For the first time since its signing 100 years ago, the original Treaty 11 document is coming to the North. 

It’s a journey that has taken “months and months and months” worth of logistical planning, according to an archivist who’s involved. One Indigenous elder says it’s an opportunity to continue a dialogue about the “spirit and intent” with which the document was signed by local leaders. 

Treaty 11 was signed by the Crown and more than a dozen Gwich’in, Sahtu Dene, Dehcho Dene and Tłı̨chǫ communities in the Northwest Territories in the summer of 1921.

For decades afterward, most of those subject to Treaty 11