As the text in the lower margin indicates, this photograph was taken in the 1920s somewhere in Saskatchewan, Canada, on Treaty Day, when communities across western Canada gather to commemorate the Numbered Treaties between First Nations and the government of Canada. Such gatherings are complex occasions, celebrating nation-to-nation agreements but also reminding attendees of what has been lost, promised, and broken. The 16 subjects gaze unwaveringly at the camera while wearing their finest regalia, asserting cultural pride during an official diplomatic gathering. By combining this image with the quote at the top, Akwesasne Notes collapses time: those photographed in the 1920s become models for the 1970s activists who must consider how their resistance will be judged by those as yet unborn. The poster insists that every generation carries a dual responsibility: the honoring of ancestors while becoming ancestors worth honoring.