Primary document · Text
Treaty 6: official transcript and adhesions
Read the federal transcript of Treaty 6, including written provisions on reserves, education, hunting and fishing, a medicine chest, emergency assistance, and later adhesions. Pair the written document with First Nations accounts of the Treaty relationship.
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- Publisher / custodian
- Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada
- Source date
- 1876 treaty; 1964 Queen's Printer edition with later adhesions
- Source type
- Primary document
- Format
- Text
- Regions
- Saskatchewan, Alberta
- Peoples / communities
- Plains Cree, Wood Cree, other signatory First Nations
- Treaties
- Treaty 6
Read with context
Federal transcription of a Crown-language written document, not a complete record of oral negotiations or the views of every signatory. Historical terminology is retained in the source.
Questions to investigate
- Find two commitments made by each party in the written document.
- Compare the medicine-chest provision with the Confederacy's account of Treaty principles.
- Why should readers study oral promises and negotiation history alongside a transcript?
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; title identifies Fort Carlton, Fort Pitt and Battle River with adhesions; edition identifies Ottawa, 1964. Original treaty dates and named provisions appear in text.
Copy-ready citation
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada. Treaty 6: official transcript and adhesions. 1876 treaty; 1964 Queen's Printer edition with later adhesions. https://www.cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1100100028710/1581292569426. Record checked 2026-09-30.
Saskatchewan curriculum
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Suggested connection · teacher review
SI7
Examine Oral Tradition as a valid way of preserving accounts of what transpired and what was intended by entering into treaty.
Use this Crown-language transcript as one side of a comparison with published First Nations accounts. Written wording alone does not establish the full spirit and intent of Treaty.
Candidate indicator: 4: Compare the recorded accounts of treaty from the perspectives of the Crown and the First Nations.
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