Pako

Pako
Occupation	Cree chief

Pako was a Cree chief who spoke with Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye while La Vérendrye commanded the Poste du Nord, the French posts at Kaministiquia, Nipigon, and Michipicoton, in the late 1720s. La Vérendrye recorded that Pako had travelled far into the country to the west and told him about Lake Winnipeg and the rivers around it.

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography groups Pako with Vieux Crapaud and the guide Auchagah among the Indigenous informants whose accounts shaped La Vérendrye's plan to seek the "Western Sea" by way of the border lakes rather than the Mississippi. Nothing further about Pako's life has been taken from the sources used here.