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These are examples of oral history in the form of memories and stories passed down by our peoples who witnessed or heard of the Treaty process as the Treaty Commissioners traveled throughout our villages. ...

... came to our village in Big Trout Lake to sign the Treaty with our leaders, we were promised that our traditional activities would be protected. They did not say that we would be regulated in the future. ...

The Anishiinaabe and Mushkegowuk People's view of Treaty No. Nine To summarize, our people knew that more and more non-aboriginal peoples were coming into our lands. At times we came across them in ...

... and exploration. Government's view of Treaty No. Nine So, in the late 1800s in Canada, many treaties were being signed reluctantly by First Peoples so they could find some relief from all ...

Text Sources Hookimaw-Witt, Jacqueline, 1998 "Keenebonanoh Keemoshominook Kaeshe Peemishikhik Odaskiwakh -We Stand on the Graves of Our Ancestors: Native Interpretations of Treaty No. 9 with Attawapiskat ...

The Anishiinaabe and Mushkegowuk People's view of Treaty No. Nine Kashechewan Elder James Wesley remembered through stories that one of the Commissioners, "held up a bible in his hand to show the seriousness ...

Treaty No.Nine : The James Bay Treaty I want to ask you a question: what is a treaty? If you don't know don't worry. I didn't either when I was in high school in the late 1970s. Many teachers asked me ...

Where are the animals? Who will help us? As I mentioned earlier, since 1670, our peoples began a 300-year economic relationship with the Hudson's Bay Company fur trade in the James Bay region. We became ...

... himself was a cooper, but also a translator, fur grader and general store clerk who like many Company men before him married a Mushkegowuk woman. At the time of the treaty signing in 1905, my grandfather, ...