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In 1992 the Treaty Commission and the treaty process were established in by agreement among Canada, British Columbia and the First Nations Summit. Through the Treaty Commission a process was reached where treaties would follow a six-stage system to successful negotiation. [19] Stone mask of Nisga'a people (Louvre Museum), 18th-early 19th century.
The Numbered Treaties (or Post-Confederation Treaties) are a series of eleven treaties signed between the First Nations, one of three groups of Indigenous Peoples in Canada, and the reigning monarch of Canada (Victoria, Edward VII or George V) from 1871 to 1921. [1]
Alberta has the third largest First Nations population among the provinces and territories (after Ontario and British Columbia). [2] From this total population, 47.3% of the population lives on an Indian reserve and the other 52.7% live in urban centres. [2] According to the 2011 Census, the First Nations population in Edmonton (the provincial ...
These agreements include the Peace and Friendship Treaties in the Maritimes; the 11 Numbered Treaties with the First Nations of parts of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, and the Northwest Territories; and many other regional treaties in southern Ontario and British Columbia. [2]
In the spring of 1993, 17 Treaty 6 band governments in Alberta formed the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations to be the "united political voice" of the Treaty 6 First Nations. [3] The confederacy does not contain any bands from outside of Alberta.
Treaty territory, which includes thirty-nine First Nation communities in northern Alberta, northwestern Saskatchewan, northeastern British Columbia, and the southwest portion of the Northwest Territories, making it the largest of the numbered treaty in terms of area.
1899 Treaty 8 was the last formal treaty signed by a First Nation in British Columbia until Nisga agreement. 1890-1891 Two monuments dedicated to Canada's Aboriginal Peoples and their cultures were unveiled in front of Quebec's Parliament Building: Louis-Philippe Hébert's A Halt in the Forest (1890) and The Nigog Fisherman [149] (1891).
Indian reserves for First Nations in Alberta were established by a series of treaties — Treaty 6, Treaty 7, and Treaty 8. According to the Government of Alberta reserves cover a total area of 656,660 ha (1,622,630 acres). [1] However, according to Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada reserves in