Eighteenth-Century Treaties: The Mi'maq, Maliseet and Passamaquoddy Experience

This article places the various eighteenth-century treaties that the Mi'kmaq and Maliseet (Wolastoqiyik) signed with the British in their cultural and political context. Patterson argues that the treaties were a process by which the Natives negotiated themselves a position within a changing political and economic environment characterized by French retreat and British encroachment, and that the treaties signed in 1760-61 formed the basis of future Native and White relations