By Jack Farrell Standing in the same place where it was signed, politicians, Crown representatives, Indigenous chiefs and elders marked the 150th anniversary of Treaty 6 on Sunday by saying they hoped the future would be nothing like the past. “This treaty recognized a shared relationship with the land, the waters, and the living things,” Gov. Gen. Louise Arbour told a crowd at Fort Carlton, about 100 kilometres north of Saskatoon. “History, unfortunately, tells a very different story.” The treaty was the sixth of 11 treaties signed in the years after Canada was established through Confederation. It covers most of what’s now central Alberta and Saskatchewan, though the treaty is older than both provinces. Like the treaties signed before and after it, Treaty 6, by all accounts, is an agreement…
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