Mediating the numbered treaties: eyewitness accounts of treaties between the Crown and Indigenous Peoples, 1871-1876.

• Main Author: Krasowski, Sheldon Kirk
• Other Authors: Wheeler, Winona, Brennan, William, Pitsula, James, M., Stonechild, Blair, Coates, Ken
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina 2011
• Subjects: Indians of North America > Prairie Provinces > Treaties > History > 19th century; Indians of North America > Prairie Provinces > Treaties > History > 19th century > Sources; Indians of North America > Prairie Provinces > Treaties > History > 19th century > Personal narratives; Indians of North America > Prairie Provinces > Government relations > History > 19th century > Sources; Canada; Regina; assiniboine
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10294/3575; http://ourspace.uregina.ca/bitstream/handle/10294/3575/Krasowski_Sheldon_Phd_History_Fall2011.pdf

iv, 299 p. This thesis looks at the historical period of treaty-making in Western Canada when six numbered treaties were negotiated between Canada and the Anishnabeg, Cree, Saulteaux, and Assiniboine Nations between 1871 and 1876. The main interpretation of treaty-making during this period is that t...