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• One of the reasons the government wanted to negotiate treaty with Aboriginal people was because of settlement. The government wanted to make sure that there was ample land available for those people immigrating to Canada to develop settlements
• The contents of the treaties are similar in many ways
• Treaty 6 is especially unique because it includes the provision of a medicine chest and relief provisions in time of famine
• Many verbal promises were made by government treaty negotiators that Aboriginal people claim have never been honored
• There is a disagreement between Aboriginal people today and the federal government as the purpose and intent of the treaties. Many Aboriginal people felt that through verbal promises Aboriginal leaders at the time were led to believe that taking treaty would help them in developing new ways to survive, i.e through agriculture, as the buffalo was declining. Many Aboriginal people today would argue that treaties did more harm than good
• Aboriginal people were viewed as having no formal education or religious/spiritual systems. Historical text often refer to Aboriginal people in a negative light by using terminology such as heathen, savage, and pagan
• The numbered treaties began in Ontario and moved westward as settlement and development emerged in the west
• Not all treaties provided the same amount of hectares per family
• Treat 7 was signed in 1877 and covers Southern Alberta. It was signed by the Blackfoot, Blood, Peigan, Sarcee, Stony, Chipewyan and Assiniboine
• The Peigans were the smallest band to sign Treaty 7
• Also known as the Acha'otinne, or "woodland people." The Slavey peoples inhabited Alberta's far north, their hunting territory encompassing part of the Nunavut (NWT). They were organized into six bands and, like other woodland peoples, maintained only small family groupings with no central leadership, only electing leaders in times of conflict

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