Where Histories Meet
Where Histories Meet traces the histories of the Toronto region’s Indigenous peoples and their relations with settlers, focusing on the period from the colonial treaties of the 1780s to the Indian Act of 1876. Created in consultation with five local First Nations, this groundbreaking study brings ar...
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| description | Where Histories Meet traces the histories of the Toronto region’s Indigenous peoples and their relations with settlers, focusing on the period from the colonial treaties of the 1780s to the Indian Act of 1876. Created in consultation with five local First Nations, this groundbreaking study brings archival records, oral memory, and the voices of Indigenous Elders and knowledge keepers into respectful dialogue to understand the colonial dynamics that still structure Indigenous-Canadian relationships today. Beginning with a deep history of Indigenous presence in the region, Victoria Freeman explores the significance of the Toronto Carrying Place portage route and how treaties and changes to the land through agriculture, logging, milling, and settlement impacted local Indigenous Nations. She reveals how the building of Yonge Street facilitated government and missionary attempts to transform Indigenous peoples into Christian farmers and how immigration and Indigenous dispossession were fundamentally linked. Freeman highlights the creative ways that Indigenous communities sought to resist, subvert, or adapt to increasing government control, even as they were increasingly isolated on small reserves. She explores the differing interpretations among local First Nations regarding past conflicts and agreements that profoundly shape present-day struggles over land claims, consultation, and revenue-sharing. Where Histories Meet tells the stories of individual people, their families, and their wider networks, revealing the interconnections between Indigenous peoples and settlers in the fur trade, warfare, treaty-making, missionization, and governance. Freeman presents the past in its full complexity, without homogenizing Indigenous or settler experiences or perspectives |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1699522025-12-06T05:04:55Z Where Histories Meet Freeman, Victoria indigenous canada first nations history ontario toronto gta york settler colonial colonialism upper canada governance councils treaties war of 1812 1837 rebellion fur trade credit mission coldwater-narrows reserve indian act thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC7 Cross-cultural / Intercultural studies and topics thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas Where Histories Meet traces the histories of the Toronto region’s Indigenous peoples and their relations with settlers, focusing on the period from the colonial treaties of the 1780s to the Indian Act of 1876. Created in consultation with five local First Nations, this groundbreaking study brings archival records, oral memory, and the voices of Indigenous Elders and knowledge keepers into respectful dialogue to understand the colonial dynamics that still structure Indigenous-Canadian relationships today. Beginning with a deep history of Indigenous presence in the region, Victoria Freeman explores the significance of the Toronto Carrying Place portage route and how treaties and changes to the land through agriculture, logging, milling, and settlement impacted local Indigenous Nations. She reveals how the building of Yonge Street facilitated government and missionary attempts to transform Indigenous peoples into Christian farmers and how immigration and Indigenous dispossession were fundamentally linked. Freeman highlights the creative ways that Indigenous communities sought to resist, subvert, or adapt to increasing government control, even as they were increasingly isolated on small reserves. She explores the differing interpretations among local First Nations regarding past conflicts and agreements that profoundly shape present-day struggles over land claims, consultation, and revenue-sharing. Where Histories Meet tells the stories of individual people, their families, and their wider networks, revealing the interconnections between Indigenous peoples and settlers in the fur trade, warfare, treaty-making, missionization, and governance. Freeman presents the past in its full complexity, without homogenizing Indigenous or settler experiences or perspectives 2025-12-06T05:04:53Z 2025-12-06T05:04:53Z 2025-12-05T07:54:51Z 2025 book ONIX_20251205T084836_9781773856445_2 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/108964 9781773856445 9781773856438 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/169952 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/108964/1/9781773856445.pdf University of Calgary Press Bighorn Books 388fac32-9167-49a8-bb2b-bc9412a7d937 9781773856445 9781773856438 Bighorn Books 368 Calgary open access |
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