INDG 1000Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Numbered Treaties, Covenant Chain, Wampum

• School: Trent University
• Department: Indigenous Studies
• Course: INDG 1000Y
• Professor: davidnewhouse

Document Summary

English, dutch and french were responsible for early treaties. Diplomatic language: slide: gifts are metaphors (ie i give you these blankets in hopes your people will stay warm all winter) Covenant chain: slide: didn"t know what wampum was thought it was money. Treaties are broken into 3 eras: pre-confederation, post-confederation. The carrying place purchase 1787-1805: bay of quintie, blank treaties no description/measurement, they cut signatures off another paper and pasted them onto the treaty, non of it made sense. Rice lake purchase 1818 treaty 20. Province of canada treaties: copper miners were mining without permission, caused trouble, bondhead thought indg and non indg couldn"t live together in fear of corruption in indg, so they sent them manitulin island (reserves) Numbered treaties: start to perfect treaty writing. Williams treaties: had people who have read the treaties and knew they had to be fixed. James bay was the first modern treaty nobody knew what they were doing.