found: Big Bear, 1984:CIP galley (Big Bear; major chief of the Crees of western Canada during the 1800s)
found: LC data base, 6/8/84(hdg.: Big Bear, Cree chief)
found: Miller, J.R. Big Bear (Mistahimusqua), c1996:p. 128 (b. 1825) p. 130 (d. Jan. 17, 1888)
found: Johansen, Bruce E. The encyclopedia of Native American biography, 1997:pages 26-27 (Big Bear. Principal chief among the Chee during the Second Riel Rebellion, the most serious Native uprising on the Canadian frontier. Born in Fort Carlton in what became Saskatchewan.)