Negotiating the numbered treaties : an intellectual and political biography of Alexander Morris / Robert J. Talbot.
2009
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Title
Negotiating the numbered treaties : an intellectual and political biography of Alexander Morris / Robert J. Talbot.
Published
Saskatoon, SK : Purich Pub., [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Call Number
KE7709 .T35 2009
ISBN
9781895830361 (paperback)
1895830362 (paperback)
1895830362 (paperback)
Description
223 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)319486895
Summary
"Alexander Morris, the main negotiator of many of the numbered treaties on the prairies, has often been portrayed as a parsimonious agent of the government, bent on taking advantage of First Nations chiefs and councillors. Author Robert J. Talbot takes a different view. He sees Morris as a man deeply sympathetic to the challenges faced by Canada's Indigenous peoples as they sought to secure their future in the face of encroaching settlement and the disappearance of the buffalo. In Talbot's analysis, Morris held the chiefs in high esteem - he viewed them as wise and pragmatic leaders and skilled negotiators who made a convincing case for more favourable terms than Morris's colleagues in government were prepared to offer.
As Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba and the North West Territories in the 1870s, Morris was responsible for negotiating Treaties 3 to 6, and renegotiating Treaties 1 and 2. According to Talbot, both Morris and the First Nations negotiators viewed the treaties as the basis of a new, reciprocal arrangement among those who would share the land. Indeed, by the end of his appointment, Morris was seriously at odds with a myopic federal administration that favoured inaction over honouring its treaty promises.
"Talbot's research reveals Morris as a man of his time - but also a man who managed to embrace a larger concept of nationhood than successive federal governments imagined or were willing to accept. This is Morris's story, but it is equally the story of the prairie treaties and the western expansion of Canada. This book is a must read for anyone seeking to understand confederation, the western expansion of Canada, and the treaties that are so important in First Nations - governmental relations today."--Pub. desc.
As Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba and the North West Territories in the 1870s, Morris was responsible for negotiating Treaties 3 to 6, and renegotiating Treaties 1 and 2. According to Talbot, both Morris and the First Nations negotiators viewed the treaties as the basis of a new, reciprocal arrangement among those who would share the land. Indeed, by the end of his appointment, Morris was seriously at odds with a myopic federal administration that favoured inaction over honouring its treaty promises.
"Talbot's research reveals Morris as a man of his time - but also a man who managed to embrace a larger concept of nationhood than successive federal governments imagined or were willing to accept. This is Morris's story, but it is equally the story of the prairie treaties and the western expansion of Canada. This book is a must read for anyone seeking to understand confederation, the western expansion of Canada, and the treaties that are so important in First Nations - governmental relations today."--Pub. desc.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-211) and index.
Record Appears in
Table of Contents
1
Morris's Place in Canadian Historiography
14
2
Morris's Intellectual Development
19
Politics and Identity
19
Beliefs and Convictions
25
Early Perceptions of Indigenous Peoples
27
3
Morris's Business Career
32
Land Speculation
32
Morris's Legal Career
36
4
The Politics of Annexation
38
Developing the Platform
38
In Office, 1861-1872
46
5
"Retirement" in the North West
49
6
An Overview of the Numbered Treaties
56
7
The First Nations and the Treaties
58
History and Precedents
58
Understanding the Oral Record
61
Pragmatic Considerations
62
8
. Morris the Negotiator
64
Cross-Culrural Understanding
67
Treaty 3
69
Treaty 4
79
Treaty 5
88
Treaty 6
93
9
Alexander Morris and Indian Affairs
118
Taking on the Role
118
Problems with Provencher
121
The Structure of Administration
122
Morris and the Sioux
128
Treaties 1 and 2: The "Outside Promises"
131
Implementlng Treaties 3 - 6
146
Removed from Power
154
10
Pride and Satisfaction
163
The Treaties of Canada
166
List of Abbreviations
177
References
178
Bibliography
205
Index
212
Treaty Map
161