Two Kitamaat Band Council members sitting at a table during the Kitamaat Band North Coast District Council meeting and land claim presentation. A third man is sitting in the background with crossed arms.
Hugh Faulkner, Kitamaat Band Council members, and an unknown man sitting at a table talking during the Kitamaat Band North Coast District Council meeting and land claim presentation.
Hugh Faulkner and Kitamaat Band Council members sitting at a table talking during the Kitamaat Band North Coast District Council meeting and land claim presentation.
Iona Campagnolo sitting and speaking with Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Doolan in Kincolith during the North Coast Council meeting and land claim presentation with the Kitimaat Band Council.
Group shot of Hugh Faulkner and the Kitimaat Band Council at a land claims presentation during the North Coast District Council meeting. Eight council members are pictured.
Hugh Faulkner and Kitamaat Band Council members sitting at a table talking during the Kitamaat Band North Coast District Council meeting and land claim presentation.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo and Hugh Faulkner talking with a group of children and adults at Kispiox as part of Campagnolo's Skeena riding tour. First Nations art is pictured on a hanging blanket.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo and Hugh Faulkner talking with a group of children and adults at Kispiox as part of Campagnolo's Skeena riding tour. First Nations art is pictured on a hanging blanket.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo and Hugh Faulkner talking with a group of children and adults at Kispiox as part of Campagnolo's Skeena riding tour. First Nations art is pictured on a hanging blanket.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo and Hugh Faulkner talking with a group of children and adults at Kispiox as part of Campagnolo's Skeena riding tour. First Nations art is pictured on a hanging blanket.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo and Hugh Faulkner talking with a group of children and adults at Kispiox as part of Campagnolo's Skeena riding tour. First Nations art is pictured on hanging blankets.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo and Hugh Faulkner talking with a group of children and adults at Kispiox as part of Campagnolo's Skeena riding tour. First Nations art is pictured on a hanging blanket.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo and Hugh Faulkner talking with a group of children and adults at Kispiox as part of Campagnolo's Skeena riding tour. First nations whale art on a hanging blanket is also pictured.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo standing with Hugh Faulkner, George Manuel, Walter Harris and others at Kispiox as part of her Skeena riding tour.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo standing with Hugh Faulkner, George Manuel, Walter Harris and others at Kispiox as part of her Skeena riding tour.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo standing with Hugh Faulkner, George Manuel and others at Kispiox as part of her Skeena riding tour.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo standing with unknown children by a First Nations art blanket representing a whale at Kispiox as part of her Skeena riding tour.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo speaking with three unknown men in suit jackets at Kispiox as part of her Skeena riding tour.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo standing with Chief of the National Indian Brotherhood George Manuel and Gitxsan artist and hereditary chief Walter Harris.
Photograph depicts Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Hugh Faulkner shaking hands with First Nations elders wearing button blankets.
Photograph depicts Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Hugh Faulkner greeting First Nations elders wearing button blankets.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo walking with Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Hugh Faulkner, Chief of the National Indian Brotherhood George Manuel, Gitxsan artist and hereditary chief Walter Harris, and others at Kispiox as part of her Skeena riding tour.
Photograph depicts Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and MP Iona Campagnolo at the opening ceremony for Skidegate Museum in the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii).
Photograph depicts Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and MP Iona Campagnolo at the opening ceremony for Skidegate Museum in the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii).
Photograph depicts Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and MP Iona Campagnolo at the opening ceremony for Skidegate Museum in the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii).
Photograph depicts Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and MP Iona Campagnolo at the opening ceremony for Skidegate Museum in the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii).
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo presenting a cheque to the director of the Native Brotherhood of British Columbia.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo sitting with First Nations people at an event.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo sitting with First Nations people at an event.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo and Sharon Hitchcock in front of the Haida Council Office in the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii).
Photograph depicts Skeena MP Iona Campagnolo speaking with George Brown of Burns Lake Community Development Corporation in Burns Lake while being filmed by director Paul Rockett. Unknown man in centre.
Photograph depicts Skeena MP Iona Campagnolo speaking with George Brown of Burns Lake Community Development Corporation in Burns Lake while being filmed by director Paul Rockett. Unknown man in centre.
Photograph depicts Skeena MP Iona Campagnolo speaking with George Brown of Burns Lake Community Development Corporation in Burns Lake while being filmed by director Paul Rockett.
Photograph depicts Skeena MP Iona Campagnolo speaking with George Brown of Burns Lake Community Development Corporation in Burns Lake.
