Alexander Morris, Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba and the North
West Territories in the 1870s, was the main negotiator of many of
the numbered treaties on the prairies and has often been portrayed
as a parsimonious agent of the government, bent on taking advantage
of First Nations chiefs and councillors. However, author Robert J.
Talbot reveals Morris as a man deeply sympathetic to the challenges
faced by Canada's Indigenous peoples as they sought to secure their
future in the face of encroaching settlement and the disappearance
of the buffalo. Both Morris and the First Nations negotiators
viewed the treaties as the basis of a new, reciprocal arrangement,
but by the end of his appointment, Morris was seriously at odds
with a federal administration that preferred inaction over
honouring its treaty promises.
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