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Treaties with Indigenous Peoples in Canada


Indigenous Myths & Misconceptions - Treaties

The Government of Canada and the courts understand treaties between the Crown and Indigenous peoples to be solemn agreements that set out promises ...

Canada's First Nations | History Today

Soon after its independence, Canada asserted control over indigenous peoples and lands. The Indian Act (1876), which is still upheld with ...

Treaties, and the Emancipatory Potential of International Law

The relationship between Canada's Indigenous peoples and the Canadian government is one that has increasingly come to the fore.

Treaty Rights and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous ...

Article 37 of the UN Declaration explicitly recognizes the right of indigenous peoples to have their treaties, agreements, and other constructive arrangements ...

The Crown broke a promise to First Nations. It could now owe billions.

More than 170 years ago, before Canada confederated in 1867, Indigenous people in what's now Northern Ontario signed treaties, ceding a vast ...

International Trade Agreements and Indigenous Peoples

Canada's obligations to Indigenous peoples under the Canadian Constitution cannot be superseded or undermined by commitments under a free trade ...

What are Treaty Rights? - Indigenous Awareness Canada

First Nations peoples whose ancestors signed peace treaties with the colonial and Canadian governments have treaty rights. The treaties were signed in ...

We Are All Treaty People | Art Gallery of Ontario

... Indigenous peoples have ... Ahead of their conversation, we connected with Switzer to learn more about the continued impact of treaties across Canada.

Episode 2 – Treaty Promises: Interpreting and understanding treaties

The Crown and Indigenous Peoples interpret and understand Treaties differently ... Indigenous Communities: Surviving Canada. TVO Today•135K ...

Land Rights & Jurisdiction - Assembly of First Nations

Canada's failure to recognize Treaty rights continues to feed the socio‑economic divide between First Nations and Canadians. Land is a fundamental asset for ...

Supreme Court of Canada - 37441

The Mikisew joined Treaty 8 along with other groups in 1899. Treaty 8 was the eighth agreement signed by Queen Victoria and First Nations in ...

Treaties Recognition Week - November 5 - 11 - AMO

Today in Canada there are approximately 70 treaties between 371 First Nations and the Crown. The treaties represent the rights of more than ...

The First Nations and Treaties Map of Ontario as an Instructional ...

All Ontarians should have opportunities to explore the histories, cultures, perspectives and contributions of the Indigenous peoples of Canada. The.

Treaties - Ontario.ca

Treaties are legally binding agreements that set out the rights, responsibilities and relationships of First Nations and the federal and provincial governments.

The Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations

The Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations was created in the Spring of 1993 with the purpose of serving as the United Political voice for those Treaty ...

American Indian Treaties | National Archives

This ended the nearly 100-year-old practice of treaty-making between the U.S. and American Indian tribes. The online exhibit "Rights of Native ...

THE PROBLEMATIC OF INDIGENOUS TREATIES

preferred here to specific, often government-promoted, appellations such as the Canadian. “Aboriginal peoples.” The qualifier Indigenous applies to a wide ...

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples

... indigenous peoples' rights, recognizing and affirming the aboriginal and treaty rights of the Indian, Inuit and Métis people of Canada. Those provisions ...

Indigenous Peoples Terminology: Guidelines for Usage

The collective noun used in the Constitution Act 1982 includes the Indian (or First Nations), Inuit and Métis Peoples so legally it will always have a place at ...

Treaties elsewhere - ANTAR

Australia is one of the few settler-colonial nations not to have a treaty or treaties between the state and the First Nations Peoples whose ...