Treaty 7 is an agreement between the Crown and several, mainly Blackfoot, First Nation band governments in what is today the southern portion of Alberta. The idea of developing treaties for Blackfoot lands was brought to Blackfoot chief Crowfoot by John McDougall in 1875. [1]

2016年8月19日 · Treaty 7 is the last of the Numbered Treaties made between the Government of Canada and the Plains First Nations (see Indigenous Peoples: Plains). It was signed on 22 September 1877 by five First Nations: the Siksika (Blackfoot), Kainai (Blood), Piikani (Peigan), Stoney-Nakoda, and Tsuut’ina (Sarcee).

The Treaty 7 First Nations Chiefs' Association (T7FNCA) serves as the political entity for the Treaty 7 First Nations Chiefs and leadership to collectively advocate for the rights and needs of each nation in the Treaty 7 territory.

Copy of Treaty and Supplementary Treaty No. 7 between Her Majesty the Queen and the Blackfeet and Other Indian Tribes, at the Blackfoot Crossing of Bow River and Fort Macleod

When Treaty Seven was signed in 1877, it became the last in a series of agreements concluded between the Government of Canada and the Indians of the North-West during the decade of the 1870s. Upon its conclusion, more than twenty years would pass before another treaty was made.

Upon the signing of the Treaty 7 document, the First Nations occupying land in what is now southern Alberta had officially relinquished their title to that land, surrendering those rights to the interests of the British Crown and the expanding Dominion of Canada.

2014年11月14日 · Treaty Seven was a peace treaty made between two nations – the tribes of the Blackfoot Confederacy, and the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland. By Her Commissioners, the honorable David Laird, Lieutenant Governor and Indian Superintendent of the North-West Territories, and James Farquharson Macleod, C.M.G., Commissioner of the North-West ...

Treaty 7 was signed on September 22, 1877, at Blackfoot Crossing3 between the Crown and five bands in southern Alberta: the Kainai (Blood), Siksika (Blackfoot), Piikani (Peigan), Nakoda (Stoney) and Tsuu T’ina (Sarcee).

The treaty texts have been formatted and clearly typed, instead of their original format, for easy reading and printing. In this section, read transcripts of the treaties dating from the mid 1700's to the early 1900's.

Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada – Treaty Texts: Treaty and Supplementary Treaty no. 7