NATV 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Indigenous Rights, Gros Ventre, Scrip

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Native Studies
• Course: NATV 1220
• Professor: Professor Dallas Hunt

Document Summary

Indigenous communities during or after the wars: disease running rampant, europeans had agenda/strategies to gain territory (use smallpox and trade monopolies, discovery of new/private territories of lands continue, competition breeds sense of paranoia and rush to profit/urbanization. It resulted in writing the formalized british policy agreements. Treaty making: between the treaty of paris in 1763 and the american declaration of independence in 1775, It was to establish boundaries between the indigenous peoples and the settlers: locations of social or economic importance were reserved. It guarantees of protection from settlers" interference were obtained. Treaty of niagara: negotiated by sir william johnson, 20,000 attendees from 24 nations, concluded in 1764, basis of later anishinaabe-british alliance. Constitution act of 1982: the guarantee of any rights or freedom that have been recognized by royal proclamation of 1763, the guarantee of any rights of the land claims agreements.