Treaties / en Pop-up exhibit at U of T explores how Canada was shaped by negotiation /news/pop-exhibit-u-t-explores-how-canada-was-shaped-negotiation <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Pop-up exhibit at U of T explores how Canada was shaped by negotiation</span> <div class="field field--name-field-featured-picture field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="eager" srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/canada%20by%20treaty.jpg?h=2fe880c3&amp;itok=_UYrPMov 370w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_740/public/canada%20by%20treaty.jpg?h=2fe880c3&amp;itok=Q870wBbJ 740w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_1110/public/canada%20by%20treaty.jpg?h=2fe880c3&amp;itok=CZKltY6Z 1110w" sizes="(min-width:1200px) 1110px, (max-width: 1199px) 80vw, (max-width: 767px) 90vw, (max-width: 575px) 95vw" width="740" height="494" src="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/canada%20by%20treaty.jpg?h=2fe880c3&amp;itok=_UYrPMov" alt="Hart House exhibit"> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>ullahnor</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2017-05-03T17:36:36-04:00" title="Wednesday, May 3, 2017 - 17:36" class="datetime">Wed, 05/03/2017 - 17:36</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Cutline</div> <div class="field__item">Using a blend of maps, paintings, accessible text and archival photographs, the display tells the long history of treaty-making, and how and why these agreements were essential to the foundation of modern Canada (photo by Diana Tyszko)</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-reporters field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/authors-reporters/christine-elias" hreflang="en">Christine Elias</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-legacy field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Author legacy</div> <div class="field__item">Christine Elias</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/city-culture" hreflang="en">City &amp; Culture</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/canada-150" hreflang="en">Canada 150</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/treaties" hreflang="en">Treaties</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/history" hreflang="en">History</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/indigenous" hreflang="en">Indigenous</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/hart-house" hreflang="en">Hart House</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/humanities" hreflang="en">Humanities</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>The Canada By Treaty exhibit at Hart House tells the story of how Canada was shaped by negotiation – not conquest.</p> <p>The exhibit invites viewers to explore treaties –&nbsp;the legal agreements with Indigenous peoples –&nbsp;that allowed non-Indigenous people to live on, and own land in what is now Canada.</p> <p>Produced as a direct response to one of the “calls to action” outlined in <a href="http://www.trc.ca/websites/trcinstitution/File/2015/Findings/Calls_to_Action_English2.pdf">Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC)</a> final report, <a href="http://history.utoronto.ca/research-publications/canada-treaty">Canada By Treaty: Negotiating Histories</a>&nbsp;seeks to educate Canadians on the key role of treaties in Canadian history.</p> <p>“Our exhibit responds to Call to Action No. 94, which changes part of the oath of citizenship to ‘I will faithfully observe the laws of Canada including treaties with Indigenous peoples,’” said co-curator <strong>Heidi Bohaker</strong>, associate professor&nbsp;of history in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science. “We asked ourselves how this could be possible unless Canadians new and old learned more about what treaties are, and why and how they made Canada.”</p> <p>She added that by “acknowledging ourselves as treaty people –&nbsp;and then by acting on that acknowledgment –&nbsp;we become rooted in this place and begin to understand our responsibility towards the land, each other and our ongoing treaty relationships.”</p> <p><strong>David Cameron</strong>, dean of the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science, added: “Indigenous peoples have remained effectively invisible for far too long. Genuine reconciliation is a long-game that will require great persistence and commitment, but I think we are all hopeful that we are at a real turning point.”</p> <h3><a href="/news/humility-responsibility-and-opportunity-u-t-responds-final-trc-steering-committee-report">Read about U of T's response to final TRC Steering Committee report</a></h3> <p>Using a blend of maps, paintings, accessible text and archival photographs, the 24-panel display tells the long history of treaty-making, and how and why these agreements were essential to the foundation of modern Canada.</p> <p>Co-curated by <strong>Laurie Bertram</strong>, an assistant professor of history,&nbsp;and <strong>James Bird</strong>, an undergraduate Indigenous student, the exhibit draws on content created by students in Bohaker’s joint fourth-year undergraduate-graduate research seminar course, Canada by Treaty: Alliances, Title Transfers and Land Claims.</p> <h3><a href="/news/reconciliation-grove-u-t-student-designs-memorial-facilitate-conversation-canada-s-relationship">Read more about Bird</a></h3> <p>In addition to learning about the broad history of treaties in Canada, each student selected one treaty to research from the many that have been settled since Samuel de Champlain first arrived in the early 1600s.</p> <p>The exhibit will be on display in Hart House’s map room until May 26. From there, it will travel to University College and Sidney Smith Hall over the summer months and then to other locations across all three Ƶ campuses.&nbsp;</p> <p>Exhibit sponsors include the&nbsp;Jackman Humanities Institute,&nbsp;<a href="http://canada.pch.gc.ca/eng/1468854891549">Canada 150</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ontario.ca/page/ontario150">Ontario 150</a>&nbsp;as well as University College, Hart House, the Centre for Indigenous Studies, Ƶ Libraries and the&nbsp;Jesuits of English speaking Canada.</p> <h3><a href="http://news.artsci.utoronto.ca/all-news/pop-exhibit-explores-canada-shaped-negotiation/">Read more about the exhibit</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Wed, 03 May 2017 21:36:36 +0000 ullahnor 107227 at