| Historians classify Indian treaties into two major
groups:
Pre-Confederation Treaties
Post-Confederation Treaties
There are still vast areas of land in regions of Canada that have
never been formally surrendered or ceded by Aboriginal peoples.
Only the treaties (or agreements) that were negotiated in the period
from 1725 to 1930 are mapped. All boundary lines are approximate,
and do not represent the actual surveyed treaty boundaries. Until
recently, the term "Indian" was used to describe all the
Indigenous people in Canada who were not Inuit or Métis.
More recently, the term First Nation is now commonly used instead
of "Indian". The term "Aboriginal peoples" is
the collective name for all the original peoples of Canada and their
descendants.
Many of the historical Indian treaties have been transcribed from
the original documents and can be accessed directly on the Internet.
Refer to References and Links to access these treaty texts. In addition,
they can be accessed directly from the map, when you click on a
treaty area using Get Statistics.
A special feature of this mapping module is the Historical
Indian Treaties Timeline, which briefly describes the major
treaties, including the Upper Canada treaties. |
