First Nations in Ontario
Encyclopedia
First Nations in Ontario constitute many nations. Common First Nations
ethnicities in the province
include the Anishinaabe
, Haudenosaunee, and the Cree
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First Nations in Northwestern Ontario
First Nations
First Nations is a term that collectively refers to various Aboriginal peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis. There are currently over 630 recognised First Nations governments or bands spread across Canada, roughly half of which are in the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia. The...
ethnicities in the province
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
include the Anishinaabe
Anishinaabe
Anishinaabe or Anishinabe—or more properly Anishinaabeg or Anishinabek, which is the plural form of the word—is the autonym often used by the Odawa, Ojibwe, and Algonquin peoples. They all speak closely related Anishinaabemowin/Anishinaabe languages, of the Algonquian language family.The meaning...
, Haudenosaunee, and the Cree
Cree
The Cree are one of the largest groups of First Nations / Native Americans in North America, with 200,000 members living in Canada. In Canada, the major proportion of Cree live north and west of Lake Superior, in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and the Northwest Territories, although...
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First Nations in Ontario
- Aamjiwnaang First NationAamjiwnaang First NationThe Aamjiwnaang First Nation is a First Nations community of about 850 Chippewa Aboriginal peoples. They live on the Sarnia 45 Indian Reserve, located on the shores of the St...
- Alderville First NationAlderville First NationAlderville First Nation is a band of Mississaugas, a sub-nation of the Ojibwas. The Alderville and Sugar Island 37A reserves belong to that First Nation.-First Nation:...
- Algonquins of Pikwàkanagàn First NationAlgonquins of Pikwàkanagàn First NationThe Algonquins of Pikwàkanagàn First Nation, formerly known as the Golden Lake First Nation, are an Algonquin First Nation in Ontario, Canada...
- Ardoch Algonquin First Nation (AAFNA)http://www.aafna.ca/
- Beausoleil First NationBeausoleil First NationThe Beausoleil First Nation is an Ojibwa First Nation located in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. The Beausoleil First Nations occupies three Indian reserves...
- Beaverhouse First Nation (non-Status)
- Bkejwanong Territory
- Brunswick House First NationBrunswick House First NationBrunswick House First Nation is an Ojibway-Cree First Nation in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in the Sudbury District, northeast of Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. The First Nation have reserved for themselves the Mountbatten 76A Indian Reserve and the Duck Lake 76B Indian Reserve...
- Caldwell First Nation
- Chapleau Cree First NationChapleau Cree First NationChapleau Cree First Nation is a Mushkegowuk Cree First Nation located by Chapleau Township, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada. The First Nation have reserved for themselves the Chapleau 75 Indian Reserve and the Chapleau Cree Indian Reserve...
- Chippewa of the Thames First Nation
- Chippewas of Georgina Island First NationChippewas of Georgina Island First Nationframe|right|Map of [[York Regional Municipality, Ontario|York Region]] showing Fox, Snake, and Georgina islands.thumb|Georgina Island, Lake Simcoe, Ontario...
- Chippewas of Kettle & Stony Point
- Chippewas of Mnjikaning First NationChippewas of Mnjikaning First NationChippewas of Rama First Nation, also known as Chippewas of Mnjikaning and Chippewas of Rama Mnjikaning First Nation, is Anishinaabe First Nation located in the province of Ontario in Canada...
(Rama) - Chippewas of Nawash
- Chippewas of Saugeen
- Constance Lake First NationConstance Lake First NationConstance Lake First Nation is an Oji-Cree First Nation in Cochrane District in northeastern Ontario, Canada, directly north of the community of Calstock along a continuation of Ontario Highway 663...
- Curve Lake First NationCurve Lake First NationThe Curve Lake First Nation is Mississauga Ojibway First Nation located in Peterborough County of Ontario. The Curve Lake First Nation occupies three reserves; Curve Lake First Nation 35 Reserve, Curve Lake 35A Reserve, and Islands in the Trent Waters Indian Reserve 36A. The last of these reserves...
