100-year-old Treaty 11 coming to N.W.T. for 1st time since signing

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