Treaty 4 Background Information
Treaty 4 Negotiations
Important Figures
Treaty 4 Today
100
Treaty 4 was signed in this year.
What is 1874?
100
Each person was to receive this amount of money annually.
What was $5?
100
Lieutenant-governor of Manitoba and the North-West Territories and senior negotiator.
Who is Alexander Morris?
100
The buffalo on the Treaty 4 flag represents this.
What is education?
200
Treaty 4 was signed here.
What is Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan?
200
Each family of 5 was to receive this amount of land, which could be sold back for compensation.
What is 1 square mile? (640 acres).
200
This First Nations chief said "we want that money".
Who is Chief Pasqua?
200
These people are Treaty 4 people.
Who are all residents on treaty 4 territory? We are all treaty people.
300
Prime Minister of Canada at the time of the Treaty 4 signing.
Who is Alexander Mackenzie?
300
Chiefs and band leaders were to receive these items every 3 years.
What is new clothing?
300
Treaty 4 was signed with these First Nations bands living in the Qu’Appelle region, between Fort Ellice and the forks of the Saskatchewan River.
Who are the Cree, Saulteaux bands of the Ojibwa peoples and the Assiniboine?
300
The Treaty 4 gathering has been happening for the past 30 years and brings in this many people annually to the community of Fort Qu'Appelle.
What is 20,000 people?
400
In this year, 30 chiefs of Treaty 4 First Nations signed an agreement in principle for self government.
What is 1999?
400
Chiefs were to receive $25 annually, as well as a one time payment of $25, a coat and this item.
What is a silver medal?
400
The three commissioners that arrived in Fort Qu'Appelle on September 8th, 1874.
Who were Alexander Morris, David Laird, William J. Christie?
400
Recognition of the land and people.
What are land acknowledgements?
500
The last major conflict between First Nation in Canada was between the Cree and the Kainai in 1870.
What is the Battle of the Belly River?
500
Three things the First Nations were promised in the signing of Treaty 4.
What are farming tools, ammunition, reserves and schools, Indigenous rights to hunt, fish and trap?
500
This Plains Cree was optimistic and believed that a treaty would benefit their people.
Who is Chief Loud Voice?
500
In 1995, after extensive negotiations, the federal government agreed to a settlement just over a century after the Treaty Ground had been abolished. Allowing the building of this.
What is the Treaty 4 Governance Centre.