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A Treaty Guide for Torontonians

 Author: Talking Treaties Collective: Ange Loft, Victoria Freeman, Martha Stiegman, and Jill Carter  Category: compendium  Publisher: Art Metropole  Published: January 1, 2022  ISBN: 9781989010228  Tags: Torontotreaties | More Details
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In 2015, members of the Talking Treaties Collective began interviewing members of the Mississaugas of the Credit, Indigenous community leaders, historians, and former Toronto mayor David Miller about the 1787 Toronto Purchase and the 2010 Toronto Purchase specific claims settlement. Out of those interviews came a series of arts-based and community-engaged projects–workshops, performances, installations, films, and publications–including this one, which draws on years of questions, research, and discussion with scholars, treaty historians, Elders, artists, community leaders, and Toronto residents. Rather than focusing on one treaty, this work reveals the many layers of treaties and agreements that call on different relationships, obligations, and responsibilities. It considers much more than the words recorded in treaty texts or Council minutes; it tries to understand treaties through the eyes (and languages) of the Indigenous partners.


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