On 18 July 1817, Thomas Douglas (1771-1820), Fifth Earl of Selkirk, met with five chiefs and warriors of the Chipewyan and Cree Nations at Red River to sign a treaty that would grant Douglas the right to settle Scottish colonists on their ancestral lands. In return, Lord Selkirk offered to pay the chiefs of each nation annually with 100-pounds weight of good quality tobacco. The region the chiefs ceded, today, covers parts of Minnesota and North and South Dakota in the United States, as well as parts of the Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Ontario and Sakatchewan. Eddy Cobiness (1933-96) was an Ojibwe visual artist, and one of sevenen members of the Professional Native Indian Artists Incorporation, or Group of Seven, who came together in the 1960s to bring First Nations art into the Candian mainstream.