Fonds consists of records documenting Robert Lightbody's experiences with Trent University, as a student, lawyer, fundraiser, and active alumnus. Records include correspondence, meeting minutes, photographs, newspaper clippings, planning records, student records, pamphlets and other ephemera, course syllabi, and student governance records. Fonds also includes a speech and pamphlets from a talk given by Margaret Lightbody for the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW).

Fonds is organized into 11 series. Trent University student life; Student government and groups; Course materials; University development; Athletics building; Alumni Association and reunions; Trent properties, funds, and development; Bagnani Endowmnent; Photographs and alumni reunion; Newspaper clippings and images; Margie Lightbody CFUW speech.

The following folder includes:

• Temagami battle could have been settled years ago Toronto commentary
• Inquiry lifts 18-year veil of secrecy on murder The Pas, Man.
• Indians guided Mackenzie to Pacific -letter to Toronto editor
• Judge won't rule on police notebooks -Winnipeg
• Alberta MP, Sarcee chief stampede toward resolving bridge blockade- Calgary
• Land deal with Metis called breakthrough -Kikino, Alta.
• Different -in a manner of speaking -Toronto commentary
• Native people want more respect -Toronto commentary
• Collecting native art riddled with controversy -Toronto
• Archeologists losing battle with site looters -Toronto
• Land-claim deal upsets Nfld. Tory -St. John's, Nfld.
• Time of slings & arrows for Cadieux -Toronto commentary
• Health care payments violate treaty rights, natives tell Ontario -Toronto
• Mohawks win special rights on boarder taxes -Cornwall
• Alberta Indians block armed forces use of land -Calgary
• Five centuries of misunderstanding Indians -Toronto book review
• Panel calls for native health authority -Muskrat Dam
• BC Indians given tax break on reserves -Vancouver
• National registry set up to reunite aboriginal families -Vancouver
• Soviets to let Inuit attend Arctic parley -Ottawa
• More about health panel report
• Kee Way Win band to continue pushing for status as reserve -Thunder Bay
• Debris cleaned up -Pikangikum
• Temagami logging road too costly, critic says -Toronto
• Mohawks join fight in support of Crees -Montreal
• Natives lose bid in persuading Commons committee on education policy -Ottawa
  -Summer Beaver's prospects for new school called good Thunder Bay
• Band opens Gardens Village apartment complex -North Bay
• More for native education -Winnipeg editorial
• Demonstration draws attention to education and budget cutbacks -Ottawa
• More about education as treaty right
• Canadians just can't stop honoring native treaties -letter to Sault Ste. Marie editor

Folder contains:

• $5 bills on treaty day reaffirm treaty rights Glenevis, Alta.
• Explosion could help Sarcee cause -Calgary
• More about the Osborne slaying in N. Manitoba
• BC Indians issue warning over logging roads -Vancouver
• Cree band ends Quebec road blockade -Chibougamau
• Nine Indian bands sign pact for mutual defence -Quebec
• Innu and Inuit different -letter to Toronto editor
• Task force to examine high number of natives in jails Edmonton
• Native people losing supporters in Quebec -letter to Toronto editor
• Innu struggle in Labrador is for justice -letter to Toronto editor
• Inca treasures in Montreal exhibition -Toronto
• Sarcee Indians agree to talks with minister -Calgary Indian commissioner -Toronto
• Print fosters stereotype of natives, artist says -Calgary
• Cadieux angers natives again despite attempt to mend fences -Quebec City
• TV movie being made about Joseph Brant -Toronto
• Natives given more control in operating legal services Toronto
• Dead Blood's alcohol level found to exceed legal limit Lethbridge, Alta.
• Wanted: native Canadians who want to learn to write Penticton, BC
• NS law school launches program to encourage native, black students -Halifax
• Native cultures on the brink -letter to Toronto editor
• Land transfer for Chapleau Cree -Toronto
• More about Alberta and Quebec native blockades
• More about Innu protests over low flights -Toronto
• Far North is latest battleground in Canadian airlines' war -Yellowknife
• Missing boy is found thin, dirty -Winnipeg
• To their health -Thunder Bay editorial
• Pharmacist fined for refusing a native rubbing alcohol -Edmonton
• More about missing boy in Winnipeg
• Trappers help museum focus on native role in region's past -Ottawa
• More about Sarcee protest over military clean-up
• The white man's game -treaties, etc. -Toronto
• Sheriff admits silence on killing -The Pas, Man.
• Native art: Should it be shown in museum or gallery? Ottawa
• Rickets found widespread in native reserve -Halifax
• $2.4 M pact signed -Big Island First Nation -Morson
• Kahn-Tineta Horn: Her '60s zeal for justice undimmed Ottawa
• Innu leaders willing to talk -letter to St. John's, Nfld. editor
• Native alliance formed -Sioux Lookout
• Reserve 58 opens new housing -Geraldton-Longlac
• Stangecoming band celebrates new reserve -Fort Frances
• Native childcare agency almost 50 percent over budget
• Winnipeg Electricity fix delayed -Fort Hope, Ont.
• Moving from reserve to city terrifying -Toronto
• Natives said ready for confrontation over rights Moraviantown, Ont.
• Walpole Island agriculture steps forward Unified health care is coming -Timmins
• Temagami band declines invitation -North Bay
• CESO native program celebrates 20 years -Toronto

