{"product_id":"treaties-lies-and-promises-how-the-metis-and-first-nations-shaped-manitobas-entry-into-canada","title":"Treaties, Lies and Promises : How the Métis and First Nations Shaped Manitoba's Entry into Canada","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"o_Message position-relative py-1 o-not-discussion mt-1 px-3 o_MessageList_item o_MessageList_message\" role=\"group\" aria-label=\"Note\" data-id=\"1844310\" data-message-id=\"1844310\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"position-relative d-flex flex-shrink-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o_Message_core flex-grow-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o_Message_bubbleWrap position-relative d-flex align-items-start\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o_Message_bubble position-relative w-100 text-muted\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o_Message_content position-relative text-break\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o_Message_prettyBody\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTom Brodbeck is a journalist who has covered Manitoba and Canadian politics since the mid-1990s. He has written extensively about Indigenous issues, including several features on the Red River Resistance and Treaty No. 1 in the Winnipeg Free Press where he has been a columnist since 2019. Foreword by Kevin Chief, a citizen of Minegoziibe Anishinabe (formerly Pine Creek First Nation).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis riveting account of the links between the Red River Resistance and the numbered treaties explores a largely unknown part of Canadian history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn engaging, informative and essential account of how the Red River Resistance and the making of the numbered treaties are intrinsically linked. Through evocative details, journalist Tom Brodbeck brings to life pivotal events such as an armed insurrection; outdoor meetings held -29 C weather; a three-person delegation of negotiators from a remote community in Rupert's Land going toe-to-toe with Canada's most powerful politicians and First Nations chiefs negotiating their place in Canada under a dark cloud of presumed white, European superiority.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his clear and easy-to-read prose, Tom describes the impact of these events on the development of Canada. In the span of just a few years, they laid the groundwork for the settlement of Western Canada, a period heavily influenced by Indigenous people: the Métis (French and English-speaking) and First Nations (including Anishinaabe and Swampy Cree). Together, they negotiated both the Manitoba Act and the first of the numbered treaties but the book reveals the challenges Indigenous people faced when confronting the colonial mindset of a federal government eager to populate the west, but less interested in preserving the dignity and long-term welfare of its original inhabitants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o_Message_actionListContainer position-absolute top-0 end-0 me-3 mt-n5 invisible\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ronsdale Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56394852237617,"sku":"asv1789934944224","price":13.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/0925\/7009\/files\/treaties-lies-and-promises-how-the-metis-and-first-nations-shaped-manitobas-entr_1.jpg?v=1789934971","url":"https:\/\/canistersealfit.shop\/products\/treaties-lies-and-promises-how-the-metis-and-first-nations-shaped-manitobas-entry-into-canada","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}