The following folder includes

• Native leaders disappointed by Chretien
• Natives slam Chretien's performance
• It's time to rectify ill-treatment, letter
• Innu fighting back on challenges
• RC priest local hero to natives
• An uneven, bittersweet tale, theatre review
• Pocahontas' unique view, theatre - review
• Crazy Boy makes a lot of sense, theatre review 7
• Divided Loyalties uncovers roots of 'old Indian feeling'
• Angry demonstrators clash at Bloor St. fur rallies
• Arctic pitch, photo
• Sanctity of legends, letter
• Myths and reality of language and nationhood
• Racism rediscovered, letter
• Canadian content that's alive with both intensity and truth
• A Brant new story
• Battle over language spreads to North
• Tory ."JP denies racist slurs but his accuser has a witness
• Train doctors in North: NDP
• Bison herd in national park, letter
• N.S. official may lose job for handling of Marshall
• Security probe irks native leader
• Pocahontas relives sting of stereotyping
• Quiet town's way of life poisoned
• End seal hunt ban, Chretien says
• Judge touts native-run court idea
• Tory MP accused of anti-native slurs
• Conservative MP insulted Indians at meeting, native conductor says
• Air around plant to be tested
• Cp where he belongs
• Play gives new life to Ojibway myths
• Ontario and five Indian bands reach historic land claim deal
• Canadian fur industry bites back
• Indians, province strike first deal in land claim case
• Uniroyal protests closing
• Nova Scotia finally apologizes to Marshall
• Canadian TV epic sparks its own war
• 'Racist' Indian Act seems headed for the trash
• Clash of Innu, court halts the trial
• Queen is greeted by protests
• Brazil to probe filming of Yanomami
• Ottawa to spend S8,800 on parkas for visitors
• Cards on the table, editorial
• Northerners call for improvement to health care
• Native conference
• No misconduct found in CSIS native probe
• Native leader says he has pledge from Ottawa over Meech concerns
• Ottawa vows to consult natives on Meech
• Safety of Elmira water supply questioned
• Fears over asbestos in schools growing
• Kahnawake Warriors block transfer of prisoner
• Chiefs' fight freezes Mohawk bank account
• A long litany of injustice, book review

This following folder includes

• Indians seek restitution for U.S. land - Toronto
• More about Manitoba native justice enquiry
• More about Akwesasne gambling
• Natives angered over bishop's stand on married priests - Espanola
• Aboriginal speakers to serve on juries - Yellowknife
• Manitoulin's quiet charm - Manitoulin Island
• Ottawa backs tribe in battle with· U.S. over treaty claim - Toronto
• School attendance and maintenance - Six Nations
• Loggers back on job despite Indian blockade - Maniwaki, Que.
• Manitoba court backs Indian hunting rights - Winnipeg
• Study approved only days before reserve school damaged by fire - Grassy Narrows
• More about Six Nations schools
• New band complicates Lubicon deal - Cadotte Lake, Alta.
• Adoption ceremony used to illustrate unwritten native law - Winnipeg
• Cree band delighted to sign pact, aid plan - Montreal
• Inuit fear Ottawa letting them down after PCBs found in their diet - Broughton Island, NWT
• 'Romantic' vision not good for North - Thunder Bay editorial
• More about Akwesasne gambling and policing
  -More about Tobermory demonstration for land claim
• Native cultures speak 53 languages - London, Ont.
• PCBs discovered in breast milk on St. Regis reserve
• Natives need their own justice system - letter to Winnipeg editor
• It's back to school - Walpole Island
• Community education proclamation - Walpole Island
• Wild rice industry not getting opportunity - Ignace
• Bands want Severn River dam-free - Cochrane
• Bands entitled to dam info: MNR - Sioux Lookout
• John Kim Bell gets Canadian business award - Toronto
• Schools decision needed - Ohsweken editorial
• Responsible for ourselves - letter to Ohsweken editor
• Navajos issue own car license plate - Ohsweken
• Heavy hitters against LRT - Ohsweken
• Native support for Six Nations DIA LRT BCR - Orillia
• Bad bets on reserve - Calgary editorial
• Kenora council supports call to review wild rice moratorium
• More about Grassy Narrows school fire
• Indian bands to discuss land claim - Sudbury
• MP hosts public hearing on problems - Dryden
• Lac Seul natives to be training as firefighters - Sioux Lookout
• Tribal council receives S100,000 grant - Sioux Lookout
• Funding for band housing cancelled by CMHC - Armstrong
• Writings distort aboriginal people - Saskatoon
• UNSI approves fishing agreement - Eskasoni, NS
• Economic development scholarships for natives
• Bringing back the soap box - Sault Ste. Marie commentary
• "Discussions" on rights, land claims suspended by OMAA - Sault Ste. Marie

