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! COMMUNITY Fort Severn FN HIGHLIGHTS Poplar Hill FN McDowell Lake FN Keewaywin FN Deer Lake FN North Spirit Lake FN Slate Falls FN Bearskin FN Wunnumin Lake FN Lac Seul FN Fort Hope FN Sandy Lake FN KEEWAYTINOOK CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE Keewaytinook Centre of Excellence Suite 209 - 100 Casimir Avenue Dryden, Ontario P8N 3L4 807-737-1135 ext 4000 or 4001 PHONE 877-737-5638 ext 4000 or 4001 TOLL FREE 807-223-8426 FAX [email protected] E-MAIL [email protected] E-MAIL www.watertraining.ca WEB FORT SEVERN FN OPERATOR HIGHLIGHT Fort Severn FN Fort Severn First Nation is a station or via Keewaytinook Cree First Nation located on Okimakanak Telemedicine. Hudson Bay approximately There are only local roads in 680 km north northeast of town and residents travel by Red Lake. It is the most car, snowmobile, quad or northern community in walking. The Fort Severn Ontario. The town is linked by airport is located a short a winter road in the winter to distance from the settlement Peawanuck in the east. In and is accessible by road. 1689, the Hudson’s Bay A new school will open in Company built Fort Severn at September, featuring a 1,880 this site; it was one of the m2 facility designed for the earliest English fur trading enrollment of 112 students posts in the New World. Main entrance to the new Fort Severn school ranging from Kindergarten to The registered population as Grade 8. of July, 2016 was 704. The local band council consists of an elected chief, a deputy chief and band councillors. There is no hospital in Fort Severn with medical needs provided at the local nursing Fort Severn River flowing into Hudson Bay Computer lab set-up in progress Keewaytinook Centre of Excellence www.watertraining.ca POPLAR HILL FN COMMUNITY HIGHLIGHT Poplar Hill FN The design for the new Poplar Hill First Nation school in northwestern Ontario incorporates vivid exterior colours that reflect Poplar Hill’s active outdoor lifestyle. The blue metal cladding and warm brick complement the colours in the community logo. The school opened in the fall of 2016. Poplar Hill First Nation is Erickson Owen, another approximately 120 km north young man from Poplar Hill of Red Lake near the First Nation, recently Manitoba border. Poplar Hill graduated high school at separated from Pikangikum Pelican Falls High School in First Nation in 1978 and Sioux Lookout, making both First Nations still have headlines nationally with his close ties. Poplar Hill is part 100% average. Erickson of the Keewaytinook wanted to prove to his Okimakanak Council and a fellow classmates that signatory to Treaty 5. The “anything is possible.” He is community has a population s l a t e d t o a t t e n d Nico Suggashie of approximately 450 Confederation College this community members. fall. A few young residents from Poplar Hill have made the n e w s r e c e n t l y . N i c o Suggashie is one of the youngest water plant operators in Poplar Hill. Nico wants to continue with his certification training with the goal to offer safe potable water quality in his community. He takes pride in preventing Boil Water Advisories. Erickson Owen www.watertraining.ca MCDOWELL LAKE FN McDowell LakeFN McDowell Lake First community members Nation is a small Oji- trained and supervised Cree community located by NCC Development in northern Ontario, and Solar Logix installed located approximately a 10 kW roof top solar 155 km northeast of system with a battery Red Lake and 490 km solution on the new northwest of Thunder band office. The new Bay, on the western s y s t e m g e n e r a t e s shore of McDowell Lake. enough electricity to As of December 2007, power a community t h e i r r e g i s t e r e d freezer and fridge, as population was 52. well as lights in the M c D o w e l l L a k e i s band office. Before the accessible by float and solar install, there was ski equipped aircraft. no refrigeration and There is no winter road. community members would have to cut ice in McDowell Lake First the winter and store it Nation joins a growing for use in the summer. number of remote First Nations in Ontario’s far north, which are going green. In July of 2015, a team of McDowell www.watertraining.ca KEEWAYWIN FN COMMUNITY HIGHLIGHT Keewaywin FN Keewaywin is a small Oji-Cree "These annual awards give First Nation band government Nishnawbe Aski Nation an in Northern Ontario, located opportunity to give back to our north of Red Lake, Ontario. It communities," said Grand is connected to Sandy Lake Chief Stan Beardy. First Nation by Sandy Lake. It "It is very exciting for us to is part of the Keewaytinook recognize and acknowledge Okimakanak Council (Northern the important achievements of Chiefs) and the Nishnawbe our people." Aski Nation. Sandy Lake First Lawrence Mason N a t i o n B a n d m e m b e r s separated from Sandy Lake First Nation to form