Pheasant Rump and Ocean Man Amalgamation to White Bear

The band received less than market value for their land, suggesting that finding a non-Indigenous buyer was more important than ensuring that Indigenous people received a fair price. Thus, after having been threatened with forcible removal, the band's inability to enforce a sale price at par with market value resulted in their economic exploitation. Several sociocultural problems arose because of this amalgamation, which resulted in the combination of four distinct Indigenous nations (Saulteaux, Cree, Nakota, Dakota) being restricted to one reserve. In the 1970s Ocean Man descendants were part of a land claim launched against the federal government that eventually saw the successful re-establishment of both the band (1988) and their reserve (1992).