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then due to us about four boxes (4000$), this we have never been paid, we have often been told that our Great Father would pay it - and we ever want to remind him of this, and request him to pay it to us this year - At the Treaty of 1806, we were told that our money & provisions should be sent to us & paid in our Country - We were not paid upon our land, last year, but were obliged to come a great way to receive our annuities: & the payment was made so late in the fall that all of our people were taken in the ice, on their return home: as the payment to us was made so late, we lost our canoes, our provisions, and our fall hunts were entirely destroyed: Our payments have been made so late in every year, that they do us more harm than good - It would be better for us if we had not gone to the payments. We hope our Great Father will listen to us and grant our request, and that he will fulfill our agreement and pay us at the time mentioned in the Treaty, in June or July and we think that as our annuities were paid so late, as to cause us so much injury, that our Great father should pay us for the loss of our canoes and fall hunt - and we want to know whether the fault of not paying us, is our Great Father or that of those persons who he employs to do his business - We believe our Great Father is not to blame but we think he is deceived by the persons he trusts, & we want him to know what we think.