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 MANAGEMENT OP INDIANS IN BRITISH AMERICA. 
 
 REPORT 
 
 ON TfiB 
 
 MANAGEMENT OF THE INDIANS IN BRITISH NORTH 
 AMERICA BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT. 
 
 January 27, 1870. — ^Presented by Mr. Clarke, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, 
 oi'dered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on Indian Affairs. 
 
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 Departsient of State, 
 
 Wmhington, January 21, 1870. 
 
 Sm : Referring to the coniiuunication addressed to you from this de- 
 partment, under date of April 14 last, in reply to your letter of the 8th 
 of the same month, requesting that our (;onsul at Fort Erie be instructed 
 to inquire into and report upon the treatment of the Indians within the 
 Dominion of Canada, their present condition and the iueans employed 
 to bring them into habits of civilization, I have the honor now to in- 
 close you the report of Mr. F. N. Blake, at that time United States con- 
 sul at Fort Erie, but now holding that oflftce at Hamilton, Ontario. 
 I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant, 
 
 HAMILTON FISH. 
 Hon. Sidney Clarke, 
 
 Chairman of Committee on Indian Affairs^ 
 
 House of Representatives. 
 
 Consulate of the United States, 
 
 Hamilton^ Ontario^ January 6, 1870. 
 
 Sir : According to the Instructions issued from the Department of 
 State, in compliance with a request from the Hon. Sidney Clarke, chair- 
 man of the Committee on Indian Aftairs in the House of Representa- 
 tives, I have the honor to submit a repoii; on the condition and treat- 
 ment of the Indians in British North America, and tiie means used to 
 bring them successfiilly into the habits of civilization. 
 
 During the wars between the French and English in Canada, the 
 aborigines were freely employed on both sides ; but since the acquisi- 
 tion of the Provinces by Great Britain, the Indians have not only kept 
 the peace toward the government under which they live, bat have been 
 its faithftd allies in war, and abstained from violence among themselves. 
 
 It is now also an established ^^l*^^!*^ Indians ot Canada have 
 
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 passed through the most critical era of transition from barbarism to 
 civilization ; and the assimilation o2" their habits to those of the white 
 race is so far from tlireatening their gradual extinction that it is produc- 
 ing results directly opposite. 
 
 The official reports of the government, published in 1869 and many 
 previous years, furnish cautious but deliberate and concurrent testimony 
 to beneficial progress in the modes of life of the Indians in Ontario and 
 Quebec, the provinces where they are most numerous. One of the most 
 positive indications on this point is their numerical increase during the 
 last quarter of a century. 
 
 Kecent evidence as to this w ill be found in the tabular statement an- 
 nexed hereto, (see Appendix A,) showing, during the last year, addi- 
 tions to their population i. . tw^-ity-one of the settlements, and a de- 
 crease only in five. In every i-ance of diminution the amount is in- 
 significant, except in that of the Manitoulin Island; and inquiry has fully 
 satisfied me that migration, and not mortality, is the cause of the ap- 
 parent decrease in it. The diminution in the other four tribes is in the 
 aggregate only twenty-three in the number of indivitlv als. Each of 
 these tribes are so small as to compel frequent intermaiTiages, and thus 
 induce disease ; and there is reason to believe that migration, and ab- 
 sorption into the white race, have taken place to an extent sufficient to 
 counterbalance the deficiencies. 
 
 In the first step from the original condition of the Indians, tlu3 disap- 
 pearance of the larger animals on which they depend for food and 
 clothing brings constant privation, and frecpient famine. Even when 
 not entirely ignorant of the methods of gaining a livelihood by agri- 
 cultural and pastoral pursuits, their ancient and hereditary hiibits ren- 
 der them averse to the patient toil they have been accustomed to regard 
 as dishonorable. The temptations and discouragement they encounter 
 at this period render them an easy prey to vi(!es, which not only fur- 
 ther demoralize, but lead them to physical destruction. 
 
 As the Canadian tribes have escaped from the sutleiings of the state 
 of transition, have ceased to wander as destitute Pariahs on the borders 
 of the civilization to which they were aliens, and have located on farms, 
 the natural result of enjoying substantial habitations, comfortable 
 clothing, and jiroper food, in sufficient (quantities, has been to render 
 epidemics less frecpient, and less fatal, and to check the ravages of con- 
 sumption, and febrile attacks conse<iuent ui)on the severe hardships 
 and despondency necessarily exi)erienced, when former means of sub- 
 sistence have been h)st and no others have been gained. 
 
 Another prominent reason for an increase instead of a diminution in 
 the number of these Indians is the provision made for adecpmte medi- 
 cal attendance upon them, by which they, to a considerable extent, es- 
 cape the sacrifice of life consequent upon contagious and other diseases 
 induced by proximity to our own race. It is the i>ractice of the govern- 
 mental department having the various tribes in charge, to require com- 
 petent medical practitioners, at periods siifficiently near each other, to 
 make so general a vaccination as to leave little room for fear of the vis- 
 itations of small-pox, by which formerly whole families were sometimes 
 swept away. 
 
 From year to year the progress of civilization has long continued to 
 advance. In various parts of the newer regions of Canada, Indians 
 for whose benefit lands have been set apart are evincing an increased 
 desire to avail themselves of the opportunity of becoming settled, and 
 they appreciate the establishment of schools as an additional induce- 
 ment lor occupying permauent homes. Education is prized among 
 
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them, because, am^iig other results, it tends to lessen the sense of infe- 
 riority they feel when in company with whites ; and some of the native 
 tribes have been so anxious to secure its benefits for their children that 
 they have voluntarily taxed themselves for the purpose to such an ex- 
 tent as under other circumstances would seem incommensurate with 
 their incomes. 
 
 LTudoubtedly the desire for education, an<l other favorable indications 
 among the lo'^'ans, are, in a considerable degree, owing to the clergy 
 who minister among them, and exercise their influence for the repression 
 of intemperance and vice Jind the promotion of industry and good order. 
 But moral influence alone would have proved unavailing. Tlie govern- 
 ment of their country has felt a just sense of the res|)onsibility devolved 
 upon it ; has seen the necessity of treating the Indians temporarily as 
 wards or minors; has assumed a friendly and painstaking guardianship 
 over them, and seems practically to have adopted the principle that 
 whatever may have been the original stipulation in purchasing their 
 lands, the proper measure of compensation is to place and nmintain 
 them in such a condition that they may, if [)ossible, as the ultinutte re- 
 sult of their own exertions, enjoy advantages at least equal to those of 
 their former state. 
 
 Among the various Indian tribes of the Dominion are to be found 
 some yet representing the origifial barbarism, Avliile others are scarcely 
 distinguishable from the European race, either in person or habits. In 
 other cliaracteristics they jilso present marked distinctions. Thus, in 
 complying with my instructions to report as to their condition, I have 
 found it necessary to describe, as briefly as [)()ssible, the chief nations or 
 comnuiiiities among them, as well as to state the laws and influences lo 
 whicli all of them are subjected. 
 
 THE SIX NATIONS. 
 
 Of all the tribes or bands of Indians in Canada, the confederation 
 known as the " Six Nations of the (Irnnd River," contains the largest 
 population. Tlieir historical celebrity began with the earliest exjdora- 
 tions of the Hudson Kiver, and their present advanced condition also 
 invests them with peculiar interest. In 1808 their numbers were 2,790, 
 and they annually increase. Tliey consist of portions of the kindreti 
 nations of the Mohawks, Senecas, Cayugas, Onondagas, and Oneidas, 
 wlio once inhabited the valleys on the rivers and lakes of Central New 
 York, inchuling the Mohawk an<l (xonesee; and were so powerful a con 
 feder.icy that they not only overran the region afterwards known as 
 Upper Canada, but carried their wjirs far an<l wide into the western 
 praiHes. Their young men tested their bravery and endurance by ex- 
 peditions against tribes occupying remote southern regions, and partic- 
 ularly against the Cherokees, whom they esteemed as foenuMi especially 
 worthy of their best efforts. 
 
 To the five nations already enumerated have been added the Tuscaro- 
 ras, who, although at an early i)eriod they migrated to North Carolina, are 
 shown by tradition and language to be of the same original stock, and, 
 when driven from their southern hunting grounds were admitted into 
 the confederacy, which from that time ceased to be '' the Five," and was 
 called '^ the Six Nations." 
 
 These Indians, now residing on the Grand River, are the representa- 
 tives and descendants of those aborigines of whom De Witt Clinton said 
 that they were peculiarly and extraordinarily distinguished by " great 
 attainments in polity, in negotiation, in eloquence, and in war." They 
 
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 form the organization wliicb, eighty years before the American Revolu- 
 tion, held up their union as a political model to the English colonies. 
 
 I deemed the present condition of tliese Indians worthy of close in- 
 vestigation. Every facility for obtaining information regarding them 
 was cheerfully attbrded by their courteous " visiting superintendent/' 
 Mr. J. F. Gilkison ; and, in company with him, 1 visited their principal 
 school and was present at one of their councils. 
 
 In the treaty with the United States, at the close of the Revolu- 
 tionary war, Great Britain made no stipulation in behalf of her Indian 
 allies ; and " the ancient country of the Six Nations, the residence of their 
 ancestors from a time far beyond their earliest traditions, was included 
 within the boundaries granted to the Americans ;" but official pledges 
 had been given, that as soon as hostilities were at an end they should 
 be restored, at the expense of the government, to the condition they 
 were in before the war began. 
 
 On behalf of his tribe, (Japtain Brant, the celebrated Mohawk chief, 
 whose fame has become historical and is perpetuated in the name of the 
 pleasant and flourishing town of Brantford, refused offers to reside in 
 the United States, and claimed from General Haldimand, then com- 
 mander-in-chief in Canada, the fultillment of the pledges. The warrior 
 was received with ample cordiality, and first selected a tract of land 
 near the lower end of Lake Ontario, in the bay of Quinte, where six 
 bundled and eighty-three Mohawks, who are prosperous and whose num- 
 bers are increasing, now reside. 
 
 The Senecas, yfho intended to remain in the United States, became 
 apprehensive that their troubles had not terminated, and were exceed- 
 ingly desirous that the Mohawks should reside so near as to assist 
 them, if necessary, by force of arms, or to afford them an asylum if 
 they should find it needful. Under these circumstances. Captain Brant 
 re(i nested permission to have another and more convenient territory, 
 and ultimately selected the country on the Grand River, flowing fi'om 
 tlie north into Lake Erie, about forty miles above Buffalo, as a suitable 
 location for maintaining a ready intercourse with the residue of the Six 
 Nations, and as affording facilities for corresponding with the nations 
 and tribes of the ui)per lakes. 
 
 The result was a fornml grant, from the Crown, of the land, to the 
 brejidth of six miles on each side of the Grand River, beginning at 
 Lake Erie and extending in that jiroportion to the head of the stream, 
 and this " the Mohawks and others of the Six Nations, who had either 
 lost their possessions in the war or wished to retire from them to the 
 British, were to enjoy forever." The land was purchased from the Chip- 
 pewas. The course of the river is about one hundred miles, so that the 
 territory was that extent in length and twelve miles in width. It is a 
 pleasantly undulated and exceedingly fertile region. The historian of 
 the i)eriod says : " This tract, though much smaller than liiey had been 
 obliged to forsake, within the United States, amply satisfied these 
 loyal Indians." 
 
 At the conclusion of the war, the legislature of the State of New 
 York manifested a desire to expel the Six Nations. No doubt this con- 
 tributed to increase the number of emigrants to the Grand River, al- 
 though, in 1784, the State, urged by Generals Washington and Schuy- 
 ler, who thought the proposed iK)licy was injudicious, inhunmn and un- 
 just, and that " a veil should be drawn over the past, and these child- 
 ren of the forest should be taught that their true interest and safety 
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 with the United States," ultimately secured all the Six Nations in the 
 possession of the lands they were then occupying. 
 
 Cai)tain Brant soon saw that the attractions of the fertile region he 
 had selected would be appreciated by the white man, who would make 
 settlements around it, and thus drive the Indians from the condition of 
 hunters to that of farmers. As a compensation for the loss of the same, 
 he recommended sales of a portion of the land, so that a fund might be 
 raised for the immediate benefit of his people, who m^ght thus also 
 secure a perpetual revenue. As his opinions were auopted by the 
 Indians, they, in 1798, surrendered 352,707 acres, which were then sold 
 for £44,867, in accordance with the desire of the Indians themselves, 
 the government having sanctioned the measure on the conviction that 
 it would be beneficial to them. 
 
 Other sales have been made, until the reservation contains ubout 
 53,000 acres. 
 
 Several of these Indians are now good farmers, and conduct their 
 operations on a large scale, (lenendly, the members of these nations 
 are well supplied with cattle, horses, sheep, and swine, and have com- 
 fortable habitations. Some are content to live very i)lainly ; but, al- 
 though they do not usually farm so well as the white freeholders around 
 them, their condition is much better than that of the poor whites in 
 large cities ; and all testimony concurs in saying that they have made 
 decidedly ai)i)reciable progress in agriculture within the last few years. 
 
 In going to their council-house 1 met several load^ of grain en route 
 to the Brantford market, and owned by Indians ; and a considerable 
 surplus was this year raised for sale. On the whole, although much 
 remains to be done in the way of improvement, these Indians are un- 
 equivocally in comfortable and independent circumstances. 
 
 By slow degrees the old taste or passion for hunting and fishing, usu- 
 ally believed to be instinctive and ineradicable in the Indian, is (lying 
 away. 1 was assured on reliable authority that the influence of settled 
 habits and comfortable homes is so great that most of the young men 
 have now no more inclination t'ov the chase than is found among those 
 of the same age in our own race. 
 
 Several of these Intlians are carpenters and shoemakers, and there 
 are some tailors and blacksmiths among them. Many individuals are 
 said to have a strong inclination for speculating — by which " trading" 
 or bartering horses, cattle, buggies, &c., should be understood. 
 
 Tliere are at present about a dozen instances of intermarriage between 
 members of these nations and the Avhites. 
 
 In several important particulars a renn)val from the immediate neigh- 
 borhood of Brantford, and the improveuient in substantial (iomforts, 
 have produced valuable results. 
 
 One of the most suggestive indicfitions of the period is that an agri- 
 cultural fair was held exchisively among the Indians during the present 
 yeal\ The New England Society contributed £20 to the fund f<n' lu'izes, 
 the list of which included cattle of difi'erent breeds, and was, with a few 
 variations, much the*same as among the whites on such occasions. The 
 exhibition was highly creditsible and well calculated to improve the 
 stock and husbandry of the Indians, an<l also 1:0 exert a cheering and 
 elevating influence upon them by instituting pheasant social and jmblic 
 gatherings; while to encourage an honorable and pleasurable pride in 
 having good stock antl in fostering the domestic animals, is to substitute 
 entirely new characteristics for those predominant among people who 
 think of the inferior creatures as only subjects for the chase and the 
 knife. 
 
MANAGEMENT OF INDIANS IN BRITISH AMERICA. 
 
 Tlie estiiblislinieiit of a teini>eranee society amoug these nations is 
 regarded by many as an omen of good hope. 
 
