Breathing Life into the Stone Fort Treaty : An Anishnabe Understanding of Treaty One / Aimée Craft.
2013
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Author
Craft, Aimée, 1980- author.
Title
Breathing Life into the Stone Fort Treaty : An Anishnabe Understanding of Treaty One / Aimée Craft.
Added Author
Borrows, John, 1963- contributor, contributor.
Imprint
Vancouver ; Toronto : University of British Columbia Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Description
1 online resource (159 p.)
Formatted Contents Note
Front Matter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
What Came Before Treaty One
Skilled Negotiators and Diplomats: The Anishinabe and Indigenous, Fur Trade, and Crown Treaties
Manito Api - this "Piece of Land": Treaty Making with the Indians of Manitoba
Making the Stone Fort Treaty
The Anishinabe at the Stone Fort: The People who Belong to this Land
Building on Stone Foundations: Relationships and Protocols¹
Anishinabe Inaakonigewin
Gizhagiiwin: The Queen's Obligations of Love, Caring, Kindness, and Equality among her Children
"The Land Cannot Speak for Itself ": Relationships To and About Land
Living the Treaty
Implementing the Treaty: Outside Promises and Post-Treaty Disputes in the Immediate Post-Treaty Years
Conclusion
Appendix
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
What Came Before Treaty One
Skilled Negotiators and Diplomats: The Anishinabe and Indigenous, Fur Trade, and Crown Treaties
Manito Api - this "Piece of Land": Treaty Making with the Indians of Manitoba
Making the Stone Fort Treaty
The Anishinabe at the Stone Fort: The People who Belong to this Land
Building on Stone Foundations: Relationships and Protocols¹
Anishinabe Inaakonigewin
Gizhagiiwin: The Queen's Obligations of Love, Caring, Kindness, and Equality among her Children
"The Land Cannot Speak for Itself ": Relationships To and About Land
Living the Treaty
Implementing the Treaty: Outside Promises and Post-Treaty Disputes in the Immediate Post-Treaty Years
Conclusion
Appendix
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Summary
In order to interpret and implement a treaty between the Crown and Canada's First Nations, we must look to its spirit and intent, and consider what was contemplated by the parties at the time the treaty was negotiated, argues Aimée Craft. Using a detailed analysis of Treaty One - today covering what is southern Manitoba - she illustrates how negotiations were defined by Anishinabe laws (inaakonigewin), which included the relationship to the land, the attendance of all jurisdictions' participants, and the rooting of the treaty relationship in kinship. While the focus of this book is on Treaty One, Anishinabe laws (inaakonigewin) defined the settler-Anishinabe relationship well before this, and the principles of interpretation apply equally to all treaties with First Nations.
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In English.
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