Article contentFrom the 18th century to today, and for posterity, the relationship between Indigenous nations in what is now Canada, and all non-Indigenous Canadians is governed by treaties. While many of these treaties were purposefully ignored, disregarded, and violated by past British and Canadian governments as they moved to expand their control over the territories now comprising modern Canada, the treaties remained in place, ignored in practice but still existing in written law; waiting to be resuscitated over the past century by new generations of Indigenous leaders, and the judges of the Supreme Court of Canada.