Treaty 6 Timeline
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Updated: 9 Nov 2018
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Created byLindsay Sorell
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War of 1812: Upper/Lower Canada vs. USA1779: USA declares war on Haudenosaunee1863: Baudelaire publishes "The Painter of Modern Life"1798: Wordsworth publishes "The Complaint of a forsaken Indian Woman"Indian Removal Act of 1830 in USA1885 Northwest Rebellion1830: "Indian Department" moves toward "civilizing policies"1830: Implementation reservation system, thanks to the Darling Report1876 Indian Act formed1850 Robinson Treaties signed (all around Thunder Bay area)1846: Chief of Garden River stops/takes over Quebec Mining Company1867 Confederation of Canada1870: Canada acquires NW Territories from HBCPM Macdonald negotiates with HBC about acquiring NW TerritoriesTreaty 1 signedAug 23, 1876: Treaty 6 at Fort Carleton signed by 9 leadersAug 28, 1876: Willow Cree leaders sign Treaty 6Sept 9, 1876: Port Pitt Signing of Treaty 61882 - Big Bear finally forced to sign Treaty 6Northern signatories not originally included sign Treaty 6Treaty 6: bands in Fort Edmonton didn't sign until 1879Moosomin Band forced to surrender their reserve because of the railway1883: bands forced to move north onto reserves because of starvation1888: band transfers formalized in policy1881: 'work for rations' policy put into effect1881: Big Bear plays USA/Canada against each other1875: bands stop government expansion until needs are met1985: "Treaty Research Report – Treaty Six" by John Leonard Taylor, Treaties and Historical Research Centre, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada1848: Marx and Engels publish "Manifesto of the Communist Party" in LONDON (class struggle)1792: Vindication of the Rights of Woman, WollstonecraftPeriods
Friedrich Nietzsche: 1844-1900Stéphane Mallarmé: 1842-1898Karl Marx: 1842-1898Charles Pierre Baudelaire: 1821-1867William Wordsworth: 1770-1850Arthur Schopenhauer: 1788-1860Romanticism1770-1815: USA burns hundreds of Indigenous townsEpidemic of smallpox in Treaty 6 areahanging of rebel Métis, imprisonment of chiefs, annuity withdrawals, treaty withdrawals, dissolution of many bandsFriedrich Engels: 1820-1895Sigmund Freud: 1856-19391879-1883: band move south to hunt for foodReign of TerrorThe EnlightenmentFrench RevolutionThe Napoleonic Wars1960s: Historians paradoxically view Indigenous as active agents but agency eliminated after treaties1990s: scholarship turned toward more nuanced view influenced by post-colonial theory1970s: Historian John Taylor changes discussion to unequal power relationships, intelligent, negotiation, cultural gulf1970-80: Obsession with tracing "Indian Affairs" bureaucracy1812-1996: Residential Schools (second wave)
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