 About a mile from the town of Brantford we reached the Indian 
 school-house, established by the New England Society. It is a plain, 
 substantial three atory building of brick, pleasantly situated on a farm 
 comprising two hundred acres of fertile land. At the time of my visit 
 the number of children in attendance, including both sexes, Avas eighty- 
 two. They are taught, fed, and clothed at the exi)ense of the society. 
 None are admitted before the age of ten. The writing of several was 
 very good, and their examinations in spelling were highly creditable. 
 There is no attempt to confer more than a plain English education, but 
 provision is made for consecutive advancements to higher schools, if the 
 proficiency attained seems to justify them. The farmer of the establish- 
 ment carefully instructs the boys in the work of the farm at all seasons 
 of the year, taking a limited number with him into the fields and barns 
 on all suitable o(;(;asions, and allotting specific work to each of them, 
 subject to his inspection. 
 
 I regretted that horticultural instructions were not added to those of 
 the resident farmer. At an expense almost nominal a few ornamental 
 trees, shrubs, and plants would increase the attractions of the temporary 
 home and its lessons to the young Indians; and by adding a nursery 
 garden the children could also be instructed in the art of sowing, rear- 
 ing, budding, and grafting the fruit trees adapted to the climate. Mu<;h 
 present and agrtiieable interest would be excited, useful employment 
 would be aflforded, and permanent and practical ideas of a beneficial 
 kind would thus be carried to many Indian homes, and secure material 
 and profitable results, while the iiroductions of the garden and nursery 
 would nearly or quite defray the expense of the undertaking. 
 
 In addition to the common branches of education the girls are in- 
 structed in the ordinary household work of the farm, including spinning, 
 and sewing by hand and on the machine. 
 
 It was found impossible to secure attendance sufliciently regular with- 
 out boarding the children in the establishment. The i)arents of many 
 reside at considerable distances from it. It is unquestionable that the 
 influence exerted by the school has had a very beneficial influence on 
 the farm and homes of these Indians. 
 
 In this school two or three of the children were undistingnishable 
 from whites, and many were evidently of mixed blood. I inquired 
 from their teacher, who was a man of experience in other schools, 
 whether, in receiving instruction, there was any appreciable difference 
 between the children of the two races. He thought that of the two, the 
 Indians were the quickest. 
 
 Here no attempt is now made to teach the mechanical arts, although 
 at one time this was done. The project was not abandoned because the 
 Indian youths manifested an insufficient aptitude for such acquirements. 
 They preferred the independent life of farmers to that of confined and 
 systematic mechanics. 
 
 The same remarkable "New Engltind Society," already far advanced 
 in the third century of its benevolent and useful labors, maintains eight 
 s<;hools (see Appendix B) among the Indians of the Six Nations, besides 
 two more schools in other parts of Ontario. It is a close corporation, 
 and, in some respects, but little is known of it. By an ordiiumce issued 
 in 1049, during the time of the British Commonwealth, it was consti- 
 tuted a corporation under the name of " The President and Society for 
 the Propagation of the Gospel in New England." Under the same au- 
 thcrity " a general collection was made in all the counties, cities, towns, 
 
MANAGEMEI 
 
 and parishes in England and Wales," and lands were purchased with 
 the money so collected. On the restoration the objects of the company 
 were declared to be not confined to New England, but to extend also to 
 " the parts adjacent in America." 
 
 The charter states the jiurpose of the society to be " for the further 
 propagation of the gospel of Jesus Christ amongst the heathen natives 
 in or near New England, and the parts adjacent in America, and for the 
 better civilizing, educating, and instructing of the said heathen natives 
 in learning and the knowledge of the true and only God, and in the 
 Protestant religion already owned and publicly professed by many of 
 them, and for tlie better encouragement of such others as shall Embrace 
 the same, and of their posterities after them, to abide and coittinue in 
 and hold fast the said profession." 
 
 The first governor in this corporation was the Hon. Robert Boyle, 
 who retained his office for thirty years, and by his will added largely to 
 its income, which was also increased by " other pious and well-disposed 
 persons," especially by a bequest from an eminent dissenting minister, 
 the Rev. Dr. Daniel Williams, whose name, like that of Boyle, has 
 become historical in New England and throughout this continent. 
 
 Not far from the chief school established by this company rises the 
 spire of a neat and quaint little church, the oldest sacred edifice in the 
 Province of Ontario. It was built by Captain Brant and his brother 
 Indians, who brought with them from tlui Mohawk Valley a large Bible 
 and a silver set of communion ]>late, presented to them by ^'the good 
 Queen Anne," and yet cherished as inalienable mementoes by the 
 nation. The bell which called them to Christian worship in the wilder- 
 ness of the Mohawk is yet retained for similar purposes on the Grand 
 River. 
 
 The council-house of the Six Nations is a new and commodious build- 
 ing, about twelve miles from Brant ford. In the proceedings held within 
 it many of the old observances arc yet retained. The chieftaincies, as 
 to times of peace, have been hereditary through the female line, but 
 inherited not by the son of the chief, but the son or nominee of his 
 daughter. The ancient office of fire-keeper is also continued. "The 
 act and the symbol of the act were both in his hands. lie summoned 
 the chiefs and actually lit the sacred fire at whose blaze their i)ipes were 
 lighted." 
 
 I found about sixty of the chiefs present. Three or four of the num-. 
 ber could not be distinguished from whites ; but on the whole the In- 
 dian characteristics prevailed, an<l indicate*! less intermixtin-e of the 
 races than might have been expected, after they had lived in proximity 
 so long. In dress, cleanliness, intelligence, and other marks of condi- 
 tion and character, the assemblage was jit leiist e<iual to that of an 
 ordinary town-meeting in a good ngricultmal region. Two old chiefs 
 wore gaily-colored handkerchiefs as turbans, and had loose coats with 
 saslu^s, but there were no other approaches to Indian costunu*. 
 
 On all occasions of ade(|uate importance, ^Ir. Gilkeson, as the visit- 
 ing superintendent, presides. 
 
 Before open discussion began, the chiefs "put their lu'ads together" 
 in small knots or parties throughout the room and consulte<l carefully. 
 The subsequent speakers in puldic were un<lerstood to express the opin 
 ions thus formed in the minor circles. The proceedings were in the 
 language of the Six Nations, but an able interpreter officiated when 
 necessary. 
 
 The ancient and admirable charficteristics of Indians in council yet 
 prevail. Even when highly educated, our own race seldom attains the 
 
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 ubnolutely unenibamissed fluency of liiiigiiiige, the Relf-possensed and 
 eu8y intonations and gestures, and the quiet and dignified courtesy 
 which distinguished the si)eakers. They spolce with the eUn'ated air 
 of men wlio respetjt themselves and their hearers. To understand the 
 full significance of such a S(;ene one must be an actual witness of it. 
 
 Having been informed of my object in visiting them, they ai)i)ointed 
 one of their number to address me. He did so through an inti'rpreter, 
 with equal ease, tact and courtesy; and expressed tlie most friendly 
 feelings and a readiness to afford whatever infornnition I might desire. 
 When I had said a few words in rei>ly, lie connnended me and my coun- 
 trymen to the care of the Great Spirit, and gave me to understand that 
 he was deputed on behalf of the assembled chiefs to shake hands with 
 me. He did so, gracefully and cordially, apparently un(;onscious that 
 the ju'ecedent might sometimes be advantageously adopted by assem- 
 blages more numerous and important. 
 
 After the fornml meeting was over, a few Indians addressed me through 
 one of their own number and an interpreter, inforn »ng me that they 
 were pagans, and yet adhered to their ancient institutions ; holding the 
 same opinions and jmicticing the same observances regarding religion 
 and the Great Si)irit as had been handed down to them through their 
 forefathers from time immemorial, or prehistoric. Like the other mem- 
 bers of these nations, they knew of the President or Great Father, and 
 exj)ressed pleasure in having secMi a citizen of the United States. They 
 assured me that although they differed on many ])oints from the jweseut 
 majority of the people of their confederacy, they believed that the Great 
 Spirit recpiired them to do right towanl all men, and said that they en- 
 deavored to inculcate and practice this golden rule. 
 
 The number of pagan Indians among the Six Nations on this reserva- 
 tion is about six hundred. Those who profess Christianity are chiefly 
 Episcopalians, Methodists and Baptists, but a few are Plymouth Brethren. 
 
 I returned to Hamilton more deeply impressed than before with a 
 sense of the capability of the Indian for civilization ; and yet more clearly 
 cognizant of the slow and almost imperceptible degrees by which alone 
 an Indian population can ever be actually absorbed by our own race. 
 
 There are also three settlements of Iroquois in Lower Canada — at St. 
 Kegis, St. Louis, and the Lake of the Two Mountains. Those of St. 
 Regis are specially distinguished as having blended some of the health- 
 ful elements of European civilization with the self-reliance and vigor of 
 their origiind and untamed life. They appear to have acquired provi- 
 dent habits, as well as other virtues of civilization, and are one of the 
 most conspicuous among the native tribes for temperate and orderly 
 lives, and progress as a settled community. 
 
 Although this <;ommunity is an oft'-shoot of the Iroquois stock, it is 
 not a member of the confederacy. It originated in efforts begun about 
 the middle of the seventeenth century, by the Roman Catholic church, 
 to draw the Iroquois into communion. Ultimately the most enthusiastic 
 of the converts withdrew from the body of the tribes and settled on the 
 banks of the St. Lawrence. 
 
 The Wyandotts, or, as they are frequently termed, the Hurons, are of 
 kindred origin to the Iroquois, and resembled them in wild courage. 
 They were the chief inhjibitauts of the now cultivated regions of the 
 Province of Ontario. When Chauqilain first explored the country west 
 of the river Ottawa, and along the northern shore of Lake Ontario, he 
 found it unoccupied, but also marked with abundant traces of cultiva- 
 tion and of recent occupation by the Wyandott tribes, who had either 
 been exterjuiuated by the Iroquois or pursued by them with such relent- 
 
MANAQEMENT OF INDIANS IN BRITISH AMERICA. 
 
 loss liostility that tlioy rotn»ate«l until tlioir once populouH regions were 
 HbaiidoiitMl. Tlunr ciiief M^ttUMiuMits \v<>ro around Lake 8iincoi% and nhmfi 
 the Georjjjian Hay, rej;;ionH marked oii every favoraMe site with traces of 
 their a^frieultural iiulustry, and crowded with their jfraves. Their ]>op- 
 uhition was estimated at between thirty and forty thousand; and in the 
 earlier part of the seventeenth century the »Iesuit fathers are said to have 
 ]>lanted their statitms amid the populous walled villaj^:es and ctdtivated 
 tiehls of the Wyandotts, and reckoned the warriors of their trihefe by 
 thousands. 
 
 In l(»2(i, Father Josejdi de la Koche d'Alleyn, when seeking? to dis- 
 cover the (leboucliment of the Niagara into Lake Ontario, i>asse<l thron;j;h 
 twenty-ei^ht towns and villages of the Altiwendaronks, wln» lived in the 
 territory in<;lu<ling the valley and falls of that river. The (country of the 
 Eries was far nuue extensive, and probably e«iually popnlous. But such 
 was th«' relentless nature of the aiudess war waged ujjon these people 
 by the Iroquois, that within less than thirty years from this mission of 
 Father de la Koche the whole region occupied by these nations, from 
 the Georgian Bay to the southern limits of the Fries, and far beyoiul 
 the shores of the lake which yet i)eri>etuate8 their name, was a silent 
 desert. All this was the result of conflict among native tribes, and so 
 entirely unintluenced by the white man, that it is with ditticulty we can 
 recover a few trustworthy glim[)ses of the Eries or the others, from In- 
 dian traditions or the notes of one or two missionaries whom zeal for the 
 propagation of the faith carried into the coiuitry of those extinct ))eoples, 
 long before the enterprise of the coureum des hok had led them to pene- 
 trate so far. 
 
 The important bearing of this brief historical sketch on the subject of 
 my rei)ort will be seen, on reflecting that, by the means thus recounted, 
 a large ]U'oportion of the vast ])rovince, lately known as Canada, was in 
 a considerable degree denu<led of Indians. This is one of the reasons 
 why the hatred and warfare, whi(;h have generAlly resulted from the aj)- 
 proaches of settlements by whites to Indian territory, did not arise. It 
 aided in giving a clear tteld for the trial of those wise experiuients which 
 havt» already resulted so favorably and promise yet greater success. 
 
 The Mississaquas, and other branches of the Algoncpiin stock from the 
 northwest, spread into the nearly vacant territory, but their influx has 
 to a consiilerable extent taken place since the French portion of the 
 white race had begun to colonize it. Doubtless this state of attairs, and 
 the friendly migration of the Six Nations into Canada, with the consent 
 and approval of rhe British government and of the Indians previously 
 resident in the province, have done nuicli toward encouraging the im- 
 perial and provincial governments to adojit and [)ersevere in a Just and 
 hunume policy. It seems to be the universal opinion among both raises, 
 that although the ordinary management of the Indians by the dounuant 
 power in the old provinces of Upper and Lower Canada may have some- 
 times been injudicious toward those who are submitted to its guardian- 
 ship, their substantial well-being has been sedulously kept in view. 
 
 Of the once great nation of Ilurons, or Wyandotts, destroyed by the 
 Iroquois, only seventy individuals now survive in the province of Onta- 
 rio. They occui)y the Huron reserve, in the township of Anderdon, and 
 were conttrmed in possession of that portion of the ancient heritage of 
 their race at the general partition of lands by the different tribes in 
 1701. In 1858, when they numbered sixty-live, commissioners appointed 
 by the Canadian government to in(iuire into the best means of securing 
 the progress and civilization of the Indian tribes in Canada, stated that 
 " the Indians on this reserve are mostly half-breeds, French and English. 
 
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 MANAGEMENT OF INDIANS IN BRITISH AMERICA. 
 
 Very few, if anj , are of pure Indian blood. They niuat be looked upon 
 as among the tribes the most advanced in civilization in Western Can- 
 ada. Many of them speak either French or Englisli fluently, have a 
 keen knowledge of their own interests, and would be capable of mjin- 
 aging their own affairs." 
 
 In religious belief tliey are nearly equally divided between cpnverts to 
 the creed and worship of the Roman Catholics and those of the Meth- 
 odist faith. They attend the churches and mingle with other worship- 
 pers at tlie town of Amherstburg, distant about three miles from the set- 
 tlement; and were it not for the distinctive character of the policy 
 adopted toward thf'n as being nominally Indian, they would " inevitably 
 merge into the general population, and disappear and be lost ; but only 
 in so far as they ceased to be distinguished from other members of the 
 civilized communitj\"* 
 
 At La Jeune Lorette, in the province of Quebec, is another remnant 
 of the Ilurons. Its members are descended from those stragglers of 
 their nation whom the Jesuit mi.- onaries of the seventeenth century 
 hunmnely guided from their ravaged hunting grounds and corn-tields 
 around the Georgian Bay, to the banks of the river St. Charles. In 
 1808 their population numbered two hundred and ninety-seven, having 
 increased twenty-one since the census of the i)revious year. 
 
 The commissioners who reported to the Canadian government in 1858 
 speak of them as a band of Indians "the most advanced in civilization 
 in the whole of Canada," but by the intenuixture of white blood they 
 have so far lost the original identity with their race as scarcely to be 
 considered as Indiar , Of all the tribes in Canada, they alone have lost 
 nearly all traces of their native language ; and, but for the pecuniary in- 
 ducements of the annual Indian grant, would long since have intermixed 
 Avith and disjippeared among the habitans of French descent, by whom 
 they are surrounded. 
 
