Keeping Promises: The Royal Proclamation of 1763, Aboriginal Rights, and Treaties in Canada Volume 78

by Terry Fenge

In 1763 King George III of Great Britain, victorious in the Seven Years War with France, issued a proclamation to organize the governance of territory newly acquired by the Crown in North America and the Caribbean. The proclamation reserved land west of the Appalachian Mountains for Indians, and required the Crown to purchase Indian land through treaties, negotiated without coercion and in public, before issuing rights to newcomers to use and settle...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773545875
• ISBN13: 9780773545878
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"