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In 1763 King George III of Great Britain, victorious in the Seven Years War with France, issued a proclamation to organize the governance of territory newly acquired by the Crown in North America and the Caribbean. The proclamation reserved land west of the Appalachian Mountains for Indians, and required the Crown to purchase Indian land through treaties, negotiated without coercion and in public, before issuing rights to newcomers to use and settle on the land. Marking its 250th anniversary Keeping Promises shows how central the application of the Proclamation is to the many treaties that followed it and the settlement and development of Canada. Promises have been made to Aboriginal peoples in historic treaties from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries in Ontario, the Prairies, and the Mackenzie Valley, and in modern treaties from the 1970s onward, primarily in the North. In this collection, essays by historians, lawyers, treaty negotiators, and Aboriginal leaders explore how and how well these treaties are executed. Addresses by the governor general of Canada and the federal minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development are also included. In 2003 Aboriginal leaders formed the Land Claims Agreements Coalition to make sure that treaties – building blocks of Canada – are fully implemented. Unique in breadth and scope, Keeping Promises is a testament to the research, advocacy, solidarity, and accomplishments of this coalition and those holding the Crown to its commitments.

Indians of North America --- Native peoples --- Aboriginal rights --- Native rights --- Aboriginal peoples --- Land claims, Native --- Native land claims --- Aboriginal land claims --- Land claims, Aboriginal --- Native land claim disputes --- Native land claims disputes --- Aboriginal land claim disputes --- Aboriginal land claims disputes --- Land claim disputes, Native --- Land claim disputes, Aboriginal --- Land claims disputes, Native --- Land claims disputes, Aboriginal --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Land tenure --- Claims. --- Civil rights --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Land titles --- Real property --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Aborigines --- Adivasis --- Indigenous populations --- Native races --- Indigenous land claims --- Land claims, Indigenous --- Indigenous land claim disputes --- Indigenous land claims disputes --- Land claim disputes, Indigenous --- Land claims disputes, Indigenous --- Claims --- Great Britain.

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"Margery Fee examines John Richardson's novels about Pontiac's War and the War of 1812 that document the breaking of British promises to Indigenous nations. She provides a close reading of Louis Riel's addresses to the court at the end of his trial in 1885, showing that his vision for sharing the land derives from the Indigenous value of respect. Fee argues that both Grey Owl and E. Pauline Johnson's visions are obscured by challenges to their authenticity. Finally, she shows how storyteller Harry Robinson uses a contemporary Okanagan framework to explain how white refusal to share the land meant that Coyote himself had to make a deal with the King of England."--Publisher.

Canadian literature (English) --- Indians in literature. --- Colonization in literature. --- Indians of North America --- Indians of Central America in literature --- Indians of Mexico in literature --- Indians of North America in literature --- Indians of South America in literature --- Indians of the West Indies in literature --- English literature --- Canadian literature --- Indian authors --- History and criticism. --- Claims. --- Idle No More. --- Indian reservations. --- broken promises. --- broken treaties. --- indigenous land claims. --- native land claims. --- native resistance. --- reconciliation. --- residential schools. --- white paper.