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| ENTRY | YEAR | MONTH | DAY | NO. | FIRSTNATIONSURRENDERING | OTHERSURRENDERER | LOCATIONNAME | COUNTY | INDEXTEXT | PAGE | VOLUME |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1700 | 1889 | 9 | 2 | 282 | BLOOD BAND | JUNCTION OF BELLY AND ST MARY RIVERS | ALBERTA | PART OF RESERVE (440 ACRES) AT JUNCTION OF BELLY AND ST MARY RIVERS | 3 |
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No. 282.
Know All Men By THESE PRESENTS That We, the undersigned Chief and Principal men of the Blood Tribe of Indians resident on our Reserve in the District of Alberta, North West Territories and Dominion of Canada, for and acting on behalf of the whole people of our said Band in Council assembled, Do hereby release, remise, surrender, quit claim and yield up unto our Sovereign Lady the Queen, her Heirs and Successors forever, All and Singular that certain parcel or tract of land and premises, situate, lying and being in the said Blood Reserve in the District of Alberta, North West Territories containing by admeasurement about four hundred and forty acres be the same more or less and being composed of that portion of the Blood Reserve lying and being at the junction of the Belly and St. Mary’s rivers, being bounded on two sides by the said Rivers, on the South side by the Southerly limit of section number three in Township number eight Range twenty two west of the fourth initial Meridian and on the west side by the westerly limit of said section number three, saving and excepting the north west quarter of said section number three which has already been surrendered by us the said Indians on the ninth day of September one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six.
To have and to hold the same unto Her said Majesty the Queen, her heirs and Successors forever, in trust to dispose of the same to such person or persons, and upon such terms as the Government of the Dominion of Canada may deem most conducive to our Welfare and that of our people.
And We, the said Chief and Principal men of the said Tribe of Blood Indians do, on behalf of our people and for ourselves, hereby ratify and confirm, whatever the said Government may do, or cause to be lawfully done, in connection with the said land hereinbefore described.
In WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals this second day of September in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine.
Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of:
Wm. Pocklington
David Mills
Red Crow [L.S.]
Head Chief [L.S.]
Thunder Chief [L.S.]
Head Chief [L.S.]
Blackfoot Old Woman [L.S.]
Bull Horn [L.S.]
Calf Shirt [L.S.]
Eagle Head [L.S.]
Strangling Wolf [L.S.]
Old Moon [L.S.]
Going To The Bear [L.S.]
Wolf Bull [L.S.]
Stolen Person [L.S.]
DOMINION OF CANADA
District of Alberta
In the North West Territories
To Wit:
Personally appeared before me Hayter Reed Esq Indian Commissioner, of the town of Regina in the District of Assiniboia Red Crow, Head chief of the said Band of Indians.
And the said Hayter Reed Esq. Indian Commissioner for himself saith:
That the annexed Release or Surrender was assented to by a majority of the male members of the said Band of Indians of the Blood Reserve of the full age of twenty-one years then present.
That such assent was given at a meeting or council of the said Band summoned for that purpose and according to their Rules.
That he was present at such meeting or council and heard such assent given.
That he was duly authorized to attend such council or meeting by the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs.
That no Indian was present or voted at such council or meeting who was not a member of the Band or interested in the land mentioned in the said Release or Surrender.
And the said Red Crow Head Chief of the said Band of Blood Indians, says:
That the annexed Release or Surrender was assented to by him and a majority of the male members of the said Band of Indians, of the full age of twenty-one years then present.
That such assent was given at a meeting or council of the said Band of Indians summoned for that purpose, according to their Rules, and held in the presence of the said Hayter Reed Esq. Indian Commissioner,
That no Indian was present or voted at such council or meeting who was not an habitual resident on the Reserve of the said Band of Indians or interested in the land mentioned in the said Release or Surrender.
That he is head chief of the said Band of Indians and entitled to vote at the said meeting or council.
Sworn before me by the Deponent Red Crow at the Town of Macleod in the District of Alberta this twentieth day of December, A.D., 1889, the same having been read and explained to him and he perfectly understood the same.
Red Crow
James F. Macleod
Judge of the Supreme Court N. W. T.
Sworn before me by the Deponent Hayter Reed at Macleod in the North-West Territories this sixteenth day of May A D 1890
James F. Macleod
Recorded 22nd July 1890 Lib. 129 Folio 596
L. A. Catellier
Dep: Registrar General of Canada
- ↑ Canada. Indian Treaties and Surrenders from No. 281 to No. 483. CIHM/ICMH Digital Series = CIHM/ICMH Collection Numérisée. Ottawa: C.H. Parmelee, 1912.