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Making the Treaty
The Pages of Treaty 8
Page 1
... it is Her [Majesty's] desire to open for settlement, immigration, trade, travel, mining, lumbering ... a tract of country ... and to obtain the consent thereto of Her Indian subjects inhabiting the said tract, and to make a treaty...
Page 2
... the said Indians DO HEREBY CEDE, RELEASE, SURRENDER AND YIELD UP to the Government ... for ever, all their rights, titles and privileges whatsoever, to the lands included within the following limits ...
Page 3
And Her Majesty the Queen HEREBY AGREES with the said Indians that they shall have right to pursue their usual vocations of hunting, trapping and fishing throughout the tract surrendered ...
Page 4
... Her Majesty the Queen ... undertakes to lay aside reserves for such bands as desire reserves, the same not to exceed in all one square mile for each family of five ... or in that proportion for larger or smaller families ...
Page 5
... Her Majesty ... agrees to make each Chief a present of thirty-two dollars in cash, to each Headman twenty-two dollars, and to every other Indian ... twelve dollars ... [and] that each Chief, after signing the treaty, shall receive a silver medal...
Page 6
... machines and cattle to be given ... for the encouragement of agriculture and stock raising; and for such Bands as prefer to continue hunting and fishing, as much ammunition and twine for making nets ...
Page 7
IN WITNESS WHEREOF Her Majesty's said Commissioners and the Cree Chief and Headmen of Lesser Slave Lake and the adjacent territory, HAVE HEREUNTO SET THEIR HANDS at Lesser Slave Lake on the twenty-first day of June, in the year herein first above written.
Page 8
In witness whereof the Chairman of Her Majesty's Commissioners and the Headman of the Indians of Peace River Landing and the adjacent territory... have hereunto set their hands at the said Peace River Landing on the first day of July in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.
Page 9
Signed by the parties hereto, in the presence of the undersigned witnesses, the same having been first explained to the Indians by Father A. Lacombe and John Boucher, Interpreters.
Page 10
In witness whereof the Chairman of Her Majesty's Commissioners and the Chief and Headmen of the Beaver and Headman of the Crees and other Indians of Vermilion and the adjacent territory... have hereunto set their hands at Vermilion on the eighth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.
