Ojibwe treaty statement and related papers, 1864

              These are the promises that were made to the Indian, that they were to be paid once in a year for Twenty Five years.


Beef and working Cattle were promised to us, also Horses.



Also the promise of One Hundred Thousand Dollars were promised to the Mixed Bloods.



Again they were told, your Great Father agrees and promises, that if you sell him the Pine Timber, Ninety Thousand Dollars will be paid you, to be disposed of by you as you may see fit.


Also Employees were promised us, School Teachers, Black Smiths, Farmers, and Carpenters.



We did not have any workman, save three at "Bakagamaw Lake" for three years there were workmen there.



So then Father, Our Great Father requests me to sell him my Pine Timber, our Great Father is mighty, therefore whatever he says would not be in vain, and whatever he promises to do he will fulfill.



Very well, I will sell him the Pine Timber as he requests me to, From the usual height of cutting a tree down and upwards to lop is what I sell you, I reserve the root of the tree. Again this I hold in my hand the Maple Timber, also the Oak Timber, also this Straw which I hold in my hand. Wild Rice is what we call this.  These I do not sell.