Shawanaga First Nation is an

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 ...

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 central Ontario near Nobel. Its reserves include: * Naiscoutaing 17A * Shawanaga 17 * Shawanaga 17B Shawanaga First Nation is located in Ontario at . The community is approximately 30 kilometres northwest of Parry Sound and approximately 150 kilometres southeast of Sudbury. The community has year-round road access from

Ontario Highway 69 King's Highway 69, commonly referred to as Highway 69, is a provincially maintained north–south highway in the central portion of the Canadian province of Ontario. In conjunction with Highway 400, it links Toronto with the city of Greate ...

, with a First Nation-owned gas bar and convenience store at the entrance to the community.Olivia Stefanovich
"Shawanaga First Nation 'prepared to deal' with Ontario government on Highway 69 widening"
CBC News Sudbury, August 17, 2017. However, the pace of land use negotiations between the First Nation and the provincial government has been one of the factors that has delayed the conversion of Highway 69 to

freeway A controlled-access highway is a type of highway that has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow—ingress and egress—regulated. Common English terms are freeway, motorway and expressway. Other similar terms ...

. The traditional territory of Shawanaga is bordered by the Seguin River to the south, the Magnetawan River to the north and extending to Georgian Bay (including the 30,000 islands) and east to the Ottawa valley. There are three areas that make up Shawanaga First Nation: Shawanaga, Shawanaga Landing and Naiscoutaing. Shawanaga First Nation has maintained rights due to being a signatory of the Robinson-Huron Treaty of 1850 of which there is a four dollar annuity because of their Ojibway-speaking ancestors having signed that treaty.

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