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GAD Reference number: IT 134;
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 53-1/2
Aboriginal people(s): Ojibeway Indians;
Aboriginal individual(s): Chiefs Cheogema, Shawanon, Quequikibonc, Pitwiyishii, Kekanasseine;
Other party(ies): Queen Victoria
Type of Document: Surrender of land - Docket title: "Surrender to Her Majesty of the Lower Indian Reserve on the River St. Clair to be sold for the benefit of the Walpole Island Indians"
Specific purpose(s): Surrender of land to be disposed of for the benefit of the Indians
Land involved: 2,675 acres "in the Township of Moore, being one mile in extent along the edge of the river and extending four miles back"
Form: Manuscript original

The document has seven doodem (clan, also known by the anglicized term totem) signatures.

The document is laminated with tissue. The edges are worn, torn and dirty, with pieces missing. There are also holes along the fold lines.

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 Reprint): Vol. I, pages 128-129.

This document is also available on microfilm reel T-9938.

IT 135 - "true copy"