Elder Sherry Copenace is pictured looking over her great-grandfather's community copy of Treaty 3 at the Human Rights museum. All Canadians should be familiar of the country's treaties with Indigenous people regardless of where they live, she said.
What is thought to be the final remaining community copy of a 150-year-old treaty that opened a gateway to what is now Western Canada is on temporary display at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg.Elder Sherry Copenace looks over her great-grandfather's community copy of Treaty 3 at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. All Canadians should be familiar with the country's treaties with Indigenous people, she said.
Naotkamegwanning First Nation Chief Paabamasagaa's copy — believed to be the last of its kind and which has since been cared for by his descendants, Ottawa and the Lake of the Woods Museum — has been on display at the Human Rights museum since Monday. Copenace says Manidoo Mazina'igan's display offers a chance to learn who the Anishinaabeg of Treaty 3 are "as a people, that we're not historical. We're alive and well, and we've kept our side of the treaties … We still have trust in the treaties and that it will be fulfilled at some point."
Although Manidoo Mazina'igan has been long thought to be the more accurate version of Treaty 3 by the Anishinaabeg, it has been suggested that some negotiators seemed not to fully understand what they were agreeing to. A treaty commissioner documented that one chief said he did in factOf the 24 chiefs who signed Treaty 3, only three marked the document with an "X" to confirm their assent to its terms.
Of the 24 chiefs who signed Treaty 3, only three marked the document with an 'X' to confirm their assent to its terms. It has been said that 'the remaining 21 just touched the pen, because they knew they weren't in full agreement, but they knew it was the best they could do,' according to Copenace. Whenever she sees Manidoo Mazina'igan in person, Copenace says she feels immense honour and pride that her great-grandparents held on to their copy.
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