Beshekee
Beshekee, also Pezeke and other variant spellings of
Pillager Chippewa
Band during the 19th century in North America.
As a young man, he signed the 1837
Dakota
, and in his time, Beshekee was among the most respected of these.
In 1855, he travelled with
Mississippi Chippewa and to negotiate a cession of Ojibwe lands at the headwaters of the Mississippi River
to the U.S. Government.
Beshekee would later sign the 1863 Treaty that partially addressed these grievances by establishing permanent reservations in Minnesota, including one at Leech Lake.
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