Accession consists of Headquarters Central Registry files of the Indian and Inuit Affairs Program classified according to the modified duplex numeric system (box 1) and the block numeric classification system (boxes 1-20, 22-25, 27-32). The accession is a direct transfer from the Ottawa Federal Records Centre.
The accession includes administrative and operational records covering the following subject file blocks: 19-2 (Economic Development - Research and Surveys); 37-2 (Individual Case Files - Estates); 37-3 (Individual Case Files - Enfranchisements); 37-6 (Individual Case Files - Guardianship Cases); 3520 (Books and Publications - General); 3665 (Information Services - General); 3669 (Information Services - Motion Pictures and Slides); 3671 (Information Services - Press Clippings); 3725 (Management Services); 3730 (Manuals Services); 3740 (Records Management Services - General); 3741 (Records Management Services - Retention and Disposition); 4000 (Indian and Inuit Affairs - General); 4100 (Research - General); 4102 (Research - Individual Projects); 4105 (Statistics - General); 4310 (Band Buildings); 4317 (Evaluation); 4325 (Housing - General); 4500 (Economic Development - General); 4505 (Agriculture - General); 4515 (Arts and Crafts - General); 4517 (Arts and Crafts - National Indian Arts and Crafts Corporation {NIACC}); 4519 (Arts and Crafts - Provincial Governments); 4527 (Business and Industry - General); 4529 (Business and Industry - Consultant Services); 4540 (Corporations and Institutions); 4545 (Employment - General); 4548 (Employment - Employment Related Training and Mobility); 4549 (Employment - Development {Work Programs/Job Creation}); 4553 (Financing); 4572 (Loans - Indian Economic Development Fund {IEDF}); 4574 (Loans - Industrial and Business Development); 4588 (Natural Resources - Resource Development Impact); 4700 (Education - General); 4713 (Continuing Education - Community Education); 4718 (Continuing Education - Institutional Support and Special Projects); 4727 (Continuing Education - Post-secondary Education); 4733 (Cultural Affairs - General); 4785 (School Programs - General); 4787 (School Programs - Curriculum Development); 4795 (Surveys and Studies - General); 4965 (School Buildings); 5000 (Environmental Protection - General); 5090 (Estates); 5098 (Guardianship); 5400 (Justice, Law Enforcement, and Legal Matters - General); 5423 (Fines and Indebtedness - General); 5430 (Game and Fisheries - General); 5468 (Policing); 5485 (Taxation - General); 5853 (Mining); 5887 (Wildlife - General); 6000 (Registration - General); 6405 (Arts and Crafts - General).
DEACCESSION NOTE: File E4025/J1, Parts 8-12 (Claims and Disputes - General) was mistakenly transferred to the National Archives and was accessioned, even though its retention period had not yet expired. The five parts of this file were subsequently removed from this accession and returned to INAC custody.
