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- Title
Tipahamatoowin or Treaty 4?: Speculations on Alternate Texts.
- Authors
Milloy, John S.
- Abstract
This study of Treaty Four focuses on the contending narratives of the negotiations found in the written record, in the main texts created by Alexander Morris, and the oral memory preserved by contemporary Plains Cree and Saulteaux historians. It asserts the impossibility, even the desirability, of reaching a single cross-cultural integrated narrative of the content and meaning of the treaty dialogue due to the persistence of the original negotiators' differing cultural frameworks. While this narrative dichotomy continues, alongside a privileging of the white interpretation, for the Cree and Saulteaux communities the treaty settlement remains unfinished business.
- Subjects
CANADA; NATIVE American treaties; CROSS-cultural differences; STATUTORY interpretation; CREE (North American people); OJIBWA (North American people); CROSS-cultural communication; ORAL history; OJIBWA treaties; MORRIS, Alexander; CANADIAN politics &; government, 1867-; CANADIAN history, 1867-
- Publication
Native Studies Review, 2009, Vol 18, Issue 1, p91
- ISSN
0831-585X
- Publication type
Article