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• 11 men jailed, fined for illegal sale of trout - Wiarton
• Bingo hall opening draws demonstrators - Montreal
• History of discrimination - letter to Toronto editor
• Native woman to be named ombudsman - Toronto
• N.S., Micmac groups sign pact on hunting - Halifax
• Native people deride discovery of America - Toronto
• Natives ask court to stop low jet flights - Yellowknife
• Teachers won't end boycott at New Credit - Toronto
• Iroquois longhouse, artifacts found in dig at Barrie site
• Columbus introduced slave trade - Toronto
• Temagami trees at risk, study finds - Toronto
• Innu struggle to survive as a distinct nation - Toronto
• Innu seek U.K. help to ban jets - London
• Armed guards protect Cornwall Island border post
• Obituary - John- Wesley Beaver - Toronto
• Indians renew blockade - Maniwaki, Que.
• Ojibwa bands 'ripped off' historian says - Walkerton
• More about Temagami
• A noble dissent - Toronto editorial about Marshall case
• Pediatrician sees trauma among Labrador children - Halifax
• Soup kitchens try to ease hunger for Regina's children
• Letters to editors about Labrador Innu
• Calgary native column lauded
• Booze at root of problem - letter to Calgary editor
• Suicide concern - Thunder Bay
• Defence pact not a priority - Thunder Bay
• More about Six Nations and New Credit schools
• Native justice system a matter of time - Sioux Lookout
• Chiefs call for aboriginal health authority - Thunder Bay
• Manitoba hunters may be charged - Fort Severn
• Two bands tell task force of reserve conditions - Sioux Lookout
• Story on alcohol and native people - Sioux Lookout
• Diesel fuel spilled near Fort Albany
• New goal for Lakehead University - letter to Sioux Lookout editor
• Native nurses program falling between cracks - Thunder Bay
• Money for education center still being sought - Sioux Lookout
• Appointment of members to Nishnawbe-Aski legal service corporation - Thunder Bay
• Solar power brightens northern Ont. village - Toronto
• $50,000 grant to skills group - Elliot Lake
• Merit isn't necessarily meritorious - Ottawa commentary
• How we were - Ottawa review about Poundmaker book

The following folder includes

• Native peoples downgraded, letter
• Manitoba natives form Liberal club
• Alliance of Indian bands forms to fight for rights
• Military flights cancelled over NWT, Alberta
• Heroes who battled tire fire fantastic volunteers
• Inuit images of trees
• Burn or recycle tires?
• "Visual reminder" of Literacy Year
• Cuts will kill native newspaper - letter
• Funding reductions block dialogue - letter
• RCMP bowed to N.S. politics
• Rain could hurt Hagersville cleanup
• Innu vow not to end protests over flights
• RCMP admits bungling Marshall investigation
• Who speaks for Cree? - letter
• Sequel puts Phillips in contact with his native roots
• N.S. court gives Micmacs constitutional right to fish
• RC church building NWT centre for natives
• Cabinet sifts plans to fix tire hazards
• The unkindest cut - political cartoon
• Micmac rights case hailed as landmark
• Carl Beam
• Native novel explores white appropriations
• Indian leaders call for flexibility in uses for welfare payments
• Ontario band chief in U.K.
• Chretien's policies too vague, natives say
• Mulronev "sceptical" low-level base will be built
• Temagami protesters interrupt meeting
• Why multiculturalism can't end racism
• Metro's tire-recycling plant may close
• Dancing boosts native children's images
• Ottawa hypocritical in marking Inuit literacy
• Close women's jail - native leader
• Akwesasne propose closing the border
• Akwesasne
• Welcome to Mulroney's latest $30-billion bonfire
• Canada's growing intolerance
• Kanesatake chief fails to renew court injunction
• More shooting hist Mohawk's reserve
• Ottawa, natives hit treaty snag
• Native people need to reassess their values, says psychiatrist
• Native people must solve own problems
• 500th anniversary of Columbus' arrival no cause for celebration S.A. Indian says

