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Anishinaabe The Anishinaabeg (adjectival: Anishinaabe) are a group of culturally related Indigenous peoples present in the Great Lakes region of Canada and the United States. They include the Ojibwe (including Saulteaux and Oji-Cree), Odawa, Potawat ...

(

Saulteaux The Saulteaux (pronounced , or in imitation of the French pronunciation , also written Salteaux, Saulteau and other variants), otherwise known as the Plains Ojibwe, are a First Nations band government in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, A ...

/ Ojibwa)

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 ...

community located approximately northeast of

Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749,6 ...

, and north of

Little Grand Rapids, Manitoba Little Grand Rapids is a community in east central Manitoba, Canada, near the Ontario border. It is located approximately 280 kilometers or 173 miles north-northeast from Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is a fly-in community, with only a winter road. ...

, on a peninsula jutting southward into Fishing Lake, a tributary of

Berens River The Berens River is a river in the provinces of Manitoba and Ontario, Canada. It flows west from an unnamed lake in Kenora District, Ontario, and discharges its waters into Lake Winnipeg near the community and First Nation of Berens River, Manit ...

. The main economic base of the community remains hunting, fishing, trapping and

wild rice Wild rice, also called manoomin, Canada rice, Indian rice, or water oats, is any of four species of grasses that form the genus ''Zizania'', and the grain that can be harvested from them. The grain was historically gathered and eaten in both ...

harvesting. The First Nation has one

reserve Reserve or reserves may refer to: Places * Reserve, Kansas, a US city * Reserve, Louisiana, a census-designated place in St. John the Baptist Parish * Reserve, Montana, a census-designated place in Sheridan County * Reserve, New Mexico, a US vi ...

land: Pauingassi First Nation Indian Reserve, spanning a total , which serves as their main reserve and contains the eponymous settlement of Pauingassi at .

Governance

Originally part of

Little Grand Rapids First Nation Little Grand Rapids First Nation ( oj, Mishi-baawitigong) is a remote Anishinaabe (Saulteaux/ Ojibwa) First Nation community in northeast Manitoba, located approximately northeast of Winnipeg. It is a fly-in community. On 4 October 2020, a C ...

, the Pauingassi received

status in 1988 and became a separate First Nation from the Little Grand Rapids First Nation on 7 October 1991. Today, Pauingassi First Nation is governed by the Custom Electoral System of government. Pauingassi First Nation is a member of the

Southeast Resource Development Council The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each se ...

and a signatory to

Treaty 5 ''Treaty Five'' is a treaty that was first established in September, 1875, between Queen Victoria and Saulteaux and Swampy Cree non-treaty band governments and peoples around Lake Winnipeg in the District of Keewatin. A written text is includ ...

References

External links

AANDC profile

2004-2005 First Nations Community Profiles - MB Region

Map of Pauingassi First Nation at Statcan
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