The following folder includes

MEECH LAKE:

• Canadian Press: Meech Lake
• Women and natives excluded in deal, groups say
• Here's what the agreement means
• Natives enlist support from Manitoba, Newfoundland
• Distinct society
• Ottawa tables plan to save Meech
• Canadian Press: Manitoba's Indians decline invite
• Canadian Press: Territorial leaders
• Indians stand to lose treaty rights in breakup
• Anawak says Meech committee repeating themselves
  TRAGIC DEATH:
• A tragic death puts Meech in perspective
• Train accident victim lived a desperate life
  AKWESASNE:
• Mohawk leaders request $14 Min federal aid to assist recovery
• Violence feared as bingo hall reopens on Mohawk reserve
• Federal Government reconfirms Mohawk Council's authority
• Controversy surrounds Tribal Election Caucus
  THE ENVIRONMENT, PROTESTS:
• Little Jackfish opposed despite $183,500 study
• Hydro, Indian band co-operate on study
• Temagami protesters dragged from legislature
• Forest flashback
• Haida move to co-manage sacred rainforest with feds
  EDUCATION:
• Webequie school's closure costs students their year
• Canadian Press: Webequie school closure
• Halifax to host 20 Interlake students
• Minister considers student exchange program "a luxury"
• Hereditary chief earns doctorate from UBC
• Single training facility weighed at S. Lookout
• Are you Native and graduating from high school?
  ECONOMY:
• $4.3 million for roads
• Air Creebec plans Toronto-Val d'Or run
  POLICING, JUSTICE:
• Police seeking Indian recruits
• Police forces reach out for minority recruits
• Natives to be upgraded
• Listen to us to win respect, elders say
• Police reform: Under the Gun
• Marshall caught in nasty debate over judges
• Marshall commission report is inaccurate
• Canadian Press: Minnie Sutherland case
• Canadian Press: Public inquiry of N.W.T. judge
  MEDIA, GOVERNMENT:
• Media biased, natives say
• Native group denounces "holiday junket" workshop for senior civil servants
• Canadian Press: Natives refuse to attend workshop
  EDITORIALS, LETTERS:
• Gone fishing
• High court ruling may affect many
• Centre staff was great help
• Wild rice, on its merits
• "Natural wildlife managers"
• The Warrior logo has been worn proudly
• It takes two to tango
• Residential schools not all bad
• Canada's underused native workforce
• Racial tension: time for bold steps
  HISTORY, ARTS AND CULTURE:
• The brutal execution that tore Canada apart
• Blackfeet determined to reclaim artifacts
• U.S. natives stake claim to artifacts sold to Alberta
• Cuomo proposes tough rules on Indian relics
• An enigmatic imposter
• Festival of new native plays raises profile of rising talent
• Concern is growing over New Age cult
  UPCOMING EVENTS:
• Aboriginal People's Human Rights and Race
• Relations Conference
• Res '90: Economic Development Conference
• Grand River Pow Wow
• Six Nations Native Pageant

Folder contains:

