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CHAPTER XVII
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There are upwards of 300 of these Indians.
The chiefs are--Sunday; Simpson; G.Corrego, chief and missionary interpreter.
_Rice Lake Chippewas_ .-- In 1818 the greater part of the Newcastle and Colburn districts were surrendered, for an annuity of 940_l_.

These Indians have all been reclaimed from their wandering life, and settled in their present locations, within the last ten or twelve years.
_[FN: I think G.Copway is incorrect as to the date of the settling of the village, as it was pointed out to me in 1832.

Note,--In the year 1822 the larger part of the Indian village on Anderson's Point was built and cultivated.]_ The settlement is on the north side of the lake, twelve miles from Peterborough.

Number of Indians, 114; possessing 1,550 acres, subdivided in 50-acre lots.
Chiefs--Pondash, Copway, Crow.
Deer were plenty a few years ago, but now only few can be found.

The Ojebwas are at present employed in farming instead of hunting; many of them have good and well-cultivated farms; they not only raise grain, enough, for their own use, but often sell much to the whites.
APPENDIX L.
Page 282 .-- _"...


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