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Treaty six was signed on August 23rd, 1876 at Fort Carton and at Fort Pitt on September 9th, 1876.
The treaty adhesion's were signed at Fort Walsh
on July 2nd, 1879, Big Bear in 1882, and Montreal Lake Bands in 1889.
Adhesion's
Treaties are official agreements negotiated between two or more sovereign nations.
Some First nations bands were not present at the treaty negotiations and so they signed an adhesion to the treaty at later dates. Adhesion's had the same effect as Treaty were originally signed.
Sovereign Nation
A place that is ruled by someone sovereign
Negotiated
Sovereign
To make a deal with others
A person who has supreme authority.
-A peaceful coexistence with first nations
-Access to lands for settlement,farming, railways, and future industrial development
- Cree
- Saulteaux
- Dene
-Atahkakoop
-Beardy's & Okemasis First Nation
-Big Island Lake First Nation
-Big River First Nation
-Flying Dust First Nation
-Island Lake First Nation
-James Smith Cree Nation
-Kinistin First Nation
-Lac La Ronge First Nation (a few reserves)
-Little Pine First Nation
-Lucky Man Cree Nation
-Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation
-Mistawasis First Nation
-Montreal Lake First Nation
-Moosomin First Nation
-Mosquito Grizzly Bear's Head and Lean Man First Nation
-Muskeg Lake Cree Nation
-Muskoday First Nation
-One Arrow First Nation
-Onion Lake First Nation
-Pelican Lake First Nation
-Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation (one reserve
-Poundmaker First Nation
-Red Pheasant First Nation
-Saulteaux First Nation
-Sturgeon Lake First Nation
-Sweetgrass First Nation
-Thunderchild First Nation
-Witchekan Lake First Nation
First Nations understood they would receive assistance to the transition of a new lifestyle ,maintenance of their cultural and spiritual rights, to hunt trap, and fish, education, medical assistance, reserve land, agricultural tools and support, and peaceful co-existence with new comers. The treaty states that they would get:
- Reserve land (one square mile per family of five
- An annual cash payment at s rate of $25 per chief, $15m per headman, $5 for all other band members, also a one time gift of $12 for each band member who signed the treaty
- $1500 worth of twine and ammunition each year
- For each band and family certain agricultural tools like hoes, spades, livestock, horse, and wagon
- A school building
- The right to hunt, fish, and trap
- A medicine chest at the house of the indian agent on each reserve
- Rations were given in times of famine
- During the first three years after the treaty was signed, First Nations who had settled on reserves and were farming were to get $1000 in agricultural provisions.
Things they didn't get:
- Medicine chest
- Relief in times of famine
Just as other treaties treaty six lasts as long as the sun shines, the grass grows, and the rivers flow. Treaty six is meant to have no expiry date.
treaty6education.skysd.ca/treatybasics