 The theory of the sterility and ultimate extinction of the mixed Indian 
 and European races appears to be confuted by the well autlienticated 
 fact that the numbers of individuals in the hybrid tribes have largely 
 multiplied since 1844, and that tlie in(;rease yet continues. Professor 
 Wilson, a close observer and accurate analyst, says: "They seem likely 
 to survive until, as a settlement of French-speaking Canadians, on the 
 banks of the St. Charles, they will have to prove their Imlian descent by 
 baptismal register, or the genealogical records of the tribe, after all ex- 
 ternal traces liave disa])i)eared." 
 
 Within the last year the dicta of an eminent European ethnologist as 
 to the influence of the climate of our continent on our race have been 
 extensively quoted, and elicited ample commentaries in both hemi- 
 si>heres. He based his conclusions on a letter from a French ( •anadian, 
 who i)athetically lamented that, although he and his family heroically 
 renmineu French in sentinuMit, after an absence of two centuries from 
 the i>arent stock, they were becoming Ilurons in physical form. View- 
 ing the sulviect as he did, simply from a single point, and in reference to 
 climatic influences, the marvel of the case is magniflcently increased by 
 the fact that an oi)posite effect is [)roduc(Ml upon the Ilurons, who, i!i 
 the same period, have beeonu^ so nearly French. The savant bore uncon- 
 scious testimony to the existing amalgamation of the races. 
 
 The Algon(iuin race formerly extended from the Atlantic shore of New 
 York, through New England and the British maritinu^ proviiu-es, along 
 the lower St. Lawrence, and then<*e westerly along the northern shores 
 of Lakes Huron aiul Superior, at least as far as the Mississippi. 
 
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MANAGEMENT OP INDIANS IN BRITISH AMERICA. 
 
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 In C.aiiada its tribes are more numerous than any otlier, and include 
 the Chippewas, Mississaquas, Ojibways, Pottawatomies and Ottaw-ts, of 
 Ontario; besides the Nippissings, Abinakis, Anialacites, Montagnais, 
 Mistassons, and Mohegans, in the i)rovinee of Quebec. Many of them 
 remain on, or even beyond, the outskirts of civilization, and are yet no- 
 madic tribes, subsisting by fishing and the chase, while others, occupy- 
 ing more favorable positions, are in an advanced condition, not inferior 
 to that of any other Canadian tribes. 
 
 One of the Mississaqua chiefs, sjieaking of his own tribe, the Indians 
 yet known as of the river Credit, though now resident in the territory 
 of the Six Xations, and of such (others as have become Christian, fur- 
 nishes strong testimony as to the increase of the genuine spirit of civiliza- 
 tion anion them. He said : 
 
 "Formerly the women were considered as mere slaves to dnulgery, 
 and hard woik was done by them. Now the men treat the women as 
 equals, bearing the heavy burdens themselves, while the wouu'n attend 
 to the children and househoUl concerns." 
 
 As the Algonquins inhabited comparatively high northern latitudes, 
 and the small grains were unknown among the aborigines, whose chief 
 crop was (H)rn, they weie probably even more essentially nomadic than 
 the Iroquois or the Hurons, and in even a greater degree regarded sys- 
 tematic and manual labor as too degiading to occupy their attention. 
 But wherever the experiment has been made in equally favorable condi- 
 tions, they show lu) less aptitude than the (»ther race for the care of do- 
 mestic cattle and the cultivation of the farm. 
 
 By the census of 1S50, the nund)er o^ Indians on the northern shores 
 of Lake Huron was 1,422, and on the shores of Lake Sui)orior, 1,240 — in 
 all, 2,GG2. In 18(58 they had respectively increased to 1,748 and 1,2(}3— 
 in all, 3,011, being a gain of 340. This small population is spread over 
 a country ex(!eeding the State of New Y(uk in extent, ami as yet scarcely 
 approached by civilization, excei)t at the posts of the Hudson's Bay 
 Comi>any, and at the Northern 3Iines, where a scanty poi)ulation is at- 
 tracted. It cannot be expected that in a wooded country, yet so sparsely 
 peojded, these Indians should have been induced to give ui) the habits 
 of tlie chase, esi)ecially as the severity of the climate greatly diminishes 
 the rewards of agricultural industry. Hence it may readily be inferred 
 that civilization is yet inchoate among them. 
 
 ]\Iost of these Indians are yet [)agans. The few who have embrsiced 
 Christianity have chietly done so througii the exertions of the Catholic 
 priests. The following description of these tribes yet remains essen- 
 tially true. The commissioners said : 
 
 "They live for the most part by hunting and on the produce of their 
 fisheries, although they do raise a few potatoes and a little Indian corn ; 
 and they fiiul a market tor disposing of their ix'ltries and suj^plying 
 themselves with necessaries at the posts of the Hudson's Bay Company. 
 They are (piite nomadic in their habits; sehhMn living or remaining long- 
 in one spot, and contented with the shelter afforded by a bark wigwam 
 or a hut of reeds. It is (»nly during the spring and antumn, when they 
 conie d«)wn fnnn the high groun<ls to the border of the laUc, that they 
 are accessible to those who wimld urge on them the necessity of ('hris- 
 tianity and civilization. There is no diHiculty, therefore, in ai'counting 
 for the snuUl apparent results of the labors of the missionaries." 
 
 In 1850* these peo|)le surrendered the whole extent of their va.st c«mn- 
 try, with the excepticm of certain reserves, to the Canadian government, 
 
 * Sue Uiml'H Cuutuliuu Uud Kiver Expeilitiun, vol. 2, x>. lihj. 
 
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 for $10,040 in cash, and a perpetual annuity of $4,400, or less than a tlol- 
 lar and a half apiece — the annuity being so snutll as scarcely to be worth 
 claiming, esi)ecially by those who do not reside in the immediate neigh- 
 borhoo<l of the places where payment is made. Hitherto these Indians 
 can scarcely be said to have parted from the possession or occupancy of 
 their territory. It is to be hoped that, as the white men make settle- 
 ments near them, and their present means of subsistence are diminished, 
 the Canadian government, in accordance with its traditional policy, will 
 make some more adequate provision for them. 
 
 So great has been the influence of the ordinary Canadian policy that 
 even tliese Indians maintain a peaceful character. They evince much 
 fidelity to their friends, and are not deflcient in honesty, except when 
 tliey fall under the temptation of " lire- water," which is to them nmrvel- 
 ously irresistible and destructive. JNIany of them are half breeds, and 
 the occasional introduction of whisky in defiance of the law is followed by 
 scenes of grejit i)rotligacy. 
 
 In 18.')(;, Lieutenant Governor Sir Francis B. Head made an attempt 
 to gather together all the Indian tribes of Canada on the Great Mani- 
 toulin Island, in the northern part of Lake Huron. The soil of the island 
 is stony and barren, and the (climate is too cold to meet the api)roval of 
 many of those whom he wished to settle upon it. Tliose Indians who 
 went there were chiefly from tlie wandering tribes on the northern shore 
 of the lake, and, by subsequent inattention and neglect, they were .al- 
 lowed to lapse partially into their vagrant habits in pursuit of game and 
 fish, instead of being actively encouraged, and invited by example and 
 other nu'ans to adopt a life of industry, either as fanners or mechanics. 
 The othcials sent among them did not exert a favorable influc ncie; and 
 the in*^roduction and sale of spiritous liquors, though illegal, was not 
 jM-ever-ted. The resident missionaries also report that great injury was 
 done by the indiscriminate admission of various traders, who sohl use- 
 less articles on credit at excn'bitant rates; and although debts cannot be 
 enforce<l against Indians, were i)aid by them in the products of their 
 toil at as low ratios as the consciences of such traders would permit 
 them to ort'er. 
 
 The remarks of the resident Roman Catholic missionaries on the sub- 
 ject of credit to In<lians convey so pointed and clear a lesson that I 
 transcribe them. They said: 
 
 "The following is the mode of traffic pursued by the resident traders. 
 During the summer and winter months, seasons when the Indians have 
 nothing to ex<;hange for goods, t]w traders sell them all that they re 
 (juire on credit. Their purchases are generally objects of but little in- 
 trinsic value, ami are cliosv'u by the Indians more on account of color 
 and form than for their actual worth; for as a rule the traders object is 
 more to gratify the frivolous and <'hild-like tastes of the Indian tlian to 
 provide for his actual wants. Objects of everyday use are sold at an 
 advance of three, four, or five times their original cost. When the 
 spring or autumn arrives, the traders get possession, so lar as they can, 
 of the sugar, potatoes and fish, that the Indians may have then, at ex- 
 tremely low prices, fixed by themselves. Their reason for acting in this 
 arbitrary manner is, they allege, to restore their own credit asul protect 
 their own interests, for they are well aware that a large nund)er of the 
 Indians will be unable or unwilling to pay their debts in full; and the 
 traders in this manner indemnify themselves by exacting, from the small 
 number of Indians whom they compel to pay at all, debts which in the 
 Indians' eyes appear enormous, and which injustice, were the trader to act 
 with honesty, would not amount to more than one-third of the sum claimed. 
 
MANAGEMENT OF INDIANS IN BRITISH AMERICA. 
 
 This credit system lias not thus far answered and can never be made to 
 succeed, for while it keeps the Indian in a state of shivishness and de- 
 peiuleuce, depriving him as it does of tlie fruits of liis own hibor, it 
 eventually ruins the trader. Of the many traders who deal with the 
 Indians we do not know of one whose atfairs can be said to be in a pros- 
 perons condition. 
 
 "As rejjards transient traders, it is during the spring and autumn, as 
 we have before remarked, that they make their appearance from every 
 side. But this is what then happens : The Indians who have bought 
 from the resident trader during the summer and winter, well aware that 
 if they carry him their potatoes, sugar, or fish, they will only be paying 
 debts alrea<ly contracte<l, without obtaining anything in return, prefer 
 taking their provisions to the transient traders, to whom they owe 
 nothing, and from whom they at once obtain merchandise in return." 
 
 The same reverend gentlemen rei)resent the two classes of traders as 
 e(pially extortionate, and, as one of the remedies for such a state of 
 things, propose that every spring and autumn a taritt' of prices should 
 be posted on a conspicuous place and that conformity to it be enforced. 
 
 Others have recommended the establishment of stores or shops under 
 governmental inspection, and where a resident ofldcial shall have a fixed 
 salary. 
 
 I can readily believe with the missionaries that, under such (;ircum- 
 stances as have been described, the Indian would always be overwhelmed 
 with debt, with very slight possibility of ever extricating himself from 
 it, and that he could scarcely be expected " to have comifort and [>lenty 
 in his iMMue when he is barely able to purchase articles of in<lispensablc 
 necessity." 
 
 But even as to this island, the same missionaries concur with other 
 witnesses in the testimony that a marked and satisfactory advancement 
 has been nuide, both in a moral aiul religious point of view, including 
 increased fidelity to nunriage vows, extinction of hereditary <iuarrels 
 between ditferent tribes or bands, and the almost total suppression of 
 habitual intemperaiuje. As regards habits of iiulustry, the imiuovement 
 is e(iually satisfactory, though it has been retarded by the want of a 
 fi(mr-mill, and by other causes. These Indians display nnu'h aptitiule 
 for the arts and trades of civilized life. Among them are masons, tin- 
 smiths, blacksmiths, tailors, cooiiers, shoemakers and carijenters; and 
 nearly all are skilled in the nuinufa(!ture of Mackina(5 boats. 
 
 The miK'^ionaries also report that if these Indians do not also display 
 a decided inclination and taste for agriculture, and do not i)rogress in 
 this respect as nuich as might be desired, it is not owing to any want of 
 ingenuity or necessary industry, but to the want of necessary imple- 
 ments, «S:c. 
 
 The native poimlation on the Manitoulin Island was, at the census of 
 1S(»8, thirteen hundred, nearly two hundred having temporarily or other- 
 wise migrated in search of emph)yment. A part of the island is iu»w 
 opened for settlement by the whites, and a considerable anu)unt of roads 
 has been nuide, in the construction of which Indian labor was used and 
 found to be i)rofitable. 
 
 In speaking of the Iroquois and Hurons, I have already given some 
 account of such of them as live in the province of (Quebec. 
 
 The Indians of this region were, in the early stages of their intercourse 
 with the white race, subjected to intluences essentially ditt'erent from 
 those of Ontario. The French nmde less etlbrt to nniintain them, but 
 treated them more nearly as equals and associates; and one of the lead- 
 ing ideas of early French coloiiizatiou was the esUiblishmeut of a new 
 
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 MUammV OF IITI^IANS IN UUlTmH AMUUIUA. 
 
 Christian empire, whose people, or their ancestors, should be the con- 
 wrt-ed abori;;ines. Thus, it is not surprising; that, where the Indians of 
 this province occui)ied territory snrroun<led by that of the whiteis, they 
 have become Catholic and nearly French, as, in the settled porti:)ns of 
 Ontario, the tendency usually is to become Protestant and Anglo-Saxon. 
 
 Where opportunity offers, they prefer enji^aj^ing as raftsmen or pilots 
 on the 8t. Lawrence, or entering*- into the service of the Hudson's IJay 
 Company to laboring ste.adily on farms. 
 
 Some of tlu^se tribes now present characteristic's in marked (H>ntrast 
 to those of others, the chief point beinj»- that while in lineage and lan- 
 guage some are almost French, others, near the Lower St. Lawrence and 
 north of it, are yet in a state of ])rimitive and wandering barbarism. 
 With tlie ex<'eption of the latter, the native po[)ulatioii of (^ueb«M* is not 
 only numerically increasing, notwithstanding some emigration to this 
 country and to diiferent parts of Canada, but is advancing towards civ- 
 ilization and adopting agricultural occupations, and also several others 
 of the emph)yn»ents useful to such conununities as those of Can:. da and 
 tlie United States. Regular, steady, mainial labor, without ample remu- 
 neration, is seldom relished by those of either race whose wants can be 
 satisfied without it ; and there is no doubt that one of the reasons why 
 the Indians of Lower Canada do not take more readily to the farm is, that 
 the severity of the climate lU'events them from realizing more than a 
 very moderate reward from their lalxns on it. AVliether right or wrong, 
 the French population of this province is characterized rather by a will- 
 ingness to enjoy life as it ])asses than by the desire prevalent among cmr 
 own people to accunudate large material possessions, and the civilized 
 Indians of (Quebec have naturally been intluenced by the ideas of the 
 white neighbors who lived around their villages. 
 
 Under the old regime the French (ionsidered themselves the sovereign 
 possessors of the land, and thus in consecpienceof theinsutticiency of the 
 provision made for these aborigines, a moderate grant is allowed by 
 the government to aid in their supi)ort. 
 
