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 TREATIES 
 
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 MADE 8RD AND 2tST AUGUST, 1871 
 BETWBEIT 
 
 HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN 
 
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 THE CHIPPEWA AND CREE INDIANS 
 
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 ARTICLES OF A TREATY, made and concluded this third day of August, in the 
 year of Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, between Her Most 
 Gracious Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, by Her Commissioner 
 Wemysb M. Simpson, Esquire, of the one part, and the Chippewa and Swampy 
 Cree Tribes of Indians, inhabitants of the country within the limits hereinafter 
 defined and described by their Chiefs, chosen and named as hereinafter mentioned, of 
 the other part : 
 
 Whereas, all the Indians inhabiting the said country have, pursuant to an ap- 
 pointment made by the said Commissioner, been convened at a Meeting at the Stone 
 Fort, otherwise called Lower Port Garry, to deliberate upon certain matters of interest 
 to Her Most Gracious Majesty, of the one part, and to the said Indians of the other ; 
 And Whereas the said Indians have been notified and informed by Her Majesty's said 
 Commissioner, that il is the desire of Her Majesty to open up to settlement and Im- 
 migration a Tract of Country bounded and described as hereinafter mentioned, and 
 to obtain the consent thereto of Her Indian Subjects inhabiting the said tract and to 
 make a Treaty and arrangements with them, so that there may be peace and good 
 will between them and Her Majesty, and that they may know and be assured of what 
 allowance they are to count upon and receive, year by year, from Her Majesty's 
 boi'nty and benevolence. 
 
 And Whereas the Indians of the said tract, duly convened in Council as afore- 
 said, and being requested by Her Majesty's said Commissioner to name certain Chiefs 
 and Headmen, who should be authorized on their behalf to conduct such negotia- 
 tions, and sign any Treaty to be founded thereon, and to become responsible to Her 
 Majesty for the faithful performance, by their respective Bands, of such obligations 
 as should be assumed by them the said Indians, have thereupon named the following 
 persons for that purpose, that is to say : Mis-Koo-Kenew, or Eed Eagle, (Henry 
 Prince) ; Ka-Ke-Ka-penais, or Bird for ever ; Na-sha-Ke-penais, or Flying down 
 Bird ; Na-na-wananan, or Centre of Bird's tail ; Ke-we-tayash, or Flying round ; 
 Wa-Ko-wush, or Whip-poor-Will ; Oo-za-we-Kwum, or Yellow Quill ; and thereupon, 
 in open Council, the different Bands have presented their respective Chiefs to His 
 Excellency the Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Manitoba, and of the North- 
 West Territory, being present at such Council, and to the said Commissioner, as the 
 Chiefs and Head-men for the purposes aforesaid, of the respective Bands of Indians 
 inhabiting the said District, hereinafter described ; And Whereas the said Lieutenant 
 Governor and the said Commissioner, then and there received and acknowledged the 
 persons so presented as Chiefs and Head-men, for the purpose aforesaid ; And 
 Whereas the said Commissioner has proceeded to negrtiate a Treaty with the said 
 Indians, and the same has finally been agreed upon ana concluded as follows, that is 
 to say : 
 
 The Chippewa and Swampy Cree Tribes of Indians, and all other the Indians 
 inhabiting the District hereinafter described and defined, do hereby cede, release, sur- 
 

