Mimiy (Gabriel Cote)

Gabriel Cote was a Saulteaux Chief who was a noted hunter and trader that signed Treaty Four in 1874. His relationship with the HBC caused him trouble at the Treaty Four negotiations when other Saulteaux Chiefs confined him to his tent to protest the sale of Ruperts Land to the Canadian government.

Cote eventually settled on a reserve and took up farming. He was known as one who cooperated with whites, and was said to be a "company Chief," or one who owed his position to the HBC. He also may have been held in contempt by those who preferred to follow the traditional ways, while he focused on the change to farming.

Sources: Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume XII, pp. 477.