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GAD Reference number: IT 205;
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 80-1/2
Aboriginal people(s): Chippewa Indians;
Aboriginal individual(s): David Wawanosh, Joshua Wawanosh, Andrew Nageshig, Johnson Wapugais, William Pamussung, George Ashguawonabie;
Other party(ies): Governor General in Council and Queen Victoria
Type of Document: Surrender of land and Order in Council - Docket title: "The Chippewa Indians to Her Majesty Surrender of Stag Island in the River St. Clair"
Specific purpose(s): The surrender of an island to the Queen in order that it be granted to a specified person and the resulting acceptance of the surrender by Order in Council
Land involved: Stag Island composed of 60 acres located in the St. Clair River
Form: Manuscript "true and faithful copy"

The document has five doodem (clan, also known by the anglicized term totem) signatures which were reproduced by a copyist.

The document is laminated with tissue. The edges and corners are dirty. There are six small tears.

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 Reprint): Vol. I, page 211.

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

Dated to August 19, 1869 - copied and recorded; January 19, 1857 - date of surrender.

IT 203 - Surrender, IT 204 - Copy of Order in Council