Photograph depicts MP Iona Campagnolo wearing a button blanket next to a First Nations young woman also wearing a button blanket, probably on a visit to the House of Commons.
Photograph depicts MP Iona Campagnolo Iona Campagnolo receives a carving by Elisapee Angutirjuak of Igloolik from Allan Kooneeliusie (Vice President of Baffin Region Inuit Association [B.R.I.A.]) and David Nowdlak (Sports and Recreation Co-ordinator, B.R.I.A). This gift was likely given in relation to Campagnolo's work as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (August 8, 1974-September 14, 1977).
Photograph depicts the Queen Charlotte Islands museum site overlooking Skidegate Inlet and next to a gravel beach.
Photograph depicts the last standing totem poles at Masset, B.C.
Photograph depicts Chief Gold's house with a moon crest from 1884 at Second Beach, Skidegate and a short distance from the museum site.
Drawing of floor plans for Native Centre in Terrace B.C. Three sketches depict lower floor plan, main floor plan, and upper floor plan.
Blueprint to the Carrier Communication Centre in Vanderhoof depicts third story floor plan which includes: office spaces, lunch room, kitchen, and accommodation rooms.
Blueprint to the Carrier Communication Centre in Vanderhoof depicts second story floor plan which includes: pool room, hobby rooms, and large game dance room.
Blueprint to the Carrier Communication Centre in Vanderhoof depicts first floor floor plan which includes: lobby, library, sitting areas, and the main meeting and gathering place which has a fire pit in the middle.
Map depicts the jurisdictions of the various Indian treaties in existence in 1966, including the boundaries of: no surrenders, exempted-royal proclamation, no valid surrenders, land and hunting rights surrenders, and land surrender only. The whole of Canada is depicted in this map.
Publication contains booklet entitled "Citizens Plus: The Nishga People of the Naas River in Northwestern British Columbia" published by the Nishga Tribal Council of New Aiyansh.
Subseries consists of correspondence and accompanying informational material related to the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs and First Nations issues. Records include Ministers’ schedules, newspaper clippings, press releases, speeches from the Ministers of Indian Affairs, research projects and reports, meeting notes, and conference material. Includes correspondence regarding funding for housing; First Nations education and schools; Indian status; First Nations Friendship Centres; land claims issues; hunting, trapping and fishing agreements; Parks Canada concerns; and the Northern Canada Power Commission. Also includes alphabetical name files for First Nations bands, council and reserves (mostly located in BC) and First Nations organizations, such as the Native Brotherhood of BC.
File consists of one magazine clipping:
- Magazine clipping: “Time for amends: a land-claims referendum could derail key negotiations with B.C.’s natives” Macleans magazine, September 3, 2001
File consists of correspondence, publications, press releases, newspaper clippings, guidelines, and speeches. Includes:
- Copy of Nisga’a Nation 35th Annual Convention, Convention Book
- Publication: “Nisga’a: People of the Mighty River”
- Computer printout: “Nisga’a, British Columbia and Canada sign Agreement-in-Principle, February 15, 1996
- Nisga’a Treaty Negotiations, Agreement-in-Principle in Brief
- Chronology of events leading to an Agreement-in-Principle with the Nisga’a Tribal Council
- Nisga’a, British Columbia and Canada release historic Agreement-in-Principle
- Lock-up Guidelines, Nisga’a Agreement-in-Principle
- Speaking notes for the Honourable Ronald A. Irwin, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development re: Nisga’a Agreement-in-Principle, February 15, 1996
- Publication: Treaty No.8 Made June 21, 1899 and Adhesions, Reports, etc
- Publication: Treaty No.11 (June 27, 1921) and Adhesion (July 17, 1922) with Reports, etc.
- Publication: Indian Act, September, 1989
- Handwritten note: “The view only changes for the land (?)”