 render, and yield up to Her Majoaty the Queen, and Succoshoi'h for ever, all the lands 
 included within the following limits, that is to say : Beginning at the International 
 boundary line near its junction with the Lai<e of the Woods, at a point due north from 
 the centre of Roseau Lake, thence to run duo north to the centre of Roseau Lake; 
 thence northward, to the centre of White Mouth Lake, otherwise called White Mud 
 Lake ; thence by the middle of the Lake and the middle of the river issuing there- 
 from, to the mouth thereof in Winnipeg River ; thence by the Winnipeg River to its 
 mouth ; thence westwardly, including all the Islands near the south end of the Lake, 
 across the Lake to the mouth of the Drunken River ; thence westwardly, to a point 
 on Lake Manitoba, half way between Oak Point and the mouth of Swan Cieek ; 
 thence across Lake Manitoba, on a line due west to its western shore; Ihence in a 
 straight line to the crossing of the Rapids on the Assiniboine ; thence due south to 
 the International Boundary Lino, and thence eastwardiy by the said line to the place 
 of beginning ; to have and to hold the same to Her said Majesty the Queen, and Her 
 Successors for over: and Her Majesty the Queen, hereby agrees and undertakes to 
 lay aside and reserve for the sole and exclusive use of the Indians, the following 
 tracts of land, that is to say; For the use of the Indians belonging to the 
 Band of which Henry Prince, otherwise called Mis-Koo-Kenew, is the Chief, so much 
 of land on both sides of the Red River, beginning at the south line of St. Peter's 
 Parish, as will furnish one hundred and sixty acres for each family of five, or in that 
 proportion for larger or smaller fam'lies ; and for the use of the Indians of whom 
 Na sha-ke-penais, Na-na-wa-nanan, Re-we-tayash, and Wa-ko-wush, are the Chiefs, so 
 much land on the Roseau River as will furnish one hundred and sixty acres for each 
 family of five, or in that proportion for larger or smaller families, beginning from 
 the mouth of the river; and for the use of the Indians of which Ka-Ke Ka-penais is 
 the Chief, so much land on the Winnipeg River, above Fort Alexander, as will 
 furnish one hundred and sixty acres for each family of five, or in that proportion for 
 laigor or smaller families; beginnning at a distance of a mile or thereabout above 
 the Fort ; and for the use of the Indians, of whom Oo-za-we-Kwun is Chief, so much 
 land on the south and east side jf the Assiniboine, about twenty miles above 
 the Portage, as will furnish o."'* 'liUndred and sixty acres for each family of five, or in 
 that proportion for larger or smaller families, reserving also a further tract enclosing 
 said reserve, to comprise an equivalent to twenty-five square miles of equal breadth, 
 to be laid out round the reserve ; it being understood, however, that if at the date 
 of the execution of this Treaty, there are any settlers within the bounds of any lands 
 reserved by any Band, Her Majesty reserves the right to deal with such settle'-s as 
 she shall deem just, so as not to diminish the extent of land allotted to the Indians. 
 
 And with a view to show the satisfaction of Her Majesty with the behaviour 
 and good conduct of Her Indians, parties to this Treaty, She hereby, through Her 
 Commissioner, makes them a present of three dollars for each Indian man, woman 
 and child belonging to the Bands here represented. 
 
 And further, Her Majesty agrees to maintain a school on each reserve hereby 
 made, whenever the Indians of the reserve should desire it. 
 
 Within the boundary of Indian Reserves, until otherwise enacted by the proper 
 legislative authority, no intoxicating liquor shall be allowed to be introduced or sold, 
 and all laws now in force or hereafter to be enacted to preserve Her Majesty's Indian 
 subjects, inhabiting the reserves or living elsewhere, from the evil influence of the 
 use of the intoxicating liquors, shall be strictly enforced. 
 
 Her Majesty'' s Commissioner shall, as soon as possible after the execution of this 
 Treaty, cause to bo taken an accurate census of all the Indians inhabiting the District 
 above described, distributing them in families, and shall in every year ensuing the date 
 
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 squal breadth, 
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 3 of any lands 
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 the Indians. 
 
 the behaviour 
 through Her 
 man, woman 
 
 servo hereby 
 
 heroof, at some period during the pionth of July, in each year to be duly notified to 
 (he Indians, and at or near the renpectivo icsorvos, pay to each Indian family of five 
 persons the sum of fifteen dollars Canadian currency, or in like proportion for a 
 larger or smaller family, such payment to bo made in such articles as the Indians 
 Hhall require of Blankets, clothing, ))rints (asHorted colors), twine or traps, at the 
 current cost price in Montreal, or otherwise, if Her Majesty shall doom the same 
 desirable in the interests of Hor Indian people, in cash. 
 
 And Ml £■; .ersigned Chiefs do hereby bind and pledge themselves a.id their people 
 strictly to ob!> i 'o this Treaty, and to maintain perpetual peace between themselves 
 and Her Majesty's white subjects, and not to interfere with the property or in any 
 way molest the persons of Her Majesty's white or other subjects. 
 
 In witness whereof Her Majesty's said Commissioner and the said Indian Chiefs 
 have hereunto subscribed and sot their hand and tical, at the Lower Fort Garry, this 
 day and year herein first above mentioned. 
 
 Signed, sealed and delivered in the~ 
 presence, of (tha same having 
 been first read and explained.) 
 
 (Signed,) 
 
 Adams G. Arohibald, 
 
 Lt. Governor of Manitobn 
 and the North- W( at 
 Territortea. 
 
 James McKay, P.L.C 
 A. G. Ik VINE, Major. 
 Abraham Cooley, 
 Donald Gunn, M.L.C. 
 Thomas Howard, 
 Henry Cochrane. 
 James McArrister. 
 Hugh MoArrister, 
 E. Alice Archibald. 
 Henry Bouthillier. 
 
