Bounty and Benevolence draws on a wide range of documentary sources to provide a rich and complex interpretation of the process that led to these historic agreements. The authors explain the changing economic and political realities of western Canada during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and show how the Saskatchewan treaties were shaped by long-standing diplomatic and economic understandings between First Nations and the Hudson's Bay Company. Bounty and Benevolence also illustrates how these same forces created some of the misunderstandings and disputes that arose between the First Nations and government officials regarding the interpretation and implementation of the accords.
- ISBN10 0773520236
- ISBN13 9780773520233
- Publish Date 14 September 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 July 2012
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint McGill-Queen's University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 312
- Language English