Annual report of the Department of Indian AffairsDepartment of Indian Affairs, 1890 - Indians of North America |
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30th June Account acres annual report attendance Balance on 30th Band numbers Barley Battleford boys British Columbia building bushels cattle Chief church County crops cultivation December quarters delivered under contract DEPARTMENT OF INDIAN Deputy Supt.-Gen district Duck Lake ended 30th June Farmer farming fences fish Fort Pelly garden grain harvested honour to submit horses houses Hudson Bay hundred hunting I. S. Fund improvement increase Indian Affairs Indian Agent Indian School Industrial School inspection Island John June quarters Kamloops Lake Agency land Manitoba Manitoulin Island March and June North-West North-West Territories Number learning Number of Pupils Oats obedient servant Onion Lake Ottawa oxen Paid Peigan ploughing potatoes progress Qu'Appelle Regina repairs report and tabular reserve RETURN C-Continued River ROBERT SINCLAIR Roman Catholic Saddle Lake Salary as Teacher Schoolhouse season seed stables Sundry supplies Superintendent tabular statement Total Treaty Turnips VANKOUGHNET visited Walpole Island wheat
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Page 15 - All of which is respectfully submitted. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, THOMAS GORDON, Indian Agent.
Page xi - ID the public interests that an extinguishment should be obtained of the Indian title to that portion of the provisional District of Saskatchewan, estimated to contain 11,066 square miles, which lies between the northern boundary of the territory covered by Treaty No. 6 and the northern boundary of the aforesaid district, and which is bounded on the east and west by the limits of the timber and land district of Prince Albert. The section of country above described was included in the said timber...
Page 55 - The Honorable The Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, Ottawa. SIR, — I have the honor to submit...
Page 110 - I have the honour to submit my report for the year ended 30th June, 1890, and tabular statement of Indian matters m connection with the bands under my superintendency.
Page 157 - I have the honour to submit the following report of the Indians of Halifax County, District No. 5. Since my last report there has been no material change in the condition of the Indians of this district. There are over one hundred Indians residing in this county. They live principally by farming, but devote a considerable time during the winter to fancy work, for which they receive at an average 75 cents per day. The Indians in this district are very much scattered. Some live at Sheet Harbour, some...
Page 137 - ... to themselves and a credit to the school. The Sisters are imparting useful lessons to the girls, not only in the school room but in the several branches of housekeeping work; Already the older girls give important assistance in cooking, washing, mending, etc., for the inmates of the school. The efforts made to ascertain particulars respecting the bands to which the children brought to the school belong, their parentage, &c., has caused delay in, sending this report. I have the honour to be, Sir,...
Page 197 - The principal difficulty experienced is the dilatoriness on the part of 89010 of the contractors which made me one month later in commencing my inspection of agencies than was necessary. My teamster, Mr. E. Martin, has been very useful to me, and has performed his duties to my entire satisfaction. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, ALEX. MoGIBBON, 肘 nspector Indian Agencies and Reserves.
Page 175 - ... lessons, the girls do housework, are taught to bake and cook and perform all domestic duties, also to make their own and the boys' clothes, and to knit. The boys perform the out of door work, which consists of gardening, attending to the cows and pigs, hauling water, fencing, &c. In extent, the garden is about two acres, and this year they raised three hundred and fifty bushels of potatoes, two hundred bushels of turnips, one hundred and fifty bushels of mangolds, five hundred heads of cabbage,...
Page 46 - SIB,@I have the honour to submit my annual report and tabular statement for the year ended 30th June, 1890. The Indians on the several reserves in this agency are in a fairly prosperous condition, and...
Page viii - Gov ernment will deprive them of the residue of their lands, should there be any, after the location titles have issued for the lots allocated to individual Indians, and thai the latter will become subject to taxation, as are the lands of white people in municipalities.