File contains news clippings and RCMP Criminal Intelligence briefs and memos regarding Aboriginal militancy and Aboriginal-based organized crime.

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.

File contains status reports on specific land claims in Canada. The claims reports are generated by province and all are from 1992.

File contains records related to the First Ministers' Conference, Land Claims, and Self-Government. Included in the file are:
1) A New Covenant - Towards the Constitutional Recognition and Protection of Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada
2) Bill S-18 - An Act to further the aspirations of the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada
3) Senate news release re: Aboriginal Peoples Act
4) Address by Chief Ted Moses, Eastmain Band, James Bay June 13, 1988, Yellowknift, N. W. T.
5) Minister's Letter - Issue 5, April 1984
6) Correspondence re: proposed constitutional amendments, 1981
7) Copy of notes and actual speech given by National Chief to open the First Ministers' Constitutional Conference, 1983
8) Strength in Unity - Association of Iroquois and Allied Nations newsletter
9) The Implementation of Federal Claims Policy 1973-1980 - a working paper - Murray Angus
10) Public Lands, Native Land Claims and Land Use - Peter A. Cumming
11) The Federal-Indian Trust Relationship: An Historical Overview and Discussion of Some Current Issues - Jeffrey A. Ross
12) The Political Economy of Land Claims: Critical Reflections on the 1973 Federal Policy Statement on Native Claims in Canada - James Murray Angus
13) Towards a New Federal Policy for Comprehensive Claims Settlements

File contains records related to the Indian Commission of Ontario. Included in the file are:
1) The Tripartite Council resolution and memorandum of reference (unsigned)
2) An Introduction to the Indian Commission of Ontario
3) Claims in Ontario: P. T. C. Discussions - Nishnawbe-Aski Nation
4) Correspondence re: Ontario Research Directors' Meeting
5) article from Anishinabek News re: Mississauga #8 settlement ratification

File contains 2 copies of the joint presentation "A New Proposal for Claims Resolution in Ontario" by the Executive Councils of the Association of Iroquois & Allied Indians, Grand Council Treaty #3, and the Union of Ontario Indians to the Minister of Indian Affairs Honourable John Munro.

File contains 3 specific claims in Canada status reports - 1977, 1982, and 1984.

File contains copies of "The U. S. Indian Claims Commission (a comprehensive digest)" by the U. S. Office of Native Claims and parts of "Indian Land Claims Policy in the United States" by Russel Lawrence Barsh and Sakej Y. Henderson.

File contains 4 different land claim books published by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. Included are:
1) In All Fairness - A Native Claims Policy, 1981
2) Outstanding Business - A Native Claims Policy, 1982
3) Comprehensive Land Claims Policy, 1986
4) Federal Policy for the Settlement of Native Claims, 1998

Series contains records relating to specific claims policy. The series is divided into the following files/items:

2018.008.019.001 Claims Policies
2018.008.019.002 U. S. Claims Commission
2018.008.019.003 SP. Cl. Status 77-86
2018.008.019.004 Ontario PTOs Re: Claims 1981
2018.008.019.005 I. C. O. 82 -
2018.008.019.006 FMC + Claims + Self Gov't. 1980s
2018.008.019.007 Specific Claims Status Reports - 12/92
2018.008.019.008 Lands & Trusts 1998-1999
2018.008.019.009 FN's RCMP 1995
2018.008.019.010 Claims Directions 2/97
2018.008.019.011 AFN/AFNQ - 4/98
2018.008.019.012 AFN Claims Jan 99-
2018.008.019.013 AFN Claims 5/2000
2018.008.019.014 C-6: Ed John Report
2018.008.019.015 Bill C-60 - Sept 2002
2018.008.019.016 Bill C-6 - Nov 2002
2018.008.019.017 C-60/C-6 - "ICB" Kit
2018.008.019.018 AFN-CCC - 22 May 2002
2018.008.019.019 Bill C-6 - Spring 2003
2018.008.019.020 C-6 Senate - June 2003
2018.008.019.021 Bill C-6 - October 2003
2018.008.019.022 C-19 FN Statistics & Fiscal Act

Copy of the Volume 8 No. 2 Spring 1979 edition of "Alternatives: Perspectives on Society and Environment". Magazine published by Trent University.

