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

dc.contributor.advisorLabelle, Kathryn
dc.contributor.committeeMemberHoy, Benjamin
dc.contributor.committeeMemberBiggs, Lesley
dc.contributor.committeeMemberWestman, Clinton
dc.contributor.committeeMemberNeufeld, Matthew
dc.creatorLittle, Tarisa D 1987-
dc.creator.orcid0000-0002-0555-7719
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-14T19:55:17Z
dc.date.available2017-09-14T19:55:17Z
dc.date.created2017-08
dc.date.issued2017-09-14
dc.date.submittedAugust 2017
dc.date.updated2017-09-14T19:55:23Z
dc.description.abstractTreaty 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. 
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10388/8090
dc.subjecteducation
dc.subjectindigenous
dc.subjectaboriginal
dc.subjectfirst nations
dc.subjectcanadian
dc.subjecttreaty
dc.subjectalberta
dc.subjectethnohistory
dc.subjecthistory
dc.subjectresidential school
dc.subjectnative-newcomer
dc.subjectcolonial
dc.subjectwestern canadian
dc.title“There are no shortcuts”: The Long Road to Treaty 7 Education
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.materialtext
thesis.degree.departmentHistory
thesis.degree.disciplineHistory
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Saskatchewan
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (M.A.)

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