his :
) MAQUAI-IS-TU-PISTAU, x or Strangled Wolf.

Recorded 20th March, 1885. mark.

Lib. 95, Fol. 554. |
L. A. CaTELuLier,
Deputy Registrar-General of Canada.

No. 204:

Kwow aut Men By THESE Presents, that we, the Sarcee Indians, being a major-
ity of the male members of the Sarcee Band of the full age of twenty-one years,
essembled in council duly called for the purpose of considering the surrender ‘of the
reserve hereinafter mentioned, and in presence of the Hon. Edgar Dewdney, Lieut-
enant-Governor of the North-West Territories and Commissioner duly authorized
to attend the said council, do hereby assent to ratify and qonfirm a certain treaty
made and concluded the twenty-seventh day of June last past between Her Majesty
the Queen, by Her Commissioners the said the Hon. Edgar Dewdney and Jaraes
#arquharson Macleod, C.M.G., of the one part, and the Sarcee Indians, by their
Head and Minor Chiefs, of the other part.

And in consideration of the terms of the said treaty, we do hereby unanimously
release and surrender to Her Majesty the Queen all the land reserved to the said
Sarcee Indians under and by virtue of a certain treaty made and concluded on the
twenty-seventh day of September, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hun-
dred and seventy-seven, between Her Majesty the Queen, by Her Commissioners, the
Honourable David Laird and the said James Farquharson Macleod, of the one part,
and the Blood, Blackfeet, Sarcee, Piegan and Stony Indians of the other part, which
said Jand is more particularly described as follows : “A belt of land on the north
side of the Bow and South Saskatchewan Rivers, of an average width of four miles,
along said rivers down stream, commencing at a point on the Bow River twenty
miles north-westerly of the ‘Blackfoot Crossing’ thereof and extending to the
Red Deer River at its junction with the South Saskatchewan ; also, for a term
of ten years and-no longer, from the date of the concluding of this treaty, when it
shall cease to be a portion of said Indian reserves as fully to all intents and pur-
poses as if it had not at any time been included therein, and without any compensa-
tion-to individual Indians for improvements, of a similar belt of land on the south
side of the Bow and Saskatchewan Rivers of an average width of one mile along said
rivers, down stream, commencing at the aforesaid point on the Bow River and ex-
tending to a point one mile west of the coal seam on said river, about five miles
below the ‘ Blackfoot Crossing,’ beginning again one mile east of the said coal seam
and extending to the mouth of Maple Creek at its junction with the South Saskatche-
wan, and beginning again at the junction of the Bow River with the latter river,
end extending on both sides of the South Saskatchewan in an average width on each
cide thereof of one mile along said river against the stream to the junction of the

Little Bow River with the latter river,” together with all our right, title and interest
therein. ;

To have and to hold the same unto Her Majesty the Queen, Her heirs and suc-
cessors forever.

Ixy Wiryess Wuereor, Stamix-otokan (Bull’s Head), the Head Chief of the said
Sarcee Band, hath hereto at our request placed his hand and affixed his seal at the

Sarcee Reserve this fourth day of February, in the year of Our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-four.
Signed, sealed and delivered in pre- his

Wee poe Bre ;  STAMIX x OTOKAN, (L.8.]
Wg aa mark.

E, DEWDNEY,
Indian Com’r, Ineut.-Gov.
JAMES F. MAcLEop,
Stip. Mag., N.W.T.

(Bull’s Head.)

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CANADA, )
Norto-west TERRITORIES. +
To Wit:

T, Edgar Dewdney, Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Territories and
Commissioner duly authorized to attend a council of the Sarcee Indians, held for
the purpose of considering the surrender of certain lands reserved to the said
Indians by a treaty made and concluded the twenty-seventh day of September, in the
year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, between Her Ma-
jesty the Queen of the one part and the said Sarcee Indians and the Blackfoot, Blood,
Piegan and Stoney Indians of the other part, make oath and say :—

That I was present at the said council, which was composed of a majority of the
male members of the said Sarcee Band of the full age of twenty-one years, who un-
animously assented to release and surrender to Her Majesty the Queen the said re-
serve, as set forth in the deed hereto annexed.

Sworn before me at the Sarcee Reserve]

this fourth day of February, in the} E. DEWDNEY,
year of Our Lord 1884. | Indian Com’r, Ineut.-Gov.

JAMES F’. MACLEOD,
Stip. Mag., N.W.T.

OANADA,
NortTH-West TERRITORIES.
To Wit:

I, Stamix Otokan, “ Bull’s Head,” Head Chief of the Sarcee Band of Indians,
make oath and say :—

That I was present and entitled to vote at a council composed of a majority of
the male members of the Sarcee Band of the full age of twenty-one years, duly called
to consider the surrender to Her Majesty the Queen of certain land reserved to the
said Indians by virtue of a treaty made and concluded the twenty-seventh day of
September, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.

That the members of the said council unanimously assented to the surrender of
the said reserve, as set forth in the deed hereto annexed, after being thoroughly ex-

plained.

