okema

Updated: May 2, 2025

Bands of Indians from all directions were assembled to meet the great chief or "Kitche Okema," as they called him. Ceasing the pipes and bugle, the voyageurs sang with lively spirit one of their boat songs, to the great delight of their old friends, the Indians.

George Bryce - The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists: The Pioneers of Manitoba