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... online educational resource that explores Cree and Ojibway history and culture, and the signing of Treaty No. 9. On the Path of the Elders launches March 24, 2010. Check it out at pathoftheelders.com. ...
... Cree and Ojibway history and culture, and the signing of Treaty No. 9. On the Path of the Elders launches March 24, 2010. Check it out at pathoftheelders.com. For more information, email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ...
... up to Treaty no. 9, events which continue resonate in the present. As Mr. Louttit remarked, “It’s about resource development. We need the community to understand what the treaty said about resources, ...
... with historical resources, including rare archival photographs, audio and video clips of Elders, and an insightful essay discussing Aboriginal perspectives of Treaty No. 9.
It also features an engaging ...
... the signing of Treaty no. 9.
It’s not an idle question:
In 2008, the Educational Policy Institute submitted a report concerning Canadian Aboriginal Self-Identification. It states, “Canada’s Aboriginal ...
... educational resource that explores Cree and Ojibway history and culture, and the signing of Treaty No. 9. On the Path of the Elders launches March 24, 2010. Check it out at pathoftheelders.com. For more ...
... and people began to think of the future of their communities, families and children. What would become of them? So it was to be that the peoples sought to make a treaty with the government.
The First ...
My name is Moonias. I was a chief of the Fort Hope band of Anishiinaabe First Nations people when I signed Treaty Nine ...
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, ...
