Breathing life into the Stone Fort Treaty
Subtitle: an Anishinabe understanding of Treaty One
By: Aimée Craft
Publisher: Purich Pub.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Saskatoon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781895830644
Subjects: Ojibwa Indians; Treaties; Legal status, laws; Government relations; Canada. 1871 August 3.; Canada
Other titles: Treaty made and concluded this third day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one between Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland ... and the Chippewa and Swampy Cree Tribes of Indians 1871 August 3.; Indenture Made between the Undersigned Chiefs and Warriors of the Chippeway or Saulteaux Nation and of the Killistine or Cree Nation, and the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Selkirk (1817 July 18)
Description: "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 author Aimée Craft. Using a detailed analysis of Treaty One ? covering what is today southern Manitoba ? she illustrates how Anishinabe laws (inaakonigewin) defined Treaty One negotiations and opened the door to a ?gathering of spirit.? Those laws included the obligations and responsibilities that derive from the relationship to the land, the need to wait for all participants before negotiations began in order to respect their jurisdiction and decision making authority, and the rooting of the treaty relationship in kinship, including references to the Queen as a mother. These legal concepts and many more are examined in this book with the author illustrating how the terms of Treaty One were defined by such principles. Anishinabe laws (inaakonigewin) defined the settler-Anishinabe relationship well before the Treaty One negotiations in 1871 ? for example the Selkirk Treaty of 1817 which in part laid the groundwork for Treaty One. While the focus of this book is on Treaty One, the principles of interpretation apply equally to all treaties with First Nations." --Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-159) and index.