• $5 bills on treaty day reaffirm treaty rights Glenevis, Alta.
• Explosion could help Sarcee cause -Calgary
• More about the Osborne slaying in N. Manitoba
• BC Indians issue warning over logging roads -Vancouver
• Cree band ends Quebec road blockade -Chibougamau
• Nine Indian bands sign pact for mutual defence -Quebec
• Innu and Inuit different -letter to Toronto editor
• Task force to examine high number of natives in jails Edmonton
• Native people losing supporters in Quebec -letter to Toronto editor
• Innu struggle in Labrador is for justice -letter to Toronto editor
• Inca treasures in Montreal exhibition -Toronto
• Sarcee Indians agree to talks with minister -Calgary Indian commissioner -Toronto
• Print fosters stereotype of natives, artist says -Calgary
• Cadieux angers natives again despite attempt to mend fences -Quebec City
• TV movie being made about Joseph Brant -Toronto
• Natives given more control in operating legal services Toronto
• Dead Blood's alcohol level found to exceed legal limit Lethbridge, Alta.
• Wanted: native Canadians who want to learn to write Penticton, BC
• NS law school launches program to encourage native, black students -Halifax
• Native cultures on the brink -letter to Toronto editor
• Land transfer for Chapleau Cree -Toronto
• More about Alberta and Quebec native blockades
• More about Innu protests over low flights -Toronto
• Far North is latest battleground in Canadian airlines' war -Yellowknife
• Missing boy is found thin, dirty -Winnipeg
• To their health -Thunder Bay editorial
• Pharmacist fined for refusing a native rubbing alcohol -Edmonton
• More about missing boy in Winnipeg
• Trappers help museum focus on native role in region's past -Ottawa
• More about Sarcee protest over military clean-up
• The white man's game -treaties, etc. -Toronto
• Sheriff admits silence on killing -The Pas, Man.
• Native art: Should it be shown in museum or gallery? Ottawa
• Rickets found widespread in native reserve -Halifax
• $2.4 M pact signed -Big Island First Nation -Morson
• Kahn-Tineta Horn: Her '60s zeal for justice undimmed Ottawa
• Innu leaders willing to talk -letter to St. John's, Nfld. editor
• Native alliance formed -Sioux Lookout
• Reserve 58 opens new housing -Geraldton-Longlac
• Stangecoming band celebrates new reserve -Fort Frances
• Native childcare agency almost 50 percent over budget
• Winnipeg Electricity fix delayed -Fort Hope, Ont.
• Moving from reserve to city terrifying -Toronto
• Natives said ready for confrontation over rights Moraviantown, Ont.
• Walpole Island agriculture steps forward Unified health care is coming -Timmins
• Temagami band declines invitation -North Bay
• CESO native program celebrates 20 years -Toronto

The following folder includes

Land claims:

• Yukon land claim
  Akwesasne:
• Reserve leaders gamble on plan to restore peace
• Mohawk activist on trial
• Roadblock
• Wires to radio station cut
• Mohawks oust head chief
  Health care, the environment:
• Health care for Canada's natives
• Eagles Nest officially opens
• Protesting - Six Nations school conditions
• Ohsweken water plant possible culprit?
• The fears that asbestos can provoke - editorial
• Ottawa, Alberta band agree in principle on land claim
• Asbestos: the fears and facts
  Human rights:
• Inuit seeking apology for forced move
• Rights body assails native treatment
• Racism alert nothing new, natives say
• Floating demonstration
• Hearings set on redress for Marshall
• Police charge second Catholic cleric
• Visiting native kids help bury stereotypes
  Native media:
• Clark urged to champion native media
• Native media get reprieve on budget
• Communications - House of Commons debates
  Protests:
• Logging foes vow final fight on Temagami
• Half-canoe, half-kayak a symbol for protest
• Cree protest James Bay
  Protests (contd.):
• Referendum dates set for two weeks in April
• Eight bands form coalition to fight dams
• Mohawks call PCB cleanup plan first step
  Economy:
• $2.5 million CAEDS Capital Corp. announced
  AFA, Self-government:
• Funding policy 'dangerous'
• Is it self-govt when decisions still rely on feds
• Many jurisdictional aspects could bog down self-govt talks
  Editorials, letters:
• Canada's .multicultural dream rapidly fading
• Pot's empty for largest native volunteer program
• Insensitive to natives
• Diabetes among Indians
  The Arts:
• The Shaman's Return
• Other stories, other voices
• McMichael Art Gallery celebrate 25th anniversary
• Metis actress fights to find truth in roles
• Cultural extinction and renewal
  Upcoming events:
• Dance performance
• 2nd Annual Great Lakes Pow Wow
• Earth Spirit Festival