Keewaywin First Nation. The Indian reserve is entirely surrounded by the territory of the Unorganized Kenora District. Lawrence and Dion are fully Keewaywin is policed by the certified water operators in Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service, Keewaywin . Lawrence holds an Aboriginal-based service. his Water Treatment Class II and Dion also has his Class I Nishnawbe Aski Nation hosted in Water Distribution. Both Dion Kakegamic its Keewaywin Awards operators have received ceremony at a Celebration of training from the Keewaytinook Youth banquet held at an Centre. Annual Chiefs' Assembly. www.watertraining.ca DEER LAKE FN Deer Lake FN The Deer Lake First Nation is a small Oji- Cree community which holds 1653.6 hectares of land located approximately Deer Lake FN 180 kilometers north of Red Lake, Ontario. school It has an on-reserve population of approximately 1,100, and a total membership of approximately 1,200. It is accessible year-round by air, and by ice road. It is connected to Sandy Lake First Nation, and North Spirit Lake First Nation during the coldest months of the winter. This results in high costs of transportation. It is one of the few First Nations in Ontario to have signed Treaty 5. It is part of the Keewaytinook Okimakanak Council (Northern Chiefs) and the Nishnawbe Aski Nation. The people of Deer Lake are closely related to the people of Sandy lake FN and North Spirit Lake FN. The Public Works in Deer Lake include: (1) main pipes for Duck lake residents and deliverable water to the households for Deer Lake residents, and (2) main pipes for Duck Lake residents and sewage trucks to households for Deer Lake residents. www.watertraining.ca NORTH SPIRIT LAKE FN COMMUNITY HIGHLIGHT North Spirit Lake FN North Spirit Lake First Nation is a small The Station provides daily Oji-Cree First Nation reserve located clinics, telemedicine, public north of Red Lake, Ontario. It is health services, and emergency connected to Sandy Lake FN and Deer services. KO Telemedicine Lake FN by winter and ice roads. It is (KOTM) delivers clinical, part of the Keewaytinook Okimakanak educational and administrative Council (Northern Chiefs) and the services through Nishnawbe Aski Nation. videoconferencing and Quentin Rae advanced information water plant operator North Spirit Lake hosts recreational, communication technologies. traditional, and social activities Social Services are usually throughout the year. Recreational, provided by the Health traditional, and social activities include department and the Band Office baseball tournaments, volleyball including; Ontario Works, tournaments during the summer, annual Aboriginal Diabetes, Mental and seasonal feasts, traditional teachings Health, Tikinagan Child and in arts and crafts, traditional practices Family Services, and NNADAP. along with other holiday celebrations. Nishnawbe Aski Nation Police Children enjoy using their community provide policing services to the canoes during the summer. They also community of North Sprit Lake. enjoy swimming in the lakes near their Court in North Spirit Lake is home community. held on the quarterly basis. Local food stores provide the The school provides the community with community with basic foods and education up to Grade 8. Students can products that are needed on the then leave their community to attend daily basis. high school outside of their community or attend KIHS. North Spirit has a fully equipped 24 hour nursing station. www.watertraining.ca SLATE FALLS FN Slate Falls FN Slate Falls First Nation assist First Nations in their community is located construction, maintenance and approximately 122 kilometers public works. north of Sioux Lookout and is Everyone takes part in special accessible by float plane events that are held in (summer), ski plane (winter) community. Community Pot- and wheeled aircraft as there is Lucks are a big thing in SFFN. an airstrip. The existing An annual Traditional Hunting community is on the south Week is recognized in the fall shore of North Bamaji Lake. which is followed by a Slate Falls is also accessible by community gathering at the one all weather road. end. People have been living in the area of Slate Falls for two Slate Falls FN school entrance centuries. Members of the Osnaburgh House Indian Band established main camps there for managing surrounding traplines and hunting grounds in the 1700's. Eventually a community developed. The leadership consists of one chief and two councillors. Slate Falls is part of the Windigo First Nations Council. Specific services are also delivered by the Windigo Technical Services Unit, to www.watertraining.ca BEARSKIN LAKE FN Bearskin Lake FN The community of Bearskin Nation is a member of the Lake is located four hundred Windigo First Nations Council, and twenty-five (425) a regional tribal council that is kilometres north of Sioux a member of the Nishnawbe Lookout.