Bounty and Benevolence

by Ray, Arthur J.; Miller, Jim R.; Tough, Frank J.

• ISBN13: 9780773520608
• ISBN10: 0773520600
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ Pr

Summary

Bounty and Benevolence draws on a wide range of documentary sources to provide a rich and complex interpretation of the process that led to these historic agreements. The authors explain the changing economic and political realities of western Canada during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and show how the Saskatchewan treaties were shaped by long-standing diplomatic and economic understandings between First Nations and the Hudson's Bay Company. Bounty and Benevolence also illustrates how these same forces created some of the misunderstandings and disputes that arose between the First Nations and government officials regarding the interpretation and implementation of the accords.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	xv
Chronology	xix
Abbreviations	xxi
Illustrations	xxii
Aboriginal-Hudson's Bay Company Relations before 1800	3	(18)
The Selkirk Treaty, 1817	21	(11)
Precedents from Early Eastern Treaties	32	(13)
The Rupertsland Transfer: Expanding the Dominion of Canada	45	(13)
Precedents from Treaties 1, 2, and 3	58	(29)
Saskatchewan on the Eve of Treaties	87	(18)
Qu' Appelle Treaty, or Treaty 4	105	(16)
Lake Winnipeg Treaty, or Treaty 5	121	(9)
Treaties at Forts Carlton and Pitt, or Treaty 6	130	(18)
Treaty 8	148	(22)
Treaty 10	170	(17)
Problems of Treaty Implementation	187	(17)
Reflections	204	(11)
Appendix: Data on Treaties	215	(40)
Notes	255	(30)
Bibliography	285	(10)
Index	295