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Equity or Parity
Part of the Crown's problems in negotiating in Manitoba was the treaties negotiated previously with tribes in the east, where 160 acres per family of five was the standard.
To promise more than that in the west would cause dissention in the eastern tribes. The indigenous people need they were being shortchanged in land and the Crown was under so much pressure that they made the Indian parties to Treaty # one the promise that if any other Indians got a better deal, they would get the same deal.
In Alberta, the First Nations negotiated four times the land base or 640 acres per family of five. Equity or parity is the promise made to First Nations in Manitoba that there would be equality in the treatment of indigenous people in Canada regardless of location. Not only is there an expansion promise made in the treaties, there is equity or parity promised to all the First Nations in Manitoba. |
