Academic Calendar 2023/2024 - Indigenous Treaties in Canada

HIST 2447  Indigenous Treaties in Canada

Prerequisites:

Six credits of History at the 1000 level or 24 credits completed.

Antirequisites:

HIST 3147 or HIST 2026 Canada’s Treaty History taught in 18WI and 20WI

Hours:

36 hours per term

Credits:

3

Description:

Students examine the ways in which Canadian treaties, negotiated at different times and places and under different political circumstances, differ. Students learn about and compare agreements from the earliest “Peace and Friendship” treaties, made in Mi’kmaqi, to the modern treaties like the “Nisga’a Final Agreement”. Indigenous authored sources predominate.