The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories: Including the Negotiations on Which They Were Based, and Other Information Relating Thereto

This is an essential primary source: the firsthand account of Alexander Morris, the Lieutenant Governor who personally negotiated several of the numbered treaties with Indigenous nations across the Prairies. Written in 1880, while the memory of those negotiations was still fresh, this volume preserves the official record of treaties 1 through 7 the agreements that opened the Canadian West to settlement and continue to shape Indigenous rights conversations today. Morris documents not only the treaty terms but the atmosphere of the negotiations, the Indigenous leaders involved, and the immense pressures facing Nations whose traditional ways of life were being systematically disrupted. This is not Indigenous perspective it is the colonial record but it contains invaluable details unavailable elsewhere: the speeches, the ceremonies, the negotiating positions, the promises made and broken. For anyone studying Canadian treaty history, Indigenous-settler relations, or the legal foundations of Aboriginal rights, this volume remains indispensable.