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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
"Auld Lang Syne" is a Scots phrase that literally translates to "old long since," but has taken on a more fluid definition along the lines of "for old time's sake" or "the olden days."
The Aklavik First Nation is one of the many bands of Gwich'in People. Gwich'in is both a cultural and linguistic distinction. [9] Today the town of Aklavik is a mixed community, [1] but this was not always the case. The people of the Aklavik First Nation commonly interacted with their more northern Inuit historical neighbors. Although the two ...
The Onondaga Nation has protested for centuries that illegal land grabs shrank its territory from what was once thousands of square miles in upstate New York to a relatively paltry patch of land ...
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 ...