This article focuses on one material object: a typewriter on which Western Treaty 8 was recorded in 1899. Following the typewriter allows a close reading of the material practices of colonialism in Canada’s northwest, affords us an opportunity to interrogate how international legal authority is mediated through objects, and shows how objects provide opportunities to resist and contest colonial authority.

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条约 8 打字机：追溯物质在想象、实现和抵抗殖民世界中的作用

本文关注一个实物：一台打字机，1899 年在上面记录了《西方条约 8》。通过打字机可以仔细阅读加拿大西北部殖民主义的物质实践，让我们有机会询问国际法律权威如何通过物体，并展示物体如何提供抵抗和对抗殖民权威的机会。