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protesting that Bond Head had not fully explained this purchase agreement, and had, in particular, not made it clear that it did not involve an upfront, lump-sum payment, nor that the Ojibwe would receive only one-third of the sale proceeds. One of the four other chiefs who subscribed to this letter
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in 1842, it seems that the Ojibwe who had settled after 1830 on Snake Island and the other islands of Lake Simcoe remained in place with Joseph Snake as their chief. They sustained themselves by hunting and fishing, although a certain amount of farming was also taking place. By 1858 this "Snake
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replacing
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As a result of the 1836 agreement, the Ojibwe were obliged to abandon their villages at the
Narrows and Coldwater and make homes elsewhere. Whereas Musquakie led the Narrows band to a new settlement at nearby
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Island band" was regarded by the government as a distinct community from the Rama band (now the
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Chief Joseph Snake died in 1861. Chief Joseph Snake Road on
Georgina Island was named for him.
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44:Methodism
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