Treaty Rights Pose Challenge
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Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 3, no. 5, May 1972, p. 4
Description
Assertion of Treaty rights in reaction to Indian Affairs Minister Chretien's white paper.
Discusses the US government's wanted treaties in order to gain control of land, the treaties signed within Montana, tribal strategies for survival, and clashes between government troops and Indigenous warriors.
Chapter from Montana: Stories of the Land by Krys Holmes.
Disproves the commonly held belief that despite government efforts and assistance, reserve populations lacked the inclination or ability to farm.
Chapter five from The Prairie West as Promised Land edited by Chris Kitzan and R.D. Francis