Also, they became increasingly aware of the Indian's bitterness over the illegal use of poison traps by white and half-breed trappers. |
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Indian treaties also permitted limited scope for the settlement of half-breed claims in Manitoba and the North-West. |
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Last fall they appeared before me and I took their applications for half-breed scrip. |
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The half-breed car was impressive on the track, so Shelby and AC decided to make street versions. |
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A few days later, a half-breed delegation arrived in Washington, begging for his assistance. |
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The horses that were used varied according to the terrain, but most were half-breed California mustangs. |
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Macleod got a pony, and I got five from a half-breed. |
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They shouted and scuffled as the half-breed gatekeepers shoved them aside. |
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We have the half-breed, the result of the union between the Indian, the representative of savagery, and the white man, the representative of civilization. |
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In addition to his duties of paying annuity to Indians in the Treaty Eight area and obtaining adhesions of the Fort St. John and Fort Resolution Bands, Macrae was to report on the half-breed claims. |
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Only when the half-breed commissioners exceeded their instructions and altered the form of scrip, enabling the Métis to dispose of their scrip more easily, was there any serious opposition. |
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Another consideration which grew from this stipulation in these agreements was the issue of half-breed rights, which was raised by the Indians both with the Vidal-Anderson commission and with Robinson. |
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Also, he was to report to Sifton any outstanding half-breed claims. |
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The Treaty Eight commission was a double one: one to frame and effect the treaty and secure the adhesion of the various tribes, and the other to investigate and extinguish the half-breed title. |
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Procter had a handsome half-breed girl with him and two splendid elk heads and meat on his packhorses that he was taking to Fort Lincoln for sale. |
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