Treaty No. 9: Making the Agreement to Share the Land in Far Northern Ontario in 1905 (Rupert's Land Record Society Series) (Volume 12)

The complete story behind the signing of one of North America's largest land treaties. Contents Illustrations Tables Foreword Meegwetch Introduction PART ONE: Historical Context 1 Treaty-Making before 1905 2 Requests for Annuities, 1884–1905 3 Planning and Negotiating, 1901–1905 4 Ratification and Early Implementation 5 Treaty-Making Resumes 6 Sharing the Land Conclusion to Part One PART TWO: Historical Documents Introduction 7 The Treaty Party and the Sources 8 Beginnings 9 Lac Seul (Obishikokaang) 10 Osnaburgh (Mishkeegogamang) 11 Fort Hope (Eabametoong) 12 Marten Falls 13 English River 14 Fort Albany 15 Moose Factory 16 New Post 17 Abitibi 18 Endings 19 The Last of the Indian Treaties 20 The Treaty Doctor’s Report 21 Education 22 Formal Treaty Documents PART THREE: Trick or Treaty No. 9? 23 Making the Agreement to Share the Land in 1905 24 Parchments and Promises Afterword APPEDICES Historiography Terminology An Inventory of the 1905 Photographs Credits for the Figures Notes Bibliography Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y For more than a century, the vast lands of Northern Ontario have been shared among the governments of Canada, Ontario, and the First Nations who signed Treaty No. 9 in 1905. For just as long, details about the signing of the constitutionally recognized agreement have been known only through the accounts of two of the commissioners appointed by the Government of Canada. Treaty No. 9 provides a truer perspective on the treaty by adding the neglected account of a third commissioner and tracing the treaty's origins, negotiation, explanation, interpretation, signing, implementation, and recent commemoration. Restoring nearly forgotten perspectives to the historical record, John Long considers the methods used by the government of Canada to explain Treaty No. 9 to Northern Ontario First Nations. He shows that many crucial details about the treaty's contents were omitted in the transmission of writing to speech, while other promises were made orally but not included in the written treaty. Reproducing the three treaty commissioners' personal journals in their entirety, Long reveals the contradictions that suggest the treaty parchment was never fully explained to the First Nations who signed it."--Pub. website