"Stipend to Cayugas Becomes Bi-Annual"

Members of the Cayuga band of the Six Nations Indians will no longer receive an annual treaty payment. The payment will now be made every two years.

R.J. Stallwood, superintendent of the Six Nations Indians, said the payment only amounted to $2 a person in 1961 and at that time the members of the Cayuga band agreed that future payments be made every two years, rather than annually.

Mr. Stallwood said a population increase among the Cayugas' resulted in the small per capita payment which would have been available this year. The 1961 population was 2,030.

The fund was started by the United States government as payment for the Cayugas' neutrality in the American Revolution. Payment was stopped when the Cayugas fought with the British against the Americans in the War of 1812-14.

The Cayugas objected but the fund wasn't re-instituted until after the First World War when the U.S. government paid $100,000 to the Canadian government which, until now, has paid out annual interest on the sum to the Cayugas.