...a treaty and arrange with them, so that there may
be peace and good will between them and Her Majesty's other subjects, and that Her Indian people may know and be assured of
what allowances they are to count upon and receive from Her Majesty's
bounty and benevolence.
AND WHEREAS the Indians of the said tract, duly convened
in council at the respective points named hereunder, and being requested by Her Majesty's Commissioners to name certain Chiefs
and Headmen who should be authorized on their behalf to conduct such
negotiations and sign any treaty to be founded thereon, and to become responsible to Her Majesty for the faithful performance
by their respective bands of such obligations as shall be assumed by them, the said Indians have therefore acknowledged for that
purpose the several Chiefs and Headmen who have subscribed hereto.
AND WHEREAS the said Commissioners have proceeded to
negotiate a treaty with the Cree, Beaver, Chipewyan and other Indians,
inhabiting the district hereinafter defined and described, and the same has been agreed upon and concluded by the respective Bands
at the dates mentioned hereunder, the said Indians DO HEREBY CEDE,
RELEASE, SURRENDER AND YIELD UP to the Government of the Dominion of Canada, for Her Majesty the Queen and Her
successors for ever all their rights, titles and privileges whatsoever, to
the lands included within the following limits, that is to say:
Commencing at the source of the main branch of the Red
Deer River in Alberta, thence due west to the central range of the Rocky
Mountains, thence north-westerly along said range to the point where it intersects the 60th parallel of north... [continue] |