 Signed, 
 
 Wemyss M. Simpson, \^Seal'] 
 
 Indian Commiaaioner. 
 
 his 
 Mis-Koo-KE-NEw, or Eed Eagle(Henry Prince), -|- 
 
 mark. 
 
 his 
 
 Ka-ke-ka-J'ENAIs, or Bird Forever (William + 
 
 Pennefather), mark, 
 his 
 Na-sha-ke-penais, or Flying Down Bird, ' + 
 
 mark, 
 his 
 Na-na-wa-nanan, or Centre of Bird's Tail, -|- 
 
 mark. 
 his 
 Ke-we-tay-ash, or Flying Round, -|- 
 
 mark. 
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 Wa-ko-wush, or Whippoorwill, -f- 
 
 mark. 
 
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 \ARTIGLE8 OF A TREATY made and concluded this twenty-first day of Augmt, in 
 the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, between Hbr Most 
 Gracious Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, by Her Commissioner 
 Wemyss M. Simpson, Esquire, of the ene part and the Chippewa Tribe of Indiant, 
 inhabitants if the country within the limits hereinafter defined and described by their 
 Chiefs, chosen and named as hereinafter mentioned, of the other part. 
 
 Whereas, all the Indians inhabiting the said conntry have, pursuant to an ap- 
 Ipointmont made by the said Commissioner, been convened at a meeting at Manitoba 
 IFo.'^t, to delibernto upon certain matters of interest to Her Most Gracious Majesty of 
 Ithe one part, and to the said Indians of the other; and whereas the said Indians have 
 {been notified and informed by Her Majesty's said Commissioner, that it is the desire 
 jol Her Majesty to open up to settlement and immigration a tract of vountry bounded 
 and described as hereinafter mentioned, and to obtain the consent thereto of Her 
 Indian subjects inhabiting the said tract, and to make a Treaty and arrangement 
 [with them, so that there may be peace and good-will between them and Her Majesty, 
 'and that they may know and be assured of what allowance they are to count upon 
 [and receive from Her Majesty's bounty and benevolence. 
 
 And Whereas the Indians of the said tract, duly convened iii council as afore- 
 [said, and being requested by Her Majesty's said Commissioner to name certain Chiefs 
 land Head men who should be authorized on their behalf to conduct such negotiations 
 land sign any Treaty to be founded thereon, and to become responsible to Her Majesty 
 (for the faithful performance by their respective Bands of such obligations as shall be 
 lassumed by them, the said Indians have thereupon named the following persons for 
 that purpose, that is to say : — 
 
 For the Swan Creek and Lake Manitoba Indians, Sou-sonse, or. Little Long 
 
 Ears ; for the Indians of Fairford and the neighboring localities, Ma-sah-kee-yash, or, 
 
 [He who flies to the bottom, and Bichaixl Woodhouse, whose Indian name is Ke-wee- 
 
 jtah-quun-na-yash, or He who flies round the feathers ; for the Indians of Waterhen 
 
 lEiver and Crane Eiver and the neighboring localities, Francois, or. Broken Fingers; 
 
 and ibr the Indians of Biding Mountains and Dauphin Lake and the remainder of 
 
 jthe Territory hereby ceded, Mokis (the Eagle), or, Giroux. And thereupon, in open 
 
 I Council, the diflerent Bands have presented their respective Chiefs to His Excellency 
 
 I the Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba and of the North West. Territory, being present 
 
 fat such Council, and to the said Commissioner, as the Chiefs and head men for the 
 
 i purposes aforesaid of the respective Bands of Indians inhabiting the said district 
 
horeinuiloi- doNcril)e<l ; And whoroaH the naid Lieiitoniint (rovornor nnd tho said Com* 
 misMionor thon ami llioro roceivocl and acknowlodgod tho porHonn ho prosonted as 
 Chiefs and head men, I'or tho nuiposo utbroHaid, of tho roHpectivo BamiH of IndiunH 
 inhabiting the naid diHtrict iieioinaflor describe<l ; And whereas tho said CommiBHionor 
 haH proceeded to negotiate a Treaty with the Huid Indiana, and tho name han tinally 
 been agreed upon and iioncludoil aw follows, that is to say: — 
 
