Bounty and Benevolence: A Documentary History of Saskatchewan Treaties Memoir the volume carries a strong the volume carries a strong Aboriginal perspective with recent articles written by Aboriginal scholars highlighting Aboriginal people's ways of knowing and understanding history Missing from the analysis are references to cultural motives and gender relations in Plains Cree culture The authors explain the changing economic and political realities of western Canada during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and show how the Saskatchewan treaties were shaped by long standing diplomatic and economic understandings between First Nations and the Hudson's Bay Company Ray is a professor of history at the University of British Columbia