Frank Lyons helped 'Old Waskish' get its start in 1900 - Bemidji Pioneer | News, weather and sports from Bemidji, Minnesota
Lyons was already homesteading on the property with a cook and a laborer boarding with him according to the 1900 census. He received his patent in 1902. He translated the name of the site Waawaashkeshi, which means deer in Ojibwe, to Washkish and later to Waskish.
Source: bemidjipioneer.com