Colloque

Le Traité no 9 et la perméabilité des frontières entre les rapports oraux et écrits des négociations

Jean Manore

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Jean Manore

Résumé de la communication

Historians traditionally rely upon textual records as a means of interpreting historical memory and have traditionally questioned the value and accuracy of oral sources. This boundary between written and oral history has led to an incomplete understanding of Canada’s history, because it has largely ignored or left out First Nations interpretations of the past. The ever-present tensions between First Nations and various settler governments is one result of this exclusionary process. As an example, historians have privileged the written accounts of the negotiations of Treaty #9 in 1905-1906 with adhesions in 1929-1930, as a means of interpreting the meaning of the Treaty’s terms and neglected to include oral accounts of those negotiations. The result is that two very different understandings of the treaty exist with History serving to perpetuate colonialist understandings of the Treaty and colonialist structures within the Treaty 9 area. This paper challenges the underlying assumptions behind this privileging process by looking at historical disciplinary practices, frameworks of orality, and government agendas and ideologies. It then presents points of analysis of the negotiations in order to offer an alternative approach; while this approach does not abandon textual analysis, it does seek to bridge the boundaries between the two methods of preserving historical memory and hence provide a more complete understanding of the Treaty and its place in Canadian history.

Résumé du colloque

Le 11 mai en soirée, le documentaire "Les Fros" (ONF, 2010) sera présenté. La réalisatrice, Stéphanie Lanthier, sera présente et fera une brève allocution pour présenter son film et répondra aux questions du public après le visionnement. Le 12 mai en soirée aura lieu le vernissage de l’exposition « Projet Stanstead ou comment traverser la frontière » à la galerie d’art Foreman de Bishop’s. L'événement est une collaboration entre la galerie et notre colloque. Le grand public, les chercheurs présents au colloque et les artistes pourront échanger lors de ce cocktail-vernissage.