By 1886, John A. MacDonald ordered the NWMP to carry out ecocide meaning that the police are now authorised to entirely wipe out the few remaining buffalo to force the First Nations in signing the Treaty as dependence on the government. When Treaty 6 was signed between 1886 and 1890 however, the Canadian government continued to withhold food to entire communities as punishment, and also delivering rotten meat to the starving communities as a penalty. The main importance of the treaty to indigenous Canadians was that it provided them the services of the medicine chest. The medicine chest would be kept at the home of the Indian agent for use by the people. Another important factor of the treaty was the guarantee of assistance for famine and pestilence relief. First Nations understood they would receive assistance to the transition of a new lifestyle, maintenance of their cultural and spiritual rights, right to hunt, trap, and fish, education, medical assistance, reserve land, agricultural tools and support, and peaceful co-existence with the
By 1886, John A. MacDonald ordered the NWMP to carry out ecocide meaning that the police are now authorised to entirely wipe out the few remaining buffalo to force the First Nations in signing the Treaty as dependence on the government. When Treaty 6 was signed between 1886 and 1890 however, the Canadian government continued to withhold food to entire communities as punishment, and also delivering rotten meat to the starving communities as a penalty. The main importance of the treaty to indigenous Canadians was that it provided them the services of the medicine chest. The medicine chest would be kept at the home of the Indian agent for use by the people. Another important factor of the treaty was the guarantee of assistance for famine and pestilence relief. First Nations understood they would receive assistance to the transition of a new lifestyle, maintenance of their cultural and spiritual rights, right to hunt, trap, and fish, education, medical assistance, reserve land, agricultural tools and support, and peaceful co-existence with the