Ayabewaywetung, Ase Ance, Little Shell III

Little Shell III was a nephew of Chief Broken Arm and Assiniboine Chief Red Stone was his uncle. Both Broken Arm and Red Stone were chiefs in the Canoe Paddler Band. Broken Arm had also been the Chief at Moose Mountain prior to White Bear. https://www.metismuseum.ca/media/document.php/14748.Little%20Shell%...

Little Shell’s father, Little Shell II, signed the Red Lake Pembina Treaty with Commissioner Ramsey in 1863 as Chief of the Pembina Band of Chippewa.

Little Shell III, is known for his resistance to signing the McCumber Agreement of 1892.

He was married to Okimahkwe, “Great Woman” (b. 1823). She was the daughter of chief Black Duck. His second wife was Oskinuskwa “Young Woman” (b. 1858). Her sister was Little Stone. He had two children; a daughter Ga Na Wa pan (b. 1880) and a son, Gyi ka emihelet “Reading the Day” (b. 1884). Little Shell III
was born between 1825-1830. He died between 1900-1901 at the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation in Rolette County, Belcourt, North Dakota, and was buried in St. Anthony's Cemetery.

He and his followers lived and hunted in the corridor north of the Missouri River, along the Poplar River, Wood Mountain and Moose Mountain, and along the upper Assiniboine River. He and his followers had moved at one time to Montana, The Little Shell Band of Montana is recognized by the state but not by BIA.