Statement respecting the Earl of Selkirk's Settlement of Kildonan ...

—APPENDIX.xlvEXTRACT.St. Germain, the interpK;ter, was directed by thesuperintendant to ask the Chippewachief if hehad a»ything further to say, on which the chief said, Yes, andsaidThat in the spring of 1815, whilst at Sand Lake,M'Kenzie and Morrison, told him, Kawtawabetay,that they would give him, and his people, all thegoods or merchandize and rum. that they had at FortWilliam, Leach LuKe, and at Sand Lake, if he, the saidKawtawabetay, and his people, would make and declarewar against the settlers on the Red River, on which he,Kawtawabetay, asked ' M'Kenzie and Morrison,if that demand to make war against the settlers at theRed River was by the orders of the great chiefs atQuebec, Montreal, by the commanding officers atDrummond's Island, or St. Joseph's, or from his friendAskin. The answer from M'Kenzie and Morrison was,that the request or proposal came from the agents of theNorth-West Company, and not froru any militaryorder, but solely from the North- West Company'sagents, who wished the settlement destroyed, as it wasan annoyance to them ; 0:1 which he, Kawtawabetay,»aid, he nor his people would not comply to their requestor proposals before he, the said chief, went to St.Joseph's and had seen Askin; after his return, wouldgovern himself according to the advice he would get atSt. Joseph's.Kawtawabetay further said, that the last spring, 18 16,whilst at the Fond du Lac Superior, Grant, oneof the North-West Company, offered him, the said:.i.r