 Tho Chippowa Tribe of Indians, and all other the Indians inhabiting tho district 
 hereinafter describeil and delined, do hereby cede, release, surrender and yield up to 
 llor Majesty the (iuoon, and Her successors forever, all tho lands included within 
 tho following limits, thai is to say : — All that traet of country lying partly to tho 
 north and partly to tho west of a ti-act of land coded to Her Majesty the Queen by 
 tho Indians iidiahiting tho Province of Manitoba, and certain adjoining localities, 
 under tho terms of a Treaty made at Lower Fort (iarry on tho third day of August 
 last past, the land now intended to bo coded and surrendered, being particularly des- 
 cribed as follows, that is to say : — Beginning at tho mouth of Winnipeg liivor, on tho 
 north line of the lands coded by said Treaty, thence running along tho eastern shore 
 of Lake Winnip-ig, northwardly as far as the mouth of Boron's liiver; thonco across 
 said Lake to its western shore at the north bank of the mouth of tho Littlo Saskat- 
 chewan or Dauphin river; thence up said stream and along the northern and western 
 shores thereof, and of St. Martin's Lake, and along the north bank of tho stream 
 flowing into St. Martin's Lake from Lake Manitoba by the general course of such 
 stream to such last m.intioiicd Lake; thence by the eastern and northern shores of 
 Lake Manitoba to tho mouth of the Walorhen Bivor; thence by tho eastern and 
 northern shores of said river up stream to tho northermost extremity of a small lake 
 known as Walorhon Lake ; thence in a lino duo west to and across Lake Winne- 
 pogosis ; thenco in a straight lino to the most northerly waters forming the source 
 of the Shell River; thence to a point west of ^he same, two miles distant from the 
 river, measuring at right angles thereto; thenco by a line parallel with the Shell 
 river to its mouth and then crossing the Assiniboino River and running parallel 
 thereto and two miles distant therotrom and to the westward thereof to a point 
 opposite Fort Ellice; thence in a soutliwosteily course to the northwestern point of 
 the Moose Mountains; thenco by a lino duo south to tho United States frontier; 
 thence by tho frontier eastwardly to tho Westward line of said Tract ceded by Treaty 
 as aforesaid ; thonco bounded thereby, by tho west, north-wost and north lines of 
 said Tract to the place of beginning at tho mouth of Winnipeg River; to have and to 
 hold tho same to llor Majesty tho (^neen and Her Successors for over ; and Her 
 Majesty tho (Jueon hereby agiees and undertakes to lay aside and reserve, for the 
 sole and exclusive use ot the Indians inhabiting the said tract, the following lots of 
 land, that is to say : — 
 
 For tho use of tho Indians belonging to tho Band of which Makis is Chief, so 
 much land between Turtle River and Valley River on tho south side of Lake Dauphin 
 as will make one hundred and sixty acres lor each family of five persons, or in tho 
 same proportion for a greater or smaller number of persons. 
 
 year, 
 
 And for the uso of the Indians belonging to tho Band of which Francois, or 
 Broken Fingers, is Chief, so much laud on Crane River running into Lake Manitoba 
 as will make one hundred and sixty acres for each family of five persons, or in the 
 same proportion for a greater or smaller number of persons. And for the uso of 
 the Band of Indians belonging to the Bands of which Ma-sah-keo-yash and Richard 
 Woodhouse aro Chiefs, so much land on the river between Lake Manitoba and St. 
 Martin's Lake, — known as " Fairford River," and including tho present Indian Mis- 
 sion grounds, — as will make one hundred and sixty acres foi* each family of live 
 persons, or in the same proportion for a greater or smaller number ol persons. And 
 
id tho Boid Com- 
 ao proBonted m 
 nnctH of IndianH 
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 bin^ tho district 
 and yiohl up to 
 ncludod within 
 g partly to tho 
 y tho Queen by 
 ining localities, 
 
 day of August 
 articularly des- 
 sg liivor, on tho 
 lO eastern shore 
 ; thence across 
 3 Littlo Saskat- 
 arn and western 
 c of the stream 
 
 course of such 
 ■thorn shores of 
 he eastern and 
 
 of a small lake 
 J Lake Winne- 
 ning the source 
 istant from the 
 
 with tho Shell 
 Linning parallel 
 roof to a point 
 postern point of 
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 joded by Treaty 
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 to have and to 
 over; and Her 
 reserve, for tho 
 allowing lots of 
 
 ikis is Chief, so 
 i Lake Dauphin 
 rsons, or in tho 
 
 !h Francois, or 
 Lake Manitoba 
 rsons, or in tho 
 i for tho use of 
 sh and Eichard 
 Manitoba and St. 
 ent Indian Mis- 
 family of iivo 
 1 puvoOQs. And 
 
 for the use of tho Indians of whom Son-son-ie is Chief, so much land on tho oast sido 
 of Lake Manitoba, to bo laid off north of tho creek near which a fUllen elm tree now 
 lies, and about half way between Oak I'oint and Manitoba Post, ho much land as will 
 make one hundred atid sixty acres for each family of five persons, or in tho same 
 proportion for a greater or smaller number of persons. Saving, novorthcless, tho 
 rights of any white or other settler nuw in oooupation of any lands within tho lines 
 01 any such reserve. 
 
