False legal arguments
Alberta First Nation entitled to 420 square kilometres of additional territory from treaty: Supreme Court
This is good but sad. This is yet another mechanism to claim territory and discriminate against all Treaty First Nations in western Canada. Not considered, Treaty Six was signed a year before 1877. Alberta and the federal government marginalized Treaty Six within an assumed boundary that assumed these people originated from eastern Canada under Eurocentric concepts of Cree a French word, and Cree migration theory an Imperial and Eurocentric fur trade assumption. Archaeologists and Anthropologists created and implemented a colonial and ethnocentric cultural picture of First Nations on reserves, by a cultural theory approach which an American theory placed groups within set boundaries under the assumption that they originate from areas belonging to them. Dispossession is not included in the legal view. If you read the work of Catherine Pettipas (1982),she argued that First Peoples were displaced before the Treaty Period and after the Indian Wars, which allowed anthropologists to create this false narrative that the Treaty Seven groups, mainly the Blackfoot as the original people to there desired territory. The Blackfoot have argued using the cultural theory and migration approach that most of Alberta western Saskatchewan and eastern BC is their territory. I provided a map of the territory they are claiming as theirs. Traditional Territory (learnalberta.ca) Found in Love Thy Neighbour: Repatriating Precarious Blackfoot Sites. Authors: Cynthia M. Chambers & Narcisse J. Blood
There are many other problems, the term Blackfoot did not exist before the fur trade, and neither did the term, Cree or Plains Cree. These Eurocentric terms were used to label a flawed migration theory, and the development of a cultural perspective used for the Blackfoot was created by conservative systems that originated from the USA, which was used in western Canada to develop an anthropological ideology and citizen for groups in southern Alberta while the federal and provincial government policies continued to marginalize many Treaty Six groups away from the lands they were dispossessed. The Blackfeet uses the work of the anthropologist and archaeologist to claim both a time immemorial and cultural theory identity in present court cases.
In 2000 white academics in heritage and in consulted only with these Blackfoot groups in Alberta. Gerry Conaty's book, We Are Coming Home: Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence (aupress.ca) provided the one one-on-one inclusive relationship with this culture area.
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The way of repatriation discriminated the Treaty Six to the point where repatriation for Treaty Six is handled by the federal government in Ottawa under a discriminative ?Blackfoot First Nations Sacred Ceremonial Objects Repatriation Regulation,?through FNSCORA in 2000 Alberta?First Nations Sacred Ceremonial Object Repatriation Act?(FNSCORA). What is clouded and criminal in this is that many First Nations from Treaty Six before 1838 and 1880 were given back the never back what was taken because of the theft of many Nehiyaw sacred artifacts that were held in museums and that were taken illegally by the FNCORA process used only for Blackfeet people from 2000 to the present. Bundles and like nehiyaw war society bundle was never given back, while many of the items that Conaty suggests were repatriated back to the Blackfoot represent many nehiyaw bundles. Anthropologists do not associate bundles with plains cree because they argue that their sacred ceremonial artifacts represent Eastern practices that had no association with what our ancestors practiced on the plains here. The policies were specific and allowed only certain people from three Blackfoot communities to access many of these sacred bundles including the warrior bundle that was held by members of what is Onion Lake descendants five generations ago. What is untruthful is the marginalized engagement strategies that the Royal Alberta Museum and the Glenbow Museum had with Treaty People in the 1970s and 1980 as existing with only certain members from southern Alberta, even the Aboriginal Advisory before 1980 with the Royal Alberta Museum allowed only those member that is cited by Conaty comprising of five Blackfoot and one Metis who advised the government for more than twenty years while excluding the nehiyaw voice from Treaty Six.
The cultural theory approach that was developed for the Treaty Seven band does not admit to their migration from the east to present-day Alberta where they were allowed to occupy the lands that belonged to many of the alliances between the nehiyaw, Assiniboine, Kutenai, Crow, the Nez Perce, and other alliances that were dispossessed from the original homelands and territories. McClintock and other anthropologists who have argued against the cultural theory approach have suggested that the Blackfoot are a blend of groups that migrated from eastern Canada including the Blood Tribe, Piikani Nation and Siksika Nation who have their origins in the Great Lakes- these are interview oral histories with elders in the 1890's ad early 1900: the Cherokee make up some of the Siksika people, and a group of Mexican families settled in Browning - the lama is situated on the Blackfoot tip designs, and make up the Piikani people. The alliances that fought against Americans and Canadians represent the European Blackfoot nations that were a part of the dispossession and removal of the original tribal alliances in southern Alberta.
The law and our Treaty Six First Nations have to begin to challenge the Alberta Court decisions as impacting their presence as original people and as it relates to truths and oral histories. In 2016, the Alberta government expanded repatriation of those regulations to include indigenous people across the province with Bill 22, An Act extended to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities. What happened to this act, it went to Ottawa where understood the is not process for repatriation requires an Ottawa approach and is not in Alberta, where our nehiyaw homeland and traditional territories are.
Treaty Six and other Treaty areas are contested with having to argue scared ceremonial objects while the provincial government under FNSCORA has laid down an open-access repatriation for these Blackfoot communities that tie and integrated archeological sites and benefits and wins for Eurocentric Blackfoot term.