Keeseekoowewin

Keeseekoowenin, which means "Skyman" or "Sky chief" was a Saulteaux Chief, trapper, farmer, and hunter who was born around 1818 and died in 1906. He was described as over six feet tall, of magnificient physique, and excellent buffalo hunter, farmer, and trapper.

Keeseekoowenin signed an adhesion to Treaty Four in 1875, at the Qu'Appelle Lakes, with other band members settling near Clear Lake. His son, Louis O' Soup, settled with band members on the Saskatchewan River and eventually led a delegation to Ottawa to lobby for Treaty Rights.

Sources: Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume XII, pp. 194.