James Settee

James Settee
Reverend
Born	circa 1809 Split Lake, Manitoba
Died	19 March 1902 Winnipeg

James Settee (circa 1809 - 19 March 1902), was of Swampy Cree and British descent. He was given the name James Settee when he was baptized in 1827. He was the second Native American ordained an Anglican priest; following Henry Budd. He married Sarah (Sally) Cook in 1835. He was ordained an Anglican priest and spent his career ministering to First Nations people of Canada. He was fluent in English, Cree and Ojibwe.

James Settee was born near Split Lake, Manitoba. Settee left Split Lake in 1824 at eight years of age and went to the Church Missionary Society (CMS) school, which had been established by the Revd. John West in what was then known as the Red River Colony in what is now the province of Manitoba. He attended school with Henry Budd and Charles Pratt (Askenootow). He was baptized by the Revd. David Thomas Jones in 1827.

Settee began working with the Revd. William Cockran at the CMS missions at St. Peter’s (Dynevor) and Nettle (Netley) Creek. During the winter of 1841–42 Settee was sent to the Beaver (Weatherald) Creek–Moose Mountain region of Saskatchewan as a missionary to a band of Cree-Assiniboine of the Southern Plains Cree, However Settee, as a northern Swampy Cree, lacked kinship and language ties with the Southern Plains Cree and the mission ended in 1845.

In June 1846 the Revd Robert Hunter sent James Settee as catechist to establish to the mission station on the shore of Lac la Ronge; and provided Settee with flour, pemican, clothes, tools, and everything he was likely to want until the following spring, he set out early in June, and in about three weeks arrived at his destination.

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