The following folder includes

• Tribal tribulations
• 120,000 tins of juice recalled
• Natives paddle to protest hydro's plans
• Decision expected soon on armed force's offer to help battle tire fire
• Tire inferno neighbors vent anger at officials
• Tire King owner says ministry is to blame
• McMaster conference targets bigotry, sexism in Canada
• 600 evacuees told tires will burn for at least a month
• Respect for native stories, letter
• Mural was done by Ojibwa artist, letter
• Metis eye courts to defend trapping
• Experts still in dark over effect of blaze on environment and health
• Ottawa team to assess risks to health
• A towering achievement, photograph
• Use tires as fuel for kilns, firm says
• Fire fighters experiment with alternative ways to deal with blaze
• Ottawa sends team to tire fire to check health risk fears
• Proud Cree nation deserves much more than "funny" stories, comment
• Use of portable showers considered for two towns
• Spending cuts? Start at the top, comment
• Marshall case bureaucrat resigns
• MPs warned about computer virus
• Weather grounds water bombers slowing battle against tire blaze
• How the tires are burning, diagram
• Everybody 's hiding behind tire fire, letter
• Burning tire dump is major disaster, waste experts say
• The fallout from burning tires, editorial
• Lill examines culture shock with subtlety and sensitivity, theatre review
• Dikes hold back oil flowing from blazing tires
• Massive seepage of oil feared ·from burning mountain of tires
• Elmira factory made 'deadly' Agent Orange
• Report proposes native commission to uproot sexual abuse
• Protest targets NATO flights over Labrador
• Government accused of fraud in findings on low-level flights
• 2,000 advised to leave as burning tires emit cloud of toxic smoke
• Federal restraints feared on payments for health, education
• Federal study of low-level flying ignores social costs, groups claim
• Water bombers help fight fire
• Reconciling cultural differences
• Three-kilometre radius evacuated as millions of tires burn at depot
• Forest panel chairman quits Ontario hearings
• Bingo crackdown to aid charities
• Absorbing history lesson
• Divided they fall
• Waiting for a tragedy
• Akwesasne waste site renews tensions
• Anti-fur protesters hurt native livelihood
• Native women's writing poignant, personal
• Walpole withdraws from A.I.A.I.
• Native women's safehouse urged
• Native hockey a lure for Leach
• Consulting firm mum on progress into
• Ohsweken's water problem
• Water crisis spreading communities along Grand Scientists agree any exposure poses risk

The following folder includes

MEECH LAKE:

