Treaty 7
Alberta Indigenous agreement
Treaty 7 is an 1877 agreement between the British Crown and several First Nations of southern Alberta, including the Blackfoot Confederacy, Stoney Nakoda, and Tsuut'ina.
Like other numbered treaties in Canada, it ceded vast traditional territories in exchange for reserves, annual payments, and other provisions.
The treaty's interpretation remains contested—oral accounts suggest Indigenous signatories understood it as a peace agreement, not a land surrender.
- reserve landsLand held for indigenous peoples
- settler colonialismOccupation displacing native peoples
- hunting rightsAuthorization to take game
- fiduciary dutyObligation to act loyally
- assimilation policiesForced adoption of dominant culture
land stewardship · fishing rights · oral traditions · residential schools · legal frameworks · water rights · Blackfoot · resource exploitation · constitutional law · Indigenous · historical trauma · cultural heritage · prairie · Alberta · land · chiefs · territory · reconciliation
- Alberta HistoryEdmonton, Calgary, Banff, homesteaders, settlers
- Canadian Westpemmican, Hudson's Bay Company, voyageurs, coureurs des bois, buffalo hunting
- Plains IndigenousCree, Blackfoot, Dakota, Lakota, tipi
- Blackfoot NationsBlackfeet, sun dance, sacred pipe, pipe ceremony, buffalo hunt
- Tsuu T'inaStarlight
Treaty 7Indian Removal Act
Law authorizing tribal expulsion
Trail of Tears · forced relocation · Indian Wars · Wounded Knee Massacre · dispossession
- peace treatyFormal end to hostilities
- treaty complianceFollowing pact obligations
- Treaty of Versailles1919 settlement ending WWI
- nuclear treatyAgreement controlling atomic weapons
- arms treatyAgreement limiting military weapons
- disarmament treatyAgreement to reduce weapons