Treaty 9

The role of education in the loss of spiritual and cultural values ; evidence of previous and planned oppression by non-Indians ; revival of interest in traditional values and the role ofelders as a source of knowledge.

Consists of an interview where Adam Solway talks about being orphaned at 8 years and adopted by the Blackfoot Reserve, Alta; his attendance at a residential school; becoming a councillor and then chief of the reserve. He comments on the issues he had to deal with as well as providing comments on contemporary lifestyles and leadership.

This is a continuation of an interview with Adam Solway on January 29, 1983 on the Blackfoot Reserve.

Book review of: Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Canada: Essays on Law, Equality, and Respect for Difference edited by Michael Asch.

Concerns about man-made environmental damage with the undertaking of the James Bay Project is the focus of this booklet. Also mentioned is relocation of 7000 Cree persons and flooding of land.

Historical note:

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

Mrs. Vandale was born in Carlton in 1902. She shares what her father told her about the cause of the Riel Rebellion. She also talks about the Metis people in relation to the Depression, WWI, WWII, and the attitudes of police, teachers, government agencies, etc. towards the Metis people.

Discusses an aboriginal leaders request for the Anglican Church to back aboriginal Canadians demands regarding court rulings on treaty rights.

Book review of: Children of the Broken Treaty by Charlie Angus. Entire review section on one pdf. To read this review scroll to p. 69.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Calgary, 2015.

Looks at Fort Severn Cree Nation's co-management strategy for managing Hudson Bay polar bear subpopulation in their territory.

Consists of an interview where she gives an account of ghost stories and superstitions.

Environmental Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2017.

Explores the lack of consultation of Bill 191 beginning in 2009 and concludes that minimum standards and protocols are not being met and there has been little improvement in process.

Classroom lesson plan to accompany segment on DVD News in Review: January 2015.

Examines how Canada investigated and distorted Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence's band finances as a way to discredit her demands that governments respect her community's treaty rights.

Describes two Canadian cases and a brief about Canada's Constitutional revision process made on behalf of the First Nations of Canada Delegation.

Social and health problems of the Ojibway of northwestern Ontario in Treaty 9 territory, due in a large part to dams causing flooding of traditional hunting, fishing and trapping lands, and the peoples' subsequent move to reserve.

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

Discusses the improved quality of life a road, power and broadband would bring to remote northern Ontario communities. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 14.

Concluded 1905 between the Crown and the Ojibeway, Cree and other Indigenous peoples of the territory. Includes Articles, Schedules, Report of Commissioners, Federal Provincial Agreement, 1907 Adhesion, and Order in Council. Crown text of Treaty reprinted from 1931 edition Queen's Printer document.

Online exhibit with links to expeditions of 1905-1906, developing the treaty relationship, 1905-2005, the James Bay Treaty and people, and events surrounding the making of Treaty No. 9.

Lesson plan involves students negotiating an agreement for two disparate groups to share a territory. To be used with the online exhibition James Bay Treaty Turns 100.

Mr. Phelps was the Minister of Natural Resources in the Saskatchewan CCF government from 1944 to 1948. He speaks of attempts to replace welfare in the north with programs for fish and fur marketing.

Mr. MacAuley tells of the changes that have taken place in Cumberland House including the increase in crime and alcoholism.

Canadian Heritage and Development Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Trent University, 1998.

Looks at a suit between a mining company and a First Nations community and the two judicial decisions made.

One of the Commissioners of Treaty No. 9 (James Bay Treaty) gives brief history of treaties and a description of expedition undertaken to acquire signatures of Aboriginal leaders. Language and attitudes in article are highly racist.

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

Consists of an interview where he gives accounts of storytelling amongst the Oneida; accounts of the educational system and its abuses.

Mr. McDougall is descended from French and Scottish halfbreeds and is active in the Metis Society of Saskatchewan. He gives an account of the Metis way of life and philosophy, the Riel Rebellion, shares memories of WWI, WWII and the Depression. He also talks about the discrimination against native people.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2016.

Mrs. Ranger was born in Batoche around 1892. She gives an account of the Riel Rebellion of 1885 as told by her mother, shares childhood memories of Gabriel Dumont, the effects on the Metis community by the Depression and the two world wars and gives her impressions of how the Metis are treated by various outside groups.

Mrs. Nicolas, nee Fleury, was born in Duck Lake in 1887. After a brief period in the U.S. where she attended school she returned to the Duck Lake area where she has lived ever since. She shares her experiences of raising her family of ten plus three foster children, her childhood, schooling and life on a mixed farm including the Depression years. She also gives an account of the Frog Lake Massacre as told by her grandfather, and of relatives who fought in WWI, WWII and the Korean war.

Consists of an interview with Mary Jacobson, the daughter of a Hudson's Bay manager. She talks about job discrimination against Indian and Metis, how welfare payments have destroyed the old way of life and tells a story of the Riel Rebellion of 1885 that her mother told her.

Black and white archival photographs dealing with treaty negotiations.

This article places the issue of the James Bay Project for the development of hydroelectric power into a historical and political perspective and discusses its effects upon the Aboriginals of Quebec.

Presents a political organization representing 49 First Nation communities with James Bay Treaty 9 territory and the Ontario portions of Treaty 5.

Discusses resource development, blockades and social problems.

Article analyzes the historical and cultural background of Treaty Nine in northern Ontario.

Includes links to: on-line game, galleries (elders video collection, Doug Ellis Collection of audio recordings of legends, personal stories, memories and conversations gathered between 1955 and 1965; Deschâtelets Archive of photographs taken around the time of Treaty 9), history, and teacher's guides for grades 4-10.

Political Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--Queen's University, 2000.

Designed to educate students on the importance of the Treaty, the process of its negotiation, and the communities involved.

Discusses the Mushkegowuk people’s relationship to water and how it has been ruptured in the interests of extractive industries and economic development. Also discusses efforts to reconnect with and protect waterways.

File contains a presentation by the Abitibiwinni Band (Pikogan), Chief Harry McDougal and Edward Kistabish. The Band representatives discuss their land claim, and their unique position as the only Algonquin band in the area who are signatories to Treaty 9. In addition to this they discuss how some members of their communities are subject to the James Bay agreement, which makes for a complex legal situation for their people. Following the presentation the two presenters discuss some of these issues with the assembled Commissioners.

File contains a presentation by Vern Cheechoo. Cheechoo discusses the diversity of people in the Moose Factory area (both in terms of Aboriginal groups, and non-Aboriginals) making various distinctions, and stating that the inherent right to self-government comes from a relationship with the territory itself. Cheechoo also discusses the need to acknowledge diversities and begin to "cherish and begin to give honour to each other because of our distinctiveness."

File contains a presentation by Wilbert McLeod. McLeod represents the Moose Factory Claimant Group, whose grandparents were "arbitrarily exluded from Treaty No. 9 in 1905 by the Treaty Commissioners." McLeod lays out his organizations claim and discusses how the ancestors of his organization were left out of Treaty 9, and how that Treaty was negotiated in an arbitrary manner by officials who did not consider how the people defined themselves.