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Facilitators: Maurice Switzer & Kelly Crawford

Wednesday, 22 May 2024 

 10am-12pm

NEW Location - Highland Hall Event Centre

Interactive Session - in-person attendance preferred
< Light Refreshments Served > 

Session Overview: Since July 1, 1867, Canadians have been taught and believed that their country came into being on that date, which marked the launch of a political confederation that began with four provinces. That event might never have occurred had not the largest gathering of Indian chiefs ever assembled on the North American continent agreed to accept the promises made to them in the summer of 1764 by the British Crown at the Treaty of Niagara congress.

Participants in this session will learn:

• How the Doctrine of Discovery informed the European colonial relationship with Indigenous peoples;
• How treaties came to be at the forefront of this relationship;
• What the concept of treaty meant to the various treaty partners;
• What benefits were derived by the respective treaty partners;
• When treaties ceased being a reflection of a "nation-to-nation" relationship between colonizers and Indigenous peoples;
• The impact of broken treaty promises on Indigenous peoples; and
• The contemporary status of the treaty relationship.

Participants will be encouraged to understand that all 38.2 million citizens of Canada, as well as the 1.8 million Indigenous peoples who live within its borders, have Treaty Rights, and Treaty Responsibilities, as affirmed by Section 35 of the Canada Constitution Act, 1982. This is an interactive session and participants are encouraged to attend in-person, at the Highland Hall Event Centre.