This item is the fifth part of a fifteen-part recording of a meeting of the Dene Land Claims Committee, including members from the Metis Association and the Indian Brotherhood (later Dene Nation) held February 17-20, 1976 in Yellowknife. This recording was made February 17, 1976. The meeting is in English. The original source item is side A of a 60 minute audio cassette. The meeting also includes CN-311A, CN-311B, CN-312A, CN-312B, CN-313B, CN-314A, CN-314B, CN-315A, CN-315B, CN-316A, CN-316B, CN-317A, CN-318A, and CN-322A. The meeting appears to be chaired by Metis Association President, Rick Hardy. Other participants include Richard Nerysoo, Charlie Furlong, Rod Hardy, John Blake, Paul Andrew, Eddie Koyina, Larry Firth, Carl Carpenter, George Kurszewski, and Gerry (Sutton?). The recording continues with a discussion of signing authority for the land claims funding and the possibility of combining Indian Brotherhood and Metis Association headquarters offices. There appears to be support for the Metis Association Board motion that funding should be administered jointly. There is a brief discussion of whether joint administration would mean that the joint land claims committee would need to incorporate, and if they did, if that would obligate them to negotiate. Then the discussion shifts to again to forming one organization and whether it should start at the headquarters level or at the community level. Much debate ensues around whether communities could work together, the possible result of the loss of band core funding, what would happen if the headquarters started working together but the communities did not agree, and hard and soft approaches to developing one organization in communities. The recording ends abruptly.
This recording includes sides A and B of the tape.