Aboriginal Law & Indigenous Laws

A comprehensive history of treaty-making in Saskatchewan. Bounty and Benevolence draws on a wide range of documentary sources to provide a rich and complex interpretation of the process that led to these historic agreements.

Also available as an ebook.

The book is authored by Shutoatine broadcaster and former chief Paul Andrew alongside longtime northerner and former land claims negotiator Patrick Scott. It draws on thousands of photos taken by Native Communications Society reporters at 100th-anniversary Treaty 11 gatherings along the Mackenzie River during the summer of 2021. In telling the story of those events, Andrew and Scott say the book explores the deeper meaning of the oral version of the treaty to Dene people and the way in which that clashes with the written version as understood by non-Indigenous people.