DIAND Exhibit P.H. 019, BHP NWT Diamonds Project Environmental Assessment Panel Hearings (DIAND, February 1996)

Submission by the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (DIAND / Indian and Northern Affairs Canada) to the BHP NWT Diamonds Project Environmental Assessment Panel, February 22 1996. Covers the federal Crown's fiduciary obligations to Aboriginal peoples (Supreme Court of Canada jurisprudence), Yellowknives Dene Band consultations and territorial maps, Treaty 8 and Treaty 11 territories, North Slave region land-claim consultations, Aboriginal economic development funding, and DIAND's intervention policy on the proposed BHP diamond mine.