Treaty 2

Book review of: Bounty and Benevolence: A History of Saskatchewan Treaties by Arthur J. Ray, Jim Miller, and Frank Tough.

Links to information on treaties, laws, and events from the first contact to 2003.

Argues that contrary to accepted wisdom, the Canadian government did not have honourable and just intentions, but violated treaties by refusing to grant the reserve lands that had been chosen and failing to supply the promised provisions. Instead Commissioner Dewdney used the courts, military and police to bring about political goals.

FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Contains historical documents, memos, reports, correspondence/letters, maps and submissions regarding validity of the 1909 surrender claim. Commissioners include: Roger J. Austine, Daniel J. Bellegarde, and Sheila G. Purdy. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]

Index to reports on Treaties, including historical Treaties. Also provides recommended format for citing these on-line reports.

Review essay on: The True Spirit and Original Intent of Treaty 7 by Treaty 7 Elders and Tribal Council with Walter Hildebrandt, Sarah Carter, and Dorothy First Rider. Bounty and Benevolence: A History of Saskatchewan Treaties by Arthur J. Ray, Jim Miller, and Frank Tough. Mi'kmaq Treaties on Trial: History, Land, and Donald Marshall Junior by William C. Wicken.

Presentation by the Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada on the history of residential schools, treaty promises, abuse in the schools and more. Duration: 44:59.

Brief description of theTreaties that were concluded between 1871 and 1877.

Displays a map of Saskatchewan showing boundaries of Treaty 8, 10, 6, 5, 4 and 2.

Series of maps illustrates the historical evolution of Canada through treaty-making, focusing on the numbered treaties. Previously titled Timelines and Maps.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Regina, 2011.

Examination of primary documents demonstrates how bi-cultural mediators, using traditional Indigenous protocols, were critical in preventing violence.

History Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Saskatchewan, 2004.

Listed by location/treaty name; table shows reserve name and number, year of initial grant, ethno-linguistic group and linguistic family, hectares and square acres at surrender and in 1902. Table created from information found in The Historical Atlas of Canada, v. 2 edited by R. Louis Gentilcore ; Geoffrey J. Matthews, cartographer and designer.

Reprint of 1905 speech by David Laird (1833-1914) on Treaties with which he was directly involved.

Agreement to negotiate a framework required to reach an Umbrella Governance and Fiscal Agreement.

Review of In the Absence of Horses and Where IS Treaty Land?, a 2004-2005 exhibition in Manitoba.

Text of the 1871 and 1875 agreements between the Crown and the Chippewa, Ojibway, Ojibwe, Anishinabek and Swampy Cree peoples.

Book review of 2 books: The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories, Including the Negotiations on which They Were Based by Alexander Morris. Canada: Indian Treaties and Surrenders From 1680 to 1890. The "Surrenders volume" is three parts; it includes the Crown's text of many pre-Confederation Treaties, while the "Morris reprint" contains the Crown's text of several Treaty texts and adhesions relating to western Canada, and some correspondence. All volumes are historical reprints.

Includes the Crown's text of the Selkirk, Robinson-Superior, Robinson-Huron, and numbered Treaties 1 to 7 as well as many of the early supplementary adhesions to Treaty.

Argues these Treaties were designed to protect the First Nations, provided a basis for assimilation policies, and a template for later treaties.

Reveals the unsuitability of J. A. N. Provencher as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the criminal allegations brought against him and the inquiry that led to his dismissal in 1878.

Overview of organization formed to investigate the 1998 agreement-in-principle negotiated with the Federal Department of Indian Affairs.