Necanete

Necanete was a Cree Chief that grew up in the Cypress Hills and was a member of Treaty Four under Kahkewistahaw. When the Buffalo were gone Necanete and his people survived by hunting small game in the Cypress Hills, chopping wood, and selling horses. Around 1881 the Cree people were induced to go north to take reserves, but Necanete stayed though he received no Treaty benefits or government assistance.

Necanete died in 1897 in the Cypress Hills, but had not received a reserve. His successor, Crooked Legs, obtained a land grant near maple Creek in 1913, but the First Nation was not paid Treaty benefits until 1975.

Sources: Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume XII, pp. 779.