 The l\ev. J. ^laurault, a resident Roman Catholic missionary among 
 the Abenakis tribe at St. Francis, <»vinced an intimate knowledge of 
 the Indians of Lower Canada, Miien he wrote the following summary: 
 
 " We have," suid he, "in Lower Canada, the ^Lmtaguais, the Tetesde 
 Boule, who an' true savages, and who ccmhl not possibly live as white 
 men do. It would be utterly useless to extend to them, for the present 
 at least, p'.ivileges which tliey would be unable to appreciate, wlii(th 
 would in no way benefit them, and which they wcmld in all probability 
 abuse. Hut this is not the case with the Indiansliving together in villages — 
 for instance, the ]Micmacs,the llurons, the Abenakis, the Iro(juois,and the 
 Algonciuins; these Indians are civilized; they are aware of the inferioi-- 
 ity of their position, they know what it ought to be, and they see them- 
 selves entangle«l in the meshes of a net they are unable to break. In 
 speaking of the llurons, the Abenakis, &(?., Jmw nmny figure to them- 
 selves the cruel and ferocious savages of former days, scalping their 
 enemies and living upon human flesh! How different is this from the 
 true state of the case! We have nothing to fear from them; they are 
 savages only in name. Their nnmners, their customs, their habits, 
 their nM)des of eating, &c., are precisely similar to those of the Cana- 
 dians. They nearly all speak both French jitmI English. Tln^ Hurons 
 have completely lost their mother-tongue. Our Indians of to-day are 
 nearly all Metis or half-breeds. Here I do not know o!ie Abenaki of 
 l)ure blood ; they are nearly all Canadian, (rernnin, English or Scotch 
 half-breeds. The dress of the men is exactly similar to that of our gen- 
 
try. The greater part oftliese Indians are as wliite as the Canadians ; and 
 if we occasionally meet with one of more than usually dark comi)lexion, 
 this is generally owing to their long journeys, extending at times over a 
 periotl of two or three months, exposed to the heat of the sun ; but then 
 a few weeks of repose in their homes suffice to remove comjiletely those 
 traces of exposure. Frequently I have heard visitors express their as- 
 tonishment, and say they had come to see Iiulians, when to their great 
 surprise they had found only white men.'- 
 
 The Abenakis of St. Francis, among whom the same missionary was 
 stationed, are now 208 in number. He says of them : 
 
 " Many suppose that our Indians are intellectually weak and dis- 
 qualified for business. This is a great mistake. Certainly, so far as 
 the Abenakis are concerned, they are nearly all keen, subtle, and very 
 intelligent. Let them obtain conq>lete free<loniand this inqjression will 
 soon (lisapi)ear. Intercourse with the whites will soon develoi) their 
 talents for commerce. No doubt some of them wt>uld make an improper 
 use of their liberty, but they would be few in number. Everywhere, 
 and in all countries, men are to be found weak, purposeless, and unwill- 
 ing to understand their own interests; but I can certify that the Abe- 
 nakis generally are sui)erior in intelligence to the Canadians. I have 
 remarked that nearly all those who have left their native village have 
 profited by the change. I know of several who have bought fari'us in 
 
 our neiahborhood and are now 
 
 living 
 
 in comfort. Others have emi- 
 
 grated to the United States, where they have almost all prosju'red, and 
 where several of them have raised theujselves to honorable positions. I 
 know one who is practicing with success the profession of a doctor. 
 Others have settled in our towns with a view to learn the difierent trades. 
 There is one at Montreal who is an excellent carj)enter; but here we see 
 nothing of the kind. Nevertheless, I observe a large number of young 
 men, clever, intelligent, and gifted, with remarkable talents." 
 
 Such being the result of his observations, the Kev. J. Maurault urges 
 the emancipation of at least all the more civilized Indians from the con- 
 dition of minors in the eye of the law; feeling assure<l that if they 
 were ])laced in comi»etition with the whites, and ahowed to hold and 
 dispose of their proi)erty, they would b.. found fully able to maintain 
 their place in the comnuinity. 
 
 The Micmacs number 4J)1, and are a small but highly civilized band 
 of a nation numerically stronger in New lirunswick and Xova Scotia. 
 They encamp along the Lower St. Lawrence, and manifest considerable 
 industry in making staves, barrel hoops, axe handles, and baskets of 
 various kinds. They usually speak English, and manitcvst much shrewd- 
 ness in making their baigains and coiniuehending the laws of traiU' in 
 relation to the market for hoops and staves and other articles manufac- 
 tured by them. 
 
 The condition of the kindred tribes of the ^lontaguais an«l Xaska- 
 pees has no pan iiel In the United States. Their special characteristics 
 arise fron» the {'usterity of their clinuite and the sterility of their soil. 
 Tliey cannot be expected to make much i>r«>gress in agricultural pur- 
 suits in a region where the nuiximum of labor is required and the mini- 
 mum of recomjiense is returned. Owing no doubt to climatic influ- 
 ences, these Indians were always regarded by their fellow-ab<uigines as 
 the least elevated of their race. They iidiabit the cold and barien re- 
 gions of the Lower St. Lawrence, where the water enters the ocean 
 after passing through the great lakes, whose shores already teem with 
 a civilized i>opulation. No inconsiderable portU)n of the commerce of 
 both hemispheres passes and repasses them. Their territory is nearer' 
 
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 MAIIAU1<]MUI,'F m IIIDIIIIH IM tiUlTIUU MlMUl. 
 
 than any other part of the American continent to the European nations 
 which have had most influence on our national character and course. 
 Three centuries ago, emigrants from France took up tlieir abodes in 
 the neighborliood of these Indians, and the descen<lant8 of tlie original 
 colonists yet dwell in the villages founded by their forefathers. But 
 the course of civilization has been westward to more propitiims re- 
 gions, and has left these natives behind. Few of them have been 
 brought under the j>ower of modern enlightenment, although, owing to 
 the (ievoted exertions of Koinan Catholic priests, some settlements have 
 been made. It is difficult to see how much imiu'ovenu^iit can be made 
 in tlieir condition by nutans of agriculture unless they are removed to a 
 climate less rigcu'ous. It would be more easy to make tiahermen than 
 farmers of them. 
 
 The population of the Montaguais is 1,030, and they seem to be slight- 
 ly on the increase. The Canadian commissioners sa^' of them that, 
 " where uncorrujited by intercourse with unprincipletl traders, they were 
 remarkal>le for their Inmesty ; and even now it is but very seldom that 
 they break their wor<l or willfully violate engagements which they have 
 entered into. There are but few half-breeds anuMig them." 
 
 The Naskapees, who number 2,800, are of the same stock. They and 
 the Mistassins are cl<»thed in furs and deer-skins ; their only neapons 
 are the bow and arrow, and they depend wholly on the bow and drill 
 tor ])rocuring Are.* Scmie Catholic missionaries labor among them with 
 untiring zeal and lidelity, but two-thirds of them are yet wild pagans 
 who worship Manitous supposed to iidiabit the sun and moon. To these 
 imaginary deities they devote [>art of every animal they slay. As with 
 many tril»es further south, the sacrifice of the white dog is annually 
 otfere<l. 
 
 Owing to the diminution of their game, and the injury done by white 
 men to their tisheries, the privations of these Indians in winter are 
 often cpiite as great as those of the Esquimaux within the Arctic circle, 
 while their resources are less ample. The missionaries and others who 
 have been among them relate fearful instances of the last extreme to 
 which luunan beings (;an be driven for food. 
 
 Numerically considered, the aborigines of Nova Scotia and New 
 Brunswick, now included in the New Dominion, are unimimrtant in 
 comparison with those of the regi(m lately known as Canada. Alto- 
 gether the Indians of Nova 8cotia nund)ered l,H'Art in 1808, when those 
 of New Brunswick were 2,118. (See Appendix, Table A.) The govern- 
 ment of the New Dominion has yet obtained only a limited amount of 
 information concerning them. 
 
 It seemst that no progress of importance has yet been made in pre- 
 vailing with the Indians of the maritime provinces to form themselves 
 into " communities similar to those which have long existed in Ontario 
 an<l Quebec, where, occu^^ying farms or village lots, they enjoy in settled 
 and permanent habitations many of the comforts and advantages of 
 civilization, combined with systematic and continuous education and 
 the pastoral care of religious instructors." 
 
 A philanthropic ettbrt is being made to rescue these Indians from 
 their present unprogressive condition and bring them at least up to the 
 standard of the more advanced communities of the same race in the 
 more inland provinces, where agriculture is the main support of the 
 families, although as yet it is not often managed with the usual skill 
 and industry of white farmers. Those who are attempting to produce 
 
 * Sei.'! rt'port of t\w oonimisHioiiers. 
 
 t 8<^e repurt of the Hon. William Sprafige, Supurintoudent General of the Indian 
 Branch, 1868. - 
 
this amelioration derive much encouragement from a comparison of the 
 present with the former condition of the Indians in Ontario and Quebec. 
 
 In the provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, the hmd reserve 
 funds, from which the usual income of the Indian triltes is derived, are 
 so snmll in amount that nothing entitled to the name of revenue is had 
 from them. Consequently, parliamentary annual grants of $1,300 and 
 $1,200 respectively have been made for that purpose, but as they proved 
 insufficient to relieve the pressing wants of the more indigent people, 
 supply medical attendance to the sick, and some clothing and blankets 
 to those who most require them, and to furnish such seed grain as 
 seemed to be necessary, the Hon. William Spragge, the deputy superin- 
 tendent of the Indian branch, Uiid the case bef<n-e Parliament during its 
 recent session, and such additional grants as were requisite were made. 
 
 As the territory of the Hudson's Jiay Company is not yet subject to 
 the laws of the Dominion, it is not included in the instructiims issued 
 from the department to me. To a certain extent the company has liad 
 a benelicial ett'ect upon the Indians, but its };oli<'y was to preserve their 
 existence as hunters and trappers, that they should not be gathered 
 together in settlemiMits for the purposes of civilization, and that their 
 country should renuiin a wilderness inhabited by fur-bearing animals. 
 Yet, by opening accounts with them, so that tliey might be, as they 
 often were, encouraged to have large balances in their favor, payable 
 on demand, or might be preserved from famine in times of scarcity, it 
 rendered valuable servi(;es. Criticism may well be silent as to tin; mo- 
 tives which prompted the rigid enforcement of laws for the exclusion of 
 "fire water" from those whom it would certainly have destroyed. 
 
 The company also extended much aid to missionary exertions, thereby 
 seemingly contributing to the civilization of the people in the beginning, 
 but strengthening its own influence among them. Professor Hind ex- 
 pressed an opinion 1 have found to be common among the Indian and 
 other missionaries, themselves, that "the ju-ogress of Christianity among 
 Indians would be riided, rather than otherwise, if missionaries were not 
 to receive any assistance in the form of an annual stipend from the Hud- 
 son's Bay Company. Perfect freedom of action in inducing Indians to 
 settle, in the education of Indian orphan children, and in teaching them 
 and the adults the blessings of a settled Christian home, as opposed to a hea- 
 then hunter's life, are essentially necessary before much satisfactory pro- 
 gress can be made.'' Yet, by bringing some of the beneflcial apjjliances 
 and ideas of civilization to the knowledge of the Indians, the company has 
 not been without in tiuence in carrying them gra<lually over the wide and 
 dangerous interval that separates tlie rude and primitive people of a 
 stone age from the foremost nations of the European race in the present 
 advanced period in the age of iron. 
 
 So long ago as 18(»0 no less than nineteen clergymen of the church of 
 England were maintained in " Kiipert's Land," at an annual cost of about 
 thirty-live thousand dollars in si)ecie. The Konmn Catholics, Presbyte- 
 rians, and the Society for Proi)agation of the Gospel, also made liberal ex- 
 penditures in erecting and maintaining churches as well as in missionary 
 work and in schools ; but these exertions told chierty uiion the settle- 
 ments of whites or half-breeds, and are inadequate to the great work 
 required in a country so extensive and so sparsely peopled. 
 
 Until 1850 it was the annual practice of the government to distribute 
 among Indians, in addition to the usual payments, a considerable <puin- 
 tity of blankets, strong cloth, kettles, tire-arms, ammunition, &c. The 
 Indians were ntn'er known to use anything thus acquired against the 
 government of Great Britain or Canada. All those Indians who had 
 
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 MANAGEMENT OP INDIANS IN BRITISH AMERICA. 
 
 been the allies of Great Britain in the war of 1812 were welcome to 
 participation in these donations, and thns the Great Manitoulin Island, 
 where the distribution took place, was annually the scene of an assem- 
 blag:e not only of Indians belonging to nearly all the tribes of British 
 North America, but also of so many from the United States that it was 
 regarded with suspicion by some of our people. The last of these gath- 
 erings took place in 185G, after due notice had been given to the usual 
 recipients. Jt was found that many of the useful articles i>resented 
 passed into the hands of white traders, in exchange for gaudy tritles, 
 or the more deleterious iire-water. 
 
 One of the chief Anglo-Canadian statesmen of the period senten- 
 tiously remarked that the money paid for the gunpowder tluis presented 
 would be more judiciously expended in schools ; and it was generally 
 thought by the frieiuls of the red man that the gathering itself, as well 
 5IS the character of the presents themselves, had a tendency to encour- 
 age the habits of the hunting and nomadic life from which the true 
 policy of the government was to wean the Indians. The government, 
 therefore, wisely judged that the mouej' could be more judiciously ex- 
 pended in behalf of the settled tribes. 
 
 So long as these presents were nmde, great attention was paid to their 
 substantial value. The cloth, for instance, was of good, durable quality, 
 and the kettles were not of iron, but of brass, they being lighter and 
 better suited for the purposes of - j camp and the convenience of wan- 
 tiering tribes. Blankets are yet presented to the aged and infirm, and 
 sjiecial care is taken that they are always soft, warm, of an ample size, 
 and of a thick and strong texture. 
 
 In each Indian settlement of importance, there is, at least, one school. 
 Altogether, in the different parts of the Dominion, these schools are not 
 less tlian tifty-three in number. The teachers appear to be selected with 
 due regard to the religious tenets of the tribe, and to other circumstances. 
 The Wesleyan IMethodists are conspicuous in promoting the diffusion 
 of education among the Indians, but in addition to this denomina- 
 tion and the New England society already mentioned, the Seminary of 
 M<mtreal, the Church of England, the Congregational Society, and the 
 Colonial Church Society also contribute, and yet aid is far more frequently 
 given from the funds of the Indians themselves than from any other 
 single source. It is always furnished when other means are inadequate. 
 In such cases the payments are made out of the funds of the baud at 
 quarterly periods, by checks from the oftice of the Indian branch. Oc- 
 easionaliy the s.alaries of the clergymen are supplied from the same 
 sources. It is also usual in some of the bands, when assembled in 
 council, to vote provisions for widows, the aged or infirm, and other per- 
 sons in indigent circumstances. 
 
 I deem the subject of education among the Indians so interesting and 
 important that I have annexed hereto the latest tabular statement of 
 the condition of their schools. (See Appendix B.) 
 
 The desire of the Indians for schools is one of the most significant 
 indications of the progress towards imiirovement, which, however slow, 
 does certainly exist. Those who are best informed in regard to them 
 agree in saying they so far appreciate the blessings of civilization that 
 even such of them as prefer for themselves the wild freedom of a sav- 
 age life are anxious that their children should be educated like those 
 of the white man. The young people entertain more decidedly than 
 their seniors a proper sense of the benefits of education ; and it should 
 not be forgotten that in this as well as in every other method of assimi- 
 lation to the ways of civilized man, the Indians who have adopted 
 
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 and 
 
 Christianity are, as might well be expected, far more prog^ressive, and 
 cling: less to the ways lianded down to them from their forefathers than 
 those who yet adhere to i)aganism. 
 
 As will be seen by the abstract presented hereafter of the chief recent 
 legislation of the Dominion as to Indians, the management of their af- 
 fairs, subj>.ct to the nsnal responsibilities of the Canadian goverinnent, 
 is committed to the " Indian branch of the department of the secre- 
 tary of state," the secretary himself, now the Hon. H. S. Langevin, who 
 is also registrar general, being ex oj^cio^ and without additional salary, 
 the superintendent general. The n'lore laborious part of the duties de- 
 volves upon the deputy superintendent, tlie Hon. William Spragge, to 
 whom I am indebted for much valuable information and many courte- 
 sies. An accountant, a corresponding clerk and two other clerks, one 
 of whom is a draughtsman, constitute the remainder of the staff at 
 Ottawa. 
 
