ASSIGNMENT 3 – SETTLER COLONIALISM AND TREATY PEOPLES Answer all of these questions briefly and concisely with at least 100 words each question. Read “Chapter 7: Settler Colonialism & Treaty Peoples” in your course textbook, Belshaw, John. Histories of Indigenous Peoples and Canada. PressBooks, 2020. 1. In what ways do interpretations of the historical context of the Proclamation Act by Daniel Richter (in Unit 2, Topic 2) and John Borrows differ and agree? 2. How did Mi’kmaq treaty negotiations proceed in the early seventeenth century? 3. According to Battiste, what expectations and goals did the Mi’kmaq have as regards education? 4. In what ways do Wicken and Reid agree and differ with Battiste’s presentation of Mi’kmaq history? 5. What was the background to the numbered treaties? 6. In what ways were the negotiations surrounding Treaty 1 and Treaty 9 similar? Different? 7. What does Craft reveal about the Anishinaabe approach to treaty making? 8. What key lessons do we learn about the treaty-making process from “George MacMartin’s Big Canoe Trip”? 9. How does Keith Smith describe and define the purposes of reserves? (see “Living with Treaties” in Chapter 7 of your textbook. 10. To what extent was the economic deck stacked against Indigenous communities on reserves? Readings Belshaw, John. Histories of Indigenous Peoples and Canada. PressBooks, 2020. Battiste, Marie. “Resilience and Resolution: Mi’kmaw Education and the Treaty Implementation.” In Living Treaties: Narrating Mi’kmaw Treaty Relations, edited by Marie Battiste, 259–78. Sydney, NS: Cape Breton University Press, 2016. Borrows, John. “Wampum at Niagara: The Royal Proclamation, Canadian Legal History, and Self-Government.” In Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Canada, edited by Michael Asch, 169–72. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1997. Craft, Aimée. Breathing Life into the Stone Fort Treaty: An Anishnabe Understanding of Treaty One. Vancouver: UBC Press & Purich Publishing, 2013. See esp. Part One. Miller, J. R. “Canada’s Historic Treaties.” In Keeping Promises: The Royal Proclamation of 1763, Aboriginal Rights, and Treaties in Canada, 81–104. Montréal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015. Richter, Daniel K. “The Plan of 1764: Native Americans and a British Empire that Never Was.” In Trade, Land, and Power: The Struggle for Eastern North America, 177–201. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Wicken, William C., and John G. Reid. “An Overview of the Eighteenth Century Treaties Signed between the Mi’kmaq and Wuastukwiuk Peoples and the English Crown, 1693–1928.” In Report Submitted To Land And Economy Royal Commission On Aboriginal Peoples 1996, 2–66. Ottawa: Minister of Supply and Services, 1996.
