Indigenous Law / Indigenous Legal Traditions

The text of the Huron-British Treaty of 1760

Transcripts of Treaties between Indigenous peoples and the Crown, including the Peace and Friendship Treaties of 1752 and 1760-61.

A summary of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 prepared for its 250th anniversary.

Digitization of original document

A website created on the 200th anniversary of the Peguis Selkirk Treaty.

A report prepared for the Royal Commission of Aboriginal Peoples.

by Robert J Surtees

Included are the texts of the 14 Douglas Treaties.

Originally a website to support the conference First Nations, Land, and James Douglas: Indigenous and Treaty Rights in the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia,1849-1864 held at the Songhees Wellness Centre in Victoria, February 24-26th 2017, this is now a resource centre for information about the fourteen Vancouver Island Treaties made between 1850-1854, sometimes also called the Douglas Treaties or Fort Victoria Treaties.

An interpretation of the Douglas Treaty with the W̱SÁNEĆ, in SENĆOŦEN with an English translation.

by Dennis F. K. Madill

Neil Vallance, University of Victoria, 2016 PhD thesis.

Janice Rose Knighton, University of Victoria, 2004 MA thesis.

Includes the text of the 24 Upper Canada Land Surrender treaties and the two Williams Treaties

by Robert J. Surtees

by Allyshia West, MA Thesis 2010