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Negotiating the Numbered Treaties
Robert Talbot
其他書名
An Intellectual and Political History of Alexander Morris
出版Purich Publishing, 2019-01-31
主題History / Indigenous Peoples in the AmericasBiography & Autobiography / PoliticalHistory / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-)
ISBN07748805039780774880503
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=JPyFDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Alexander Morris, Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba and the North West Territories in the 1870s, was the main negotiator of many of the numbered treaties on the prairies and has often been portrayed as a parsimonious agent of the government, bent on taking advantage of First Nations chiefs and councillors. However, author Robert J. Talbot reveals Morris as a man deeply sympathetic to the challenges faced by Canada's Indigenous peoples as they sought to secure their future in the face of encroaching settlement and the disappearance of the buffalo. Both Morris and the First Nations negotiators viewed the treaties as the basis of a new, reciprocal arrangement, but by the end of his appointment, Morris was seriously at odds with a federal administration that preferred inaction over honouring its treaty promises.