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treaty money

• the annual cash payment (usually $5.00) received by Indians whose names are entered in the Indian Register.

  See also: Indian Register  Indian treaty (def. 2)  treaty (def. 3)  treaty payment  (def. 1)  

  • 1878  About 700 Indians were present to receive treaty money, and about $8,700 were paid out.
  • 1910  Then I went exploring to the north, and took a Government job at the same time--paying treaty money to the Indians.
  • 1965  . . . Indians who have treaties (about half of Canada's total of 207,000) get treaty money. . . .