First Nation & Treaty Organizations

Complaint about American Indian Movement interfering in Stoney Band business.

Comments on two National organizations formed in the early 20th century that promoted and advocated Native American rights and issues.

Provides policing services for 16 individual First Nations located throughout Ontario.

Arrest in the murder of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who was murdered on the Pine Ridge reserve in 1976.

Official site of AMC (Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs), includes information and links for stakeholders and potential stakeholders about child and family services, education, environment, gaming, policy, press, health, housing and more..

Author recognizes notable First Nation individuals for their accomplishments in 2006.

Presentation made by the Grand Chief of the Sto:lo Nation pointing out the lack of a non-derogation clause and other concerns. Reproduction is a copy of an official work that is published by the Government of Canada and it is reproduced in affiliation with, or with the endorsement of the Government of Canada.

Remembering an early activist who was president of the Indian Association of Alberta as well as a noted academic.

Discusses the Development Indicators Project, detailing a system that was developed to assist Indian communities with managing their own socio-economic and cultural revitalization.

States that the Federal Conservative government's policies are marginalizing moderate First Nations leaders.

Discussion of extradition of Graham, American Indian Movement and the murder of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash.

A photocopy of the Objectives and Goals of the Manitoba Region of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. There is also five photocopied issues of "Dialogue," an Indian and Northern Affairs pamphlet on the policies and programs of the Indian and Eskimo Affairs program.

The author recounts her own personal experience working as a special advisor to the Office of the Treaty Commissioner to discuss contemporary treaty negotiations.

Critical analysis of the author's second novel, "attempts to overcome the limitations of the American Indian Movement (AIM) by presenting readers with" characters with international alliances.

Talks about governance and not losing any of the privileges and rights from the Royal Proclamation to the Indian Act and getting out from its legacy. Answers questions about what will happen to Indian Affairs funding of initiatives already in place. (7 minutes).

A photograph of unidentified First Nations Chiefs meeting in Prince Albert, SK, May 19, 1971.

Discusses the conditions of Native American life in California, and the need to break old patterns and embrace new changes.

Listing of organizations, communities, and community services.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Calgary, 1997.

Folder includes a report entitled "Memorial on Indian Affairs" relating to the establishment of a Royal Commission on Indian Affairs and which speaks on various issues relating to improving the indigenous standard of living, and correspondence relating to enfranchisement.

Book review of: The Indian Association of Alberta by Laurie Meijer Drees.

In 1981 IAA argued that First Nations had two choices: either remain outside the Constitution or negotiate a new relationship that will place them in Confederation.

Discusses the context of two Conventions which were pivotal in terms of political activism.

Discussion of Bill McKnight's suitability for the position of Treaty Commissioner in Saskatchewan.

Information about programs and services offered by this organizaton, which serves Nova Scotia's community of off-reserve Mi'kmaq/Aboriginal people.

Discusses the lack of agreement between the Assembly of First Nations and the federal government on policies that affect First Nations people.

Conjecture about who the next leaders will be and lists some embarrassing examples of Canada's present day treatment of First Nations.

Documentary film of 18 minutes portrays the substandard living and working conditions of NAPS officers due to funding shortages.

Argues that the Federal Government of Canada tried to isolate the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) when they made changes to the Indian Act.

Reviews and evaluates documentary and fictional Hollywood movies from the 1960s and 1970s, in relation to how the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the United States is portrayed.

New organization is formed to strengthen the position of Treaty Nations interests and to compliment the roles of the Assembly or First Nations and the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations.

Presentation requests that Canada honour treaty commitments and lawful obligations.

Document looks at historical developments with respect to urban migration and the development of the friendships centres' role, existing conditions (as of 1986), and makes recommendations for federal government policy development.

Objectives were to ensure claimed expenditures that have been incurred are in accordance with the Agreement and other guidelines.

Folder containing a letter from the Chiefs and people of the Six Nations "Iroquois" against expropriation legislation, written when Diefenbaker was leader of the official opposition.

Examines the United States government's case against American Indian Movement activist, Leonard Peltier and the FBIs unofficial agenda taken against AIMs political activism.

Examines key potests and conflict leading up to the occupation of Wounded Knee of 1973, the evolution of the American Indian Movement (AIM), and more recent disputes concerning assets from gambling.

RCAP 155 contains a transcript of the sitting of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at the Citadel Inn in Ottawa, Ontario, on Monday, June 7, 1993. The file contains presentations by a variety of First Nations, Inuit, and Metis organizations. Presentations can be viewed individually on this site.

This file contains a presentation by Alisha Point providing the history and statistics for present-day membership and facilities of the Six Nations, the largest First Nations in Canada.

This file contains a transcript of a portion of a sitting of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at The Fern Resort, Orillia, Ontario. This portion includes a presentation by Greer Atkinson of the United Indian Councils, at a Round Table discussion of Self-Government.

The file contains a presentation by Mary Guilbeault and Jennifer Wood of the Winnipeg First Nations Tribal Council. Guilbeault and Wood discuss their organization's mandate, composition, and operations in Manitoba. Specifically they address concerns such as employment, off-reserve people's reasons for leaving, rights issues, overrepresentation in prisons, racism and discrimination, funding concerns, and identity issues. Following the presentation Commsisioner Wilson and Chartrand discuss some of the issues raised with the two presenters.

This file contains a transcript of a portion of a sitting of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at The Fern Resort, Orillia, Ontario. This portion includes a presentation by the United Indian Councils given by Vice-Chief Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux; Greer Atkinson; Laurie Flynn; Chief Jeff Monague and Vice-Chief Mel Jacobs, at a Round Table discussion of Self-Government.

File contains a presentation by Director Gordon King of the Micmac Native Friendship Centre (Halifax, NS). King discusses the role Friendship Centres play in communities, their non-political nature, and the success they have had working with urban Aboriginal populations. King introduces the days presenters from the Friendship Centre and states to the Commissioners that they "have the powers to start the process for change to ensure a better life for Aboriginal peoples residing in urban areas.

Includes Saskatoon City Council minutes from a meeting on Monday, June 11, 1984 regarding a request by Bruce Sanderson of the Saskatchewan Association of Friendship Centres that City Council respond to a tentative proposal to integrate Aboriginal people in Urban Communities. The Council moves that the letter be received and referred to the Planning and Development Committee.

Council presented concerns at the Chief's Assembly in Yorkton.

Introduction and documents that trace the three year campaign by the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs against the Meech Lake Accord.

Discusses the institutional development of the Office, from its inception as the National Indian Brotherhood-NWT, an organization whose mandate was to bring attention to the concerns of the Dene, through to the Dene/Métis Land Claims, regional land claims and self-government agreements, and the new constitution and current activities.