 The new reserve was around the Riding Mountain House trading post.When parts of the treaty were renegotiated in 1875, Keeseekoowenin and his brother Baptiste Bone were recognised by the government as chiefs of the band, since Mekis had recently died.The band hunted and fished on the federal land around Clear Lake, and in 1896 the Clear Lake Reserve was formally established, with Baptiste Bone as chief.