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This accession consists of records relating to the Constitutional Alliance (and Western Constitutional Forum) created and collected by the Aboriginal Rights and Constitutional Development Secretariat of the Department of the Executive.The records include correspondence, meeting materials, bylaws, activity and progress reports, action plans, financial records, news releases, motions, and agreements.

Records date from 1974-1988 and relate to land claims, including the Inuvialuit (COPE) land claim, the Dene/Metis land claim, and the creation of Nunavut, from the Aboriginal Rights and Constitutional Development Secretariat of the department. Also included are records relating to the creation of the Western Arctic Region Municipality (WARM). The records in this accession consist of primarily correspondence, meeting minutes, and copies of reports from federal government, territorial government and Aboriginal government representatives.

Records include correspondence, reports, and meeting minutes on topics related to constitutional development and land claims, including devolution of powers from the federal government to the GNWT, GNWT participation in First Ministers' Conferences, the Northern Energy Accord, the Dene/Metis land claim, the Committee for Original Peoples Entitlement (COPE/Inuvialuit) land claim, and Division of the NWT.

Records date from 1977-1986 and contain correspondence, reports, meeting minutes and position papers concerning the draft of land claims involving groups including the Dene and Metis, Committee for Original People's Entitlement (COPE), the Tunngavik Federation of Nunavut (TFN), and the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada. They were originally housed within the Department of the Executive.

Records consist of 10 issues of the newsletter "Building Blocks," which discuss varied issues of devolution and compensation. There are also three reports on equal employment, dating from [1985-1987].