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• Mohawk Chiefs call reserve referendum
• Indians' diabetes linked to new lifestyle
• Time to recognize native rights - letter
• $100 gold coin is a cruel joke - letter
• A splendid introduction to Coyote and his world
• Queen's Park cracks down on tire dumps
• No one knows why pair died in "white culture"
• Native, police tell of differences - Saskatoon
• Natives attack Tories over devastating cuts
• Canada's bitter legacy of injustice - editorial
• Why native groups alarmed by Meech - editorial
• Nato choice won't end fight - Innu say
• Liberals say that 9 seats should be for natives
• Author likes hunters' way of life
• Tire fire offers environmental lesson - letter
• Mohawk factions seek end to violence - Cornwall
• Museums giving up native treasures - but slowly
• Ojibwa, Ottawa agree to negotiate self-government
• Public service "downsizing" largely illusory
• Chiefs eye lawsuit over budget cuts - Manitoba
• The issues of native wife abuse - commentary
• NAN gets the go-ahead to look into restructuring
• A.I.A.I. reeling after 65% budget cut
• Students taught Anishinaabe traditions - Winnipeg

The following folder includes

Land Claims and Treaties:

• Indian land claims deal breakthrough
• Largest land claim must be declared "null and void": Quebec Crees
• Hurdles remain in settling land claims
• B.C. called "thief" during land claim trial
• Negotiators optimistic Dene-Metis will sign
• Judge clears Iroquois on hunting. charges, cites 1701 land treaty
• New forum for treaty disputes
• Standing committee on aboriginal affairs
  Akwesasne:
• Mohawks stall probe of shots at copter
• Roadblocks keep U.S. officials from reserve
• Pro-gambling Indians burn two blockades
• Police-Mohawk standoff enters third day
• Gunfire from Mohawk land downs helicopter
• Mohawks burn reserve blockades
• Anti-gamblers rebuild roadblock
• Judge refuses mistrial call
  The environment, protests:
• Innu hope ruling will help end NATO flights
• Ground jets during review, Innu say
• Nato's base
• Temagami group threatens to blockade road
• U.S. militants to join protest
• Province yet to decide on logging
• Quebec Cree hope to stop hydro project
• Native leaders meet mediator
• Quebec natives continue paddle
• Fur and loathing in Toronto
  Judicial inquiries:
• Marshall "stuck to his guns"
• Money can't ease ordeal, Marshall Sr.
• Probing Minnie's death
• Native artist spent 4 years at Alfred reform school
  Economy:
• $5.8 million commercial complex announced Moose Factory
• Native newspaper gets boost in funding
• Prospectors stake claims in Temegami
• Walpole faces deficit crisis
• Walpole to have more say in running school
  Health Care and Social Issues:
• Gov't "slow" to move on native AIDS risk
• An eagle feather honors native AIDS victim
• Alcohol abuse
• Natives ask rights group to help trace children adopted by whites
• Food prices soaring out of sight in N.W.T.
  Government:
• NAN gets the go-ahead to look into restructuring
  Policing:
• RCMP may allow natives with braids
• Just like Canadians
• Walpole Islanders oppose transfer of OPP constable
  Editorials, letters:
• Shameful debt to native peoples
• To focus on Canada's native peoples
• Human rights begin at home
• No distinct aboriginal society
• Northern Canada's bleak statistics
• Serving people who move
• Meech Lake - letter to the editor
  The Arts:
• Letting the stone speak
• Theytus books: native material by natives
• Fiddler from Wiki wins O.A.C. award
• Open house at the new Indian Centre
• Legend: Why the loon cries in the morning
  Upcoming events:
• Neo Lithic: Stone carvings

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Akwesasne:

