Building Relationships Creating Opportunities
Building Relationships Creating Opportunities Manitoba’s Aboriginal Peoples Manitoba’s Mining Industry •Manitoba’s Aboriginal •Mining is Manitoba’s second-largest population totalled primary resource industry. 128,680 in 1996 census •The principal minerals and metals data (North American produced in Manitoba are nickel, Indian 80,620, Metis copper, zinc, and gold. 45,360). • Other minerals and metals mined in •Aboriginal peoples Manitoba are dolomite, peat, silver, represented 12 percent of cesium, spodumene, Manitoba’s population, tantalum, lime, the highest proportion salt, gypsum, among the Canadian granite, limestone, provinces. sand and gravel. •More than one-third • Manitoba mineral (36 percent) of resources with promising Manitoba’s Aboriginal potential for future population resided in economic development include Winnipeg. platinum-group elements (PGEs), •Manitoba’s Aboriginal titanium, vanadium, chromite, silica population is growing and potash. faster than the rest of •Manitoba’s major mining communities the population and will are Flin Flon, Thompson, Lynn Lake, constitute a growing Leaf Rapids, Snow Lake and Bissett. share of Manitoba’s population. It is estimated that, by 2016, Manitoba’s Aboriginal population will be 15.3 percent. FIRST NATIONS Barren Lands Lake Manitoba Pauingassi First Nation Berens River Lake St. Martin Peguis Birdtail Sioux Little Black River Pine Creek Bloodvein Little Grand Rapids Poplar River First Nation Brokenhead Ojibway Nation Little Saskatchewan Red Sucker Lake Buffalo Point First Nation Long Plain Rolling River Canupawakpa Dakota First Nation Manto Sipi Cree Nation Roseau River Chemawawin First Nation Marcel Colomb First Nation Sandy Bay Cross Lake First Nation Mathias Colomb Sapotaweyak Cree Nation Dakota Plains Mosakahiken Cree Nation Sayisi Dene First Nation Dakota Tipi Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation Shamattawa First Nation Dauphin River Northlands Sioux Valley Dakota Nation Ebb and Flow Norway House Cree Nation Split Lake Cree, First Nation Fairford O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi First Nation St.
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