• Please see News Clippings, Edition 90-26.1 for special coverage of Meech Lake.
  SELF-GOVERNMENT, LAND CLAIMS
• Native self-rule forging ahead
• Self-government
• Ottawa, native chiefs to sign deal on self-government negotiations
• Violence feared after talks collapse
• Crees offered millions to tear up agreement
  BUSINESS AND ECONOMY:
• Business risks urged to reduce jobless rate
• Economic talks set
• RES '90 conference
• Development fund gives Native businesses a chance to get off the ground
• Future's Committee eyeing bank trainee program
• GST may benefit status Indians
• No jobs now, no jobs likely as baby boom hits Arctic
  HEALTH:
• Improvement noted in health of natives
• Native's health still worse than average
• TB toll for Indians 100 times higher
• Group home opens for ex-psychiatric native patients
  ABORIGINAL RIGHTS:
• Aboriginal people still lack basic human rights
• Commons Debates: Aboriginal rights
• Indian fishery limit sought
  THE ENVIRONMENT:
• Fort Severn council tells residents not to drink dirty water
• The Green Plan
• B.C. tribe fears extinction near
  CUTBACKS:
• Inuit Superman dealt blow by budget cuts
• PEN protests native cuts
  EDUCATION:
• Logos get the axe
• Webequie school stays closed, children leave year incomplete
• Students get taste of working world through friendship centre program
• Students decide to appeal trespassing convictions
• 20 Mohawk teens finish survival school
  POLICING, JUSTICE:
• Draft report due out in July
• Opposition to native police wearing braids
• Rape remark has hurt judge, inquiry told
• Local court system curbs Island Lake youth crime
• Native policing a difficult task, but has rewards
• Mountie denies charges of misconduct
• Natives treated as "second rate", committee told
  AKWESASNE:
• Gambling pact sought for Akwesasne reserve
• Negotiations take place to legalize gambling
• L'Etat de New York negocie la legalisation des casinos d'Akwesasne
  POLITICS:
• Today's Man
• Natives win status in party
  INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS:
• Some Indians will boycott royal visit
• Tutu to visit Osnaburgh
• Nicaragua Indians hand over weapons
  EDITORIALS, LETTERS:
• Self-sufficiency is goal of native business group
• Include aboriginals among founding people
• Let all tenants pay 25 percent of income
• Shocking charges
• Insult to Inuit artists
• Native exemption from fish, game law is justified
  HISTORY, ARTS AND CULTURE:
• Another successful elders and youth gathering
• An evening with Muskrat Dam elder Juliet Duncan
• New respect emerges between church, natives
• Taiwanese tribal people visit Six Nations
• Minority artists assail the mainstream
• Bear Island spirits raised in auction
• Native art happens at SAW
• "Rocky" humor riles art groups
• Angry artists blast threat
• Museum officials foil attempt to remove artifact
• Museum, natives urged to negotiate
• Archeologists unlock mystery of Indian site
• Cultures clash over native artifacts
• Museum show promotes trapping
• Indigenous Games need volunteers

The following folder includes

MEECH LAKE:

