No Surrender: The Land Remains Indigenous

Between 1869 and 1877 the government of Canada negotiated Treaties One through Seven with the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains. Many historians argue that the negotiations suffered from cultural misunderstandings between the treaty commissioners and Indigenous chiefs, but newly uncovered eyewitness accounts show that the Canadian government had a strategic plan to deceive over the ?surrender clause? and land sharing.

According to Sheldon Krasowski?s research, Canada understood that th...