• Reserve police force suggested by Cuomo
• Lack of autonomy cited in Akwesasne violence
• Mohawk victim was innocent bystander
• Sovereignty is solution to strife
• Gunfire and gambling
• "Death list" keeps Mohawks from returning
• Mohawks wait out strife in government barracks
• Gun silent but the fury remains
• Akwesasne counts cost of blood
• Stability possible native leaders say
• Ruling body proposed for entire reserve
• A cautious return
• Single native governing body may be solution
• Police peacekeepers will stay until reserve safe
• Warriors have hit list
• Five governments meet
• Show of force halts gambling war
• Cadieux defends reserve inaction
• The Akwesasne war: why can't the Mohawks settle it themselves?
• Split by a river and a mishmash of differences
• Mohawk factions fight nine-hour gun battle
• Police enter Mohawk reserve; army sends backup
• Emergency talks set to quell native violence
• Police asked to stop gun battles
• Prepared to send in troops - Cuomo tells Mohawks
• 500 Mohawks waiting off reserve amid peace talks in casino war
• Akwesasne battle creating refugees
  The environment, protests:
  Temagami:
• Deft dealing
• Temagami not yet saved, group says
  James Bay:
• Quebec Inuit reconsider Hydro project
  Land claims:
• Final Arctic agreement signed in Canada's largest land claim
  Adoption:
• Canadian-born Indian angry over adoption by family in U.S.
• Manitoba Indians try to trace lost generation"
  Justice:
• Canada urged to bar extradition of Indian
• Women's prisons
• Native women's advocacy group
• Native volunteers needed in crime prevention
• Racism still a problem, Alberta native probe told
• Reserve radicals terrorize elders
  Health:
• Cree with AIDS wants to help other Indians with the illness
• The joy and sorrow of sobering up Alkali Lake
• Remains mailed in jam box
  Youth, education, culture:
• Commons debates: Aboriginal people, needs of youth
• Support urged for native languages foundation
• Marshall urges young natives to be proud
• Hopi travels globe with message
• Native educator helps break down teepee stereotype
• Native school concept pushed
• Sweat-lodge tradition arrives
• 32 native students to graduate with degrees
• Native graduates "beat odds"
• Nicola Valley Institute of Technology
• Interest groups doom school's "Redmen" logo
• Nature of lake accurately dates Indian villages
• Lessons in democracy from the Big Stones
• Buffalo hunts vivid memory
  Arts:
• Her poetry has phases, like the moon
• Poet strives for "authentic" sketches of natives
• Native designer makes fashion statement
• Retailing tradition at Treeline Trappings
  Editorials, letters:
• Akwesasne
• Do we really care?
• Law and disorder
• Who's in charge here?
• Problems allowed to build
• Chiefs must work for peace
• Mohawk unrest obscures native entrepreneurship
• Hope remains for Meech Lake
• Abolish racist legacy
• CTV report on Akwesasne was factual
• Bad for the natives
• Reinstate funding for native programs

The following folder includes

INNU - NATO LOW LEVEL FLIGHTS:

