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Treaty Studies
​@ WDHS

Treaty Studies Program at Waterdown District High School, (2024)
In partnership with Mohawk College

Learn more about the Dual Credit Program
Indigenous Education @ Mohawk College
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Begun in 2016 by Leah Hogan and Nathan Tidridge, the Treaty Studies Program at Waterdown High School is a dual-credit course (students receive a credit toward Mohawk College and their OSSD) that explores current Indigenous relationships with Canada. 

Essentially, this program involves two courses being taught simultaneously by an Indigenous Instructor and Nathan Tidridge (Waterdown District High School). Previous instructors of this course include Danielle VanEvery (2017), Leah Hogan (2018), Josh Dockstator (2019), Carlie Myke (2019-2021), Jordan Carrier (2022), and Rick Hill (2023).

Our vision is that the course be fully team-taught.  When possible, students will encounter elders, knowledge keepers and Indigenous leaders throughout the semester. 

Within the Ontario curriculum, this course is officially identified in the Ontario curriculum as NDA3M: Contemporary First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Issues and Perspectives, Grade 11, and NDW4M: Contemporary Indigenous Issues and Perspectives in a Global Context, Grade 12. Mohawk College identifies this course as INDS 10034: Indigenous Wholistic Practices.
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Waterdown's Souharissen Natural Area

Click on the image to learn more about the Moccasin Identifiers in our room:

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 Letters from Ontario First Nations (2019)

Mohawk Council of Akwesasne
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Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory (Rupcic)
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Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory (Fair)
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Activities, Assignments and Rubrics:

Your Land Map Assignment (Fed 2024)
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Part I: Transferring your closest friendship
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Part II: Describing your most important Relationship
File Size: 311 kb
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Observation and Conversation Rubric (2019).pdf
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Reflection Rubric
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Bundling our Arrows Rubric
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Letter to Students (Feb 2025)
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Labels in Indigenous Studies (2023)
File Size: 295 kb
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Thomas King's The Truth About Stories
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Nick Bertrand's Teaching Around Allyship
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Reserves near Waterdown (2019)
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Justification of a European Claim (2024)
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Points of Contact on Turtle Island (Updated 2019)
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The Book of Genesis
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Relationships to Authority
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Website of Vatican City
Doctrine of Discovery
Cultural Conflict during European contact
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The Puritans and Changing Relationships - A Reading from Thomas King
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Indigenous Civilizations in Flamborough (Revised 2021)
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Haudenosaunee Confederacy (Revised 2021)
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Waterdown Land Grant 2019.pdf
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Bison Herds on Turtle Island
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Understanding Treaty (updated May 2018)
File Size: 174 kb
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Wampum
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Rick Hill Discusses Wampum & Two Row
The Treaty of Niagara (Updated 2019)
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Covenant Chain Wampum
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Indigenous Peoples Heading into Confederation (2022)
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What is a Reserve?
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Second Reading of what would become the Indian Act.pdf
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Formal Apology For Residential Schools

Contacting a First Nation Assignment

The Relationship between the Government & Indigenous Nations
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Letter Template
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Principles respecting Government Relations (2018)

What makes Mr. Tidridge who he is
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Justice Sinclair Interview
Local Act of Reconciliation
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Rebecca Thomas at Halifax Hall
Attawapiskat Postcard Reflection
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Six Miles Deep Documentary
Site of the former Douglas Estates Survey

Treaty Week Primers & Indigenous Map of Flamborough

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The Most Recent Map & Treaty Primer Info Sheets
Some things to consider when looking at a Written Treaty:
  • What is a Treaty from an Indigenous perspective?
  • What was the spirit and intent of the Treaty? What does this phrase mean?
  • Was this Treaty rooted in the Treaty of Niagara (1764) and Silver Covenant Chain of Friendship?
  • What were the oral interpretations and descriptions that came with the written document?
  • How were complex terms and concepts translated and explained to the Indigenous delegates?
  • How were complex terms and concepts translated and explained to the Crown's delegates?
  • Is it even possible to surrender a specific area of land, with fixed boundaries, if you are a society that does not believe in a world-view where just a transaction can exist?
  • Does purchasing land include purchasing sovereignty? 
  • Who were the people signing on behalf of the Crown? Indigenous Nations?
  • Why was only the Mississauga Nation engaged? 
  • As people who live on this land, what do we do with Treaty No. 3?
Treaty No.3 (1792)
The Text of Treaty No.3 (1792)
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Treaty 3 Map
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Mississaugas of the NEw Credit Nation

  • Home
  • Flamborough's Local History
    • Indigenous Flamborough Map
    • Flamborough Arms and Flag
    • Souharissen Natural Area, Waterdown
    • The Queen's Tree at Memorial Park >
      • Commemorative Tree Videos
    • The Queen's Bench at Memorial Park
    • History of Waterdown District High School
    • Flamborough 1812 Veterans
    • Waterdown
    • East Flamborough
    • West Flamborough
    • Beverly
    • Town of Flamborough
    • North Wentworth Arena Mural and Banners
    • The Khan's "Men of the Northern Zone"
    • Waterdown South Indigenous Sites
    • Flamborough Book
  • CHY4U
    • Important Handouts & Resources
  • CHC2D
    • Important Handouts and Videos >
      • Weimar Art
    • Covictory Garden Project
    • WWI Photo Album
  • Treaty Studies
    • My Waterdown
    • Five Oaks (2018)
    • Establishing a New Society/Colonization Activity
  • CHI4U1
    • #idlenomore
    • Important CHI4U1 Handouts
    • Different Perspectives of the Same Island
    • War of 1812
  • WDHS Boy's Rugby Club
  • Civics
  • Genocide Course
    • Genocide Journals
    • Important Handouts & Videos
    • 2012 Picture
  • Canadian Symbols
  • WDHS Online War Memorial
  • Random Things
  • Eastern Europe (2025)
  • Ireland, UK & France (2015)
  • Visit to Massey College (2014)
  • Russia Trip (2013)
  • War of 1812 Tour (2011)
  • Europe Trip (2011)
  • Washington (2010)
  • Classroom Tour
  • Active History
    • Pictures from 2009-10
    • Pictures from 2010-11
    • Pictures from 2011-12
    • Pictures from 2012-13
    • Dan Eldon Journal Assignment
    • Gross National Happiness Survey
    • Queen's Tree at Memorial Park
    • Volunteer Letter for GNH BBQ
    • Videos Used in Active History
  • A Bad Penny Always Comes Back
  • Lakehead