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.

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 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 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 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 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 "Leadership" the 1992 annual report for the Association of Iroquois & Allied Indians.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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 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.

Photocopy of the executive summary and report to the summit regarding special First Nations Chief Negotiators meeting regarding "Fee Simple Status". Included is a copy of the presentation by the Nisga'a Lisims Government "Nisga'a Lisims Government Lands Presentation".

File contains records related to comprehensive claims policy and information on specific claims. In the file is section 14 - "Indian and Northern Affairs Canada - Comprehensive Land Claims" of the Auditor General of Canada's 1998 report; Comprehensive Claims Policy and Status of Claims - Nov. 21, 1997 from Indigenous Affairs and Northern Development website; and transcript from the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Oct. 22, 1998 meeting.

File contains a copy of section 14 of the Auditor General of Canada's 1998 report - "Indian and Northern Affairs Canada - Comprehensive Land Claims" and a copy of 22nd Report to the House (1999) regarding section 14 of the Auditor General's report.

Umbrella Final Agreement between the Yukon Government, the Council for Yukon Indians, and the Government of Canada.

File contains two published documents:
2018.008.022.004.001 The Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Self-Government Agreement
2018.008.022.004.002 Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Final Agreement

File contains two published documents:
2018.008.022.005.001 Nisga'a Treaty Negotiations Agreement-in-Principle
2018.008.022.005.002 Nisga'a Final Agreement - Appendices

File contains two published documents:
2018.008.022.008.001 Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation Self-Government Agreement
2018.008.022.008.002 Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation Final Agreement

Nunavut Implementation Commission booklet featuring members of the commission and background information.

Series contains records related to Land Claims and court cases in British Columbia. Includes records regarding claims policy, the B. C. Treaty Commission, the Nisga'a agreement in principle, the Douglas Treaties, the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs, and the First Nations Summit. Series has been divided into the following files/items:

2018.008.021.001 Select Annotated Bibliography on B. C. Indian Policy and Land Claims
2018.008.021.002 B. C. - Lands - History
2018.008.021.003 BC Claims 5%
2018.008.021.004 B. C. Treaty Comm Vol. I
2018.008.021.005 B. C. Treaty Comm Vol. II
2018.008.021.006 Nisga'a Agreement
2018.008.021.007 UBCIC - 10/96
2018.008.021.008 UBCIC Resource Kit
2018.008.021.009 UBCIC Posters
2018.008.021.010 UBCIC Vol. I
2018.008.021.011 B. C. Claims Vol. I & II
2018.008.021.012 UBCIC - Nov. 1999
2018.008.021.013 RCAP - Douglas Treaties
2018.008.021.014 Douglas Treaties - DIA
2018.008.021.015 Nisga'a AIP Analysis
2018.008.021.016 BC Interior
2018.008.021.017 BCTC - Spring 98
2018.008.021.018 Haida Timber Case 1/98
2018.008.021.019 Nisga'a AIP 95-96
2018.008.021.020 Nisga'a Agrmnt #1
2018.008.021.021 BCTC - 3/99
2018.008.021.022 BC - Ind Orgs
2018.008.021.023 BC - Fall 1999 - West Bank
2018.008.021.024 First Nations Congress Lands, Revenues, Trusts Community Review Workshops

File contains a historical outline of land dealings in British Columbia and correspondence re: Cheslatta Carrier Nation specific land claim.

File contains records related to the British Columbia Treaty Commission (BCTC). Included in the file are news releases and clippings, as well as:
1) brochures "Treaties in British Columbia" and "Treaty Making" from the First Nations Summit Perspective
2) brochure "The British Columbia Treaty Commission" from the UBCIC
3) brochure "Treaty Negotiations in B. C. ' an Overview" from the Federal Treaty Negotiation Office
4) "BCTC & The Land Question"
5) "BCTC 1997 Annual Report excerpts
6) Report on the Treaty Process in British Columbia
7) Musqueam Indian Band - Band Council Resolution
8) Understanding the B. C. Treaty Process - an opportunity for dialogue
9) newsletter "British Columbia Treaty Commission update"

File contains one over-sized poster "Comprehensive Framework Treaty between First Nations in British Columbia and Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada" dated May 1991. File also contains an over-sized information booklet "Buffalo Stampede of the 1990s: The Report of the B. C. Land Claims Task Force".

File contains records related to land claims and specific court cases related to logging in British Columbia. There are affidavits and reasons for judgement in the Supreme Court of British Columbia cases - Ron Derrickson et al. v. Province of British Columbia, and Chief Dan Wilson et. al v. Province of British Columbia.

