Settee left Split Lake in 1824 at eight years of age and went to the Church Missionary Society (CMS) school,[2] which had been established by the Revd.
William Cockran at the CMS missions at St. Peter’s (Dynevor) and Nettle (Netley) Creek.
[2] 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.
[2][3] In 1850 Settee was visited at the mission station by Dr. David Anderson the first Bishop of Rupert's Land, and Henry Budd.
Between 1867 and 1879 he served at the missions at Mapleton, Netley Creek, Lake Winnipeg, and Nelson River Island and early 1881 he was in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
Joseph Reader, had fallen under the influence of the Plymouth Brethren so that the Anglican mission need to be reinforced.
[1][2] The James Settee College in Prince Albert trains the majority of the indigenous clergy who serve in the Diocese of Saskatchewan.