Small Person, a Stoney, was born about1870 and was christened “Silas Abraham.” Later he married a daughter of Jopie Beaver, a hunter in the Kootenay Plains at the head of the North Saskatchewan River. Small Person was also a hunter, guide, and trapper. Around 1890, he built a cabin on what became “Abraham Lake” and broke the first soil in the region. When other Stoneys joined him, he was instrumental in having an area set aside as the Big Horn Indian Reserve No. 144A in 1948. Small Person died in 1965 and later, in 1972,when the Bighorn Dam flooded his original land, the resulting lake was named “Abraham Lake.”