1774 – 28 September 1864)[1] was a Saulteaux chief, who moved from the Great Lakes area (near Sault Ste.

Marie, Ontario) to Red Lake (now in Minnesota), then arriving in what is now southern Manitoba in the 1790s.

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.

[3] However, by the 1850s, he had become concerned at illegal settlement by European migrants on traditional lands.