ABSTRACT
This chapter is an exploratory reflection on personal biography and white settler Canadian treaty privilege. As a third-generation immigrant to Canada the author family history and experiences inform the author analysis. Historically Canada has dealt with the "Indian problem" in many ways, including intentionally spreading disease among them, paying for their scalps, and incarcerating the children in residential schools. The chapter tells the story of the author biography, inter-woven with history not always taught in schools in Canada. This is an exploratory reflection on the author own personal biography utilizing hermeneutical phenomenology and a method of textual decentering. The method of arriving at an agreement for Indian people is not the same as the English practice of negotiating contracts. The term Aboriginal comes from the root Latin prefix of ‘ab,’ which means ‘away from’ or ‘not,’ and therefore Aboriginal is ‘not original’ and has been rejected by the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs.
