SOSC 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Treaty 6, Saulteaux, Avail
2 Apr 2016
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Canadian west was promised land for naives: promises not kept, treaies promised naives share in wealth of the west, instead, resources + riches used to enice new immigrants which actually belonged to. Naives: instead of having former mobility they were restricted to small scatered reserves. Naives insisted in the treaty negoiaions that they must be part of the bouniful and prosperous. Agreed to share their resources with newcomers, to live harmoniously cooperaively: in return sought assistance they needed to establish a new livelihood an economy based on agriculture. Naives thought that evolving treaty relaionships would help them achieve economic self-suiciency. Plains cree made determined eforts to establish an economy based on agriculture: faced many obstacles which hindered their advancements as farmers, labored as hard as other farmers. Even more so because of relaionship with federal government which undermined them instead of helping. Aboriginal farmers wanted to become commercial grain farmers.
