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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]
Indian reserves, established in Canadian law by treaties such as Treaty 7, are lands of First Nations recognized by non-Indigenous governments. [169] Some reserves are within cities, such as the Opawikoscikan Reserve in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan , Wendake in Quebec City or Enoch Cree Nation 135 in the Edmonton Metropolitan Region .
The following is a partial list of First Nations peoples of Canada, organized by linguistic-cultural area. It only includes First Nations people, which by definition excludes Métis and Canadian Inuit groups. The areas used here are in accordance to those developed by the ethnologist and linguist Edward Sapir, and used by the Canadian Museum of ...
Across Canada, many First Nations have not signed treaties with the Canadian Crown. Many First Nations are in the process of negotiating a modern treaty, which would grant them treaty rights. [162] Some First Nation bands are also trying to resolve their historical grievances with the Canadian government.
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 ...
Pages in category "First Nations history in Canada" ... 2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests; ... Treaty 8; Treaty of Watertown ...
Pages in category "Treaties of Indigenous peoples in Canada" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Lists of First Nations cover the First Nations of Canada, the predominant indigenous peoples in Canada south of the Arctic Circle. The lists include: The lists include: List of First Nations band governments , a list, by province or territory, of the various First Nations government bodies in Canada