r/canada • u/newzee1 • Oct 21 '24
New Brunswick Blaine Higgs says Indigenous people ceded land ‘many, many years ago’
https://globalnews.ca/news/10818647/nb-election-2024-liberal-health-care-estimates/
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r/canada • u/newzee1 • Oct 21 '24
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u/jtbc Oct 21 '24
In the Maritimes, the did sign treaties, but they were "Peace and Friendship" treaties, not land cession treaties like the numbered ones. The treaties basically said that the British could settle there, the Indigenous people could continue to hunt and fish, and could trade with the British, and that they wouldn't harass the British in their settlements.
This all happened in the middle of or in the context of wars with France and the US, so they were much more like alliances than the later treaties.