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Peaceful Relations Treaty Commission
29 May 1899
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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Duties for the mounted police officer were abundant. On and off barracks, the North-West Mounted Police officer accompanied the Treaty Commission during the establishment of Treaties with the Indians and once the treaties were in place, the police officer ensured the safe delivery of treaty monies and rations.

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Patrol Duties

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Peaceful Relations NWMP Constable
20 July 1890

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The general patrol of a police officer usually entailed dealing with cases that were beyond the capacity of the constable at the detachment.

While on trail, the men subsisted on sow-belly, hard tack, tea and sugar.

In the case where the officer toted along a shot gun, prairie chicken, ducks, geese, and grouse were consumed.

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Peaceful Indian Relations Patrol Duties
1883
Fort Edmonton, Alberta

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"The usual rate of travel for a police patrol was forty miles a day" and "if the trails were dry, traveled up to 60 miles a day for 3 or 4 days."

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Indian Treaties

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Peaceful Relations Treaty Commission
29 May 1899
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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The Treaty Commission for the settlement of Indian claims left Edmonton, Alberta for the North under a Mounted Police escort.

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Peaceful Indian Relations Indian Treaties and the Queen
1887

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The Indian Treaties were all made in the name of the Queen and it was necessary for the commissioners to describe the Queen to the Indians; her wisdom, her generosity, kindness of heart, and her interest in all her children, whether black, white, red or yellow.

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Part of the settlement and maintaining law and order in Alberta was the establishment of Treaties with the Indians and distribution of their treaty monies at $5.00 a head, and emergency rations of tea, sugar, tobacco, sow-belly, and flour.

The North-West Mounted Police were a vital part of the negotiations. They escorted the Treaty Commissioner on visits, and assisted in delivering the terms of these agreements.

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The Blackfoot Confederacy