Treaties were negotiated with Tribes and Bands in order to extinguish their aboriginal rights and title. A treaty was not contemplated unless government was opening the territory to European settlement or industry needed to remove any potential impediment to resource extraction, be it logging, mining or fishing.

The Treaty Commissioners were often well intended individuals who believed that the Treaty would be honoured, hence their ability to convince the leaders of a Tribe or a Band to sign the treaty. The same cannot be said of the governments who instigated the treaty negotiations. The treaties may as well have been written in sand. Few provisions were honoured.

An Ethnohistorical report prepared by RTS Rights and Title Specialists documents the culture of the people, their seasonal subsistence activities (hunting, fishing, trapping, gathering (roots, berries, medicinal medicines) first contact with Europeans and the story behind the Treaty itself. An RTS report also documents the impact of legislation and industry upon those treaty rights.

The report provides sufficient information to enter into negotiations regarding the interpretation of a treaty or amendments to that treaty.