Remarkably long memories: Treaty 8 members were never promised tax freedom, says a judge, but they can have it anyway. (Indians).

The 10 treaties between Canada and the Indians of the of long date Northwest Territories still define the legal rights of registered Indians in the prairie provinces. further in the 1990s the leading Court made radical changes to the formal understanding of these treaties. The Indian treaties are not to be regarded as entire contracts, or interpreted in a "rigid," "static" way. They must be read in accordance with the Indians' understanding of them, which can be demonstrated between the sides of oral history--even oral history as recorded abundant later on, or now. What remains when a treaty is interpreted "non-rigidly" can be anybody's gues

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