For over 100 years the Ontario and Canadian governments have turned their backs on the sacred Treaty promises made to the First Nations of Treaty 9, promises that were made by and recorded in the writings of the governments’ own representatives at the time the Treaty was concluded.

On August 21, 1905, the governments’ Treaty representatives promised the people of Taykwa Tagamou Nation that they would be allowed under Treaty 9 to hunt and fish wherever they pleased throughout their territory, as they always had, and that their right to do so would never be taken from them.

Taykwa Tagamou Nation Elder and traditional hunter, Peter Archibald, has started this lawsuit on behalf of all the members of his First Nation to demand that the Crown abide by the solemn Treaty promises it made to his people.

For detailed analysis of the treaty diaries see our Discussion Paper on the Treaty 9 Oral Promises.