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Following this annuities and resources for the
Peeaysees band were cut off by Indian Affairs for their involvement with the North-West Rebellion. Many of the band members were forced to discharge and enfranchise from Treaty due to Rebellion involvement, starvation, lack of reserve lands, etc. Hayter
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Peeaysees (also known as Francois Desjarlais) was born in 1824 at Beaver River. his father was the son of Okimaskwew and his mother was the daughter of Lizette Muskegon, a swampy Cree Indian. He also had 10 children in his lifetime, one which died as an infant. Peeaysees was the Chief of his
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After years of broken promises, in spring of 1885 groups of First Nation's, Metis and Half-Breed's began a resistance against the government in the North-West aptly titled the North-West
Rebellion. In April 1885, also disillusioned by the governments broken promises, Chief Peeaysees and members of
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Membership for the band at one point exceeded 300 members but in 1890 the band dwindled down to only 15 members. After 1911 all traces of the Lac Lac Biche Band no. 129 (formerly
Peeaysees) disappeared from the Department of Indian Affairs year end reports. The remaining band members either died,
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Following the discharge many members of the
Peeaysees band were eligible for Half-Breed scrip due to living in the territory before Rupertsland sold to Canada. In one swoop a majority of Peeaysees band members relinquished right to their reserve lands, Indian title to Treaty and thus became Metis
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Years following the signing of Treaty 6 several of the First Nation bands were angered and disillusioned by what they considered to be dishonest and neglect by the government. Insufficient support, resources and provisions of relief assistance left many bands on the brink of starvation. In 1883
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Peeaysees along with his councilors Mahchahmewis and Isaac Cardinal, signed Treaty 6 on September 9, 1876 at Fort Pitt. The Peeaysees Band traditional lands were located at Lac La Biche, which the Cree historically called
225:. Suspicious of amnesty offered following the execution of Louis Riel, Peeaysees fled south and never returned to Lac La Biche again. In the winter of 1899, former Chief Peeaysees died in obscurity in Battleford, Saskatchewan
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Discharge by Indian Affairs did not only happened to the Peeaysees Band but also to Passpasschase, Michel Band and many other First Nation bands in and outside treaty 6.
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band for 9 years following its signing of treaty 6. After his participation with the North-West
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several Chiefs of Treaty 6 wrote an open letter airing their grievances and frustrations to
Minister of the Interior, Sir John A. Macdonald, who was also Canada's prime minister at the time.
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All half-breeds, members of rebel , although not shewn to have taken any active part in the rebellion should have their names erased from the pay-sheets
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Reed also encouraged Indian agents to induce families to be discharged from treaty in order to produce cost savings for Indian Affairs.
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In 1881 the band's reserve lands were interned to be at the southern extremity of Big Bay in
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