Reconsidering Treaty 8 Negotiations: The Canadian Government’s Purposeful Exploitation of a Disadvantaged Population

• Published in: Spectrum
• Main Author: Jacob Kropf
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; French
• Published: University of Alberta Library 2024
• Subjects: General Works; A; British Columbia; Canada; Northwest Territories
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.29173/spectrum202; https://doaj.org/article/816b30f46bef409da95f0e7ceed614fa

Treaty 8 was signed on June 21, 1899, between the Government of Canada and Indigenous Peoples living in the northern Alberta, northeastern British Columbia, southwestern Northwest Territories, and northwestern Saskatchewan region. Calls for the treaty began in the 1870s, but negotiations only began...