To understand why the land remains Indigenous, look to history GlobeDebate
The Canadian government has always taken a narrow view of the treaties with Indigenous peoples. They have focused on the treaty text itself, despite an abundance of oral and written evidence from the treaty negotiation period. Winona Wheeler, an associate professor of Native Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, recently stated that the federal government of Canada is wedded to the written texts of the Treaties, and has reneged on its fiduciary obligations to Indigenous peoples.
Unfortunately, most historians have chosen to ignore the eyewitness accounts of the treaty negotiations. Instead, they have relied on official government records, and the text of treaty, which presents only a narrow interpretation of the treaties. However, new publications by James Daschuk, Michael Asch and Aimée Craft have created a paradigm shift by questioning the government’s role during the treaty negotiations. Prof.
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