Ojibwe treaty statement and related papers, 1864

              I have not ceded my lands yet the Indian said.   It is true that only a portion not even one half of the Indians went after their payment at Sandy Lake.



Harnesses were there and then given to the Indians, and told that at some future time Horses should be given them. But they have never received them.



The whole of Two Payments remained at Sandy Lake, which the Wisconsin and Michigan Indian did not go after and which he never got.



It was there that these two payments were burned up.  It was a great loss to the Indians.  This happened when Watrous was Agent.



There was over One Hundred of the Indians that died the previous year on account of the unwholesome provisions that were fed out to them, and that was the reason that they did not go after their payments.



And on the arrival of Gilbert, he said to the Indians, I bring with me the payment for Five Bands.  Those bands that are living along the lake Shore.  The payment I bring is only for them, and only their share.



I bring nothing for the interior Indians. Their payment is gone around by the way of St Peters. This he told the Indians.



But there was some of the interior Indians here.  And when he saw how destitute they were, he asked the Lake Indians, whether they would not be willing to lend them a part of their payment, for that year.