00000nam 2200000za 4500 9.852880 CaOODSP 20221107154706 cr ||||||||||| 180305s1971 onc #ob f000 0 eng d CaOODSP eng n-cn-sn R32-458/1971E-PDF Saskatchewan treaties 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 10 [electronic resource] : historical background and provisions. Saskatchewan treaties No. 2, No. 4, No. 5, No. 6, No. 8, and No. 10 : historical background and provisions Ottawa : Indian and Northern Affairs, 1971. 1 v. (various pagings) Title from caption. Digitized edition from print [produced by Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada]. Includes bibliographical references. "From 1670 the sole government of Rupert's Land was lodged in the Hudson's Bay Company as "true and absolute Lordes and Proprietors" of "one of our Plantacions or Colonyes in America called Rupert's Land" (quotes from the Charter). Scrutiny of the record indicates that, during its tenure, the Company was not concerned with political or social control of the aborigines within its dominion other than to ensure that the furs they collected ended up in the Company's stores. The Company and its officers (who were few in number) were primarily concerned with the fur trade and not land use or settlement. As long as trade was not interfered with, such matters as social organization, land use and even group movements on the part of the aborigines were of little concern to the Company"--p. 2. gccst Aboriginal peoples gccst Agreements gccst Canadian history Canada. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. PDF 5.85 MB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2018/aanc-inac/R32-458-1971-eng.pdf