This Teacher Resource Guide has five lessons with activities designed to help students understand the role and place of the treaties, between the First Nations of Saskatchewan and the Crown, within the Saskatchewan and Canadian legal framework.

About This Resource -- Summary of Learning Outcomes -- Lesson One: What are Treaties? -- Rationale -- Learning Objectives -- Teacher Information -- Activity: What’s in a Name? -- Handout: Who’s Who -- Teacher Key: Who’s Who -- Activity: Myths and Misconceptions -- Handout: Myth or Reality? -- Lesson Two: Why Were Treaties Made? -- Rationale -- Learning Objectives -- Activity: Where Do Laws Come From? -- Handout: Where Do Laws Come From? -- Handout: True/False Quiz -- Teacher Key: True/False Quiz -- Activity: When Two Societies Meet -- Activity: Changing Circumstances/Changing Laws -- Handout: Calder Case -- Activity: That Was Then - This Is Now -- Lesson Three: Treaty Rights and the Law of Canada -- Rationale -- Learning Objectives -- Teacher Information -- Activity: Treaties and the Law -- Activity: Treaties and the Courts Past and Present -- Handout: Canadian Treaty Cases -- Activity: Is It Justified? -- Handout: You be the Judge -- Handout: The Cases -- R. v. Lefthand [2005] A.J. No. 1370 -- R. v. Couillonneur [1996] S.J. No. 305 -- Handout: Decisions of the Courts -- Lesson Four: Government Actions -- Rationale -- Learning Objectives -- Activity: Timeline of Government Actions -- Handout: When Did it Happen? -- Teacher Key: Answer Key for Timeline Activity -- Activity: Law-Making Powers, First Nations and Treaties -- Handout: Quiz - First Nations’ Treaty Rights and the Federal System -- Teacher Key: Quiz -- Lesson Five: Treaty Promises -- Rationale -- Learning Objectives -- Teacher Information -- Activity: Treaty Promises -- Activity: Comparing Treaties -- Activity: Aboriginal and Treaty Issues in the News.