 There are four local superintendencies or divisions, whose occupants 
 are termed vice-superintendents, or commissioners, and receive salaries 
 varying from $1,000 to $1,100 in proportion to the extent of their duties. 
 Of other ofWcials enumerated in the report of 1808 there are eighty- 
 two, of whom one, the physician under the Grand Hi versuperintendency, 
 is paid $1,500 yearly. The others, being inter[)reters, medical {ittend- 
 ants, wardens, sextons, clerks, messengers, «S:c., receive salaries vary- 
 ing from $800 to $1,000. 
 
 The local affairs of the Indians are under the supervision of the visit- 
 ing superintendents or commissioners, who see the various bands or 
 tril)es periodically, and personally divide among them the annuities 
 and interest money, taking, in every case, the receipt of the head of 
 the family for the amount paid. In most of the settlements is a clergy- 
 nuiu or missionarj, who is usually present when the mr>ney is paid, as 
 also are the interpreter and chiefs. Thus the pay-lists are amply 
 attested. 
 
 The clergyman, also, often renders such assistance as is deemed desir- 
 able in procuring the census, which is taken when the payments are 
 nmde, and thus serves as a guide for succeeding payments or distribu- 
 tions, and furnishes means of providing adequate statistical informa- 
 tion for headquarters. 
 
 An essential part of the system is that no changes, without important 
 and adequate causes, are made in the officers with wlumi the Indians 
 are brought into communication. The Indian chiefs themselves can 
 only be legally dei)osed when charges of intemperance, immorality, or 
 dishonesty are substantiated against them ; and, ujwn a similar princi- 
 ple, each local superintendent holds his otlice for life, unless he trans- 
 gresses the rules of official good behavior. Thus the gov^ernment pos- 
 sesses ample control over him, and it is the interest of each officer to 
 (ronsult the permanent welfare of the Indians, who are shrewd judges of 
 character, know very well when they are treated with justice, and soon 
 detect any hesitation, laxity, or impropriety in their agents. Those who 
 are placed in the position of these Indians are naturally suspicious; 
 and in the Canadian trefitment of them, few points are regarded of 
 so much moment as thjit every (me officially connected with them must 
 be above suspicion, and so far as practicable unite tirmness, kindness, 
 integrity, and tact. The wards or pupils would soon cease to regard 
 the government as exercising a semi-paternal care over them if the con- 
 duct of the agents was not in conformity to the same standard. 
 
 In 1808, the receipts of the Indian branch were $180,738 71. Of this 
 amount, $41,749 09 were from sales of land and timber, $101,718 89 
 
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 from interest on investmenta, $40,12() from annuities antl grants. 
 The disbursements were $155,H4« 52. On June 30, 18(i8, the sum of 
 $1,808,201 20 remained in tlie hands of the govennnent to tlie credit 
 of the Indian branch. Great care is taken to give the Indians interest 
 on their money to a date as near as ])ossible to the time wlien they are 
 paid. They examine the accounts carefully, and explanations, whenever 
 desired, are carefully given to them. 
 
 The character of the special payments, contingent and incidental ex- 
 penditufivs by the Indian branch, is so varitms, iiu;]uding those nuule for 
 blankets, roads, pensioners, funerals, distribution, &c., that I have deemed 
 it best to annex hereto (see Apjieiulix O) an account of these expendi- 
 tures out of the Upper Canada. Indian funds for the year ended Jiuie 30, 
 1808. A widely discretionary power is allowed, but the opinion is nearly 
 or quite universal in Canada that it is exercised with wise economy and 
 integrity. Where purchases are made for the Indians with their own 
 money, great care is taken, as in the case of presents, that without sac- 
 liticing to mere appearance or luxury, every article furnished for their 
 use shall be of sound sterling value. For instance, even in purchasing 
 blankets, nothing tlimsy or of bad wood is sent, and none but those of 
 the nu>st substantial and comfortable kind are selected. 
 
 In tJie year 1807-08 the government made three hundred and fifteen 
 sales of lands held in trust for the Indians, and at rates varying from 
 24 cents to $100 an acre; the number of acres being 17,003. The whole 
 of the proceeds, after deducting expenses is entered to the credit of the 
 Indians. Of the lands already survt^yed and surrendered by the Indians 
 to the government in trust to be sold for their benetit, 0,15,050 acres 
 remain unsold. The average value of the different tracts varies from 
 $4 08 to 20 cents per acre. 
 
 Accounts are opened with each band, credit being given for revenues, 
 and dednctions made for jiayments in such a manner as is intelligible 
 and satisfactory to the Indians themselves. 
 
 Commissioners appointed in 1847, by the government of Canada, to 
 investigate Indian affairs in that province, give the following opinion as 
 to th<' title to land : 
 
 "Although the Crown claims the territorial estate and eminent 
 dominion in Canada, as in other of the older colonies, it has, ever since 
 the possession of the province, accoided to the Indians tlie right of oc- 
 cupancy upon their old hunting grounds, ami their claims to compensa- 
 tion for its surrender, reserving to itself the exclusive privilege of treat- 
 ing with them for the surrender or purchase of any portions of the laud. 
 This is distinctly laid down in the proclamation of 1703, and the prin- 
 ciple has since been generally acknowledged and rarely infringed upon 
 bj' the government. The same rule has been followed by the govern- 
 ment of the United States, who pay annuities for the surrender of the 
 Indian lands, to the t^xtent of about £140,()00 a year." 
 
 It has been, and is, an established rule with the British Canadian 
 government, to take no land from the Indians except with the legal 
 assent of the band, tribe, or nation owning it, properly convened in 
 general council, held in the presence of an officer representing the 
 government. Some of the regulations on this subject are more particu- 
 larly set forth in the abstract hereinafter given of recent legislation. 
 Even the land originally allotted to the Six Nations was purchased from 
 its prior occupants. It is considered desirable, and the wish is usually 
 carried out, to secure, at such surrender or cession of territory, the 
 presence of some persons of well-known character and social position 
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 the army or navy. Sometimes the consideration for the land has been 
 paid when the conveyance was executed, but more frequently payment 
 has been made in the shape of annuities, at ftxe<l dates thereafter, and 
 equally divided anion;; the men, Avomen, nnd children of the Indian 
 venders. It seems that, in making; the original or early conveyances, 
 the Indians intended to reserve for their own use and o(!<;ui)ation tracts 
 of sufficient extent to maintain them, wholly or in part, as hunters. Tlius, 
 when game grew scarce and recourse to agri<'ulture became absolutely 
 necessary for their support, they foiuid the reservations from the original 
 cessions unnecessarily large, and have frequently conveyed to " the 
 Grown, in trust," su(;i» lands as they did not require. Many of these 
 tracts have been sold, and the sums realized from the sales, after de- 
 ducting a fair amount for the expenses incurred in msinagement, have 
 been put out at interest, which is paid to the Indians lialf yearly at the 
 same time as their annuities. 
 
 In conveying lands which are thus held by the government in tnist 
 for the Indians, the patent issues from the Crown, in a manner similar 
 to that followed in regard to public lands. 
 
 In most eases the lands which have been retained by the Indians are 
 now sub-divided into farm lots of sutlicient size, and one of tliem is 
 allotted to the head of each family, but they have no power to sell or 
 mortgage these lands, which also, like all other property of the Indians, 
 are free from liability to debt. 
 
 All money arising from the sale of these Indian lands is paid into 
 bauks to the credit of the receiver general, on account of Indian funds. 
 
 Agents are not allowed to retjeive money. The parties paying take 
 certiticates of deposit from the banks an<l transmit them through the 
 agents of the department. 
 
 Agents who have charge of Indian lands for sale are required to give 
 surety by bond, and to make monthly returns to the sui)erintendent 
 general at Ottawa. 
 
 In i)aying money from the department official checks are made pay- 
 able to the orders of all persons entitled to receive them. 
 
 Individual Indians are not allowed to (nit or dispose of timber on the 
 general reservation. It is treated as belonging to their community, and 
 can only be legally cut under a license from the superintendent general, 
 or some other officer authorized by him to give one. A bonus in cash 
 is usually required for the right to cut the timber. Annual ground-rent 
 is paid, as are also additional dues, in accordance with a tariff prepared 
 for the purpose. 
 
 The money realized from the sale of the timber is i)laced at interest, 
 which becomes part of the iuconu' of the tribe owning the tract where 
 the timber is cut. One half of the dues is i)aid before the removal of 
 the timber, and the rest is secured by bonds, with sureties, and ps>id 
 within six months from date. ' • 
 
 A fun<l styled " the management fund'' has l)een (jreated out of the 
 percentage deducted for the cost of taking charge of the Indian land 
 and timber, &c. From it assistance is oc(tasionally rendered to build 
 school-houses, or alleviate distress from such casualties as extensive tires 
 in the woods, or sickness ; or whenever it becomes necessary to furnish 
 seed-grain, agricultural implements, provisions, or other supplies. 
 
 The same fund is also used to defray the cost of medicine and medical 
 attendance, and in making advances for carrying on surv€\ys. 
 
 A few pensions, amounting annually, in the aggregate, to about $4,000, 
 are allowed by the imperial government to some retired officers of the 
 Indian branch, and other persons. 
 
While the condition of pupihij^e in wliieli the TndiaiiH are settled on 
 iiirm» not too near tlie busy (;eiiter« of trade has undoubtedly been 
 hitliei'to the most favorable tor tlie In<lian, and saved some of the tribes 
 from extinetion, it is reji^arded in (Canada as merely the step towards the 
 desiretl end, and not as the proper objeet of the final policiy in regard to 
 them. 
 
 In 1840 that aecomplished statesman the late Lord Elftin, who was 
 held in equal respect on both sides of the boundarj* between Oanadaand 
 the Unite<l States, not only proclaimed himself in favor of withdrawuig 
 from the hulians all presents tending to i)erpetuate a liunting life, of 
 re(piiring thosct who have reservations to make roads through them, and 
 generally to assume their share of the duties and burdens of civilization, 
 and of setting apart farming lots for each family in every reservation, 
 but also warndy expressed his opinion that the truest interests of the 
 Indians recpiired that habits of independence should be fostertMl among 
 them, and that the period of tutelnge should be as nuich as possible cur- 
 tailed. Even at that time hopes had been commonly entertained, on be- 
 half of both races, that such an improvement might be made in the con- 
 dition of nniny ot the tribes as would enable them to take their places 
 among the onlinary population of the country, and free them from the 
 charges incident to a constant and careful supervision. 
 
 I have not found any single line of more distinct demarkalion between 
 the past and present policy of British statesmen than that presented by 
 a comparison of these recommendations made by Lord Elgin with those 
 urged forty-three years previously, A. D. 1800, by the J3uke of North- 
 umberland, in a letter to his friend. Captain Brant. The Mohawk chief- 
 tain was then engaged in encouraging the spread of civilization and 
 Christianity among his people, with all the power of his strenuous ex- 
 ertions and influential example. The duke, imbued with the barbaric 
 spirit of a feudal aristocracy, spared no force of words in recommending 
 the Indians never to be changed "from hunters and warriors into hus- 
 bandmen." He regarded tilling the earth as a most injurious enervation 
 of the young men. " Nine hundred or a thousand warriors, inured to 
 hardship by hunting, are," said he, " a most respectable and independent 
 body ; but what would the same number of men become who were merely 
 husbandmen ?" Happily for his own reputation ami the welfare of the 
 Six Nations, the Indians did not listen to these suggestions, and the 
 earnest remonstrances of the Duke of Northumberland remain on record 
 as a monument of errors otherwise passing into oblivion. 
 
 In 1857 a memorable act was passed for the promotion of the objects 
 recommended by Lord Elgin, and in 1858 three well selected commis- 
 sioners, who had been appointed " to incpiire into and report upon the 
 best means of securing the lu'ogress and civilization of the Indian tribes 
 in Canada, and on the best mode of so managing the Indian property as 
 to seiHire its full beneflt to the Indians without impeding the settlement 
 of the country," laid belVu'e the public the conclusions at which they had 
 arrived. 
 
 Tlit^ commissioners found that the relations of Great Britain with the 
 Indians had changed very materially within the flfteen years preceding 
 the date of the report. They state tliat the alterations were rather the 
 carrying out of a. system of policy i)reviously determined on, than the 
 results of any new ideas. The object of the system had long been to 
 wean the Indian from perpetual dependence on the government ; and 
 successive years even taen showed an increasing loosening of the tie to 
 which the aborigines clung. Many of the officers appointed to watch 
 over their interests had been removed, and the vacancies were not tilled 
 
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 up. T\u' nniinnl presoiits had then recently been withdrawn, and the 
 Indian department was iM'inj; gradually h'tt to its own resources. All 
 apiuehension of insubordination or warfare was even then so far at an 
 end that the danjrerto b*^ feared ai>i>eared to be lest, on the other hand, 
 the Indians, liavin;>: been a<;eu8tonied to look to their superintendents 
 and officers for advice, assistance, and protection in the most trivial 
 matters of ordinary occurrence, shoidd, on the total withdrawal of j;uar- 
 dianship, be too much influenced by their natural apathy, or be led to 
 abandon themselves to despair. 
 
 The chief ]K)int ury:ed by the coniniissu)ners was the necessity of 
 measin-esof coiu'cntration for the economical suju'rintendence and jirad- 
 ual civilization of the Indian tribes. In support of this y'ww they iu«ed, 
 anjonj>- other reasons, that tlie Indians vmiU\ oidy be rescued from a 
 8emi-savaj;e and imi)overished condition by bein^" settled on thidr own 
 farms as i>ermanent homes. They rejiarde*! the practice of frequent 
 removal as very injurious, because "the Indian, naturally averse to labor, 
 cannot be induccfi to exert himself, while he feelf that he may any <lay 
 be deprived of the laml on whicb he is located ; and while his conj^enital 
 restlessness is stren^theiu'd by the chanj»e of domi(rih% his jiieediness 
 for the nu'ans of f»Tatifyinj»- the whim of the moment is fostered by the 
 large sum of ready mom\y jjromised to him to gain his ac<piies(!ence in 
 the nu)ve. This cherishes his habit of relying on other s(MU'ces than his 
 own, and of imprudently contracting debts whereby he becomes the vic- 
 tim of the rai>a(*ious trader." 
 
 Among tlieir other recommendations was the api>ointnuMit of local 
 agents, to be chosen from respectable yeomen, who ought t(> instrmrt 
 the band to which they wouUl be attached in farming, receive no money, 
 nor dispose of land, but, by adding the tbrce of example to the influence 
 of advice, aid the Indians in their advancic towards civilizaticm. The 
 commissioners clearly traced the beneficial effects of a similar system, 
 especially in the prosperity of sonie of the tribes on the Upper Ht. Law- 
 rence. 
 
