Benjamin was a unique Ojibwa artist. He was a prominant member of the second generation of Woodland Indian painters, a native art movement that began in the early nineteen-sixties and has since become one of the most important art schools in Canada. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he painted in a style influenced by modern abstraction. While most of the young Woodland Indian artists were content to follow the style of the movements founder, Norval Morrisseau, in depicting myths and legends by direct and "primative" narrative means, Chee Chee pursued a more economical graphic style, a reduction of line and image more in keeping with the mainstream of modern art.