LISTENING TO INDIGENOUS VOICES

"Treaties are the eternal commitments made between two – and often more –
self-determining and independent beings in the interest of producing life."
— Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair

​Key Online Resources

The Douglas Treaties

"The Return of a War Party" by Paul Kane, 1847. Photo: Royal Ontario Museum
"The Return of a War Party" by Paul Kane, 1847. 
Photo: Royal Ontario Museum

The Douglas Treaties were signed between 1850 and 1854 between 14 First Nations and the British colonists (the Hudson's Bay Company) in the southern portions of Vancouver Island. The First Nations involved understood the treaties as being about sharing or allowing use of their lands rather than as a land surrender. 


► Read an article on the treaties, including Indigenous oral history
Additional background here & here

Select "Treaties" to see treaties. The map may also be used to explore languages.

 

Classroom Connections

Spiritual Reflections

For use by faith and spirituality groups:
The-Word-Became-Flesh, Covenant and Kinship of All by Sr. Petite Lao.

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