Chief Shawenakeschick participated in the Robinson-Huron Treaty on behalf of the ancestors of Atikameksheng Anishnawbek (formerly known as Whitefish Lake First Nation). The land was surveyed and described as “the tract of land now occupied by them, and contained between two rivers, called Whitefish River and Wanabitasebe, seven miles inland. However in 1889 a decision by the high Court of Ontario in Attorney General of Ontario vs Francis, et al. , seven thousand acres of land (more or less) was severed from Atikameksheng (Whitefish Lake First Nation) without first being surrendered.
