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GAD Reference number:

IT 266

Indian Affairs' consecutive no.:

131, 132

Volume:

1846

Province:

Manitoba

Date:

1873/10/03

Aboriginal people(s):

Saulteaux Tribe of the Ojbbeway Indians

Aboriginal individual(s):

Kee-ta-kay-pi-nais, Kitchi-gay-kake, No-te-ua-qua-hung, Mawe-do-pe-ness, Pow-wa-sang, Canda-com-igo-we-ninie, Papaskogin, May-no-wah-tan-ways-kung, Kitche-ne-ka-be-han, Sah-katch-eway, Muka-day-wah-sin, Me-kie-sies, Oos-con-na-geish, Wah-shis-kouce, Kah-kee-y-ash, Go-bay, Ka-me-ti-ash, Nee-sho-tal, Kee-jee-go-kay, Sha-Sha-gauce, Sha-win-na-bi-nais, Ay-ash-a-wash, Kah-tay-tay-pa-o-cutch

Other party(ies):

Commissioners Hon. Alexander Morris, Lieutenant Governor, Joseph A.N. Provencher and Simon J. Dawson on behalf of Queen Victoria

Type of Document:

Treaty involving extinguishment of aboriginal title and surrender of land - Docket title: "Original of a Treaty made at the N. West Angle between Her Majesty's Commissioners and the Saulteaux Indians"

Specific purpose(s):

A surrender of land in consideration of reserves being laid out in the proportion of 1 square mile per family of 5 persons, cash payment, an annual payment of cash and/or goods, etc. - See document

Land involved:

55,000 square miles north of the International border where "the Height of Land separating the waters running to Lake Superior form those flowing to Lake Winnipeg" and along the height of land following the lines of different watersheds - See document

Form:

Manuscript original

Contents:

11 sheets; 34 x 42 cm (13" x 16-1/2"); pp. [1-22]

Reference:

RG10, Indian Affairs, D-10-a

Microfilm reel number:

T-9939

ISN Number:

266

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