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land on the Upper Reserve was regularly surveyed and laid out into farms. The chief, with the approval of the Superinten- dent, placed most of the present occupants on these lands, but ll is not indispensable that he should be consulted, as the mem- bers of the tribe may choose any unoccupied spot, when once in possession they are secure from intrusion, but repeated ill conduct or drunkenness would subject them to be expelled from the reserve of the chief.

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4. CHIPPEWAS AT VVALPOLE ISLAND.

These Indians are also known under the name of Chippewas of Chenaille Ecarte. The Chippewas who have long hunted

over the waste lands about the Chenaille Ecarte and Bear Creek,_

are a branch of the same nation which is settled in Sarnia, and share in the same annuity.

The Pottawatamies are recent immigrants from the United States.

The settlement at Walpole Island was commenced at the close of the American war, when Col. M’Kie, called by the Indians “White Elk,” collected and placed upon the island which lies at the junction of the River and Lake St. Clair, the scattered remains of some tribes of Chippewas who had been engaged on the British side. Being left for many years with- out any interference or assistance on the part of the Govern- nent, they became a prey to the profligate whites settled on the frontier, who, by various frauds and in moments of intoxica- tion, obtained leases and took possession of the most fertile and valuable part of the island.

5. CHIPPEWAS 01‘ THE RIVER CREDIT.

These Indians are the remnant of a tribe which formerly possessed a considerable portion of the Home and Gore Dis- tricts, of which in 1818, they surrendered the greater part, for an annuity of £532.10, reserving only certain small tracts at the River Credit, and at Sixteen and Twelve Mile Creeks.