Title: Compact, contract, covenant
First published: 2009
Description: One of Canadas longest unresolved issues is the historical and present-day failure of the countrys governments to recognize treaties made between Aboriginal peoples and the Crown. Compact, Contract, Covenant is renowned historian of Native-newcomer relations J.R. Millers exploration and explanation of more than four centuries of treating-making. The first historical account of treaty-making in Canada, Miller untangles the complicated threads of treaties, pacts, and arrangements with the Hudsons Bay Company and the Crown, as well as modern treaties to provide a remarkably clear and comprehensive overview of this little-understood and vitally important relationship. Covering everything from pre-contact Aboriginal treaties to contemporary agreements in Nunavut and recent treaties negotiated under the British Columbia Treaty Process, Miller emphasizes both Native and non-Native motivations in negotiating, the impact of treaties on the peoples involved, and the lessons that are relevant to Native-newcomer relations today
Subjects: Indians of North America, Treaties, History, Native peoples, Government relations, Indiens d'Amérique, Traités, Histoire, Autochtones, Relations avec l'État, Verdragen, Indianen, Eskimo's, Indians of north america, canada, Indians of north america, treaties, Canada, history, Canada, politics and government
LC classification: KE7709 .M55 2009