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Treaty 5: official text and adhesions
Read the Treaty 5 document and recorded adhesions, including provisions on reserve lands, schools, hunting and fishing. Its written geographic description includes Cumberland Lake, making it relevant to eastern Saskatchewan research.
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- Publisher / custodian
- Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada
- Source date
- 1875 treaty; 1969 Queen's Printer transcription with adhesions
- Source type
- Primary document
- Format
- Text
- Regions
- Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario
- Peoples / communities
- Saulteaux, Swampy Cree, other signatory First Nations
- Treaties
- Treaty 5
Read with context
Treaty areas cross today's provincial borders. Written boundaries should not be presented as complete traditional-territory boundaries.
Questions to investigate
- Compare the stated reserve-land allocation in Treaties 5 and 6.
- How do the treaty and its later adhesions differ as documents?
Access and reuse
- Access
- link-only
- Rights / reuse
- External link only in this collection. No reuse permission is granted by this record; check publisher terms before copying or hosting source material. Publisher rights information ↗
- Record checked
- 2026-09-30
Opened official HTML; dates treaty meetings at Berens River on 20 September and Norway House on 24 September 1875; identifies 1969 transcription and warns layout differs from original.
Copy-ready citation
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada. Treaty 5: official text and adhesions. 1875 treaty; 1969 Queen's Printer transcription with adhesions. https://www.rcaanc.gc.ca/eng/1100100028699/1581292696320. Record checked 2026-09-30.
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