1. Video

2. The Numbered Treaties

3. Guiding questions What were the Numbered Treaties?
Why were they signed?
How and to whom are the Treaties significant?

7. Cause and Consequence First Nations Government
Declining buffalo population
Promised
reserved land
Hunting and fishing rights
Money
Education
Medical care
Machinery
Did they know what they were agreeing to?
Obtain land to build railroad
Get the good farmland
Settle conflicts
Establish order

8. Comparing Treaties 30 minutes 20 minutes
In a pair you will look at Treaty 1-9
20 minutes
You will compare your treaty with another groups and create a Venn diagram

9. Creation of reserves (often the worst farmland)
Cause and Consequence
Creation of reserves (often the worst farmland)
No longer nomadic lifestyles
Not granted voting rights
Relationship with North West Mounted Police deteriorated
New settlement made fishing and hunting difficult
Increased immigrants brought new diseases
Not all Treaty promises were upheld
Some wording in Treaties heavily debated
Some First Nations argued they had been tricked
Successfully built railroad
Successfully settled the west
Successfully made Canada “sea to sea”

10. Guiding questions What were the Numbered Treaties?
Why were they signed?
How and to whom are the Treaties significant?