Frog Lake is a

Cree The Cree, or nehinaw (, ), are a Indigenous peoples of the Americas, North American Indigenous people, numbering more than 350,000 in Canada, where they form one of the country's largest First Nations in Canada, First Nations. They live prim ...

community of the

Frog Lake First Nation The Frog Lake First Nation ( ) is a First Nations band government in northern Alberta. A signatory to Treaty 6, it controls two Indian reserves, Puskiakiwenin 122 and Unipouheos 121 Unipouheos 121 is an Indian reserve of the Frog Lake First N ...

approximately east of

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, Canada. It is located northeast of the Hamlet of Heinsburg and southwest of the

Fishing Lake Metis Settlement Fishing Lake Métis Settlement () is a Métis settlement in northern Alberta, Canada within the Municipal District of Bonnyville No. 87 and Treaty Six lands. Fishing Lake Métis Settlement was settled by inhabitants of the dissolved St. Paul d ...

. Frog Lake has 2,454 band members as of August, 2007. Frog Lake has a reserve population of approximately 1,000 residing on-reserve.

History

Frog Lake was the scene of the Frog Lake Massacre of which nine

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men were killed by Cree

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on April 2, 1885, in the course of the

North-West Rebellion The North-West Rebellion (), was an armed rebellion of Métis under Louis Riel and an associated uprising of Cree and Assiniboine mostly in the District of Saskatchewan, against the Government of Canada, Canadian government. Important events i ...

.W. Stewart WALLACE, ed.
- The Encyclopedia of Canada, Vol. II, Toronto, University Associates of Canada, 1948, 411p., pp. 401-402.

References

{{Coord, 53, 49, 53, N, 110, 24, 05, W, region:CA-AB_type:city, display=title, name=Frog Lake Communities on Indian reserves in Alberta Localities in the County of St. Paul No. 19 National Historic Sites in Alberta