Worldview

Treaties are widely accepted to be one of the more effective means to defend our relationships to land. They provide a legal basis to demonstrate Indigenous occupation and actions within our homelands. One of the challenges before us as Indigenous peoples is to continually live into our ancestral relationships with these lands. The 1836 Treaty of Washington offers this challenge as we work to defend what it means to “stipulate for the right of hunting on the lands ceded, with the other usual privileges of occupancy, until the land is required for settlement.”¹ Embedded in Article 13 is a worldview,