SO YOU SHOULD KNOW/CHI KI KEN DA MUN - Highlights of Treaty No. 2

1.	Tribes
		Ojibway (Chippewa)
2.	Bands
		Fairford Lake St. Martin Little Saskatchewan Dauphin River Keeseekoowenin Crane River Ebb and Flow Lake Manitoba Waterhen
3.	Purpose of Treaty
		To extinguish Indian title in order to "open up to settlement and immigration" the area ceded with "the consent thereto of her (Queen Victoria's) Indian subjects, and to make a treaty and arrangements with them, so that there may be peace and good will between them and Her Majesty".
4.	Area Ceded
		35,700 square miles in central southwestern Manitoba and a portion of southeastern Saskatchewan.
5.	Indian Obligations
		Observe terms of the treaty, maintain peace between themselves and non-Indians. No interference with non-Indians, no interference with non-Indian property.
6.	Crown Obligations
	- - - -	Set apart Reserves for the Bands party to the Treaty on the basis of 160 acres for each family of five, or in that proportion for larger or smaller families. Maintain a school on each Reserve. Prohibit sale of liquor to Indians. Pay an annuity of $3.00 per capita per year. Indian right to hunt and fish on unoccupied land throughout the ceded territory recognized.

Amendments of Treaty, 1875

		Yearly per capita annuity increased to $5.00 from $3.00 $20.00 annuity per year for Chiefs. Suit of clothing every three years for each Chief and 4 headmen or Councillors for each band. For each Chief and Councillors for each Band, a buggy. A bull for each Reserve, a cow for each Chief, a boar for each Reserve and a sow for each Chief and "a male and female of each kind of animal raised by farmers". A plow and harrow for each Indian farmer.
7.	Crown Prerogative
		Deal with any non-Indian settlers whose lands were to be found within the boundaries of any Reserve in a manner that would not "diminish the extent of land allotted to the Indians".
8.	Treaty Presents
		$3.00 for every man, woman and child.

Source: Indian Treaties in Manitoba. Indian and Norther Affairs Canada.