Summary Of Treaties: Negotiations And Rights

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When I finished reading Treaties: Negotiations and Rights by Tamara Starblanket, the first thing that I thought was that treaty was not going to work. It was not going to work, because when these two nations came together, before they even met, their ideals were different. The Crown thought that they already had sovereignty over their lands and were just granting the Aboriginal Peoples certain rights. The Crown thought that they already had control and rule of the lands. While the Aboriginal Peoples thought that they were meeting and making treaty as two different nations. What I liked about the Aboriginal Peoples idea of treaty was that it was about peace and friendship, that if they entered into treaty they would co-exist with neither nation

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