GRANT TO LOED SELKIRK. PEGUIS. 



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along the said height of land to the source of the Winni- 

 peg Eiver (meaning by such last-named river the principal 

 branch of the waters which unite in Lake Seiganagah), 

 thence along the main stream of these waters, and the 

 middle of the several lakes through which they flow, to 

 the mouth of the Winnipeg Eiver, and thence in a 

 northerly direction through the middle of Lake Winnipeg 

 to the place of beginning."* 



Eoss, in his " Eed Eiver Settlement, its Eise, Progress, 

 and Present State," introduces a treaty made between 

 Lord Selkirk and certain Indian chiefs, Crees and Saul- 

 teaux (or Ojibways), on the 18th July, 1817, in which the 

 chiefs agree to give unto the king, for the use of the Earl 

 of Selkirk, a considerable tract of land on the Assinni- 

 boine and Eed Eivers for the quit-rent of 100 lbs. of 

 tobacco, to be paid annually to the chiefs and warriors 

 of the Cree and Saulteaux tribes then occupying the 

 country, f 



In 1857 Peguis, an immigrant from Pigeon Eiver, Lake 

 Superior, at Eed Eiver, sent a letter to the Aborigines' Pro- 

 tection Society, London, complaining of the non-fulfilment 

 of this treaty. The following extract from the letter sent 

 by Peguis is published in the Blue Book J: — 



" Many winters ago, in 1812, the lands along the Eed 

 Eiver, in the Assinniboine country on which I and the 



* Part of tliis deed is published in the narrative of Major Long's Expe- 

 dition to the Source of St. Peter's River, 1824. The above extract is from 

 the Blue Book. Major Long's quotation varies in the spelling of a few- 

 names of places, and concludes with the words, " which territory is called 

 Ossiniboia." 



t This treaty is signed by Lord Selkirk and the following chiefs : — 



Ouekidvat (Grande oreilles). 

 Kayajiekebinoa (L'homme noir). 



Moche W. Keocab (Le sonent). 

 Mechudewikonaie (La robe noir). 

 Pegowis. 



X Page 445, Report from the Select Committee on the Hudson's Bay 

 Company. 



