INDG 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Guideposts, North West Company, Anishinaabe

• School: McGill University
• Department: Indigenous Studies
• Course: INDG 200
• Professor: Heidi Senungetuk

Document Summary

The founding of the original five nations (haudenosaunee: hiawatha belt dates from (maybe?) around the 1400s. Treaties documented on trees/ birch bark: must abide by the trees. Early treaty making already well established prior to non-indigenous peoples arrival on the continent. Preexisting treaties were guideposts for later treaties: wampum belts made of clam or welk shells (purple and white). Retains the words that are spoken over it. There are people whose whole job is to interpret the meaning of the belts: dish with one spoon treaty: haudenosaunee and anishinaabeg. Pre contact: representation of sharing all of their creation. Idea that they already had all of the things that allow them to exist. 1 commercial pacts (i. e. hbc and the north west company) pacts between. 2 peace, friendship and alliance (i. e. jay treaty) pacts between two equal sovereign nations. 3 territorial cession treaties (cid:894)e. g. the p(cid:396)ai(cid:396)ie (cid:862)(cid:374)u(cid:373)(cid:271)e(cid:396)ed t(cid:396)eaties(cid:863)(cid:895)focus on land surrenders, gaining access to and use of indigenous lands.