Looks at "modern approach" to interpretation, reviews last three decades of judicial interpretation, and discusses an alternate procedure based on Anishinabe legal principles and Indigenous understandings.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 1, no. 3, September 1977, pp. 15-20
Description
Comments on the fact that as of 1977 there had not yet been a treaty signed between the original settlers of Australia, the Aborigines and the mostly European settlers that arrived in the past 250 years.
Royal Society of Canada 2012 Governor General Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jim Miller
Description
Speaker discusses the initial relationship between Aboriginals and Europeans, the motives behind the numbered treaties, the two parties' differing interpretations of the agreements, and the modern situation.
Lecture given at the University of Victoria.
Duration: 40:16.
Royal Society of Canada 2012 Governor General Lecture Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Jim Miller
Description
Canada Research Chair in Native-Newcomer Relations traces history of treaty-making in Canada, with particular reference to Ontario.
Lecture given at the University of Waterloo.
Duration: 44:36.
Discusses discrepancies between what had been promised in the agreement and what was later published by the Canadian government, and the government's actions after it was signed. Focuses on education, fishing, hunting, mineral, forestry, and wild plant rights, assistance for agriculture, and self-government.