• NATO members shelve plans for fighter base
• NATO rejects Goose Bay for base, Innu protesters claim victory
• Low-level flights - Commons Debates
• Labrador town awaits NATO-base decision
• Innu group disputes NATO version of jet crash
• The unconsidered option
  MEECH LAKE:
• Committee perpetuates myth of 2 founding nations, natives say
• MPs favor key "add-ons" after Meech accord passes
  LAND CLAIMS:
• Land claim controversy shatters cottage-country calm
• Ottawa offers band $2.47 million deal
• Webequie reserve in the wind
  THE ENVIRONMENT, PROTESTS:
  Water:
• Health hazard found in Ohsweken tap water tied to treatment plant
• Band won't drink water
• Nipigon hits "panic button" for tap water
• Hagersville effect not as bad as feared
• Severn bands battle dams
  Temagami:
• More battles predicted for Temagami
• Act now or lose forests, group says
  AKWESASNE:
• Casino owner predicts chief will lose bid for re-election
• Mohawks worry that culture being lost to lure of gambling
• Gambling on tradition
• RCMP was on alert
• CTV may sue over cop raid
• Gambling opponent charged in murder of Akwesasne Mohawk
• Mohawk murder charge laid
• Mohawk police break ties with Quebec Police
• 4 men held in reserve slaying
• Mohawk slain in bar
• Warriors angry about drug raid
• Officials ignored Indian 's prophecy
• Area Indians feel sad, stunned by violence among brothers
• Grand Portage to get casino
  BUSINESS:
• Native firms growing Air Creebec chief say s
• White corn industry booming, gets boost
• Greenland sealskin saga
• Wawatay wins former Sioux Lookout radar base
  BEDO Newsletter:
• New programming in Economic Development
• From the Editor's Desk
• Training ... that will make the difference
• Calmeadow loan program
• In harmony with the environment
• Economic Development the future
• News Flash
• Reflections and Projections
• Meet your BEDO
  HEALTH:
• Province will train doctors in North
• Fasting for better health care
• Native AIDS epidemic feared
• Infection sparks personal crusade
• Native services set to combat AIDS
• "Shaman lady" took away illness, man with AIDS virus says
• Diabetes spreading quickly among groups
  EDUCATION:
• Few colleges, universities operate special programs
• Counselling service
• Education key to a better life, counselor says
• Twelve nations become one mind
• Are you Native and graduating from high school?
• Big Trout Lake syllabics teacher doesn't go by the books
• Six Nations Council Meeting
• Funding for literacy groups
• Students walk out to protest crest ban
• Pupils fight Redmen ban
  ARTS AND CULTURE:
• Government urged to restore funding
• An art form that helped shape our country
• Art '90 exhibit gives expression to variety of Native experiences
• Native spirit
• Out of the pens of babes does pure art come
• Thomas King and Lenore Keeshig-Tobias discuss native literature
• California Cree medicine woman's Canadian link
• A remarkable woman
• Six Nations festival celebrates friendship
• Natives absent in historical plaques
• Native awareness week - Commons Debates
• Arctic cruise to silent splendor
• Island hopping can be enjoyed close to home
• The quest for truth and purpose in life
• Feminists proclaim a new era

The following folder includes

ABORGINAL RIGHTS:

• Natives say fishing rights victory will help with land claims
• Natives acclaim court's decision
• Governments can't ignore aboriginal rights, court rules
• Impact of ruling on native fishing is disputed
• Provinces must respect native rights, judges rule
• Aboriginal rights
• Unhappy hunting
  JUSTICE:
• Give "culturally sensitive" award, Donald Marshall's lawyer argues
• Nova Scotia accused of trying to limit Marshall compensation
• N.S. judges still insist Marshall shares blame for murder conviction
• Special compensation urged in Marshall case
• Marshall judges facing inquiry
• Defense lawyers want full disclosure
• Donald Marshall's lawyers billed $588,000
• Donald Marshall to blame for conviction, probe told
  POLICING:
• Chiefs blast Ottawa policing report
• RCMP changes policy for natives
• Darts and Laurels
• Shooting of J.J. Harper
  MEECH LAKE:
• Doer vows to stall Meech if women, natives ignored
• Native leaders press for role at conference
• Natives want to participate in conference
• Commons Debates - Aboriginal Affairs
  AKWESASNE:
• Pro-gambling candidate's victory sparks charges of "irregularities"
• Gambling supporter wins election as chief of embattled Mohawk tribe
• Tensions remain high on Mohawk reserve
• Natives hire lawyer in bid to oust leader
• N.Y. police end blockade of the Akwesasne reserve
• Mohawk Warrior in court on weapons charges
  NATIVE GOVERNMENT:
• Walpole Island council getting back to normal
  THE ENVIRONMENT, PROTESTS:
• Gull Bay's tree cutting called model
• Natives pushing for bigger share of forests
• Native forestry effort encouraged to continue
• Natives must work for more control of forests
• Hagersville Tire Fire cleanup costs pegged at 15 million
• Hydro progect's impact on environment to be assessed
• Crees call Quebec hydro hearings a sham
• The cold facts about testing nuclear arms in the Arctic
• Cadmium, mercury found in flesh of Arctic whales
• Innu ecstatic with NATO base decision, but know training flights will continue
• Innu fear toxic fumes from crash site of F-16s
• Innu question claims of high-altitude crash
  EDUCATION:
• Convicted trespassers will appeal or opt for jail
• Student group blasts native prosecutions
• Prosecutions anger students
• Native women take control of airwaves
• Meech - Lake accord will add to plight of our native people
• What hypocrites we Canadians are
• Canada's treatment of native people is a cause for national shame
• Wick's outcasts
  Upcoming events:
• Images '90