Tepastenam was notable as the lead signatory to Treaty 5 on behalf of the Pimicikamak people on September 24, 1875 in Norway House.Alexander Morris, The Treaties of Canada with the Indians, Belfords , Clarke & Co., Toronto (1880); and see John Miswagon, "A Government of our Own", Frontier Centre for Public Policy, 21 April 2005, http://www.fcpp.org/main/publication_detail.php?PubID=1043, accessed 24 September 2008. Neither of the other two signatoriesThey were George Garrioch and Proud McKay. matched his stature as a leader of the Pimicikamak people.Lindsay & Brown, The History of the Pimicikamak People to the Treaty Five Period. His mark (an X) granted Treaty rights to the Crown in an area of the Northwest Territories that was twice the size of the Province of Manitoba at the time.
