Indigenous Treaties

What are Indigenous treaties?

Treaties are agreements made between the Government of Canada.

Indigenous group and often provinces and territories that define ongoing right and obligations on all sides.

How Indigenous treaties negotiated

The treaty-making process is made up of five broad stages:

Negotiation, signature, ratification, implementation, and coming into force.

Some of the treaties

The Peace and Friendship Treaties (1725-1779),

The Douglas Treaties (1850-1854),

The Manitoba Act (1870)

The Numbered Treaties (1871-1921).

Are the interpretations of these treaties different between the Indigenous Peoples and the Federal government?

The Marshal case illustrated how First Nations people, historians, lawyers, and judges interpret treaties differently.