File contains two papers and an article:
1) The Innovative Use of Standing Committees by Keith Penner, in "Canadian Parliamentary Review" Vol. 5 No. 1
2) The Indian Lobby by Douglas E. Sanders
3) A Guide to Native Political Associations in Canada by Wayne Daugherty, INAC

Copy of "First Nations Social Assistance: A Series of Five Papers" prepared by Andrew Webster, Atelier Pika Ltd for the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development as a follow up to concerns raised by the Auditor General of Canada in the 1994 Report on DIAND's Social Assistance Program.

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 correspondence about and copies of "DIAND's Framework for Action (a work in progress)" and three copies of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada "The Outlook in Priorities and Expenditures 1995-1996 to 1997-1998".

File contains copies of departmental audit reports for Indian Affairs and Northern Development. Included in the file are:

1) news release and associated executive summaries for: Environmental Management Audit of Northern Affairs Program, Land & Water Management Activities Associated with Mining; Environmental Management Audit of the Land & Trust Sector, Land Management Activities Associated with Mining; Self-Assessment of the Funding Management Process; Indian Economic Development Fund (IEDF) and Eskimo Loan Fund (ELF) of the Headquarters and Quebec Regional Offices; Year End Expenditures for the 1994-1995 Fiscal Year; and Geological Mapping of the Northwest Territories Region.

2)Audit Report on the Office of the Treaty Commissioner

3) Audit of Specific Claims final report

4) Audit of the Indian Registration System audit report

5) Real Property Disposals audit report

6) Audit of Selected 1992-1993 Capital Projects report

7) Audit of Selected Databanks Nominal Roll System audit report

8) Audit of The Management of Receivables audit report

9) Training audit report

10) Audit of the Management of Automated Systems in the Land Management Function

File contains the final report by Angus Reid titled "Canada's Aboriginal Leaders: Perspectives from the Inside".

File contains a single correspondence between the Assembly of First Nations and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada regarding First Nations funding from the Federal Government.

File contains two papers -
1) Brian Slattery's presentation on the inherent right to self-government presented at the Self-Government Conference October 19, 1998
2) "How Can Infringements of the Constitutional Rights of Aboriginal Peoples be Justified" by Kent McNeil for the Centre for Constitutional Studies - Constitutional Forum.

Copy of the report by Gordon J. Burrell and Douglas E. Sanders "Handbook of Case Law on the Indian Act".

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 a copy of the Deputy Minister Task Force on Strengthening our Policy Capacity report.

File contains a copy of the Deputy Minister Task Force on Managing Horizontal Policy Issues report.

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

File contains news stories, biographies and histories for government officials who worked for Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada and Ministry of Indigenous Affairs.

File contains two copies of a booklet for the Federal Steering Committee on Self-Government and Comprehensive Claims. Included are member lists and a process booklet.

File contains papers and articles written about Residential Schools. Included in the file are:
1) Anglican Journal April 2000 and May 2000
2) Presbyterian Record, January 2003
3) Federal Rules of Engagement - The Government's War Against Survivors and the Churches by Alvin Tolley
4) Article for Anasazi - "Federal Rules of Engagement: Canada's War Against Survivors and the Churches"

File contains records related to fiscal accountability. Included in the file are newspaper clippings and a copy of "CGA-AFN Accountability Project interim report, April 1999".

File contains newspaper clippings, brochures and other records related to negative reactions to Indigenous Rights and Self-Government.

Aboriginal Healing Foundation 2003 annual report.

Proceedings report from the National Treaty Gathering in Fort Carlton, Saskatchewan August 20-26, 2001. Report prepared by Paulette C. Tremblay, Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations.

