pigewis

Updated: April 30, 2025

We proceeded to Netley Creek to breakfast, where we met Pigewis the chief of a tribe of Saulteaux Indians, who live principally along the banks of the river. This chief breakfasted with the party, and shaking hands with me most cordially, expressed a wish that "more of the stumps and brushwood were cleared away for my feet, in coming to see his country."

John West - The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America: and Frequent Excursions Among the North-West American: Indians, In the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823.

Pigewis then delivered what I understood to be an address to the Great Spirit, and the party seated around him used an expression, apparently of assent, in the middle and conclusion of his speech.

John West - The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America: and Frequent Excursions Among the North-West American: Indians, In the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823.