INDG 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Pertussis, Bsc Young Boys
26 Apr 2016
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Pressured to treaty making and declining of hunting game. If people coming in wanted meat, they should go through them because they are in charge of their territories. Treaties were not talking about this and did not have any concern over the buffalo. Peace agreements with the blackfoot, cree has tension with them in order to ease the pressures they are facing. Treaties made for protection of land and enumeration- annual payments as an option when they cannot engage in hunting. Mistahi muskwa did not like this idea and they should be able to roam instead of being forced to stay in their territories. Thought it was not a healthy way to approach these things. For him, the land cannot be bought or owned, it is its own autonomy. Lowest point of indigenous health on the shoulders of the punitive canadian state called rewarded retribution. Bands that were deemed loyal to canada were given livestock and forms of assistance.
