This sentiment in particular was hammered into my head and soul via a thousand comments from teachers, brief textbook descriptions and newspaper articles that mentioned us at all. I knew that many people considered us ‘wholly unsuited to farming’, believing us lazy, shiftless and much too nomadic to prosper in such ‘civilised pursuits’. for each Band, enough of wheat, barley, potatoes and oats to plant the land …also for each Band four oxen, one bull and six cows also, one boar and two sows, and one hand-mill… A Treaty 7 farm.
The following articles shall be supplied … four hoes per family …two spades… one plough for every three families…one harrow …two scythes and one whetstone, and two hay forks and two reaping hooks … I knew that were specific provisions in the Treaties to provide the people with farming implements and seeds: I knew that ‘experts’ were sent by Indian Affairs to teach on-reserve populations how to farm. I knew that after the annihilation of our main economic base, the buffalo, native peoples in the Prairies were encouraged to become farmers. What do you know about farming among the Prairie nations?
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