• Please see Newsclippings, Edition 90-25.1 for
  special coverage of Meech Lake.
  EDUCATION:
• Sod-turning for new school
• Juggling the budget to keep promises
• Students would rather go to jail than pay fine for trespassing
• Fines paid
• Increasing Native literacy
• High school gang fights threaten the education of some Native students
  POLICING, JUSTICE:
• Braids now allowed for native officers
• Police, natives try to close the gap
• Controversy grows over police braids
• Number of arrest rise after youth program cut
• Aborigines caught in cycle of despair
  AKWESASNE:
• It's not over bingo
• Police occupation of Akwesasne Mohawk territory
  THE ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH:
• Temagami wilderness agreement unsatisfactory to many
• Safe water
• Water ban lifted
• Indians want to handle health
  EDITORIALS, LETTERS:
• A legitimate use of crime statistics
• Native self-policing
• The curse of civilization
• No objectivity in low-level assessment
• I am a Canadian
  HISTORY, ARTS AND CULTURE:
• Indian chief on wheels
• The lost tribe of Georgian Bay
• Indian village excavated on path of 403 extension
• Ancestral remains uncovered in southern Ontario
• Government rejects protests over purchase of native artifacts
• Kids enjoy Indian lore at day camp
• From igloo to art gallery
• Carving or sculpture?
• Native rights and universal images
• Indian Country paints picture of the dreams, hopes of natives
• Indian athletes shine in history
• Thunder Bay no longer rough but always ready for fun
• Inuit hunters harvest polar bears for cash
• Native grads keep occasion all in the family
• Commons Debates - Literacy
• N.W.T. will try to teach tolerance
• Native students succeed at Daniel Mac
• Unity sealed
• Are you Native and graduating from high school?
  HEALTH:
• Battle against killer AIDS supported by Atlantic chiefs
• Micmacs coming to grips with AIDS
• AIDS: Breaking the silence
• A Deadly Fear: AIDS
• Native nurses tackle tricky family abuse issues
  ARTS AND CULTURE:
• Veterans observe Decoration Day
• Wet Bread and Cheese weekend
• Elder holds key to studying site
• Elder shares his knowledge of sacred belts
  • Biggest swindle in history of Canada
• Altering our notions of the Indian
• History, heroes, horses on Brantford getaway
• Cree artist outlived reputation as a dangerous man
• Hard and Soft
• Ontario Arts Council First Nations Grants
• Grey Owl from the shadows
• Professional troupe dedicated to natives
  COUNCIL FOR CHANGE, PS 2000:
• Racism to be probed in Indian Affairs
• Public Service 2000
• PS 2000 more than PR exercise
• "Downsized" public service still growing
• Red Tape: Rules and rigidity choke public services
• Sex, lies, and black-market Bach
  EDITORIALS:
• Sleazy strategies
• Court cautions on aboriginal rights
• We must teach youth the history of bigotry
• Natives give own views on what's needed to get Indian self-government
• The Hill's class of '88
• Let the managers manage
• Employment equity - nice name for discrimination
  UPCOMING EVENTS:
• Res '90: Economic Development Conference
• Books about Young Offenders
  Government:
• Kettle Point chief won't seek re-election
• CESO steps up promotion of Band Support Services
• Ojibway chief urges prudence in inheriting federal programs
  Business, Education:
• Native business centre tackles financing problems
• "Find your niche," says Diamond
• Job market holds promise for grads
• Are you Native and Graduating from High School?
• Native program may disappear
• College introducing variety of new programs
  Culture:
• Native languages "not just words, they're everything we are" - Blondin
• Federal cuts are killing native voice
• Aroland chief says "warfare" possible over aboriginal hunting rights
• From one chief ... to another
• The ascent of early New World man
• Hopi elder spins prophecies of earth's damage
  Arts:
• Indian sculptor practises aret of the "cosmic giggle"
• Theatre for the far North
• Yorkville native arts centre features fun, funky fashions
• Drummers, dancers part of festival
• Native foods focus on natural
  Editorials, letters:
• Independence would settle Akwesasne woes
• Building new longhouses
• Indian money always goes to wrong Indians
• Natives must forgive the white Canadians
• Respect cultures, languages of those who were here first
• Thanks for series on native peoples
• Where were stories on native MPs?
  EDITORIALS, LETTERS:
• Indians deserve self-government
• Who has the right and power to govern?
• Memories for Mother's Day
• Low-level flight noise a red herring
• Fete of clay?
• Natives manipulated

Fonds consists of records documenting Robert Lightbody's experiences with Trent University, as a student, lawyer, fundraiser, and active alumnus. Records include correspondence, meeting minutes, photographs, newspaper clippings, planning records, student records, pamphlets and other ephemera, course syllabi, and student governance records. Fonds also includes a speech and pamphlets from a talk given by Margaret Lightbody for the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW).

Fonds is organized into 11 series. Trent University student life; Student government and groups; Course materials; University development; Athletics building; Alumni Association and reunions; Trent properties, funds, and development; Bagnani Endowmnent; Photographs and alumni reunion; Newspaper clippings and images; Margie Lightbody CFUW speech.

This fonds consists of bound volumes of newspaper clippings, mostly concerning the Legislative Assembly of Ontario between 1916 and 1919. Four of the six volumes have the name J.J. Preston inside the front cover. One volume has the name J.C. Elliott on it. Elliott was the member for Middlesex West. The newspapers are from "The Globe" and the "Daily Mail and Empire".

Collection consists of photocopies of newspaper clippings gathered as part of the press clippings service for Indian and Northern Affairs from June 10 1989 to August 30 1990. The photocopies are on a wide range of topics all concerning Indigenous peoples and communities. A large portion of the articles are about the Oka Crisis with mention to Alanis Obomsawin and the Kanehsatake Resistance, as well as the Meech Lake Accord with mention to Premier Robert Bourassa and the groups, The Native Council of Canada, The Inuit Tapirisat of Canada, and The Assembly of First Nations.

This collection consists of 4 scrapbooks of newspaper clippings relating to the early history and development of Trent University.