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Full Citation:
St. Germain, Jill.
Indian Treaty-Making Policy in the United States and Canada, 1867-1877
. Lin
University of Nebraska Press, 2001
Author(s) Biography, Bias:
St. Germain investigated the standard foundations of the Indian Settlement Making Strategy in the two countries and outli
divergences in utilizing the hold and human progress arrangements that the two legislatures implanted in the deals to addr
"Indian Issue" in the West. St Germain shows these arrangements have, at times, been as troubling and full of misconcepti
instituted by the US.
Thesis:
Indian Treaty-Making Policy in the United States and Canada, 1867-1877, compares Indian policy in the United States an
emphasizing why these governments began treaty-making endeavors in the 1860s and 1870s, how they handled those neg
the outcomes. Jill St. Germain questions the Canadian government's comments in 1877 about the superiority and distinctiv
Canadian Indian policy compared to that of the United States.
Keywords (Themes, Ideas, People etc… include words/ideas you don’t understand):
Civilization, Treaties, Policy, Economy (Among others).
Quotes:
Introduction Page:
“Canadians promoted their Indian Policy as an intentionally benevolent one – “humane, just, and Christian” by
(xvii)
“The Americans, of course, had many such wars, but the action of the Canadian Government towards the Indian
very different to that of the United States under similar circumstances” (158)
“The Americans were not interested, in the first instance, in providing the Indians with an alternate means of sub
(161)
“The absence of such a program in the Canadian treaties goes a long way to explaining a second critical aspect i
difference between the American and Canadian frontiers.” (162)
“As expressed in the 1867-68 and Numbered Treaties, was at least as significant a factor in the contrasting level
that governed the Plains and Prairie West in each nation.” (162)
“The 1877 speech from the Throne had characterized Canadian policy as “humane, just, and Christian” in impli
with the approach taken south of the forty-ninth parallel.” (165)
Source Material: Relevant Citations:
St. Germain, Jill. 2001. Indian Treaty-Making Policy in the United States and Canada, 1867-1877. Lincoln: Uni
Nebraska Press.
Student Questions About Content?
Was the Canadian Indian Policy more efficient than the American Indian Policy?
What did the Indigenous people receive out of the treaty?
How did the treaties affect the Indigenous Peoples?
Why were the treaties made in the first place?
What were the impacts of the treaties?
Why is it that the Canadian Government has always succeeded in maintaining an almost unbroken peace with th
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