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      “There are no shortcuts”: The Long Road to Treaty 7 Education

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      Date
      2017-09-14
      Author
      Little, Tarisa D 1987-
      ORCID
      0000-0002-0555-7719
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      Treaty 7 was signed at Blackfoot Crossing in 1877. According to one Indigenous signatory, Chief Crowfoot of the Niisitapi, treaty commissioners in attendance stated the treaty stood in perpetuity: “As the long as the sun is shining, the rivers flow, and the mountains are seen,” the Tsuut’ina, Stoney Nakoda, and Blackfoot Confederacy: Kainai, Piikani, and Siksika agreed to share the landscape of what is now southern Alberta. This agreement is one of many treaties negotiated between First Nations and the British Crown. Many scholars have looked at Canadian treaties and education history as an overt attempt to erase Indigenous culture, but few have delved deeper into the systematic policies of epistemicide that took place within these negotiations and afterward. This thesis situates this historical process within the communities of Treaty 7 territory and argues that the schooling provided by the Canadian government after 1877 represents a consistent attempt to subvert Indigenous knowledge and pedagogies. 
      Degree
      Master of Arts (M.A.)
      Department
      History
      Program
      History
      Supervisor
      Labelle, Kathryn
      Committee
      Hoy, Benjamin; Biggs, Lesley; Westman, Clinton; Neufeld, Matthew
      Copyright Date
      August 2017
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/8090
      Subject
      education
      indigenous
      aboriginal
      first nations
      canadian
      treaty
      alberta
      ethnohistory
      history
      residential school
      native-newcomer
      colonial
      western canadian
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