Ojibwe treaty statement and related papers, 1864

              We received four Dollars per head, in partaking of their payment.  Then the Commissioners spoke to us and said, your Great Father requests you to sell him the Mineral lhat is to be found on your lands,  Copper and Lead.  He does not want to buy your lands, he wants the Mineral.





You shall be paid for Twenty Five years. Twelve Thousand Five Hundred Dollars in Coin. Twelve Thousand Five Hundred Dollars in worth of Goods, of which you will receive in each year for twenty five years.



Also Provision, Ammunition together to the value of Five Thousand Dollars.  Also Beef and working Cattle were promised to be given every Year.



And again he told us; Your Great Father agrees and promises to give School Teachers and Carpenters.  And also, he will give you Ninety Thousand Dollars to give to your Mixed Bloods.



Next Season you shall see this Vessel full of Provisions for your own use to bind this Contract if you accede to the wishes of your Great Father.  This he promises you in good faith if you sell him your Mineral.



Again another promise was made, that house furniture should be furnished them. Also to conclude the agreement Ninety Thousand Dollars were to be given.  These were the conditions agreed upon, in complying with the request of his Great Father.


Then, and not till then was the Indians called to council among themselves how to answer, tis then that Chief Shingoob spoke to his fellow Indians in this wise.