 .TVTot only the testimony of the <*ommissiom'rs, but ulso, as far as I 
 have been able to discover, that of all who are familiar with tlu^ history 
 and condition of the Indians in Canada, is adverse to their isolation in 
 small tribes or ban<ls separate and remote from each otlu'r. In such a 
 state th<>y are exposed to the evil influences of too freciueiit contact with 
 the white race, and by no means the most worthy nuMubers of it, before 
 they have attained the proportion of civilization and moral stamina 
 necessary to enable them to avoid the evil and adoi)t the better (exam- 
 ples set prematurely before them. Their marvelous and characteristic' 
 passion for what is truly to them burning an<l destroying ''lire water,"' 
 finds too often an opi>ortunity for gratifi<'ation. Profligacy of other 
 kinds is encouraged. Tliey are not respected by their white neighbors; 
 and the sense of self-resjiect essential to their nunal and intellectual, 
 and hence to their physi(*al well-being, ami kept alive when they asso 
 ciate more generally with their acknowledged equals, is ojjpressed and- 
 worn out by daily intercourse with those whom they iK'rceive to be nuue 
 perfectly adapted to the circun>stances to which all must conform. Va- 
 rious forms of disease, including scrofula, consumption, and other indi- 
 cations of degenerjujy, are presented, with a frequency attributable not 
 only to the causes already mentioned, but to the constant intermarriages 
 thus rendered almost inevitable between kindred. 
 
 The unauthorized intrusion of white men among the Indian settle- 
 ments has been found injurious to the progress of civilization. 8uch 
 stragglers are usually people of dissolute habits, and proselytize the 
 
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 Indians to vices. Hence the Canadian law proliibits all persons who 
 are not Indians, or intermarried with Indians, from settling upon or 
 occupying- Indian lands ; and under this law, the officers of the depart- 
 ment remove intruders. 
 
 The same law is applicable to an enervating and pernicious practice 
 among the Indians, of giving the cultivation of their farms to white 
 settlers on shares. This system has sometimes been one of the chief 
 impe<liments to tlie su(;cess of ladian agriculture. The disinclination of 
 Indians having the habits and sentiments of men who live by the chase 
 to adopt habits of continuous industry has its parallel among men of 
 our own race who have never been actcustonunl to hard labor, and leads 
 many to accept otters to work their farms on shares, thus taking away 
 the necessary stimuhis or spur to exertion by giving them an opportu- 
 nity of subsisting, though miserably, while leading a life of idleness. 
 
 Mr. Spragge, the deputy superintendent, unequivocally condemns 
 this ijractice, and says : "It engenders habits opposed to teniperateand 
 virtuous living, and conduces to that demoralization in a greater or less 
 degree which tlie absence of occupation occasions to people of whatso- 
 ever race and blood they may be. To etfect improvement we must then 
 break up the noxious system out of which so much evil grows, No true 
 civilization can i>revail apart from labor, either physical or mental, and 
 with the former must some at least of the latter be combined, in order 
 that with labor, skill may go hand in hand. And as regards our 
 present subject, that agriculture may be practiced as a science, it is im- 
 portant that the Indian i)eople shall be educated for it, that it be 
 encouraged in every ])ossible way, and that the policy to be pursued be 
 such as to dissuade the Indians from its neglect. The act 13 and 14 
 Victoria, Chap. 7(5, section 10, prohibits any persons otiun- than Indians, 
 or intermarried with the Indians, from settling upon oroccupying Indian 
 lands. Under this law, the officers of the department do remove intru- 
 ders; and, with a view to terminate the enervating and pernicious 
 practice of associating white settlers on the occupancy of their laiuls, 
 and giving over the cultivation of the farms to them in shares, the law 
 may effectually be invoked; giving, however, beforehand, due notice 
 to those conceriu'd, that the existing arrangements must be terminated. 
 At a lirst view, this may be regarded as a harsh i)roceeding. lint when 
 it is consi<lered that the system shuts out the younger menjbers of an 
 Indian family from useful emi)loynu'nt, and enforces ujxm them idleness 
 with its tendeiu'y to dissipation, the necessity for insisting upon the 
 abolition of farming on shares becomes obvious." 
 
 It is unnecessary to remark that many of the evils I have indicated 
 are more easily avoided on large settlements of Indians under caretul, 
 systematic and scrupulous supervision, than when left to the unassisted 
 oi>eration of laws frequently evaded among snudl bands or tribes 
 remote from each other and exposed to the intluenceof dissolute whites. 
 
 Until a very recent date the power ot the (ihiefs over their mitions or 
 tribes has been merely that of moral suasion, excei»t so far as the ordi- 
 nary laws of Canada, or the Indian branch of the de])artnu»nt of State, 
 might maintain their views. But the interference of the department 
 ai»pears to be never exerted excei»t for reasonable ]mrposes. 1 tind an 
 instance of its operation in the case of Kitchie r»ai)tiste, an Indian and 
 a chief of an united band of Chippe vas and Ottawas, who is officially 
 described as having been " for many years ])ast a ])eaceable, loyal, and 
 well-disposed subject, but by lawless and misguided nu»n, with force and 
 vioh'nce, dispossessejl of his land and of his house and improvements 
 theret)n," and driven to removal. A royal proclamation was issued or- 
 
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 dering that he be immediately reinstated in the enjoyment of his pro- 
 perty, and the offenders were reminded that they " are, in common Avith 
 all others, our subjects, amenable and subject to the laws of our pro- 
 vince, and that any intraction or violation thereof will be fully and duly 
 prosecuted and punished according to our said laws." 
 
 Advantage was taken of the occasion to insist upon perfect freedom 
 of debate, by " proclaiming and declaring that at all councils of Indi- 
 ans, duly convened tor the transaction of business, every Indian who 
 may be a member of the tribe or band holding sucli council and then 
 present thereat, shall be permitted the free expression of his ojiinion on 
 anj' matters brought under consideration of such council, un«listurbed 
 by any interference, intimidation, or threat in respect thereof." The 
 proclamation was printed in the form of handbills, both in the English 
 and the Chippewa language, and distributed among the Indians. 
 
 By recent legislation tlie appointment of the chiefs may, if the gov- 
 ernor so direct, be made by popular election, each holding his place for 
 the term of three years; but this law does not interfere with the present 
 chiefs. In further pursuance of the policy of educating the Indians to 
 self-government, and terminatin - their political childhood, an act passed 
 during the present year em]>owered them to frame rules and regula- 
 tions on several imporU;nt subjecjts, jnovided such rules an<l regulations 
 are confirmed by the governor general, as may be seen on reference to 
 the synopsis of the act given in tliis report. 
 
 The common desire to assimilate the Indians to the other ])o]mlation 
 of Canada found a memorable expression in " An act {20 Vict., Cap. 
 XXVI) to encourage the gradual civilization of the Indian triln's in this 
 l)rovir«(;e," which received the royal assent 10th June, 1857. Its avowed 
 purpose was sdso defined in the preamble to be the " gradual removal of 
 all legal distinctions between them and her Majesty's other Canndian 
 subjects, and to facilitate the accjuisition of property, and of the rights 
 accomi)anying it, by such individual mend>ers of the said tribes as shall 
 be foun<l to desire such encouragement and to have deserved it." 
 
 The act defined who slnmld be regarded as Indians and entitled to the 
 special benefit of a i)revious " act for the protection of the Indians in 
 Upper Canada from imi>osition, and the i)roperty occupied or enjoyed by 
 them from trespass or injury." It enacted that every msile Indian not 
 under twenty-one years of age, who is able to s])e{dv, r.'ad, and wiite 
 either the English or the French language n'adily and well, and is suffi- 
 ciently advanced in the elementary branches of education, and is of good 
 moral character, and fr(»e from debt, may offer himself for examination 
 to three commissioners appointed ihv that purpose, one of whom is the 
 superintendent of his tribe, another its missionary, and the third an 
 appointee of the governor. If they reijort favorably to the a])plication 
 the governor may give notice in the Oflicial Cazette of the <'nfVanchise- 
 ment of such Indian, between whose rights and liabilities ami those of 
 her Majesty's other subjects no past enactments must thenceforth make 
 any distinction, and he is no longer legally d<'emed to be an Indian. 
 
 Provision was also nunle by which Indians over twenty-one, but not 
 over forty years of age, anil who can neither read nm* write, but can 
 speak English or French readily, and are of sober and imlustrious hab- 
 its, free from debt, and sutticiently intelligent to manage their own 
 affairs, might enter upon a state of three years' probation, with the ap- 
 proval of the commissioners, and at the end of that time might, with the 
 apjn'oval of the commissioners and governor, be enfranchised. Notice of 
 such enfranchisement iMMUg given in the Ofhcial (iazette. 
 
 Such enfranchised Indan would be entitled to not more than fifty acres 
 
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 out of the land set apart for the use of his tribe, and to receive in money 
 a sum equal to the principal of his share in the annuities and yearly 
 revenues of his tribe. By acquiring the rights of a white man, he would 
 cease to have any voice in the proceedings of the tribe, and by receiving 
 the land and money he would forego all further claim to the land or 
 money of his tribe, except a proportional share in other lands which such 
 tribe might thereafter sell. 
 
 The wife, widow, and lineal descendants of such enfranchised Indian 
 woukl also be enfranchised, but under certain provisions remain entitled 
 to their respective shares of all annuities or annual sums payable to the 
 tribe. Such Indian would only have a life estate in his land, but might 
 dispose of it by will to any of his descendants, and if he died intestate 
 they would inherit it. His estate therein was liable for his debts, but 
 he could not otherwise tdienate or mortgage his estate therein. 
 
 The same Jict provided that Indian reserves or any part of them might 
 be attached to school districts or sections. 
 
 The a(;t of 1857 was repealed in 1850, when another act (Cap. IX, 
 22 Vict.) was passed respecting the civilization and enfranchisement of 
 Indians. This was one of the consolidated statutes, and adopted the 
 main provisions of the previous act, but was repealed bv the general 
 act of 18C8. (Cap. VI, ;i2-;J3, ^ ict. s. 23.) 
 
 In 1808, " an act" (.'U Vict., C ap. XLII) was pas.sed " providing for the 
 organization of the department of the secretary of state of Canada, 
 and for the better management of Indian and ordnance lands." This 
 and the supplementary enactment of the following year are liberal in 
 their spirit, comprehensive in the views they evolve, and so much intel- 
 ligence and careful scrutiny are disj>hiyed in their details that I am un- 
 able to comjjly with the request to give proper othcial information in 
 regard to the treatment of the Indians, and the measurv^s to bring them 
 into the habits of civilization in liritish Xorth Anu*rica, without pre- 
 senting an abstract of botli acts, as briefly as the subject will permit. 
 
 By the ac't of 18(»8, the secretary of state is also registrar general aiul 
 superintendent general of Indian affairs, and has the control and nmn- 
 agement of Indian affairs in Canada. 
 
 It was enacted that all laiuls reserved or held in trust for Indians 
 should continue to be held for the same purposes as before, but subject 
 to the i)rovisions of this act, and should not be alienated or leased until 
 surrendered to the Crown for the purposes of this act. 
 
 All moneys or securities belonging to the Indians reiuain applicable as 
 before, subject to the provisions of this act. 
 
 I^o land belonging to any Indians or indivi<lual Indian can be legally 
 surrendered withcmt consent of the chief or a majority of the chiefs of 
 the tribe, formally sumnumeil and held in the presence of the secretary 
 of state, or an ofticer duly authorized to attend such council by the 
 governor general i»r the secretary of state, and no chief or Indian shall 
 vote or be jnesent at such ctumcil unless he habitually resides on or near 
 the land in (piestion. 
 
 The fact of such surrender must be certified on oath before some judge 
 of a superior county or district court, by the ofhcers appointed to attend 
 the council, and by one of the chiefs then present, and be transmitted 
 to the secretary of state, and submitted to the governor in council for 
 accepthUi'e or refusal. 
 
 No intoxicating li(iuors of any kind are to be introduced at such In- 
 dian council, and any person who intrcxluces any such lijpuM' at such 
 meeting, and any agent or otticial employed by the secretary of state or 
 
the governor in council, who shall introduce or countenance by his pres- 
 ence the use of su<!h liquors a week before it, or a week after such coun- 
 cil, shall be fined $200, half to go to the informer. 
 
 No surrender otherwise invalid is confirmed by this act. 
 
 The governor in council may, subject to the provisions of this act, 
 direct the application of Indian moneys, and provide for the nmnage- 
 ment of Indian lands, money, and property, and also of expenses of 
 management, roads, and schools. 
 
 A penalty of twenty dollars for each offense of giving or selling spiritu- 
 ous liquor of any kind is enacted, one-half to go to the informer, the 
 other to the governmental fund, for the benefit of the tribe in regard to 
 any member of which the offense was committed. Exceptions are made 
 in cases of sickness, if such liquor is given under the advice of a medi- 
 cal nuui or clergyman. 
 
 No pawns for spiritous liquors can be retained from Indians. 
 
 No presents given to any Indians, nor any property purchased by 
 means of annuities granted to Indians, can be liable for debt. 
 
 The legal definition of " Indians " is declared to be — 
 
 Firstly. All persons of Indian blood reputed to belong to the particu- 
 lar tribe, band, or body of Indians interested in the lands and other im- 
 movable property belonging to or appropriated to the use of that tribe, 
 and the descendants of such jiersons. 
 
 Secondly. All who reside among such Indians, an<l whose parents 
 were or are, or either of them was or is, descended on either side from 
 Indians oi an Indian reputed to belong to the particular tribe, band, (u* 
 body of Indians interested in such lands or immovable proi)erty, and 
 the descendants of all such persons. 
 
 Thirdly. All women lawfully married to any of the i^ersons included 
 in the several classes already designated, tlie children, issue of such 
 marriages, and their descendants. 
 
 If the secretary of state, or su(!h person as he may authorize, shall so 
 direct, luilians an<l persons residing on Indian lands areliabU' tor labor 
 on jmblic roads in, through, or abutting upon such lands, subject to 
 regulations similar to those regarding road labor by other inhabitants 
 of the province. 
 
 None but persons deemed Indians uniy settle on Indian lands or the 
 roads leading through them, .and all Indian leases permitting such resi- 
 dence are void. Special ]>rovision is made for removing sucli intruders. 
 
 In certain cases, penalties may be enforced for cutting timber or re- 
 moving stone from Indian lands. 
 
 Misnomers are not to invalidate writs, wan'ants, «S:c. 
 
 Sherifis, jailers, and peace officers are to obey onh'rs under the act, 
 and, when reasonably required, assist in the execution thereof. 
 
 In<lians have the same rights as other persons in regard to land taken 
 for railways or pul)lic works. The se<'retary of state acts lor them, and 
 money awarded is paid to the receiver general on behalf ol" the body of 
 Indians f(n' whose beiu'fit such land was held. 
 
 Provision is made for assimilating the laws of Lower Cana<la with this 
 act. 
 
 In all cases of encroachment upon Indian lands, i>roceedings may be 
 taken by information, in the name of the Crown, in the sjiperior courts 
 of law or equity. 
 
 The governor may order surveys, plans, and reports, as to Indian re- 
 serves. 
 
 The proceeds from the sale or lease of any Indian lands, or from the 
 
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 MANAGEMENT OP INDIANS IN BRITISH AMERICA. 
 
 timber on 8iicli lands, must be paid to the receiver general to the credit 
 of the Indian fund. 
 
 Provision is made for conforming Indian affairs in Nova Scotia and 
 New Brunswick, regarding hinds and monej'S, to the requirement of this 
 act. 
 
 Nothing in the act is to aft'ect the provisions of the act entitled "An 
 act re8[)e{'ting the c^ivilization and enfranchisement of certain Indians," 
 so far as respects the Indians of Quebec and Ontario, nor of any other 
 act when not inconsistent with the act under consideration. 
 
