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Rainy River Metis Adhesion to Treaty No. 3
Rainy River Metis Adhesion to Treaty No. 3
Rainy River Metis Adhesion to Treaty No. 3
The Metis (identified in the document as "half-breeds") of the Rainy River district requested that they be included in the terms and conditions of Treaty No. 3 between the Crown and the Salteaux Indians of Western Canada.
Indian Treaties and Surrenders.
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Description of Treaty Terms:
the Half-breeds, through Nicholas Chatelaine, their Chief representing them, agree to the following in their desire to become subject to the terms and conditions of Treaty No. 3:
The said Half-breeds, keeping and observing on their part the terms and conditions of the said treaty shall receive compensation in the way of reserves of land, payments, annuities and presents, in manner similar to that set forth in the several respects for the Indians in the said treaty: it being understood however, that any sum expended annually by Her Majesty in the purchase of ammunition and twine for nets for the use of the said Half-breeds shall not be taken out of the fifteen hundred dollars set apart by the treaty for the purchase annually of those articles for the Indians, but shall be in addition thereto, and shall be a pro rata amount in the proportion of the number of half-breeds parties hereto to the number of half-breeds embraced in the treaty; and it being further understood that the said half-breeds shall be entitled to all the benefits of the said treaty as form the date thereof, as regards payments and annuities, in the same manner as if they had been present at the time of the making of treaty no. 3.
Witnesses:
A.R. Tillie
Chas. S. Crowe
W.B. Richardson
L. Kittson
Signatories:
J.S. Dennis
First Nations Signatories:
Nicholas Chatelaine
Date document signed
Provenance
Canada, Indian Treaties and Surrenders from 1680 to 1890, 2 vols., (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1891), 1: 308-309.
About This GRASAC Record
12 September 1875, Half-Breeds of Rainy River Adhesion to Treaty No. 3, Library and Archives Canada, Indian Affairs, D-10a, Series A, Volume 1846, Reel T-9939, GAD REF IT 270, http://grasac.org/gks, (heritage item id no. 3248, accessed [date]).
This record was created under the direction of Heidi Bohaker as part of a larger research project funded by an Aboriginal Research Grant titled “Braiding Knowledges: Anishinaabe Heritage in Community Perspective”from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
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Location of treaty lands