Council of Yukon First Nations

Published purpose

The Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN) Archives Access Project application for the 2021-22 DHCP focuses on completion of finding aids for 6 key series to enable Yukon First Nations (YFNs) to research documentation for: 50th anniversary commemoration of Together Today for Our Children Tomorrow (TTFOCT); treaty implementation initiatives; Indigenous language revitalization and cultural curriculum development. Yukon Chiefs met Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in 1973 to present their Yukon land claims resulting in 11 YFN self-government agreements by 2005. The CYFN 2021-22 DHCP project would include appraisal, arrangement, RAD series descriptions plus file listings for @450 boxes of unorganized series: Education (100), Health and Social Development (150), Economic Development (25), Land Claims (25), Joint Federal-territorial-YFN Committees (100), Yukon Native Language Centre Indigenous Language Preservation (50).