Keeping promises : the Royal Proclamation of 1763, aboriginal rights, and treaties in Canada / edited by Terry Fenge and Jim Aldridge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fenge, Terry, Author.

Aldridge, Jim, author, editor.

Fenge, Terry, 1950- author, editor.

Series:

McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 78.

McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 78

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain. Sovereign (1760-1820 : George III). Royal Proclamation (1763 October 7).

Great Britain.

Indians of North America--Land tenure--Canada.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Canada--Claims.

Indians of North America--Civil rights--Canada.

Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc--Canada.

Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Canada.

Indigenous peoples.

Genre:

Libros electronicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2015

Place of Publication:

Montreal [Québec] ; Chicago [Illinois] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2015]

Summary:

In 1763 King George III of Great Britain, victorious in the Seven Years War with France, issued a proclamation to organize the governance of territory newly acquired by the Crown in North America and the Caribbean. The proclamation reserved land west of the Appalachian Mountains for Indians, and required the Crown to purchase Indian land through treaties, negotiated without coercion and in public, before issuing rights to newcomers to use and settle on the land. Marking its 250th anniversary Keeping Promises shows how central the application of the Proclamation is to the many treaties that followed it and the settlement and development of Canada. Promises have been made to Aboriginal peoples in historic treaties from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries in Ontario, the Prairies, and the Mackenzie Valley, and in modern treaties from the 1970s onward, primarily in the North. In this collection, essays by historians, lawyers, treaty negotiators, and Aboriginal leaders explore how and how well these treaties are executed. Addresses by the governor general of Canada and the federal minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development are also included. In 2003 Aboriginal leaders formed the Land Claims Agreements Coalition to make sure that treaties – building blocks of Canada – are fully implemented. Unique in breadth and scope, Keeping Promises is a testament to the research, advocacy, solidarity, and accomplishments of this coalition and those holding the Crown to its commitments.

Contents:

Foreword / Cathy Towtongie and Mitchell Stevens

Introduction / Terry Fenge and Jim Aldridge

1. Address by the Governor General of Canada His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston

2. Address by the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development the Honourable Bernard Valcourt

3. The Royal Proclamation of 1763 and the Aboriginal constitution / Brian Slattery

4. The Proclamation of 1763 : Indian Country origins and American impacts / Colin G. Calloway

5. The Aboriginal Charter of Rights : the Royal Proclamation of 1763 and the Constitution of Canada / Mark D. Walters

6. The impact of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 on Quebec : then and now / Ghislain Otis

7. Canada's historic treaties / J.R. Miller

8. Negotiation and implementation of modern treaties between Aboriginal peoples and the Crown in right of Canada / Terry Fenge

9. The 1998 Nisga'a treaty / Jim Aldridge

10. Cree experience with treaty implementation / Matthew Coon Come

11. The Alaska and Canadian land claim settlements / Alastair Campbell

In conclusion / Terry Fenge and Jim Aldridge

Appendices

I. The Royal Proclamation of 7 October 1763

Ii. The 1913 Nishga Nation petition to His Majesty's Privy Council.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-259) and index.

ISBN:

9780773597556

0773597557

9780773597549

0773597549

OCLC:

910775416