80.) Excerpt from book mentioned in Article 75. From 1914, Annual interest paid to each Grand River Six Nation Indian and how the Six Nation Confederacy is matriarchal and an Indian is traced straight through the female line. Reply Annex 98, pages 386-388. (3 min. read )

A Chief from each of the Six Nations at Grand River make the following declaration. List of Chiefs too numerous for space given here. Here is the excerpt:

"National Organization on Grand Reserve , REPLY ANNEX 98. June 14th,1914.

Dominion of Canada, Province Ontario, County of Brant.

To wit: in the matter of the Cayuga Indians."

"2. That the Department of Indian Affairs of the Dominion of Canada holds as Trustees for the said Six Nations certain monies the proceeds of sales from time to time of portions of our original reservation at the Grand River, the said reservation having been at one time of much greater extent than now. These monies yield an annual interest which is paid over to the Six Nation Indians, each Indian receiving the same sum. The Indian Department, for its own purposes and conveniences, prepares rolls of the various Indian Nations included within the Six Nation confederacy, and on such rolls it enters the names of all Indians as belonging to the same Nations as their fathers. It pays over the interest money in accordance with its said rolls. By ancient custom of the Six Nation Indians the tribe or nation of an Indian is traced through the female line, and to this custom the Indians of the Grand River have held. Consequently the child of a Mohawk father and a Cayuga mother, would be regarded by the Indian Department as a Mohawk, would be regarded by us as a Cayuga. The Indians of all the Six Nations have, as among themselves, preserve this ancient custom and have never adopted the practice of tracing their Nation through the male line. Only a Cayuga by right through his mother can be a Cayuga chief. Only such Cayugas have the right to attend Cayuga councils. We Indians pay no regard to any statue or custom of the Canadian Indian Department whereby our nationality is traced through our fathers. We have, for instance, several Chiefs of certain nations who appear on the Indian Department rolls as members of other nations than those over which they have for years presided as chiefs. These chiefs, as sons of their mothers, are by Indian custom members of their mother's nation, but by Canadian custom, as sons of their father( who are a different nation from their mothers ) they are regarded as members of their father's nation. The various Chiefs are acquainted with the members of their respective bands, recognizing them as members by descent through the female line. It would not be difficult, if it were necessary, to identify every Cayuga, Ononadaga, Seneca, Mohawk, Oneida and Tuscarora upon our reservation according to the ancient Indian custom of descent, regardless altogether of the Indian Department rolls, which, for Indian purposes are disregarded anyhow. There would be little, if any difference, and the total of any of the Nations whether it was made up according to the Indian or according to the Canadian methods.

3. It is untrue that the Cayuga Nation of Indians on the Grand River, or any other of the Six Nations Indians on the Grand River have changed their ancient custom of selecting Chiefs or of recognizing national allegiance. The ancient custom, with all the other ancient customs of our nation that have come down to us, is yet preserved among us."

(End excerpt from Reply Annex 98)

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