File contains speeches and presentations. Included are:

1) The Crown-First Nations Relationship and the Treaties - a National Perspective
2) Presentation to the Senate of Canada - The Implications of the Meech Lake Accord on Treaties
3) Presentation to the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs regarding The Post-Secondary Education Assistance Program
4) Speaking notes for Regional Chief Lawrence Courtoreille to the Indian Association of Alberta
5) National Chief Georges Erasmus' Speaking Notes for Newsworld, Aug. 29, 1990
6) Assembly of First Nations submission to the Senate Committee on Aboriginal Affairs
7) Backgrounder on the current crisis in First Nation - Canada Relations

File contains Insight Research Canada polling reports for 1996-1997. Reports received as part of and Access to Information request by Peter Di Gangi. Included in the file are:
1) Pollara - Perspectives Canada Vol. VI, No. 1 First Quarter 1997 subscriber analysis - DIAND
2) Perspectives Canada Fall 1994 and Winter 1995 - Department of Indian and Northern Affairs
3) Perspectives Canada Vol. IV, No. 2 - Subscriber analysis: Department of Indian and Northern Affairs
4) Perspectives Canada Vol. IV, No. 3 - Subscriber analysis: Department of Indian and Northern Affairs
5) Perspectives Canada Vol. IV, No. 4 - Subscriber analysis: Department of Indian and Northern Affairs
6) Insight Canada Poll Results - Feb. 1996
7) Perspectives Canada Vol. V, No. 3 - Subscriber analysis: Department of Indian and Northern Affairs
8) Perspectives Canada Vol. V, No. 4 Fall 1996 - subscriber analysis - DIAND
9) Contract between Insight Research Canada and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada for the surveys.

File contains records related to the Federal NDP party. Included in the file are:
1) The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples final report - NDP stance
2) Aboriginal Rights Coalition questionnaire responses by Gordon Earle, Halifax West NDP Campaign.
3) NDP 1997 election platform in relation to Aboriginal Peoples.

File contains records related to the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND). Included in the file are DIAND news releases; Human Resources Development Canada news releases; correspondence; "You Wanted to Know" printouts from the DIAND website; and several audits of DIAND initiatives.

File contains records related to Federal budgets. Included in the file are newspaper clippings and a copy of "Canada's Current Economic and Fiscal Situation" - Dept. of Finance, Oct. 1992.

File contains records related to various Federal budgets. Included in the file are:
1) newspaper clippings
2) Lang Michener "In Brief" - Spring 1997, Spring 1995
3) News release re: DIAND program review and accompanying report
4) Presentation to the Assembly of First Nations on 1995-1996 Expenditures for Aboriginal Peoples
5) The Budget in Grief - Assembly of First Nations, March 15, 1990

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 two documents: Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and Canadian Polar Commission 1998-1999 estimates - a report on plans and priorities; and Comprehensive Claims Policy and Status of Claims, Nov. 21, 1997.

File has records related to Federal Government budget information for 1998. Included are newspaper clippings; papers; and Indian Affairs and Northern Development budget information.

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 records related to Indigenous languages. Included in the file are news stories and a copy of "Beyond Rhetoric - exploring the linkages between language, literacy and First Nations social security programming" by Emily Faries, Mary Ann Corbiere, and Roger Spielmann.

File contains a copy of the Cabinet analysis regarding creation of urban multipurpose Aboriginal youth centres.

File contains clippings and documents related to "Gathering Strength" the Federal Government's response to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

File contain a news story and press releases regarding Canadian Government cabinet shuffles, and the reorganization of the Federal-Provincial Relations Office.

Copy of "Sovereignty and Treaties Governing First Nations - Canada Political and Legal Relations" by Sol and Associates for the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations.

File contains master copies of legal briefs, analyses, speaking notes, and other records related to Bill C-79 - an act to permit certain modifications in the application of the Indian Act to bands that desire them created/collected by the Assembly of First Nations. Included are:
1) Preliminary notes on Bill C-79
2) correspondence between Assembly of First Nations and Nahwegahbow, Nadjiwan Barrister and Solicitors
3) Framework for Analysis: Diand's proposed Indian Act amendments
4) Remarks on Bill C-79. the 'Optional Indian Act Modification Act'
5) Submission to Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development on the Optional Indian Act Modification Act by the North Shore Tribal Council
6) copy of Bill C-79

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.

Copy of the paper "Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada - a research report for the Canadian Bar Association Committee on Native Justice" by James Crawford, Challis Professor of International Law at the University of Sydney.

Copy of the paper "Aboriginal Self Government Paradigms with the Canadian Federation" by Ian Johnson and presented at the British Association for Canadian Studies annual conference March 26-28, 1993.

