The Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation, formerly known as the Sharbot Mishigama Anishinabe Algonquin First Nation and as the Sharbot Lake Algonquin First Nation, is a non-status Algonquin (

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, Potawatomi, ...

) community located north of

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governments over claims to Aboriginal title in the area. Its chief is Doreen Davis. The Sharbot community was offered a reservation in Bedford Township in 1844, but declined it. "Our families chose not to go to a reserve," Chief Davis said in a 2000 interview. "They just thought it was an awful place and they chose to stay with their non-native friends in the community." In 2007 and 2008, the Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation worked closely with the

Ardoch Algonquin First Nation Ardoch Algonquin is a Indian Register, non-status Algonquin people, Algonquin (Anishinaabe) community that is located around the Madawaska River (Ontario), Madawaska, Mississippi River (Ontario), Mississippi and Rideau River, Rideau drainage basi ...

to oppose

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exploration in the

Sharbot Lake Sharbot Lake is a suburban community and unincorporated area in the municipality of Central Frontenac, Frontenac County in Eastern Ontario, Canada. Named after the Sharbot family, who were local residents, it appeared in Lovell's Gazetteer in 187 ...

area. Both communities took part in a non-violent blockade of a proposed mining site, and were involved in legal action against the prospecting company Frontenac Ventures.Suzanne Ma, "Uranium drilling fight gets hot", ''Ottawa Citizen'', 30 July 2007, D1; Ciara Byrne, "Uranium mine protesters use drums, voices to drown out words of injunction", ''Ottawa Citizen'', 1 September 2007, E1; "Lawsuits launched", ''Windspeaker'', October 2007, p. 9; Helen Forsey, "FIRST NATIONS FIGHT TO PROTECT THEIR LAND: Algonquins and settler allies block proposed uranium mining", ''CCPA Monitor'', April 2008, p. 22.

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