Collection search - Surrender by Chippewas of Walpole Island of Keshebahahnelegoo Menesha Island in River St. Clair - IT 219

GAD Reference number: IT 219;
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 86
Aboriginal people(s): Chippewa tribe of Indians;
Aboriginal individual(s): Peterwegezhig and others;
Other party(ies): R.T. Pennefather, T. Worthington and F. Talfourd on behalf of the Indian Department for Queen Victoria
Type of Document: Surrender of land and extinguishment of title. Docket title: "Surrender by Chippewas of Walpole Island of Keshebahahnelegoo Menesha Island in River St. Clair"
Specific purpose(s): Surrender of an island to be sold for the benefit of the Indians
Land involved: "Keshebahahnelegoo Menesha" an island in the St. Clair River
Form: Manuscript original

The document is in brown and black ink. It has 10 doodem (clan, also known by the anglicized term totem) signatures and a seal which is covered with while paper.

The document is laminated with tissue. There are ink blots. The edges are torn and dirty. The fold lines are also torn, dirty and yellowed with small holes.

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 Reprint): Vol. I, page 221.

This document is also available on microfilm reel T-9939.

IT 220 - Surrender, IT 218 - Copy of Order in Council