7

"The usual rate of travel for a police patrol was forty miles a day" and "if the trails were dry, traveled up to 60 miles a day for 3 or 4 days."

8

Indian Treaties

9

Peaceful Relations Treaty Commission
29 May 1899
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
TEXT ATTACHMENT


10

The Treaty Commission for the settlement of Indian claims left Edmonton, Alberta for the North under a Mounted Police escort.

11

Peaceful Indian Relations Indian Treaties and the Queen
1887

12

The Indian Treaties were all made in the name of the Queen and it was necessary for the commissioners to describe the Queen to the Indians; her wisdom, her generosity, kindness of heart, and her interest in all her children, whether black, white, red or yellow.

13

Part of the settlement and maintaining law and order in Alberta was the establishment of Treaties with the Indians and distribution of their treaty monies at $5.00 a head, and emergency rations of tea, sugar, tobacco, sow-belly, and flour.

The North-West Mounted Police were a vital part of the negotiations. They escorted the Treaty Commissioner on visits, and assisted in delivering the terms of these agreements.

14

The Blackfoot Confederacy

15

Peaceful Relations Crowfoot
1887
South of Calgary, Alberta
TEXT ATTACHMENT


16

The Blackfoot people were a warlike confederacy south of Calgary.

'It was believed and probably was true that they numbered six thousand fighting men, armed with repeating rifles'.

During the Riel Rebellion, the Blackfoot were ready for war and had organized a campaign in the summer of 1885. The event did not see reality as Crow Foot, Chief of the Blackfoot Tribe, intervened and warned the Confederacy that the white men were strong in numbers and the possible dangers to the Blackfoot people.

He saw that the whiskey traders were killing off his people and if had not been for the police protecting them, they would sure have perished. He agreed to sign the Treaty for he felt that the 'hearts of white and red men would continue to increase in goodness'.

17

Local Crees

18

Peaceful Relations Cree Indians
1870
Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta
TEXT ATTACHMENT


19

Cree Indians, 1870-1910

20

Peaceful Indian Relations Local Crees
1870