Treaty No.6 (1876)

The sixth of eleven numbered agreements between the Canadian government and various communities of Indigenous people, Treaty No.6 dealt with the rights to 120,000 square miles of land in what is now Alberta and Saskatchewan. The treaty was concluded at Forts Carlton and Pitt (near present-day Lloydminster) in 1876. Many Indigenous groups, including the Chief of the Plains Cree Minahikosis, found it inadequate because it contained no guarantees against the imposition of an alien culture.