The video, “We Are All Treaty People”, is very informative as it gives meaning towards what the phrase, “we are all treaty people” found in some land acknowledgements.
My generation did not have the education about treaties. This video helps me understand the difference between the oral and written tradition, the legal weight behind treaties, and that all Canadians should be familiar with the treaties agreed to in order for true reconciliation to happen. Christians (and really all Canadians) need to arrive at the same understanding as our Indigenous neighbours have about treaties to see fruitful change happen.
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The video was unavailable by clicking on the above link. It can be viewed on YouTube and searching for “We Are All Treaty People – Full Book”, or clicking on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jb4JesjE1A . Also a video on the same topic from a Nova Scotia perspective can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TePIVr2bgCY&t=2s .
Thanks very much Norman. Links sometimes break, so I’m happy when someone points them out for me 🙂 It should be fixed now.
Link still seems to be unavailable.
Sorry about that. I guess it can’t be embedded. So the link is there to take you right to YouTube now.
The video, “We Are All Treaty People”, is very informative as it gives meaning towards what the phrase, “we are all treaty people” found in some land acknowledgements.
My generation did not have the education about treaties. This video helps me understand the difference between the oral and written tradition, the legal weight behind treaties, and that all Canadians should be familiar with the treaties agreed to in order for true reconciliation to happen. Christians (and really all Canadians) need to arrive at the same understanding as our Indigenous neighbours have about treaties to see fruitful change happen.
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