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The Crown’s intentions were based upon expansion and transition. The treaties allowed the fur trading territory to house a new settler society. As stated in the written terms of the numbered treaties the Crown desired “peace and goodwill” between First Nations People and Her Majesty. In the view of the Crown, treaties were the agreement to trade First Nations territory for “bounty and benevolence”. This language makes the First Nations wards of the state and under the government's protection. With these agreements, not only could the Dominion of Canada expand west and northward, but First Nations could make the transition into a new economy. No longer would First Nations be depended on a nomadic lifestyle, but adapt and integrate into a western settlement society through farming and other entrepreneurial means. Essentially, to treaty makers the treaties were a commercial exchange of both land and identity.