This factsheet distills Vallance's discussion of how the Vancouver Island Treaties of the 1850s, or Douglas Treaties after James Douglas, are fourteen "agreements" between the Colony of Vancouver Island and Indigenous Peoples that used deception and lies. These treaties are better understood as sharing treaties, where Indigenous nations of Vancouver Island agreed to allow settlers to share their land.
Vallance, Neil. “The Earliest First Nations Accounts of the Formation of the Vancouver Island (or Douglas) Treaties.” Essay. In To Share, Not Surrender, 123–34. Vancouver, British Columbia:University of British Columbia Press, 2021.