"In July 2006, the Treaty Relations Commission of Manitoba (TRCM) and the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) entered into a Protocol Agreement on the Manitoba Treaties Oral History Project (OHP). The OHP Research Team has met with 61 of the 64 Manitoba First Nations and held fourteen Focus Groups, seven Community Forums and sixty Follow-up Elder Interviews that included 228 Elders from the seven Treaty areas and five Manitoba linguistic groups including the Dakota Nation.

The original focus of the OHP shifted during the field research, and a four volume series of ‘Treaty Elders’ Teachings’ was envisioned to help educate the general public on Elders perspectives of the history of the Treaties and First Nations people. Untuwe Pi Kin He – Who We Are: Treaty Elders’ Teachings Volume I'was officially launched on February 6th, 2014."