1784-1812  (1916)  There is an important being, with whom the Natives appear better acquainted with than the other, whom they call "Weesarkejauk" (the Flatterer); he is the hero of all their stories, always promising them some good, or inciting them to some pleasure, and always deceiving them.
1857  (1863)  It is called Manitoe's Rest by the Crees, and is one of the many knolls of the kind that have Indian superstition attached to them, generally about a mythical person called Wee-suk-ee-chak.
1944  Wesakachak, an Indian spirit, went to the king beaver o' the colony and asked him to destroy the dam an' let the water go.
1963  . . . the legendary Cree Weesakachak appears to be the same sort of go-between with the Great Spirit . . . the Kisa (or Kitche) Manito--as the hero of the poem.