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Fort Severn FN

Fort Severn First Nation is a station or via Keewaytinook First Nation located on Okimakanak Telemedicine. 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 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 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 border. Poplar Hill graduated high school at separated from Pikangikum Pelican Falls High School in First Nation in 1978 and , making both 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 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 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

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McDowell LakeFN

McDowell Lake First community members Nation is a small Oji- trained and supervised Cree community located by NCC Development in , 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 ’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 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 to form . The is entirely surrounded by the territory of the Unorganized 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 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 . 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 . 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 . 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. This isolated remote Aski Nation. Northwestern Ontario community is accessible only by air or ice road. During the coldest months the road extends from Windigo Lake north through Muskrat Dam. The community is located on Lake Michikan. Three settlements make up the Bearskin Lake First Nation. The Bearskin Lake Nursing Station main village is situated on the west shore of the lake and all three communities are tied to one another by all weather gravel roads.

Prior to achieving full Band and reserve status in 1975, Bearskin was a satellite community of the K i t c h e n u h m a y k o o s i b Inninuwug First Nation (Big Trout Lake First Nation), 72 kilometres (45 mi) to the east. Today, Bearskin Lake First www.watertraining.ca WUNNUMIN LAKE FN

Wunnumin Lake FN

Wunnumin First Nation is an and forest vegetation. These Oji-Cree First Nation band resources have benefited the government who inhabit 360 local residents both personally km northeast of Sioux Lookout. and commercially. The community is located on The Wunnumin community is the western shore of part of the Shibogama Tribal Wunnumin Lake and is 40 km Council and the Nishnawbe- east of Kingfisher First Nation. Aski Nation (NAN) Treaty #9. Wunnumin Lake First Nation The First Nation consists of two can be accessed primarily reserves, the inhabited through air transportation; reserve (22.6 sq however, during the winter miles) and the smaller, season, one can also travel to uninhabited Wunnumin 2 this community using the reserve (approx 15 sq miles). winter roads. The registered Wunnumin Lake Huskies population in 2007 was 565. Wunnumin Lake reserve has been divided into two sections of alloted land. The current inhabited land consists of 5,855hectares (22.61 square miles) and then uninhabited land containing 3,797 hectares (14.66 square miles) is located several km east, on the southern shores of Wunnumin Lake. W u n n u m i n L a k e a n d surrounding areas has a large variety of wildlife, aquatic life www.watertraining.ca LAC SEUL FN

Lac Seul FN

Lac Seul First Nation (LSFN) is a Hudson’s Bay Company set up community of three distinct the first all-year trading post at settlements a) Frenchman’s Lac Seul in 1803 and a more Head, b) Kejick Bay, and c) permanent post one in 1815. Whitefish Bay. The current on- The area was then travelled and reserve population is about 860 formally mapped by Edward with a total registered Umpfreville, an explorer and fur population of 3,372 (as of trader in the late 1800’s. Our October 2015). Our people ancestors, along with other speak Ojibway, Oji-Cree and and Ojibway tribes in English. Our communities are Northwestern Ontario signed found on the southeast shores Treaty #3 in 1873 at a place of Lac Seul Lake and extends called Northwest Angle, not far southward to the north shores from Fort Frances. By signing of Lost Lake. This includes this treaty, our forefathers 66,248 acres of land. LSFN is surrendered their vast about 40 kilometres from the traditional territories to the town of Sioux Lookout, while official representative of the Kejick Bay and Whitefish Bay Canadian government. In are about 65 kilometres. While return, our forefathers received inhabited for thousands of years land called “reserves” as well as by our ancestors, the earliest “treaty rights” or “treaty status.” reference in historical journals The treaty was signed by Chief was found in that of John Long, John Cromarty, which makes a fur trader in 1791. He our reserve the oldest reserve in reported that our ancestors the Sioux Lookout district. By called this territory 1912, there were about 45 “Obijikokaang” meaning Strait homes along the shoreline of of the White Pines. what are now referred to as Subsequently, the famous Kejick Bay and Whitefish Bay. www.watertraining.ca FORT HOPE FN

Fort Hope (Eabametoong) FN

Eabametoong, also known as language while English is Fort Hope, is an Ojibway First predominant with the younger Nation band government in the generation. Eabametoong has . Located on the an affiliation with the Matawa shore of Eabamet Lake in the First Nations Management. system, the The main draw for the people of community is located Eabametoong before the fur approximately 300 km northeast trade was the multitudes of of Thunder Bay. It is accessible various fish: sturgeon, walleye, by air or water, or by winter / whitefish which still inhabit the ice roads which connect the waters today. community to the Northern Flag colours: Ontario Resource Trail. Yellow - for as long as the sun The community came to be shall shine. during the fur trade when the Green - for as long as the grass Hudson’s Bay Company set up a shall grow. trading post by Eabamet Lake in Blue - for as long as the rivers 1890. The canoe was used as shall flow. the main source of transportation so the post has to be near water. As of 2007, the total membership was 2190 on the Indian registry. Approximately 1300 members live on-reserve and 890 Nursing Station members live off-reserve. The Ojibway language is the working www.watertraining.ca SANDY LAKE FN

Sandy Lake FN

Sandy Lake First Nation is an serviced by three schools. There independent Oji-Cree First is also an operational Adult Nations band government. The Learning Centre, with ties to community is located in the Confederation College and Kenora district, 227 km . northeast of Red Lake. It Five clans or doodem are found registered population in 2007 at Sandy Lake FN: suckers, was 2,474. Sandy Lake FN pelicans, crane, caribou, and maintains an affiliation with sturgeon. The community Nishnawbe Aski Nation, as a speaks the Oji-Cree language signatory to Treaty 5. Sandy and uses the western Abe Kakepetum Lake maintains seven Syllabics. Night Guardian neighbourhoods: the airport The Sandy Lake FN is governed centre, big rock / ghost point, by an elected Chief, a Deputy the old sawmill, the river, and Chief, and eight councillors. the Roman Catholic district. Sandy Lake is also famous for Sandy Lake is serviced by a the painters: Abe Kakepetum, Northern store owned by the , and . North West Company Inc. The community is a fly-in community and is linked to the rest of the province by a winter ice road that travels southwest towards Deer Lake and Pikangikum. Sandy Lake’s education is Roger Kakepetum - Acrylic on canvas maintained by the Sandy Lake Norval Morrisseau Board of Education, and is Shaman Talking to the Animals www.watertraining.ca