Copy of "Indian Band Self-Government in the 1960s: A Case Study of Walpole Island" by John Leornard Taylor for the Treaties and Historical Research Centre of Indian and Northern Affairs .

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 Economic Foundation of Indian Self-Government" a report prepared for the Special Committee of the House of Commons on Indian Self-Government by Thalassa Research Associates.

Copy of "The First Nations and the Crown: A Study of Trust Relationships" by David C. Nahwegahbow, Michael W. Posluns, Don Allen & Associates, and Douglas Sanders. Created for the Special Committee of the House of Commons on Indian Self- Government with Keith Penner as the Chairman.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Two copies of "Reciting the Symptoms, Ignoring the Cause: The Systematic Dispossession of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada" a response to the Government of Canada's third periodic report on the implementation of the international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights.

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

File contains report created by the Grand Council of the Crees for the United Nations Economic and Social Council - "To the Edge of Cultural and Political Extinction" a response concerning the covenant rights of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada to the Government of Canada's fourth periodic report on the implementation of the international covenant on civil and political rights.

Two copies of "Study on treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and Indigenous populations" by Miguel Alfonso Martinez for the United Nations Economic and Social Council Commission on Human Rights sub-commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities.

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

File contains news clippings and United Nations reports regarding Canada and its Indigenous Peoples. United Nations reports are from United Nations Economic and Social Council.

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

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

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

File contains copies of the Hutchins, Soroka & Dionne newsletter "Nouvelles Internationales HSD International News". Included in the file are Volume 1, Nos. 1-6; Volume 2, Nos. 1-3; Volume 3 No. 1-2; and Volume 4 No. 1-2.

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

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

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

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

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

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

File contains records related to International Indigenous issues. Included in the file are:
1) "Indian Rights-Human Rights - Handbook for Indians on International Human Rights Complaints" Indian Law Resource Centre
2) United Nations List of Indigenous Organizations
3) Draft declaration as agreed upon by the members of the Working Group at its 11th session
4) "Implementation of the programme of action for the second decade to combat racism and racial discrimination" - Commission on Human Rights, United Nations
5) International Issues
6) "Advisory Services in the field of Human Rights - report of the Secretary General" Commission on Human Rights, United Nations
7) Report on the 5th General Assembly of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples, Lima Peru July 11-16, 1987

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

File contains records related to Indigenous water rights. Included in the file are:
1) Correspondence - International Indian Water Rights Coalition
2) Indian Resource and Water Rights - Kenneth J. Tyler
3) Title to the Water Bed: The Legal History of the Ad Medium Filum Aquae Rule - Rose Boyko Wuerscher
4) Indian Water Rights in the Western United States: An Historical Overview and Discussion of Some Current Issues - Jeffrey A. Ross
5) Peigan Nation Administration water rights lawsuit
6) Carrier Sekani Tribal Council legal documents re: Kemano II project

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

File contains 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.

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.

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

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

File contains records created by the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) regarding treaties, treaty rights, and the bilateral constitutional task force. Included are:
1) Statement of the Right to Self-Government and Land
2) Making Political and Legal Sense of the Treaties discussion paper
3) Treaty Rights: AFN Positions/Initiatives 1986-1991
4) AFN resolutions
5) Constitutional Working Group members list, memos, meeting schedule and meeting minutes
6) Report of the Bilateral Constitutional Task Force on Treaties and Treaty Rights
7) Treaty Rights Unit report on Treaties for A. F. N. Special Assembly
8) AFN Position on First Nations Treaties: Treaty Rights, Treaty Making and Implementation
9) 1983 Constitutional Accord on Aboriginal Rights
10) Proposal for an amendment on Self-Government and Treaties by AFN
11) A National First Nations-Canada Treaty - Chiefs Assembly AFN
12) FSIN - Canada Bilateral Agreements - Indian Governments of Saskatchewan
13) Restoring the Path, Renewing our Nations - AFN

File contains records relating to alternative mechanisms for treaty implementation. Included in the file are:
1)2 copies - Alternative Approaches to First Nations Inherent, Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Canada
2) Alternative Mechanisms for Treaty Implementation: A review of past and current approaches - AFN
3) A Brief Commentary on the Alternative Mechanisms
4) National Committee on Treaties - Working Group on Alternative Mechanisms meeting kit