Accession consists of records created and/or maintained by the Saskatchewan Regional Office of Indian and Northern Affairs.
The accession includes, but is not limited to, records relating to: organization and administration; staff matters; band management; health care; school buildings, including staff residences, auditorium and gymnasiums; miscellaneous buildings and projects, including community halls, sawmills, wood working factories, and food preservation projects; engineering services, including property maintenance costs, Public Works, departmental assets, technical documents and manuals, project management, consultant services, water supply systems, bridges, flood and water control, planning, contracts, energy conservation, irrigation, electric power service, telephone lines, radio station installations, sewage disposal systems, Northwest Territories, physical planning of communitities; medical equipment and supplies,including drugs, prosthetic appliances, and eyeglasses; welfare equipment and supplies, including fishing and hunting equipment; finances, including capital estimates and capital planning projects; health services, including the Indian Community HealthWorker Program, grants to hospitals, treatment services, sanitation, doctor's accounts, hospitals' accounts, tuberculosis, and nutritional prjects; law enforcement; transport, including motor vehicles; trust accounts, including statements, treaty payments, savings, band budgets and authorities for expenditure, winter works incentive programs, and management of band funds; welfare, including services to the blind, deaf and disabled, rehabilitation services, Canada Pension Plan, Work Opportunity Program, and family support services; surveys and reserves, including land entitlements and survey requirements; road rights of way; leases; individual land holdings; miscellaneous land matters, including land administration training, air photo mapping, land tenure mapping, maps and plans, aerial photography, nursing station sites, and historical sites and monuments; case files, including enfranchisement and on reserve housing; the Veterans Land Act; property damage and protection, including environmental protection, Qu'Appelle Valley development, Cold Lake tar, polar gas pipeline, Alaska highway pipeline, Churchill River board of inquiry, wastewater ponds, fire protection, fire loss, radioactive minerals, forest and prairie fires, fire and safety reports; statistics, including band profiles, public assistances, Indian Census records, annual reports, vital statistics, and child care statistics; federal-provincial relations; policy research and evaluation, including cultural affairs, regional staff briefings, meetings of band chiefs and associations; research into Indian rights and treaties, including district chiefs Indian government development centres; and computerized information systems.