Makwa Sahgaiehcan is a Cree

First Nation Indigenous peoples are culturally distinct ethnic groups whose members are directly descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region and, to some extent, maintain the language and culture of those original people ...

band government in

Loon Lake, Saskatchewan Loon Lake ( 2016 population: ) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Loon Lake No. 561 and Census Division No. 17. The Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation reserve is to the east of the village. T ...

, Canada. Their

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is northeast of

Lloydminster Lloydminster is a city in Canada which has the unusual geographic distinction of straddling the provincial border between Alberta and Saskatchewan. The city is incorporated by both provinces as a single city with a single municipal administrati ...

. The English translation of "Makwa Sahgaiehcan" is from

Plains Cree language Plains Cree ( endonym: ) is a dialect of the Algonquian language, Cree, which is the most populous Canadian indigenous language. Plains Cree is considered a dialect of the Cree-Montagnais language or a dialect of the Cree language that is ...

, meaning "loon lake". It is also the administrative headquarters of the Eagles Lake band government. The First Nation has reserved for itself four reserves: * Makwa Lake 129 * Makwa Lake 129A * Makwa Lake 129B * Makwa Lake 129C

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