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TREATIES of Peace, Cession, &c., between the Canadian Government and certain Nations and Tribes of Indians.—1871-1875.

 

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(1.)—TREATY with the Chippewa and Swampy Cree Tribes of Indians. Lower Fort Garry, August 3, 1871.

 

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Articles of A Treaty made and concluded this 3rd day of August, in the year of Our Lord 1871, between Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, by her Commissioner, Wemyss M. Simpson, Esq., of the one part, and the Chippewa and Swampy Cree tribes of India, inhabitants of the country within the limits hereinafter defined and described by their Chiefs, chosen and named as hereinafter mentioned, of the other part.

Whereas all the Indians inhabiting the said country have, pursuant to an appointment made by the said Commissioner, been convened at a meeting at the Stone Fort, otherwise called Lower Fort Garry, to deliberate upon certain matters of interest to Her Most Gracious Majesty, of the one part, and to the said Indians of the other:

And whereas the said Indians have been notified and in formed by Her Majesty's said Commissioner that it is the desire of Her Majesty to open up to settlement and immigration a tract of country bounded and described as hereinafter mentioned, and to obtain the consent thereto of her Indian subjects inhabiting the said tract, and to make a Treaty and arrangements with them, so that there may be peace and good-will between them and Her Majesty, and that they may know and be assured of what allowance they are to count upon and receive, year by year, from Her Majesty's bounty and benevolence:

And whereas the Indians of the said tract, duly convened in Council as aforesaid, and being requested by Her Majesty's said Commissioner to name certain Chiefs and Headmen who should be authorized on their behalf to conduct such negotiations, and sign any Treaty to be founded thereon, and to become responsible to Her Majesty for the faithful performance, by their respective bands, of such obligations as should be assumed by them the said Indians, have thereupon named the following persons for that purpose, that is to say, Mis-Koo-Kenew, or Red Eagle (Henry Prince); Ka-Ke-Ka-penais, or Bird for Ever; Nasha-Ke-penais, or Flying-down Bird; Na-na-wa-nanan, or Centre of Bird's Tail; Ke-we-tayash, or Flying round; Wa-Ko-wush, or Whip-poor-Will; Oi-za-we-Kwun, or Yellow Quill; and thereupon, in open Council, the different bands have presented their respective Chiefs to his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Manitoba, and of the North-West Territory, being present at such Council, and to the said Com-