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GAD Reference number: IT 494;
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 2389
Aboriginal people(s): Cree Indians (at Baptiste River);
Aboriginal individual(s): L. Sunchild, J. Yellow Eyes and one other [?];
Other party(ies): Commissioners Malcolm McCrimmon and John Lothrop Grew for King George VI
Type of Document: Adhesion to treaty
Specific purpose(s): Agreement to surrender lands, "accept the several provisions payments and reserves of the said treaty [No. 6]... and solemnly promise and engage to abide by and carry out all the ... obligations"
Land involved: "All the lands in His Majesty's Dominions"
Form: Typescript original or duplicate

Title supplied from contents.

Red and black ink were used to lined the border and red ink was also used for underlining.

--paper is lightly soiled especially around the edges; many small holes in upper left corner probably from staples; staple used to bind sheets together; sheets slightly different colours and textures; IT 495 (I.A. No. 2390) was appended to this document but is now separate. As with some of the other adhesions it seems possible that the main body of the text was used and interchanged for more that one adhesion. Signature sheets were added as needed.

Cree syllabics are used in signatures on page five.

This document is also available on microfilm reel T-9941.

IT 296 - Treaty of 1876, IT 299 - IT 305 - adhesions 1876-1879, IT 328 - Adhesion of 1882, IT 367 - Adhesion of 1889, IT 495 - Original or Duplicate, IT 496 - Adhesion of 13 May 1950, IT 498 - Adhesion of 21 November 1950, IT 499 - Adhesion of 18 August 1954, IT 500 - IT 501 - 2 adhesions at Cochin 1954 and 1956