THE NUMBERED TREATIES
A treaty is an agreement between these two groups.
What are the government and Indigenous peoples?
Many Indigenous peoples view the treaties as agreements based on mutual respect and this.
What is trust?
Treaty 6 territory primarily covers parts of these two present-day Canadian provinces.
What are Alberta and Saskatchewan?
The Inuit primarily inhabit this region created by a modern treaty in 1993.
What is Nunavut?
This Métis leader played a significant role in negotiating the Manitoba Act of 1870.
Who is Louis Riel?
These types of rights are often protected by treaties.
What are land/resource rights?
Indigenous leaders believed that the treaties would help protect their way of life and this.
What is culture?
Treaty No. 6 was signed in this year.
What is 1876?
The Huron-Wendat Nation, involved in early treaties with the French, is located in this province.
What is Quebec?
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 that established an ongoing Treaty Relationship between First Nations and the Crown was issued by this monarch.
Indigenous peoples signed treaties in part to secure this for their communities.
What is protection or aid?
This type of school, which aimed to assimilate Indigenous children, violated treaty agreements on education.
What are residential schools?
A significant aspect of Treaty 6 was the promise of this type of aid during times of epidemic and famine.
What is medical assistance?
The Mi'kmaq people, involved in early treaties with the British, are primarily located in this region.
What is the Atlantic Canada (Maritimes)?
This Indigenous leader from the Plains Cree played a pivotal role in negotiating Treaty No. 6 in 1876.
Who is Chief Poundmaker (Pitikwahanapiwiyin)?
The first of the Numbered Treaties, Treaty No. 1, was signed in this year
What is 1871?
This was often not provided to Indigenous communities despite being promised in several treaties.
What is land?
Treaty 6 includes provisions for these items essential for survival on the prairies.
What are farming tools and implements?
This First Nation, part of Treaty No. 6, is located near present-day Edmonton, Alberta.
What is the Enoch Cree Nation?
This influential Métis leader led his people during the Northwest Resistance of 1885.
Who is Gabriel Dumont?
The last of the Numbered Treaties, signed in 1921, is known as this.
What is Treaty No. 11?
This act, passed in 1876, aimed to assimilate Indigenous peoples and often contradicted treaty promises.
What is the Indian Act?
One of the key motivations for Indigenous leaders to sign Treaty No. 6 was the decline of this essential resource.
What is the buffalo/bison?
The Red River Resistance's purpose was to defend the rights of this group.
Who are the Métis people?
Ellen Gabriel gained international recognition for her role in this Indigenous land rights movement in Quebec.
What is the Oka Crisis?