Treaty No 8

TREATY No 8 was an agreement between the federal government and the FIRST NATIONS people of northeastern BC and the adjoining parts of Alberta and the NWT. Originally negotiated in 1899, it took several years to collect signatures from all the DUNNE-ZA (Beaver), SEKANI, DENE-THAH (Slavey), Chipewyan and Cree who eventually signed the treaty. Until the initialling of the NISGA'A TREATY in 1998, Treaty No 8 was the only treaty between aboriginal people and the federal government that included any...

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