Mountains, and from the International boundary to the 

 southern limits of Treaty 6. 



Treaty No. 8 was made and concluded at the several, dates 

 mentioned therein in 1899, the first being- at Lesser Slave Lake 

 on the 21st of June, between Commissioners D. Laird, James 

 A. J. McKenna, now Assistant Indian Commissioner, and Hon. 

 James H. Ross, and the Cree, Beaver, Chipewyan and other 

 Indians inhabiting the country watered by the Athabasca and 

 Peace Rivers, in the District of Athabasca, also that portion 

 of British Columbia east of the Rocky Mountains, and of the 

 McKenzie District south of Great Slave Lake. 



Several adhesions to these Treaties were also taken at 

 various times from Chiefs and Headmen who happened not 

 to be present at the dates when the first negotiations were 

 effected. An increase in the allowance first made to the 

 Indians under Treaties 1 and 2 was likewise conceded. 



In general, the terms granted under these Treaties were a 

 present of Twelve Dollars and an annuity of Five Dollars for 

 each man, woman and child so soon as the Chiefs signed the 

 treaty. Twenty-five Dollars was given each Chief, and 

 Fifteen Dollars to each Headman, and a uniform of 

 clothing befitting these two ranks every three years. Reserves 

 640 acres for a family of five, or at the rate of 128 acres for 

 every man, woman and child. An annual allowance of am- 

 munition and twine was also granted; and where farming and 

 grazing operations are practicable and engaged in, a supply of 

 agricultural implements, seed grain, cattle, and carpenters' 

 tools were to be provided. Schools were also to be established 

 on the reserves. They were likewise permitted to pursue their 

 avocations of hunting, trapping and fishing throughout the 

 territory surrendered, subject to such regulations as may from 

 time to time be made by the Government of the country, 

 acting under the authority of the Sovereign, and saving and 

 excepting such tracts as may be required or taken up for 

 settlement, mining, or other purposes, under the sanction of 

 the Government. The Indians on their part, besides surren- 

 dering the land, promised to conduct themselves as good and 

 loyal subjects of the Sovereign by maintaining peace and 

 obeying the laws. 



In negotiating these Treaties three or four days were some- 

 times occupied in pow-wowing before the Indians would come 

 to terms. Grandiloquent speeches were occasionally made by 

 the Chiefs, who mostly concluded their orations by making 



