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Old 05-11-2012, 06:51 PM   #44
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I would like to see some of these original treaties that the Canadian people are being held to. What in the world did we actually agree to? Take their land and care for them for the next 300 years? Pay them X amount of money? What exactly are the terms, and what needs to be done to fulfill them and get these horrible contracts 'off the books' as it were?
Here's Treaty 1 - signed in 1871 with the aboriginal peoples in the Manitoba/Saskatchewan and Northwest Ontario area (roughly).

http://www.canadiana.org/view/30387/0315
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