The tribes were outside the political power of the European colonizers and needed to be brought into the new colonial order in some way. ... They would have to be brought into that order by treaties. ... In a judgment which is now embarrassing, the Supreme Court of Canada discussed whether it had been adequately proven that the duck in question was a wild duck and not a tame duck, and then spent three lines on the issue of treaty rights. ... One article was called "The Twilight of the Treaties" and it reflected on how the treaties had faded into irrelevance. ...

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