The History Hut: Treaties (Pt. 1)

While John A. Macdonald had very specific plans for the West, especially after the purchase of Rupert's Land, there was still one group that he had to deal with -- the Native people, or the First Nations of Canada. The government was bound by the Royal Proclamation of 1763 to deal with First Nations in a very particular way, and there were reasons that First Nations people worked with treaties as well. This episode will deal with the process of signing the numbered treaties, and the short-term outcomes that followed.