Series contains records related to court cases, Lubicon Lake and Fiduciary duty. It is divided into files/items:
2018.008.025.001 Sparrow Etc. - SCC
2018.008.025.002 Guerin - Musqueam
2018.008.025.003 R. vs. Marshall
2018.008.025.004 MC - Marshall Dec/2000
2018.008.025.005 Corbiere
2018.008.025.006 Comp + Fiduc - Pratt
2018.008.025.007 Fiduciary Vol. 1
2018.008.025.008 Pratt - Prov + Claims
2018.008.025.009 Crown Conduct Dr #1
2018.008.025.010 P. Hutchins: UFO's
2018.008.025.011 Fiduciary & Claims Negs
2018.008.025.012 Claims - M. Turpel
2018.008.025.013 Geoff Lester, DOJ Claims
2018.008.025.014 Northern Flood agreement between Canada, Manitoba, York Factory First Nation, and Manitoba Hydro-electric Board
2018.008.025.015 Claims Review - La Forest 82?
2018.008.025.016 Lubicon Bckgrn
2018.008.025.017 Lubicon Commission
2018.008.025.018 Lubicon - Settlement Commission
2018.008.025.019 Lubicon #3
2018.008.025.020 UNHRC - Lubicon
2018.008.025.021 E. Davie Fulton

File contains background information relating to the Lubicon Lake Indian Nation. Included in the file are information packages sent out by the Nation; "Lubicon Lake: A Case Study" by the Lubicon Lake Indian Nation; and an article from Saturday Night magazine dated Feb. 1988 "Forked Tongues".

File contains records relating to the Lubicon Settlement Commission of Review (LSCR). Included in the file are:
1) Correspondence re: LSCR final report
2) Lubicon Lake Cree Nation backgrounder
3) Two copies of the LCSR final review
4) Review final report media coverage
5) Information package re: LSCR status report

File contains various records relating to the Lubicon Lake Indian Nation. Included in the file are:
1) memo from The Mimir Corporation re: Woodland Cree Settlement
2) Law of the Lubicon Lake Indian Nation Respecting the use of its Traditional Territory
3) Correspondence to Peter Di Gangi from the Lubicon Lake Indian Nation including Woodland Cree - Federal Government-Alberta Provincial Government agreement in principle
4) Copy of E. Davie Fulton's "Lubicon Lake Indian Band Inquiry - Discussion Paper"
5) Letter from Lubicon Lake Indian Nation to the Chiefs of Alberta
6) Lubicon Lake: a Case Study by the Lubicon Lake Indian Nation

Series contains published reports and books published by the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs and one from the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs. Series contains:
2018.008.026.001 Basic Departmental Data
2018.008.026.002 Indian and Northern Affairs Canada Annual Reports
2018.008.026.003 Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and Canadian Polar Commission reports
2018.008.026.004 Deputy Minister Task Forces - Final Reports
2018.008.026.005 Unfinished Business: An Agenda for all Canadians in the 1990's
2018.008.026.006 An Overview of Demographic, Social and Economic Conditions among Nova Scotia's Registered Indian Population
2018.008.026.007 Socio-Economic Impact Model for Northern Development, Vol. I and II
2018.008.026.008 Native Studies in Canada - A Research Guide

In 1995 the Clerk of the Privy Council established Task Forces, led by Deputy Ministers, to explore a variety of issues identified by the program review undertaken regarding public services. The file contains final reports resulting from these task forces. Included in the file are:
2018.008.026.004.001 DM Task Force Vol. I - Deputy Minister Task Forces - From Studies to Action
2018.008.026.004.002 DM Task Force Vol. II - Toward Citizen-Centred Service Case Studies
2018.008.026.004.003 DM Task Force Vol. III - Scenarios
2018.008.026.004.004 DM Task Force Vol. IV - Examining the Key Questions
2018.008.026.004.005 Discussion Paper on Service Delivery Models, Vol. I

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

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

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 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".

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

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.

"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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

Task Force on Race Relations and Policing final report.

File contains two copies of "Discussion Paper: Towards an Indian Affairs Environmental Management Policy" by C. K. Marchant of Capital Cities Consultants (International) Ltd.

Copy of the report of the Ontario Forest Policy Panel to the Minister of Natural Resources.

Copy of report "Economic Impact of Provincial Parks in Ontario: A Summary Report" by the Parks and Recreational Areas branch of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, and Econometrics Research Ltd.

File contains records regarding Treaty #9. Included in the file are:
1) Ontario North Today press release
2) a compilation of biographies of speakers
3) Grand Council Treaty #9 press release July 26, 1977
4) Map of "Major Development Projects facing the Cree-Ojibway North of 50
5) Bulletin - a study-action kit Vol. 18 No. 2 1977 - "For Generations Yet Unborn: Ontario Resources North of 50" Canadian Association in Support of the Native Peoples

File contains records related to Moose Factory, Ontario. Included are newspaper clippings; Omushkego Arrow newsletter Aug. 1994; map of Albany, Moose-Kesagami, and Rupert's House bands circa 1880; Moose Cree Treaty Workshop handwritten notes; and some notes re: Moose Factory.

File contains records related to the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation. Included in the file are:
1) "The James Bay Treaty: Treaty #9" by Roger Jones of Nahwegahbow, Jones for the Centre for Treaty Advocacy, Assembly of First Nations and presented at the Nishnawbe Aski Treaty Conference, 1990 (2 copies)
2) "Nishnawbe-Aski's Position on the Interpretation of Treaties" by Brian Davey
3) Nishnawbe-Aski Commission workshop materials, August 1982
4) "The Thunder Bay Pact - a manifesto of the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation"
5) photocopy of "The James Bay Treaty/Treaty No. 9 transcription of 1905 treaty and 1930 additions

Copy of the United Indian Councils and the Ontario Provincial Government Political Relations Seminar kit. Seminar held March 5 and 6, 1992.

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.