- Letter to Iona Campagnolo from Hon. Ronald A. Irwin re: thank you for support of Nisga’a Agreement-in-Principle, April 18, 1996
- Letter to Iona Campagnolo from Prime Minister Jean Chrétien re: thank you for support of Nisga’a Agreement-in-Principle, April 15, 1996
- Faxed letter to Ms. Marjorie Percival, Land Claims Secretary, Nisga’a Tribal Council, from Iona Campagnolo re: Agreement-in-Principle Signing Ceremony and 39th Annual Convention, March 19, 1996
- Faxed letter to Chief Harry Nyce, Nisga’a Tribal Council, from Iona Campagnolo re: regrets for Agreement-in-Principle Signing Ceremony, March 18, 1996
- Faxed letter to Iona Campagnolo from to Ms. Marjorie Percival, Land Claims Secretary, Nisga’a Tribal Council, re: Agreement-in-Principle Signing Ceremony and 39th Annual Convention, March 18, 1996
- Letter to Iona Campagnolo from Paulette Francoeur, Head, Correspondence Unit, Office of the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, re: letter of acknowledgement, February 23, 1996
- Faxed letter to Ms. Megan Olesky, Federal Treaty Negotiation Office, from Iona Campagnolo re: event attendance, February 14, 1996
- Handwritten notes re: Nisga’a
- Handwritten notes re: First Nations Summit and Nisga’a
- Faxed letter to Iona Campagnolo from Doreen Mullings, Executive Director, Federal Treaty Negotiation Office and Joy Illington, Assistant Deputy Minister, Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs re: Nisga’a Agreement-in-Principle and News Conference Invitation, February 14, 1996
- Fax to Iona Campagnolo re: “Talking points on the Nisga’a Agreement-in-Principle”, February 15, 1996
- Letter to Iona Campagnolo from Honourable Ronald A. Irwin, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development re: Nisga’a treaty negotiations, October 20, 1995
- Letter to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien from Iona Campagnolo re: appreciation of government in support of Nisga’a treaty negotiations, February 12, 1996
- Letter to John Watson, Regional Director General, Indian Affairs and Northern Development from Iona Campagnolo re: thank you for briefing on Nisga’a Agreement, October 1, 1997
- Letter to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien from Iona Campagnolo re: commendation of John Watson, and the Nisga’a people towards determining an Agreement, October 1, 1997
- Letter to Hon. Jane Stewart, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development from Iona Campagnolo re: commendation of her leadership, October 1, 1997
- Newspaper clippings:
- “Guujaaw: A man of his people” The Vancouver Sun, March 16, 2002
- “Found Haida tattoo kit comes to light” The Vancouver Sun, March 16, 2002
- “A culture rises again” The Vancouver Sun, March 16, 2002
- “Balance of power” The Vancouver Sun, March 16, 2002
- “Voices of Haida Gwaii” The Vancouver Sun, March 16, 2002
- “Selling a philosophy of peace in Indian Country” The Globe and Mail, March 2, 1996
- Letters to the Editor, The Globe and Mail, March 2, 1996
- “Caution surrounds Nisga’a signing” The Globe and Mail, March 22, 1996
- “At last! A settlement in native land claims” Times Colonist, February 25, 1996
- “The Nisga’a agreement: a great deal or a great steal?” The Globe and Mail, March 5, 1996
- “Natives denied land-claims justice” Times Colonist, September 15, 1990
- “B.C. land-claim deal sails into storm” The Globe and Mail, February 16, 1996
- “Beyond the thunder of dissent lies the fire of revolution” The Vancouver Sun (undated)
- “The fallout will be far-reaching from the B.C. ruling on aboriginal rights” The Globe and Mail (undated)
- “Judge the Nisga’a deal on its practical merits” The Globe and Mail, February 14, 1996
- “The B.C. government must deal in good faith with the Nisga’a” The Globe and Mail, 1995
- “Nisga’a negotiate an exemplary land-claim agreement in principle” The Globe and Mail, (undated)
- “Native goals more in harmony with populist mood” (unidentified)
- “No quick fixes expected from Nisga’a settlement” The Globe and Mail, March 25, 1996
- “Nisga’a deal an honourable settlement” The Globe and Mail, February 24, 1996
- “Lessons from the Nisga’a” Simon Fraser News, March 7, 1996
File consists of programs and correspondence relating to First Nations. Includes:
- Theatre Program: Roots & Wings and the Teme-Augama Anishnabai (The Deep Water People)
- Theatre Program: Roots & Wings Youth Theatre Company presents “N’Daki-Menan”
- Letter to Iona Campagnolo from William Clancey re: elimination of First Nations compensation for land theft
Series consists of Roots & Wings theatre programs, miscellaneous correspondence, publications, press releases, newspaper clippings, guidelines and speeches pertaining to the Nisga’a Agreement in Principle (1995-1997); and a copy of the British Columbia Treaty Negotiations Referendum issued by Premier Campbell in 2002.