File contains information on activism, agriculture, reserve life, medical services, drug prescriptions, land claims, the Indian Act, Metis, Indigenous rights, chiefs, sterilization of indigenous women, the "Red Paper", discrimination, treaties 8 and 11, recreation, Liquor Act, provincial law, housing, Local Initiatives Programs, utilities on reserves, and poverty.
This file includes Louis Riel's handwritten acknowledgement of the invitation to attend a public meeting in Prince Albert in order to promote unity amongst the settlers in their fight for their rights, and correspondence relating to the acquisition of the letter.