page_title: Peguis
hierarchical_section_title: Peguis
caption_attribution_description: English: This monument to Peguis was erected in 1923 at Kildonan Park, Winnipeg. It is near 49 d 56 m 38.4 s N, 97 d 6 m 16.9 s W, in Kildonan Park, Winnipeg Manitoba. The inscription reads "In memory of Peguis, Chief of the Saulteaux Indians and in grateful recognition of his good offices to the early settlers. One of the first converts to Christianity of his race. He died in 1864 and his body rests in the old cemetery of St. Peter's Church near Selkirk where he was a devout worshipper. Peguis has been a steady friend of the settlement ever since its establishment and has never deserted its cause in its greatest reverses." Lord Selkirk 1817, and the base inscription reads "Erected under the auspices of the Lord Selkirk Association of Rupert's Land 1923"
context_page_description: Peguis was a Saulteaux chief, who moved from the Great Lakes area to Red Lake, then arriving in what is now southern Manitoba in the 1790s. In 1817 he signed the first treaty with Lord Selkirk, granting land along the Red River to the Selkirk settlers. In 1840 he was one of the early western First Nations converts to Christianity and was given the baptized name William King; his children adopted the surname "Prince". He and his people had helped both the Hudson's Bay Company and the Selkirk settlers; indeed, without Peguis' help, the Selkirk settlers might well have starved. However, by the 1850s he had become concerned at illegal settlement by European migrants on traditional lands. He was sometimes called "Cut Nose" since his nose had been injured in a fight in 1802.
  His name is commemorated in the name of Peguis First Nation, Winnipeg Route 17 also known as the Chief Peguis Trail, and many organizations, place names, and institutions of Manitoba.
context_section_description: Peguis (ca. 1774 – 28 September 1864) was a Saulteaux chief, who moved from the Great Lakes area to Red Lake (now in Minnesota), then arriving in what is now southern Manitoba in the 1790s. In 1817 he signed the first treaty with Lord Selkirk, granting land along the Red River to the Selkirk settlers.  In 1840 he was one of the early western First Nations converts to Christianity and was given the baptized name William King; his children adopted the surname "Prince". He and his people had helped both the Hudson's Bay Company and the Selkirk settlers; indeed, without Peguis' help, the Selkirk settlers might well have starved. However, by the 1850s he had become concerned at illegal settlement by European migrants on traditional lands. He was sometimes called "Cut Nose" since his nose had been injured in a fight in 1802. 
  His name is commemorated in the name of Peguis First Nation, Winnipeg Route 17 also known as the Chief Peguis Trail, and many organizations, place names, and institutions of Manitoba.
caption: Peguis monument at Kildonan Park, Winnipeg. A conventional representation, since no portrait was made in life.
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