 Certain [jowers and <luties vested with regard to ordnance and admi- 
 Fcalty lan<ls in the (!omniissioner of the Crown lands are vested in the 
 secretary of state, and the governor general in council may apply such 
 powers, «S:c., to the Indian lands in Quebec or Ontario, and may repeal 
 su(;h onlers. 
 
 The governor in council may make regulations as to Indian lands and 
 timber cut from them, and impose tines for breach thereof, but without 
 impairing other remedies. 
 
 All onlers in council must be published in the Canadian Gazette, and 
 such i)ubli(';ition is prima facie evidence of such orders. 
 
 The governor in council may, at any time, assign any of the duties 
 thus vested in the secretary of state to any other member of the Queen's 
 privy coun<*il, in Canada, and the secretary of state is required annually 
 to lay before Parliament, within ten days after the meeting thereof, a 
 report of the proceedings, transactions, and affairs of the department 
 during the year then next [>receding. 
 
 The careful and in(!reased attention to the condition of the Canadian 
 Indians was further evinced by the passage of the elaborate act (Cap. 
 VI, 32, 'Mi Vict., 18G1>) entitled "An act for the gradual enfrancliisement 
 of Indians, the better management of Indian affairs, and to extend the 
 provisions of the act 'M Victoria, Cap 42." 
 
 By this act no Indian or person claiming to be of Indian blood, or 
 intermarried with an Indian family, shall be deemed in lawful possession 
 of Indian lan<l, unless located for it by order of the sui)erintendent 
 general of Indian affairs; but such land is not by such location title 
 rendered transterable or subje(?t to seizure, although the occupier is 
 liable to be ejected from the land, unless a location title be granted to 
 him within six months from the iiassage of this act. Proceedings of 
 ejectnuMit are similar to those in certain other cases. 
 
 Very strict provision is made for imprisoning any person, when con- 
 victed in the manner i)rovided by the previous act, who directly or indi- 
 rectly may, in any way, dispose of any intoxicating liquor to any Indian, 
 or has kei)t a tavern, or other building, where such liquor is so sold or 
 disi>ose<l of, unh'ss he ])ay the i>rescribed line ; and the commander of 
 any steamer, or otJier vessel or boat, from on board or on board of 
 whicli any intoxicating li<pior has been so disposed of is made liable to 
 a simihir jtenalty. 
 
 In dividing annuity money, interest money, or rents, no ]>erson of less 
 than one-lbnrtli Indian blood shall receive a share, after certificate as to 
 his being less tlur one-fourth Indian blood is given by the chief or 
 chiefs of the band in council, and sanctioned by the superintendent 
 general. 
 
 Any Indian <'<mvicted of crime ceases, during his imprisonment for 
 the same, to participate in the annuities, &c., ]myable to his tribe, and 
 when thus imprisomnl in the penitentiary, or other place of confinement, 
 the legal costs of conviction and ('arrying out the sentence shall be paid 
 out of money coming to said Indian, or his baud or tribe. 
 
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 Iiu. a women marryinioj other than Indians, and the chiUlren of such a 
 maiTiage, cease to be Indians within the meaning of seetion 15, 31 Vict., 
 Cap. 42; and any Indian woman marrying into a ditfeient tribe or band 
 of Indians becomes exchisively a member of her husband's tribe, &c., 
 as also do the chihlren of such marriage. 
 
 In case of desertion of wife or chihl the superintendent general may 
 apply the share of such deserter in annuity and interest money to the 
 support of the woman and child so deserted. 
 
 Where Indians neglect to provide for their sick or disabled, or aged 
 or infirm i)ersons, the superintendent general may so provide out of the 
 funds of the tribe in question. 
 
 Children of an Indian inherit his right and title held under the loca 
 tion laws, together with his goods and chattels, on ''condition of provid- 
 ing for the maintenance of th' ir najther, if living." Such children have 
 only a life estate, neither transferable nor subject to seizure under legal 
 process; but if such Indian die without issue all such property goes to 
 the Crown for the benefit of the tribe, after prt viding for the support of 
 the widow, if any. 
 
 The governor may order that the chiefs of any tribe, band, or body of 
 Indians sliall be elected by the male members of such Indian settlement 
 of the full age of tAventy-one years, at such time and place and in su(;li 
 manner as the superintendent general of Indian attairs may direct, and 
 they shall in such case be elected for a period of three years, unless de- 
 posed by the governor for dishonesty, intemperance, ov immorality, and 
 shall be in the proportion of one chief and two second chiefs for every 
 two hundred i^eople, but any such band composed of thirty people may 
 have a chief; provided always that life chiefs now living shall continue 
 as such until death or resignation, or until their removal by the governor 
 for dishoriesty, intemperance, or immorality. 
 
 The chief or chiefs of any tribe or band of Indians are bound to cause 
 the roa<ls, bridges, ditches, and fences within their reserve to be in 
 proper order, in accordance with instructions from the superintendent 
 general, who in case of neglect has a discretionary power to cause the 
 work to be done at the cost of the particular community or Indian in 
 default, as the case may be, either out of their annual allowances or 
 otherwise. 
 
 The chief or chiefs of anj* tribe in (council may frame, subject to con- 
 firmation from the governor in council, rules and regulations for — 
 
 1. The care of the public health. 
 
 2. The observance of order and decorum at assemblies of the people 
 in general council, or on other occasions. 
 
 3. The repression of intemi)erance an<l i)rotligacy. 
 
 4. The [)revention of trespass by cattle. 
 
 r>. The mainteimnce of roads, bridges, and ditches. 
 
 (J. The construction and maintaining in repair of school-houses, council- 
 houses, and other Indian public buildings. 
 
 7. The establishment of pounds and the appointment of pound 
 keepers. 
 
 The governor general in council nuiy, on the rejjort of the superin- 
 tendent general of Indian afi'airs, order the issue of letters patent 
 granting to any Indian who, from the degree of civilizatitm to which he 
 has attained, and the character for sobriety and integrity which he 
 bears, appears to be a safe and suitable pc'rson for becoming a proprie- 
 tor of lands, a life estate in the land allotted to him within the reserve 
 of his tribe, and such Indian may dispose of the laud by will to any of 
 
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 liis cliildroii, and if he dies intestate as to said land it shall descend to 
 his children according; to the laws of that part of the Dominion in Avhich 
 said land is situate, and the children to whom it is so devised or descends 
 shall have the fee simple thereof. 
 
 Every sn(}h Indian must, before issue of the said letters patent, declare 
 to the suiierintendent general a name and surname by which he wishes 
 to be enfraiKjhised and thereafter known, and on receiving such letters 
 patent he shall thereafter be known by such name and surname, 
 and he and his wife and minor unmarried children shall be held to be 
 enfranchised, and all legal destinctions between them and ordinary sub- 
 jects cejise, except that tliey retain their right to i)articipate in the annui- 
 ties and other income of their tribe or band, and except as regards the 
 laws of the previous act as to spirituous liquors, and the law of the 
 present a(;t as to roads, &c. 
 
 If any enfranchised Indian, owning land as aforesaid, dies without any 
 child, such laud escheats to the Crown for the benefit of the tribe,* 
 but if he leaves a widow she has it until her death or remarriage, when 
 it escheats to the Crown for the benefit of the tribe. 
 
 The wife or unmarried daughter of such deceased Indian, Avho may 
 through tliis act be deprived of all benefit from her father's or husband's 
 land, shall, so long as residing on the reserve of her tribe and remaining 
 unmarried, receive tAo shares instead of one of the annuity, interest 
 money, or other revenues of the husband's or father's band. 
 
 In allotting locations and issuing letters patent to Indians for land, 
 the quantity of land for each shall, as nearly as may be, bear the same 
 propDrtion to the total cpiantity of land on the reserve as the number of 
 persons to whom such lands are located bears to the total number of 
 heads of families, Mud male Indians over the age of fourteen years on 
 the reserve, except in special cases to be rei)orted to the governor in 
 council. 
 
 If any such enfranchised Indian dies, leaving any child under twenty- 
 one years, the superintendent general may appoint a guardian for it, until 
 it attains the age of twenty-one years, and the widow of such Indian, being 
 also the mother of such child, shall receive its share of the proceeds of 
 such Indian, so long as the child remains a minor and the widow con- 
 tinues to reside on the land left bj' such Indian, and in the opinion of 
 the sui)erintendent general conducts herself respectably. 
 
 Any Indian falsely representing himself as enfranchised under this 
 act, is liable to inqnisonment, not exceeding three months. 
 
 Lands conveyed as aforesaid by letters patent to any enfranchised 
 Indian are, during his lifetime, exenq)t from seizure, and cannot be in 
 any way encumbered or disposed of. 
 
 Indians not enfranchised have the right to sue for debt or any wrong 
 and to c(>m]>el the performance of obligations made with them. 
 
 The under secretary of state is charge<l un<ler the secretary of state 
 with tho jjerformance of the departn)ental duties of the secretary of 
 state under the said act, and with the control of the enq>loyes of the depart- 
 ment and such other powers and duties as may be assigned to him by 
 the govern! a' in cimmal. 
 
 Cliai)ter nine of the consolidated statutes of Caimda is repealed. 
 
 It is enacted that this act shall be construed as one act with the act 
 31 Victoria, Cap. XLII. 
 
 Tlu^ two earliest of the four acts seem to have had a tendency to 
 
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 absorb them in the white population. The experiment failed from want 
 of co-operation on the part of the Indians, whose general sentiment 
 appears to be that if members of their several communities should now 
 or hereafter avail themselves of permission to sell their lands, white 
 men of a low caste would flock in, and reside upon the reservations, and 
 introduce temptations to intemperance and profligacy. 
 
 The Indians who would thus be enfranchised and separated would be 
 men of good character and considerable intelligence, who naturally 
 have influence in their tribe, and enjoy in it a higher relative status 
 than they would be likely to occupy among the whites, who would pro- 
 bably treat them as inferiors. So far as I have been able to learn, it 
 appears that all such plans for enfranchisement and absorption are 
 likely to prove nugatory, and that the actual elevation of the Indians 
 might be better attained by considering the right to dispose of their 
 land as a question apart and distinct from enfranchisement, to which 
 either the test of property or intelligence might be applied, thus admit- 
 ting the most thrifty of them to the ordinary political rights of white 
 men, without at the sanie time offering any inducement or ()pi)ortunity 
 for them to renounce affiliation with tlieir own people, whose prospec^ts 
 of advancement would undoubtedly be injured if legislation should result 
 in the withdrawal of the best men from the Indian comnuinities. The 
 tribes would thus gradually become little more than sub inunicii)alities 
 or ])etty sti tes, with .some special characteristics, but in the main under 
 the ordinary laws of the Dominion at large. 
 
 The recently enacted plan of enfranchisement, and permitting an In- 
 dian to devise his land to such of his children as he may choose, tends 
 to strengthen i)aternal authority and the bonds of the family. It seems 
 doubtful if this experiment will be more effective than its predecessors, 
 or is better adapted to the actual state of the case. The Indian father 
 may not be desirous of conferring upon his children the right to dispose 
 of their land. But the humane motive of the enactment cannot be mis- 
 understood, and the result will be regarded with great interest.* 
 
 * Tilt' peculiaritii'.s of the Iiuliiin cliaviU'ter, and the special re(itiiieiiieiitsof the .semi- 
 eivilized oondition in Canada, appear to create ainon<r the Indians sentiments and 
 o]»inions sehh>n avowed, Imt wliich were admirably expressed l»y Ca[»tain I3rant, who, 
 in one of liis letters, said : 
 
 '•Yonr letter came safe to hand. To give yon entire satisfaction, I nnist, I )»erceive, 
 enter into the discnssion of a subject on which I have often Ihonj^ht. My tiionj;ht8 
 AS'ere my own, and beinj;' so dilterent from the ideas entertained amoni>' yonr jieople, I 
 should certainly have carried them with me to the «;rave had I not received your 
 oblif>in<>' favor. 
 
 "Yon ask me, then, whether in my ojtiniou civiliziitiou is favorable to human happi- 
 ness. In answer to the question it may be answered that there are dej^recs of civiliza- 
 tion, from cannibals to the most polite of European nations. The ([uestiitn is not, 
 then, whether a de;»;re(! of refinen>ent is not conducive to happiness, )»ut whether you 
 or the natives of this la'jd have attained this happy medium. On this subject we are 
 at present, I presiuue, of very ditt'ereut opinions. You will, however, all(»w me in 
 sonu' resju'cts to have had the advanta>>e of y<»u in forminji; my sentinu'Uts. 1 was, sir, 
 b(un of Indian ])arents, and lived whih' a child among those whom you are pleased to 
 call savages. I was afterwards sent to live among the white people, and ediu-ated at 
 one of your schools, since which period I have been honored nnicli bey«»nd my deserts 
 by an ac(puiintance with a nuud)er of principal characters both in Europe and America. 
 After all this experience, and after every exert icui to divest myself of jtrejudice, I am 
 obliged to give my opinion in favor of my own peojde. I will now, as much as I am 
 able, c(dlect togetlier and set befiu'e you some of the reasons that have intluenc(>d my 
 Judguu'ut on tlie subject now before us. In the governnuMit you call civilized, the 
 happiness of tlie people is constantly sacrificed to the sph'udor of eiii])ire. Hence your 
 codes of crime ami civil laws have had their origin ; hence your dungeons and jtrisons. 
 I will not enlarge on an idea so singular in civilized life, and perhaps disagreeable to 
 
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 MANAOEMEiit ofr iitbU^S IM BkiftSit AMi1r16A. 
 
 The four acts have evidently been based on the conviction that if the 
 Indians were indiscriminately permitted to alienate or convey the lands 
 they own as occnpants, many of them wonld soon be reduced to a state 
 of panperism, while others might safely be trusted with the same rights 
 of i>roprietorship as the whites now possess. Individual character 
 asserts its peculiarities of strength or weakness among the Indians in 
 as marked a manner as among any people in the world. Industry, abil- 
 ity, and integrity are strongly developed in many members of every 
 tribe ; and tliese traits, like other similarities, are to a considerable 
 extent hereditary in certain families. Hitherto the original system of 
 governuiCMit by the Indians themselves, as well as the policy adopted 
 towards them, has tended to maintain the improvident as well as the 
 careful and industrious, to check the accumulation of Avealth in the 
 bands of individuals, as well as to prevent the extreme of poverty. 
 Those who are impatient of the slow progress made towards civiliza- 
 tion will sec reason to moderate their ardor when they retlect upon the 
 long lapse of the many centuries through which our own race has 
 attained its present pre-eminence. 
 
 A suggestion has lately been made to the Canadian government, and 
 is said to be under its consideration, that, for one generation, the In- 
 dians, or some of them, sliould be allowed to sell land, but oidy among 
 themselves. It has been thought they would thus by saft> degrees be 
 further initiated into habits of forethought ami thrift. Even this in- 
 termediary i)roposal seems liable to serious objections, unless accom- 
 panied by various restrictions, such as that no contract for sale of real 
 estate should be binding unless made before the visiting sui)erinten- 
 dant of the district where the land is, and renewed at a time when am- 
 ple opportunity has been given for reflection. To this might be added 
 an adequate legal scrutiny into the sufficiency of the consideration or 
 purchase money given and received for the land, and into some other 
 circumstances attendant on the transaction. 
 
