treaties

Question 1

treaty one
m choice & long answer

Answer 1

stone fort treaty - south mb
- negotiation at lower fort garry - made of stone

promised but not received: hunting/fishing rights, farming implements, clothing, rations

threatened to be swamped by settlers if didn’t agree

commissioner meant one thing and FN meant another

said they were just going to give gifts to use lands

Question 2

treaty 2

Answer 2

MB Post treaty - central MB
promised schools and teachers - didn’t deliver
agreed to ban liquor

Question 3

treaty 3

Answer 3

NW Angle treaty - lake of the woods
- learned from past treaties and negotiated for more
- set precedents for later treaties
- got a lot of what treaty 1&2 didn’t
- 1st treaty to include metis - got their own land
- crown was looking for wood/fish/minerals
- already started getting money from timber
sales before treaty was brought up
- provided railroad right of way
- thought they were only giving up half the land

Question 4

treaty 4

Answer 4

• S Sask. W MB
• arguments with Cree/Salteaux caused delays
• said to not have been legal because apparently no pipe ceremony

Question 5

treaty 5

Answer 5

• sometimes called wpg treaty
• negotiated by going to different communities
  -northern ones not included
  - not much opportunity to negotiate
• terms already set before negotiation - like reserve
  size

Question 6

treaty 6

Answer 6

Alberta & Saskatchewan
- small pox devastation
- cree stopped railway/telegraph crew
-rushed to negotiate with gifts
- multiple church reps helped FN
- sacred stone scandal
- got medicine chest
- got rations - later starved

Question 7

Selkirk treaty

Answer 7

Agreed to let Scottish settle for lots of tobacco
Given to Lord Selkirk
lots of Metis/mixed indigenous