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• Title:Keeping promises : the Royal Proclamation of 1763, aboriginal rights, and treaties in Canada / edited by Terry Fenge and Jim Aldridge.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Fenge, T., editor.
  Aldridge, Jim, editor.
  Xwi7xwa Collection
  Great Britain. Sovereign (1760-1820 : George III). Royal Proclamation (1763 October 7)
  
• Published/Created:Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2015].
  ©2015
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: MC F45 K44 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Indigenous Peoples--Treaties.
  Indigenous Peoples--Land claims.
  Indigenous Peoples--Legal status, laws, etc.
  
• Library of Congress Subjects:Great Britain. Sovereign (1760-1820 : George III). Royal Proclamation (1763 October 7)
  Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Canada.
  Indigenous peoples--Canada--Claims.
  Indigenous peoples--Civil rights--Canada.
  Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc.--Canada.
  
• Description:xviii, 278 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  
• Series:McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 78.
  
• Summary:"In 1763 King George III of Great Britain, victorious in the Seven Years War with France, issued a proclamation to organize the governance of territory newly acquired by the Crown in North America and the Caribbean. The proclamation reserved land west of the Appalachian Mountains for Indians, and required the Crown to purchase Indian land through treaties, negotiated without coercion and in public, before issuing rights to newcomers to use and settle on the land. Marking its 250th anniversary Keeping Promises shows how central the application of the Proclamation is to the many treaties that followed it and the settlement and development of Canada. Promises have been made to Aboriginal peoples in historic treaties from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries in Ontario, the Prairies, and the Mackenzie Valley, and in modern treaties from the 1970s onward, primarily in the North. In this collection, essays by historians, lawyers, treaty negotiators, and aboriginal leaders explore how and how well these treaties are executed. Addresses by the governor general of Canada and the federal minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development are also included. In 2003 Aboriginal leaders formed the Land Claims Agreements Coalition to make sure that treaties--building blocks of Canada--are fully implemented. Unique in breadth and scope, Keeping Promises is a testament to the research, advocacy, solidarity, and accomplishments of this coalition and those holding the Crown to its commitments"--Back cover.
  
• Additional formats:Issued also in electronic format.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-259) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780773545861 (hardback)
  0773545867 (hardback)
  9780773545878 (paperback)
  0773545875 (paperback)
  
• Contents:Address by the Governor General of Canada / His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston
  Address by the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development / the Honourable Bernard Valcourt
  Royal Proclamation of 1763 and the aboriginal Constitution / Brian Slattery
  Proclamation of 1763 : Indian country origins and American impacts / Colin G. Calloway
  Aboriginal Charter of Rights : the Royal Proclamation of 1763 and the Constitution of Canada / Mark D. Walters
  Impact of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 on Quebec : then and now / Ghislain Otis
  Canada's historic treaties / J.R. Miller
  Negotiation and implementation of modern treaties between aboriginal peoples and the Crown in right of Canada / Terry Fenge
  1998 Nisga'a Treaty / Jim Aldridge
  Cree experience with treaty implementation / Matthew Coon Come
  Alaska and Canadian land claim settlements / Alastair Campbell
  Royal Proclamation of 7 October 1763
  1913 Nishga Nation Petition to His Majesty's Privy Council.