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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. Theresa Point Fisher River Opaskwayak Cree Nation Swan Lake Fort Alexander Oxford House Tootinaowaziibeeng Treaty Reserve Fox Lake War Lake First Nation Gamblers Wasagamack First Nation Garden Hill First Nations Waterhen God’s Lake First Nation Waywayseecappo First Nation Grand Rapids First Nation Wuskwi Sipihk First Nation Hollow Water York Factory First Nation Keeseekoowenin Kinonjeoshtegon First Nation

NORTHERN AFFAIRS COMMUNITIES

DAUPHIN REGION THOMPSON REGION Baden Brochet Barrows SELKIRK REGION Cormorant Camperville Aghaming Cross Lake Crane River Berens River Easterville Dawson Bay Bissett Gods Lake Narrows Duck Bay Dallas/Red Rose Granville Lake Mallard Dauphin River Herb Lake Landing Meadow Portage Fisher Bay Ilford National Mills Harwill Moose Lake Pelican Rapids Homebrook Nelson House Powell Island Lake Norway House Red Deer Lake Little Grand Rapids Oxford House Rock Ridge Loon Straits Pikwitonei Salt Point Manigotagan Sherridon Spence Lake Matheson Island South Indian Lake Waterhen Pine Dock Thicket Portage Westgate Princess Harbour Wabowden Red Sucker Lake Seymourville

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