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The First Nations at this time were suffering due to the changing dynamics of the west including disease, famine, and conflict. [23] First Nations people were being decimated by disease, specifically smallpox, and tuberculosis which had catastrophic ramifications for several groups. Tsuu T'ina for example were decimated by Old World disease.
The boundary between Treaty 8 and Treaty 11 is ambiguous. The Yellowknives Dene First Nation is a signatory to Treaty 8, but according to the text of the treaties the Yellowknife Nation's territory, known as Chief Drygeese Territory, is within Treaty 11.
Anderson–Gual Treaty: First bilateral U.S. treaty with another country of the Americas. 1825 Treaty of Rio de Janeiro (1825) The Kingdom of Portugal recognized the independence of the Empire of Brazil. Osage Treaty (1825) [note 103] The Osage Nation cedes territories to the United States within and west of Missouri and the Arkansas Territory.
In 1855, Isaac Stevens, Territorial Governor of the Washington Territory, signed a treaty (11 Stat. 657) to make peace between the United States and the Blackfoot, Flathead and Nez Perce tribes. The Gros Ventres signed the treaty as part of the Blackfoot Confederacy, whose territory near the Three Fork area became a common hunting ground for ...
1833 – Siamese–American Treaty of Amity and Commerce – a commercial treaty between the Kingdom of Siam and the United States, first treaty with an East Asian nation; 1833 – Treaty with Muscat [19] 1835 – Treaty of New Echota – between U.S. government officials and representatives of a minority Cherokee political faction, the Treaty ...
Prince Arthur with the Chiefs of the Six Nations at the Mohawk Chapel, Brantford, 1869. The association between Indigenous peoples in Canada and the Canadian Crown is both statutory and traditional, the treaties being seen by the first peoples both as legal contracts and as perpetual and personal promises by successive reigning kings and queens to protect the welfare of Indigenous peoples ...
The Yellowknives Dene First Nation (known by themselves as Weledeh Yellowknives Dene) [5] is the umbrella organization for the Dettah Yellowknives Dene First Nation (or T'èɂehdaà – 'Burnt Point' in Tłı̨chǫ, referring to a traditional Dene fishing camp) and Ndilǫ Yellowknives Dene First Nation (/ ˈ d iː l oʊ / DEE-loh).
This is a list of international environmental agreements.. Most of the following agreements are legally binding for countries that have formally ratified them. Some, such as the Kyoto Protocol, differentiate between types of countries and each nation's respective responsibilities under the agreement.