Research Catalog

Title

Compact, contract, covenant : Aboriginal treaty-making in Canada / J.R. Miller.

Author

Miller, J. R. (James Rodger), 1943-

Publication

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2009.

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Details

Description

xiv, 379 p. : ill., facsims., maps, ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "One of Canada's longest unresolved issues is the historical and present-day failure of the country's governments to recognize treaties made between Aboriginal peoples and the Crown. Compact, Contract, Covenant is renowned historian of Native-newcomer relations J.R. Miller's 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 Hudson's 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. Accessible and informative, Compact, Contract, Covenant is a much-needed history of the evolution of treaty-making and will be required reading for decades to come."--pub. desc.

Subjects

• History
• Canada
• Eskimo's
• Indianen
• Verdragen
• Autochtones > Canada > Relations avec l'État
• Indiens d'Amérique > Canada > Relations avec l'État
• Autochtones > Canada > Traités > Histoire
• Indiens d'Amérique > Canada > Traités > Histoire
• Native peoples > Canada > Government relations
• Indians of North America > Canada > Government relations
• Native peoples > Canada > Treaties > History
• Indians of North America > Canada > Treaties > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-360) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

There is no end to relationship among the indians : early commercial compacts -- Trade & peace we take to be one thing : treaties of peace, friendship, and alliance -- And whereas it is just and reasonable-- : The royal proclamation and the Upper Canadian treaties -- From our lands we receive scarcely anything : the Upper Canadian treaties, 1818-1862 -- When they once come settlers with follow : prelude to the Western treaties -- I think the the Queen Mother has offered us a new way : the Southern numbered treaties, 1871-1877 -- An empire in itself : the Northern numbered treaties, 1899-1921 -- Get rid of the Indian problem : the hiatus in treaty-making,1923-1975 -- Growing old at the negotiating table : treaties and comprehensive claims, 1975-2008 -- We are all treaty people : conclusion.

ISBN

• 9780802097415 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0802097413 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780802095152 (pbk.)
• 0802095151 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2009289314

OCLC

• 302317752
• SCSB-9882238

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library