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Assemblee des Premieres Nations

55, rue Metcalfe, Suite 1600

Ottawa ( Ontario) K1 P 6L5

Telephone: 613- 241- 6789 Te1ecopieur: 613- 241- 5808

www.afn. ca

ANNUAL GENERAL ASSEMBLYJULY 12, 13, & 14, 2016; NIAGARA FALLS, ON Resolution no. 3712016

TITLE: Establishing a Crown -First Nations Process on Land, Peoples and Governance

SUBJECT: Crown - First Nations Relationship, Governance, Implementing rights

MOVED BY: Chief Chris Baker, 0-pipon- na- piwin Cree Nation, MB

SECONDED BY: Ted Quewezance, Proxy, Waywayseecappo First Nation, MB

DECISION Carried; 1 objection

WHEREAS:

A. The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ( UN Declaration) recognizes:

Article 3: Indigenous peoples have the right to self-determination. By virtue of that right they freelydetermine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.

Article 18: Indigenous peoples have the right to participate in decision- making in matters which wouldaffect their rights, through representatives chosen by themselves in accordance with their ownprocedures, as well as to maintain and develop their own indigenous decision- making institutions.

B. First Nation sovereignty and self-determination are sacred rights bestowed by the Creator; a reality revered andprotected by First Nations on Turtle Island.

C. First Nation sovereignty was reaffirmed at the Treaty of Niagara in 1764 by the Crown of England and sanctifiedby the Two Row Wampum Belt.

D. The British North America Act, 1867 and the Indian Act, 1876 imposed an Indian Act government on First

Nations in an attempt to displace First Nation governments, jurisdiction and customary laws. E. First Nation' s Elders' oral history, spiritual beliefs and ceremonies, and the spirit and intent of Treaties will guide

First Nations to disengage from the Indian Act..

Certified copy of a resolution adopted on the 14th day of July 2016 in Niagara Falls, Ontario

PERRY BELLEGARDE, NATIONAL CHIEF 37- 2016

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ANNUAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JULY 12, 13, & 14, 2016; NIAGARA FALLS, ON Resolution no. 3712016

F. The Chiefs -in -Assembly desire a forum to dialogue with governments at the highest level on jurisdictionalmatters pertinent to First Nations and to discuss the unfinished business

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Chiefs -in -Assembly:

1. Endorse the creation of a Crown -First Nations Process on Land, People and Governance with Canada byestablishing regional processes that seek mutual understanding, consensus and solutions to matters pertinentto First Nations including decolonization, empowerment and "going beyond the Indian Act;" and direct theAssembly of First Nations (AFN) to coordinate this process with First Nation regions and Canada.

2. Direct each participating First Nation region, with technical assistance from the AFN, to ensure the directparticipation by First Nation citizens throughout the process.

3. Call upon the Prime Minister of Canada to convene a special Crown -First Nations meeting, with full First Nationparticipation to discuss and reach consensus on solutions with respect to land, peoples and governance

including, but not limited to, matters relating to:

a. Section 35( 1) rights.

b. First Nation governments, jurisdictions & law making.

c. United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

d. Repealing laws - unilaterally imposed and inconsistent to good governance.

e. Other matters pertinent to First Nations on Turtle Island.

4. Call on Canada to fully support and fund the Crown -First Nations process at the regional and national level, toensure First Nations and all other participants can complete the preparatory work and consensus building thatis essential to the success of the Crown -First Nations meeting.

5. Call on Canada to ensure that all existing First Nation programs, services and funding be considered " businessas usual' and are not affected or disrupted in any way during this process.

Certified copy of a resolution adopted on the 14th day of July 2016 in Niagara Falls, Ontario

PERRY BELLE& RDE, NATIONAL` FIIEF 37- 2016

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