboriginal Forestry Association titled "Forest Lands and Resources for Aboriginal Peoples" for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

File contains a copy of "Contemporary Aboriginal Lands, Resources, and Environment Regimes - Origins, Problems, and Prospects" by Peter J. Usher of P. J. Usher Consulting Services. It is a background paper prepared for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Also included in the file is a revised list of sources for the report.

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

Copy of "Issues of Jurisdiction" presented to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples by the Saugeen Ojibway Nations.

Copy of "Keewatinook Okimowin: Mechanisms and Solutions" a presentation to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples by Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak, Inc.

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

Copy of the Windigo First Nations Council's submission to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

Copy of the presentation to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Affairs - intervenor participation program by the Treaty 7 Tribal Council.

Copy of the presentation by the Swampy Cree Tribal Council to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

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

Files contain a copy of "A Comprehensive Presentation to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples by the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations". Report was divided into two file folders FSIN Vol. I and FSIN Vol. 2 because of the size of the report.

File contains "A Discussion Paper - Royal Commission on Aboriginal Affairs" and "Reclaiming our Nationhood Strengthening our Heritage - report to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples".

File contains a copy of the Chiefs of Ontario's submission to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

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

Copy of the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation intervention report for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

Copy of the Nova Scotia Native Women's Association final report for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

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

United Chiefs and Councils of Manitoulin/Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve report and proposal regarding a Native justice pilot project for the Manitoulin District.

Task Force on Race Relations and Policing final report.

Copy of "Seen but not Heard" by Carol La Prairie, a project of the Aboriginal Justice Directorate, Department of Justice Canada.

Series contains records relating to Environment and Natural Resource policy in Canada and Ontario, as well as information from the Royal Commission on the Northern Environment, and resource strategy from the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation . The series is divided into the follwing files and items:

2018.008.030.001 Environment - 1994
2018.008.030.002 Forestry/Mining - Econ.
2018.008.030.003 Trad. Econ - Nelson Hse
2018.008.030.004 Green Plan
2018.008.030.005 AFN - Environment 1990
2018.008.030.006 MKO - First Nation EA
2018.008.030.007 Great Lakes Health Impacts
2018.008.030.008 Great Lakes Health
2018.008.030.009 Towards an Indian Affairs Environmental Management Policy
2018.008.030.010 Natural Resources - NAN
2018.008.030.011 Land Use & Resources - T #9
2018.008.030.012 U. S. A. Tribes & Environment Powers - H. Lickers
2018.008.030.013 Fur Issue, 1986
2018.008.030.014 Fish & Program Review
2018.008.030.015 RCNE 1978
2018.008.030.016 The Road to Detour Lake - an example of the Environmental Assessment Process in Ontario
2018.008.030.017 Land Use Guidelines Information Kit
2018.008.030.018 West Patricia Land Use Plan
2018.008.030.019 Class Environmental Assessment by the Ministry of Natural Resources for Timber Management on Crown Lands in Ontario
2018.008.030.020 Diversity - Forests People Communities
2018.008.030.021 Economic Impacts - Parks
2018.008.030.022 The Fishing Hunting Lodge industry in Northern Ontario

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

File contains records related to forestry and mining in Canada. Included in the file are magazine and newspaper clippings; Canadian Crossroads International newsletter, Aug. 1978; "Pulp and Paper Report: New Challenges"; and "About Pulp and Paper".

File contains two papers:
1) "An examination of the religious-philosophical system of the Indian as it related to the use of wildlife resources at the time of contact" by L. G. Ugarenko, course work for Anthropology 723 McMaster University
2) two copies "Spatial and temporal identification of a Swampy Cree Band" by Dana-Mae Grainger

File contains Canadian Government Green Plan materials and reaction from the Assembly of First Nations to the plan. Included in the file are:
1) brochures - "Canada's Green Plan and First Nations"
2) "Greenprint for Canada" a Federal agenda for the environment - Greenprint for Canada Committee
3) "A Framework for Discussion on the Environment" - The Green Plan, a national challenge.
4) AFN responses to plan

File contains records related created by or related to the Assembly of First Nations Comittee on the Environment. Included in the folder are:
1) Centre for Treaty Advocacy - Identifying First Nation Environmental Flash Points
2) Discussions regarding the Environment - AFN Centre for Treaty Advocacy
3) Summary of the position of Environmental Committee on the proposed Environmental Assessment Act
4) Environmental Law Update - Fraser & Beatty, Barristers and Solicitors
5) Canada Gazette Announcement - Environmental Contaminants Act

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

Copy of the report by Carole Mills and Vince Shea "Great Lakes Environmental Impacts on Native Health - phase one" submitted to the Centre for Treaty Advocacy.

File contains records related to Great Lakes Environment and Indigenous Health. Included in the file are:
1) "Great Lakes Environmental Impacts on Native Health - phase one" Carole Mills and Vince Shea - Centre for Treaty Advocacy
2) "Toxic Chemicals in the Great Lakes and Associated Effects - synopsis" - Government of Canada
3) "Summary of Selected Information Relevant to Human Exposure and Associated Health Effects of Selected Hazardous Agents in Native People in the Great Lakes Basin" - Katherine Davies, Ecosystems Consulting Inc.
4) AFN job postings for Great Lakes Environmental Impacts project
5) AFN First Nations Health Commission information package
6) AFN initial assessment of the Government of Canada's Green Plan
7) Great Lakes Fact Sheet
8) Ontario Fisheries Advisory Council annual report 1991-1992