Dossier - Treaties

This file contains a photocopied document, from the archives of Saskatchewan, that includes details pertaining to the Blackfeet Treaty of 1877. This file also includes a series of photocopied chapters and excerpts from numerous books and publications concerning the history of treaties and the different Indigenous groups who signed treaties with the Canadian government. Sources include but are not limited to: "The Indian Treaties of 1876" by John Andrew Kerr, "The Treaty Made With The Indians At Smith's Creek", Statutes, Treaties and Documents of the Canadian constitution, 1930, "The Treaty Made With The Indians", "The Treaty Made With The Indians at Kingston, 1819", "Treaty Making with Indians" by A. A Vickers, Esq., "Treaty No.9 The Indian Petitions 1889-1927" by John Long, The Last of The Indian Treaties by Duncan Campbell Scott, Canada's North-West Indian Policy in The 1870's Traditional Premises and Necessary Innovations by John L. Taylor, and "Indian Reserves in Western Canada: Indian Homelands or Devices For Assimilation" by J.L. Tobias. This file includes pages 1-14 of an introduction of a thesis that "undertakes to synthesize and place in historical perspective the various primary sources and secondary works that have bearing on the relationship between the Anishinabek (Algonkian) tribes and the British prior to 1830." This file also contains a document titled "A New Indian/Canada/Crown Relationship by Chief Sol Sanderson. Booklets titled "Treaty No. 3 Between Her Majesty The Queen and The Saulteaux Tribe of the Northwest Angle on the Lake of the Woods with Adhesions" printed in 1966 and "The Days of the Treaties" published in 1977 are also found in this article. A series of photocopied newspaper and magazine articles from The Native People (1977), Wawatay News (1978) and The Calgary Herald which concern treaties is also included. This file contains a photocopy of the original document and a typewritten copy of an Order in Council of 9th July 1873. A photocopy of a letter dated Ottawa January 19th, 1917 addressed to Mr. Hammond from the Deputy Superintendent General is also included in this file. Additionally, this file contains a series of handwritten notes by Penny Petrone.