 The Canadian commissioners of IS.IS stated, as one of the results of 
 their inijuiries, that they were unable to discover any reason why the 
 Indians should not in time take their place among the rest of the popu- 
 lation in Canada. A laborious arid impartial investigation, conducted 
 with the benelit of their observations and the additional data of the 
 last twelve years, has led me also to the conclusion that altliough the 
 Indians cannot be suddenly transformed from their original condition 
 of savage hunters to that of farmers and mechanics, they are capable 
 of civilization, and that the well-directed and persistent eiforts nnule in 
 Canada have been so far successful as to leave little room for doubt 
 that their future triumph will be complete. AVliatever may be the ulti- 
 mate result, those who have aided in this honorable effort may safely 
 be assured that their country will be known in history as having striven 
 to do justi(;e to the aborigines, whom the white man found in posses- 
 
 you, nnd will only observe that auionfj; uh we have no prisons ; wv have no pompons 
 parade of courts ; we have no written laws; and yet jnd}j;es are as hi<>hly revered 
 anion^ ns as they are among you, and their (h-cisions are as nineh regarded. 
 
 " Property, tt) say the least, is as well guarded, and crimes as impartially punished. 
 We have among ns no splendid villains above the control of our laws. Daring wicked- 
 ness is here never suffered to triumph ov(?r helpless innocence. The estates of widows 
 and orphans are never devoured by enteri)rising sharp(;rs. In a word, we have no 
 robbery under the cohu- of law. No person among us desires any other reward for per- 
 forming a bravt^ and worthy action but the consciousness of having served his nation. 
 Our wise men are called fathers ; they truly sustain that character. They an^ always 
 accessible — [ will not say to the meanest of our peojde, for we have none mean but 
 such as render themselves so by their vices." 
 
11 shed, 
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 itlows 
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 ation. 
 Iways 
 II but 
 
 MANAGEMENT OF INDIANS IK BRITISH AMERICA. 
 
 3sr 
 
 non of it, and that they have so far founded their empire or dominion 
 upon the principles of humanity and true civilization. 
 All of which is respectfully submitted. 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 F. N. BLAKE, 
 
 United States Consul.^ 
 Hon. Hamilton Fish, 
 
 Secretary of State. 
 
 Appendix A. — The Indian population of Canada. 
 
 The Indian and negro population of Canada are not specifically enumer- 
 ated as such in the ordinary decennial census, but are included under 
 other heads, according to nativity, &c. All the tabular statements I 
 have found on the subject show a general increase. The following shows 
 the total number of certain tribes in Canada, at different periods from 
 1827 to 1857 : 
 
 Upper Canada. 
 
 1838 6,643 
 
 1844 6,874 
 
 1846 8, 756 
 
 1847 8,862 
 
 1857 9,094 
 
 Lower Canada. 
 
 1827 3,649 
 
 1837 3,575 
 
 1844 3,787 
 
 1852 4,0.18 
 
 1857 4,396 
 
 In 1857 the Indian census, including settled and migratory tribes, and 
 tribes not within reach of the missionaries, gave the following numbers 
 of this people : 
 
 Settled Indians in Upper Canada 9, 094 
 
 Settled Indians in Lower Canada • 4, 326 
 
 Nomadic tribes visiting north shore of Lake Huron 1, 422 
 
 Nomadic tribes visiting north shore of Lake Superior 1, 240 
 
 Nomadic tribes of the Lower St. Lawrence, not within reach of 
 
 missionaries or agents (as estimated) , 1, 000 
 
 1857.— Total ........!..... 19, 052 
 
 1868. — As by annexed statement, exclusive of Nova Scotia and 
 
 New Brunswick 20,612 
 
 H. Mis. Doc. 35 3 
 
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 MANAOEMKNT OP INblANS IN BRITISH AMERICA. 
 
 Conqntratirc statement of the population of the different Indian irilws and hands throu^gltoul 
 
 Canada, between the years 18C7 and 1808. 
 
 Naiiif of tribe or Imixl. 
 
 rUOVIXt'E OK ONTAItlO. ! 
 
 (IhipjM'WiiH 1111(1 MniiHPf's of iluy TliaiiicA 
 
 AIoraviaiiH of tin* Tliaiiit'H 
 
 Wyaiidotts of Aiidfi'iloii 
 
 ("hiii]M'waH, I'ottawatoiiiics. ami Ottawas of ; 
 
 ^^ alpolo Islam! 
 
 ChipjM'waH of Siiakt^ iMlaiul 
 
 I )o. Kama 
 
 Do. Chi'iHtian Islfiiul ! 
 
 MiHsiKHaKuaHofltic*', Mii(l,aiulSkn.u;o<rLakoH ; 
 
 Moliawkn of bay of Qiiiiiti'; ! 
 
 MinMissa^juns «>t' Alnwi<'k i 
 
 OJibwa.vH of Samly Island 
 
 (.'bipiM'was of Saiiyiecii i 
 
 Do. Caitc ('n»(»k<'r [ 
 
 ('hristiaii Islaml Itaiiil on Mauitoulin Island. .; 
 
 Six Nation Indians of the (iraiid Kivcr ; 
 
 Mississa^iins (late of tho Itivcr Credit, now ; 
 
 on 1 lie ( irand Iti ver) 
 
 (ybij>l»e\v,is of Lake Siiiiei'ior 
 
 l)o. Lake Iliii'on ' 
 
 Manitonlin Island Indians , 
 
 (itdden Lake Indians, in theConntyof IJeiifrew 
 
 riiovi.\( r. UK <j(KMi:c. j 
 
 Po]Milation Population 
 
 Iro(|iiiiis of Sanlt Ste. L)nis 
 
 I»<>. St. Ui^iiin 
 
 Nipissiiii^s, Al^(ai(|uins. and Iroi|iiois of the 
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 Kiver Desert Indians 
 
 Alienakis of St. Fraii(jois-du-Lae 
 
 Do. IJeeaneonr 
 
 Hurons of Lorette 
 
 .\nialaeites of Vijjer 
 
 Mieinacs tif I{esli;r,)HelH) 
 
 Do. Maria 
 
 M(inta"nais of Point Dlen and Cliieoutinii. 
 
 I) >. Mosie and Sev»'U Lslands. . . 
 
 Do. ISetsianiits 
 
 Do. (Jrand ("asra))ediac 
 
 Do. Iliver (iodbout 
 
 \asl\a)>as of tlie Lower St. Lawrence 
 
 I'ltovixci; OK xov.v scotia. 
 
 Indians of .\nna])olis 
 
 Do. 
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 Halifax 
 
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 Sbelltnrno 
 
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 Yarnioutli 
 
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 Inverness 
 
 Itiebniond 
 
 A'ietoria 
 
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 IWi 
 
 282 
 ()(i4 
 212 
 174 
 
 steo 
 :j.V2 
 
 71 
 
 2, 77!l 
 
 204 
 
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 7!>7 
 
 :m7 
 
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 Do. Sbediae 
 
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 102 
 
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 51 
 
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 Appendix V. 
 
 The foUowinj^ is instructive to those who wish to iiivestijfate, for prju;- 
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 /flatfincnt of HjHviot paiimcntii, vontiugvnt and incidental fxpnidiliiir bif t'le Indian Branch, 
 (Department of the Heeretarii of State,) dnriny the year ending June 'M), 1H()H, out of Upper 
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 HoailH 
 
 IN'iiHioncrs 
 
 (rrantA towanlH the fri'ctioii of srliool- 
 
 llOIIMC.M. 
 
 Law cxiM'iiMCH ami N])<<cial work 
 
 Stationery, Iiooks, liiiiiliii;;, itriiiliii;;, 
 
 anil inNtriinuMitH, Sn\* 
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 till! jn-oti-rtion of Iniiian lanil anil 
 
 visiting! ri'si'rvi'N. 
 
 (Jrattiity to Henry John Jone.n 
 
 Ailvertininfi 
 
 Otlice furniture, and repairs anil ilis- 
 
 liurHenients. 
 C. T. Dn])ont'.»* traveling expenses in 
 
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 Lake SujM'rior, &e. 
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 104 !)5 
 
 too 00 
 
 7 17 
 
 :)04 a4 
 
 :W7 ."50 
 
 Do 
 
 Do 
 
 \Ve.stern supei'in- 
 tenUenev. 
 Do...' 
 
 (.'onimission 
 
 Islanil. 
 Plans 
 
 on .sales on Manitonlin 
 
 H. Strong's professional services, &c . . . 
 J'ostage 
 
 :I7 7.-I 
 W 10 
 
 158 ;w 
 
 1)3 25 
 
 iiOO 00 
 
 1 40 
 
 Do.. 
 Do., 
 Do.. 
 Do.. 
 Do.. 
 Do.. 
 Do.. 
 Do.. 
 Do.. 
 
 Pensioners t 100 00 
 
 Siirvev 1 400 OO 
 
 Distri1)iitioii ,5, 57!) 70 
 
 Funeral articles. 
 ^Meilieines and attendance 
 
 Hooks 
 
 Collins 
 
 ChajM'l stewiud 
 
 Messenger. ' 
 
 i D!) 70 
 
 IIH 83 
 
 10 74 
 
 48 25 
 
 25 00 
 
 10 00 
 
 liefnnils 2, 191 00 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 D(K 
 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 f 'cntral and Kasfrn 
 suiu'riutendencv. 
 
 Do '.. 
 
 Do 
 
 ■' Do 
 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 
 I'ostage 
 
 Distriltution 
 
 Postage . . . .' 
 
 Distri lint ion 
 
 Interest lialance 
 
 Cotlins 
 
 Pensioners 
 
 (-liurch repairs 
 
 I'ostage 
 
 ISonus on oil workings 
 
 Advertising 
 
 Distribution 
 
 Postage 
 
 Distribution 
 
 Annual allowance in resjieet to claims 
 
 on oil lands in Enniskillen. 
 Annual allowance in res|)ect to claims 
 
 on oil lands in Enniskillen. 
 Annual allowam-e in respect to claims 
 
 on oil lands in Enniskillen. 
 "W. 15. ISartletfs otHcc contingencies... 
 
 Distribution 
 
 Forest baililt' 
 
 Insurance upon the Mohawks' church 
 
 and parsonage. 
 Distrilnition 
 
 Disti'iltution. 
 
 .".0 
 
 1, ,5,)2 07 
 
 I 80 
 
 :), 043 24 
 
 00 23 
 
 17 00 
 
 30 00 
 
 15 00 
 
 7 8i» 
 
 f^O 00 
 
 5 70 
 
 .5, 4!!C. 32 
 
 20 
 
 2,342 17 
 
 101 110 
 
 70 43 
 
 127 37 
 
 270 98 
 
 4,090 81 
 95 00 
 39 40 
 
 1, 389 92 
 
 2, 388 32 
 
 This comprises stationei'y supplied to outside agencies. 
 
 Oi t of what fund |)aid. 
 
 Indian land management, fund. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 
 i Do. 
 
 Do. 
 I riiipjunvas of Saniiii. 
 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 i Do. 
 
 i Do. 
 
 I Do. 
 
 ' Do. 
 
 Do. 
 j Do. 
 
 Do. 
 I Ottawas and Ojibewas of Man 
 itonlin Islands. 
 Chii>i)ewas of Walpole. 
 
 Do. 
 (.'hii)pewas of thi^ Thames 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 Moravians of liie ThaiiK^H. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 Vt'vandotts of .\nderdoii. 
 
 Do. 
 Win. Wabbnck. 
 
 Jas. Manace. 
 
 Xaiicv Maiville. 
 
 Indian land iiianageiiient I'liml. 
 
 ilohawks of Hav of Quiiite. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 
 (..'hippewas of Lake Iliiron and 
 
 Simcoe. 
 Mi8sis.saguas of Uice and Mud 
 
 Lakes. 
 
 t(,-harged to principal. 
 
35 MANAGEMENT OP INDIANS IN BRITISH AMERICA. 
 
 C. — Statement of special payments, <)'-c. — Continued. 
 
 St.ntioii, HiipeTiiitvii- \ 
 
 deucy, or diviniou. 
 
 ("liaracttT of disbursemonts. 
 
 ('eiitTiUandF'rrt'rn i Medical norviooH. 
 HHiterintiMidcncy. i 
 
 I)o '.J Distribution 
 
 Do I Distribution 
 
 I»o i Distrilmtion 
 
 Do 1 Advortisinjj; 
 
 Amount 
 paid. 
 
 $36 00 
 
 444 20 
 •.i, 747 XJ 
 
 •i, 134 :k 
 
 VM 70 
 
 Do 
 
 Do 
 
 Do 
 
 Do 
 
 Do 
 
 Do 
 
 Do 
 
 Do 
 
 Do 
 
 Do 
 
 (Jrand Kivor supcr- 
 int<'ndt'ncv. 
 
 Do ■; 
 
 Tcnsioncrs : 7") 00 
 
 Distribtition | 7,647 75 
 
 Traveling t'xp»^nsi's ' I 85 
 
 Itpfuud i B 73 
 
 Advertising 140 11 
 
 Improvonnsnts I 103 00 
 
 I'ensionoi's i 75 00 
 
 Distribution 9,405 !W 
 
 Traveling expenses i 4 85 
 
 Kefund i 8 73 
 
 I'ensioners 250 00 
 
 her 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 !)(.. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Nortliern sui«*i'iii- 
 tentlenev. 
 
 Do...: 
 
 Do 
 
 ('oriiwall sii]>erin- 
 fendcnev. 
 
 Do...". 
 
 .Allowanco for tbo celebration of 
 -Majesty's birthday. 
 
 Losses by fire 
 
 J. T. (iilkison's eoutingeneies 
 
 Advertising 
 
 Law ('X])enses 
 
 Distribution 
 
 Assistance to sick Indians, and medi- 
 cines. 
 
 Cliief, board bill attending ('ouncils . .. 
 
 Insurance 
 
 Traveling exi»eiise8 of 3 sick Indians . 
 
 I Vnsioners 
 
 J. T. (Jilkistm's contingencies 
 
 Insurance upon .saw-mill i 
 
 Distribution I 4, 
 
 Postage ! 
 
 Sundry bills apnroved by tho tribe in ; 
 council and allowed by the superin- j 
 tendent general. ■ 
 
 ]>istributi<ui ■ 
 
 .1 
 
 470 
 
 321 
 
 .33 
 
 "2 
 
 3f).271 
 
 !IS 
 
 100 
 12 
 .55 
 
 1.50 
 45 
 27 
 
 203 
 3 
 
 1*10 
 
 I'erceiitage ujioti receiiitsaiid distribu- 
 tion money allowed to S. Colnuhoune. 
 
 Out of what fund paid. 
 
 131 00 
 
 42 .58 
 
 l{(>lief and supftlies t 200 00 
 
 Distribution j 203 20 
 
 Distribution 2. 1.50 03 
 
 105 90 
 
 Mississaguas of liice. and Mud 
 
 Lakes. 
 Mississaguas of Skugng. 
 Misaissaguas of Alnwick. 
 Cliippewas of Kama. 
 Cliippewas of Saugeon and 
 Owen Sound. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 Cliippewas of Nawash. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 Six Nations of the Credit. 
 
 Do. 
 
 SixXations of the Grand liiver. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 
 Mississaguas of the Credit. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 Do. 
 
 Chief Tetomoiiiasundhis baud. 
 
 Ojibevras of Lake Huron. 
 
 Do. 
 Iroquois n!" St. IJegis. 
 
 Do. 
 
 I 
 
id. 
 
 ilMuU 
 
 n auil 
 
 Iiiv<;r. 
 
 It. 
 
 l)auij.