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Ac ko mok ki (the Feathers), mapmaker, Copied by Peter Fidler, February 7, 1801 Ac ko mok ki, a Blackfoot Indian chief, drew this map for Peter Fidler, postmaster and surveyor for the Hudson's Bay Company, 1788 1822. Because Ac ko mok ki probably sketched the original map on the ground or in the snow, Fidler carefully copied and annotated this information into his notebook, which is reproduced here. Oriented with west at the top, this map detailed for the first time the drain...age network of the Missouri River and provided new information about the location and width of the Rocky Mountains (seen at the top of the map as a double-lined feature) and the Indian tribes living in the area. Ac ko mok ki surveyed and described to Fidler the adjacent plains for a distance of some 500 miles. His information depicted areas theretofore not explored by Europeans. See more

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Indian Act Bands were created by "The Indian Act."

Ac ko mok ki (the Feathers), mapmaker, Copied by Peter Fidler, February 7, 1801 Ac ko mok ki, a Blackfoot Indian chief, drew this map for Peter Fidler, postmaster and surveyor for the Hudson's Bay Company, 1788 1822. Because Ac ko mok ki probably sketched the original map on the ground or in the snow, Fidler carefully copied and annotated this information into his notebook, which is reproduced here. Oriented with west at the top, this map detailed for the first time the drain...age network of the Missouri River and provided new information about the location and width of the Rocky Mountains (seen at the top of the map as a double-lined feature) and the Indian tribes living in the area. Ac ko mok ki surveyed and described to Fidler the adjacent plains for a distance of some 500 miles. His information depicted areas theretofore not explored by Europeans. See more

"People need to educate themselves and understand the true nature of our treaties. We existed before contact on this land. Provincial boundaries came after treaty territories. This is our land, we are staying here," said Marlene Poitras, Assembly of First Nations regional chief for Alberta and a member of the Mikisew Cree First Nation that is part of Treaty 8. The British Crown signed 11 treaties with First Nations between 1871 and 1921 to allow for the settlement of the W...est. The treaties covered areas from northern and western Ontario through the Prairies and into parts of northern B.C., Yukon and the Northwest Territories. "Canada is the the so-called beneficiary of those treaties. All the lands transferred were never purchased by Canada," said Henderson, who is a research fellow at the University of Saskatchewan's Native Law Centre. James (Sákéj) Youngblood Henderson is a constitutional and treaty expert at the University of Saskatchewan. (National Aboriginal Land Managers Association) Jorge Barrera, Reporter. Barrera is a Caracas-born, award-winning journalist who has worked across the country and internationally. He works for CBC's Indigenous unit based out of Ottawa. Follow him on Twitter @JorgeBarrera or email him [email protected].

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The Year 1665 on the Bargain 1835, includes photocopy of original document and a typed transcription from photocopy of original document.