Her presentation is titled: “A Most Convenient Oversight: An Examination of How the Crown Misconstrued “Appropriate” to Reduce Indian Reserve Lands in Ontario, 1873 – Present.” In brief, Luby will examine the how in 1873, representatives of the Anishinabek nation signed Treaty #3 at Northwest Angle on Lake of the Woods. The official English version of Treaty #3, as published by Canada, includes a paragraph allowing for the appropriation of Indian reserve lands for public works. Past historians have noted that “appropriate” does not translate exactly into Anishinaabemowin (the Ojibwa language) to argue that Anishinaabe negotiators did not understand the legal implications of the term. Land was unknowingly signed away. In her presentation, however, Dr. Luby argues that Crown and Anishinaabe negotiators developed a very narrow understanding of the word “appropriate” during the 1873 negotiations.