Sworn before me at the Sarcee Reserve] his :
this fourth day of February, in the| STAMIX oF OTOKAN,
year of Our Lord 1884 (by the sun{ sas Rats
and by the earth). J (Buti’s Heap.)

JAMES EF’. MACLEOD,
Stip. Mag., N.W.T.

Arvicues or Treaty, made and concluded this twenty-seventh day of June, in
the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, between Hei
Most Gracious Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, by Her Commis-
sioners the Honourable Edgar Dewdney, Commissioner of Indian Affairs and Lieu-
tenant-Governor of the North-West Territories, and James Farquharson Macleod,
O.M.G., Stipendiary Magistrate, of the one part, and the Sarcee Indians, by their
fiead and Minor Chiefs, in council assembled, of the other part.

Whereas by a treaty made and concluded on the twenty-second day of Septem-
ber, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, between
Her Majesty the Queen, by Her Commissioners the Honourable David Laird and the
said James Farquharson Macleod, O.M.G., of the one part, and the said Sarcee
Tndians, and the Blackfeet, Piegan, Blood and Stoney Indians of the other part, it
was amongst other things provided in the words and to the effect following, that is
to say :

It is also agreed between Her Majesty and Her said Indians that reserves shall
be assigned them of sufficient area to allow one square mile for each family of five
persons, or in that proportion for larger and smaller families, and that the said re-
serves shall be located as follows, that is to say :

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First. That reserves of the Blackfeet, Bloods and Sarcee Indians shall consist of

: belt of land on the north side of the Bow and South Saskatchewan Rivers of an
verage of four miles along said rivers, down stream, commencing at a point on the

Row River twenty miles north-westerly of the “ Blackfoot Crossing” thereof, and ex-
tending to the Red Deer River at its junction with the South Saskatchewan ; also,
tor the term of ten years, and no longer, from the date of the conciuding of this
reaty, when it shall cease to be a portion of said Indian reserves as fully to all
intents and purposes as if it had not at any time been included therein, and without
any compensation to individual Indians for improvements, of a similar belt of land
on the south side of the Bow and Saskatchewan Rivers, of an average width of one
mile along said rivers, down stream, commencing at the aforesaid point on the Bow
River and extending to a point one mile west of the coal seam on said river, about
five miles below the said “ Blackfoot Crossing,” beginning again one mile east of the
said coal seam and extending te the mouth of Maple Creek at its junction with the
South Saskatchewan, and beginning again at the junction of the Bow River with the
lutter river, and extending on both sides of the South Saskatchewan 1m an average
width on each side thereof of one mile along said river against the stream to the
junction of the Little Bow River with the latter river.

And whereas the said Sareee Indians have requested that a reserve other than
and in lieu of that described in the said hereinbefore in part recited treaty should be
eranted to them, and it hath been agreed by the parties hereto, that the reserve
hereinafter described shall be granted to them as such reserve,—

These Articles witness that Her Majesty the Queen, by Her said Commissioners,
parties hereto, doth grant unto the said Sarcee Indians townships twenty-three in
ranges two (2), three (3) and four (4), west of the fifth (5th) Principal Meridian
in the North-West Territories of Canada, to have and to hold the same unto the use
of the said Sarcee Indians forever.

And in consideration of the premises the said Sarcee Indians by their Head and
Minor Chiefs in Council assembled, do hereby release to Her Majesty the Queen all
the reserve mentioned and described in the said hereinbefore in part .ecited treaty
and all their interests therein.

And it is hereby lastly fully understood and agreed by and between the parties
hereto that all the stipulations mentioned and rights reserved to Her Majesty the
Queen in the said hereinbefore in part recited treaty shall apply to the reserve granted
+o the said Sarcee Indians by these articles. :

Ix Wrrness Wuereor, Her Majesty’s said Commissioners and the said Sarcee
Tndian Head and Minor Chiefs have hereunto subscribed and set their hands at the
Sarcee Reserve, on Fish Creek, the day and year herein first written.

Signed by the said Commissioners, Head E. DEWDNEY,

and Minor Chiefs within named, in the Indian Comr. and Lieut.-Gov.
presence of the following witnesses, JAMES F. MACLEOD,
the same having been first explained Commissioner.
by William Gladstone, jr., Interpreter: his
A. Lacomse, O.M.I. STAMIX x OTOKAN, or Bull’s Head.
C. E. Denny, Indian Agent. rie
Wm. Pockuineton, Sub Indian Agent. AKAK x OTAS, or Many Horses.
J. H. McIurreez, Supt. mark.
W. Ho sror, his
Ove ‘acorn Peran x ANNES, or Eagle Robe.
mark
his
OmakKsI x Sapop, or Big Plume.
mark.
his
. APE-AGH x KAHAH-MO-NEE, or White-
Recorded 9th March, 1885, | mark.
Lib, 95, Fol. 543. § painted Otter.

L. A. Garevurr, Deputy Registrar-General of Canada.