DCHP-3

treaty point

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a stated place where a treaty commissioner had agreed to meet Indians who wished to take treaty.

Quotations

1908
There were, of course, many Indians who did not or could not turn up at the various treaty points that year [1889], viz., the Beavers of St. John, the Crees of Sturgeon Lake, the Slaves of Hay River . . . and the Dog-Ribs, Yellow-Knives, Slaves, and Chipewyans, who should have been treated with at Fort Resolution, on Great Slave Lake.