“There are no shortcuts”: The Long Road to Treaty 7 Education

• Main Author: Little, Tarisa D 1987-
• Other Authors: Labelle, Kathryn, Hoy, Benjamin, Biggs, Lesley, Westman, Clinton, Neufeld, Matthew
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Saskatchewan 2017
• Subjects: education; indigenous; aboriginal; first nations; canadian; treaty; alberta; ethnohistory; history; residential school; native-newcomer; colonial; western canadian; Newcomer; First Nations; Nakoda
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10388/8090

Treaty 7 was signed at Blackfoot Crossing in 1877. According to one Indigenous signatory, Chief Crowfoot of the Niisitapi, treaty commissioners in attendance stated the treaty stood in perpetuity: “As the long as the sun is shining, the rivers flow, and the mountains are seen,” the Tsuut’ina, Stoney...