 And with a view to show the satisfaction of Her Majesty with the behaviour 
 and good conduct of Her Indians, parties to this Treaty, She hereby, through Her 
 Commissioner, makes them a present of Threu Dollars for each Indian— man, woman 
 and child — belonging to the Bands here represented. 
 
 And further, Her Majesty agrees to maintain u school in each Reserve hereby 
 mtvde, whenever the Indians of the Besorve shall desire it. 
 
 Her Majesty further agrees with Her said Indians, that within the boundary of 
 Indian Reserves, until otherwise enacted by tho proper legislative ai^thority, no 
 intoxicating liquor shall bo allowed to be introduced or sold ; and all laws now in 
 force or hereafter to bo enacted to preserve her Indian subjects inhabiting the 
 Reserves or living elsewhere within hor North- West Territories, fVom the evil 
 influence of the use of intoxicating liquors, shall be strictly enforced. 
 
 And further, that Her Majesty's Commissioner sbnU, as soon as possible, after 
 the execution of this Treaty, cause to be taken an accuiate Census of all the Indians 
 inhabiting tho Tract above dosoribed, distributing them in families, and shall in every 
 year ensuing the date hereof, at some period during tho month of August in each 
 year, to bo duly notified to the Indians, and at or near their respective Reserves, pay 
 to each Indian family of five persons, the sum of fifteen dollars, Canadian currency, 
 or in like proportion for a larger or smaller family; such payment to be made in 
 such articles as the Indians shall require of blankets, clothing, prints (assorted 
 colours), twine or traps, at the current cash price in Montreal, or otherwise if Hor 
 Majesty shall deem the same desirable in the interest of her Indian people, in cash. 
 
 And the undersigned Chiefs, on their own behalf, and on behalf of all other 
 Indians inhabiting the tract within ceded, do hereby solemnly promise and engage, 
 to strictly observe this Treaty, and also to conduct and boLave themselves as good 
 and loyal subjects of Her M^estjr the Queen. They promise and engage that they 
 will, in all respects, obey and abide by the law ; that they will maintain peace and 
 good order between each other, and also between themselves and other Tribes of 
 Indians, and between themselves and others of Her Majesty's subjects, whether 
 Indians or Whites, now inhabiting, or hereafter to inhabit, any part of the said 
 ceded tract ; and that they will not molest the person or property of any inhabitants 
 of such ceded tract, or the property of Her Majesty the Queen, or interfere with or 
 trouble any person })a88ing or travelling through the said tract, or any part thereof; 
 and that they will aid and assist the Officers of Her Majesty in bringing to justice 
 and punishment, any Indian offending against the stipulations of this Treaty, or 
 infringing the laws in force in the country so ceded. 
 
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10 
 
 In Witness Wh. , Her Majesty's said Commissioner and the said Indian 
 
 Chiefs have lioreiiiito suj.. ;ril>od and sot their hands at Manitoba Post, this day and 
 year herein first above nameu. 
 
 Signed by the Chiefs within named in pro-\ ° ' 
 
 senco of the following witnesses (the \'vVbmyss M, Simpson. 
 
 same having been first read and ex- 
 plained). 
 
 Indian Oommisgioner, 
 
 (Signed), 
 
 Adams G. Archibald, 
 
 IdetiU Oovernor of Manitobt 
 the iV. W. Territories. 
 
 James McKay, P. C. C. 
 MoLTNEUX St. John. 
 B. A. Abchibald. 
 Lilt Archibald. 
 Henri Bouthillier. 
 Paul de Laronde. 
 Donald McDonald. 
 Eliza McDonald. 
 Alexander Muir, Sr. 
 
 his 
 Mekis 4- 
 mark. 
 his 
 Son-sonse -f- 
 mark. 
 
 his 
 Ma-sah-kee-tash + 
 mark, 
 his 
 Francois + 
 mark. 
 
 Bichard Woodhousb. 
 
 
 
10 said Indian 
 t, this day and 
 
 ton OommUsioner, 
 
 his 
 
 I + 
 mark. 
 
 :ousB.