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Author Bio

202: Principes de la langue des sauvages appelés Sauteux . 1839.
Belcourt, Georges-Antoine (1803-1874.)
1803-1874. Born in Quebec; Catholic missionary; to Red River to minister to the Indians, 1831; established mission at Baie St Paul, 1834 and at Pembina, 1849; pacified the Métis indignation over the treatment received from Thomas Simpson, the Arctic explorer, 1834 (Morice, Dictionnaire historique).