- Delaware First Nation
- Dokis First Nation
- Flying Post First Nation
- Fort Albany First Nation
- Ojibways of Garden River
- Hiawatha First NationHiawatha First nationThe Hiawatha First Nation Indian Reserve is located on the north shore of Rice Lake east of the Otonabee River in Ontario, Canada.It is found in Otonabee Township approximately 30 kilometers south of Peterborough...
- Henvey Inlet First Nation
- Iskutewizaagegan
- Kingfisher First NationKingfisher First NationKingfisher First Nation is an Oji-Cree First Nation located north of Sioux Lookout, Ontario. It is accessible by air all year round, waterways during summer and ice roads in winter...
- Koocheching First Nation
- Magnetawan First NationMagnetawan First NationThe Magnetawan First Nation is an Ojibway First Nation in Canada. Their territory is located on the Magnetawan 1 Indian reserve in Ontario. The Nation is led by Chief .-References:...
- Matachewan First Nation
- Mattagami First NationMattagami First NationThe Mattagami First Nation is an Anishnaabe First Nation in the Canadian province of Ontario. The First Nation members of the community primarily live on the Mattagami 71 reserve in the Sudbury District near Gogama...
- M'Chigeeng First NationM'Chigeeng First NationM'Chigeeng First Nation, also known as West Bay, is an Ojibwe First Nation in the Manitoulin District of Ontario, Canada. Total registered population as of September, 2007, was 2251 people, of which their on-reserve population was 882...
- Michipicoten First NationMichipicoten First NationThe Michipicoten First Nation is an Ojibwe First Nation in Northern Ontario, located near Wawa. Members of the community have resided at the mouth of the Michipicoten River since before the first arrival of European settlers to the area....
- Missanabie Cree First NationMissanabie Cree First Nation-Historical Timeline:Evidence and records suggest that by as early as the 1570s, members of the Missanabie Cree had settled in the areas surrounding present day Missinaibi Lake, Dog Lake and Wabatongushi Lake...
- Mississauga First NationMississauga First NationMississauga First Nation is one of the five First Nations that make up the Mississauga Nations. It is located near Blind River, Ontario on the Mississagi River 8 Reserve. It is also referred to as Mississauga #8.-External links:...
- Mississaugas of New Credit
- Mississaugas of Scugog Island
- Mocreebec Indian Government
- Mohawks of Akwesasne
- Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte
- Moose Cree First NationMoose Cree First NationThe Moose Cree First Nation is a Cree First Nation in northern Ontario, Canada. Since time immemorial, their traditional territory is on the west side of James Bay...
- Moose Deer Point First Nation
- Munsee-Delaware Nation
- Namaygoosisagagun First Nation (non-Status)
- Naotkamegwanning Anishinabe First Nation
- Nipissing First NationNipissing First NationThe Nipissing First Nation consists of first nation people of Ojibwa and Algonquin descent who have lived in the area of Lake Nipissing in the Canadian province of Ontario for about 9,400 years. Though in history known by many names, they are generally considered part of the Anishinaabe peoples,...
- Ojibways of Batchewana
- Ojibways of Sucker Creek
- Oneida Nation of the ThamesOneida Nation of the ThamesThe Oneida Nation of the Thames is an Onyota'a:ka First Nation located in southwestern Ontario on what is commonly referred to as the "Oneida Settlement", located about a 30-minute drive from London, Ontario, Canada...
- Pic Mobert First NationPic Mobert First NationThe Pic Mobert First Nation is an Ojibwa First Nation in Northwestern Ontario, Canada.They have reserved for themselves two small Reserves: Pic Mobert North, which serves as their primary reserve, and the Pic Mobert South, both located east of Marathon, Ontario...
- Poplar Point First Nation
- Sagamok Anishnawbek First NationSagamok Anishnawbek First NationThe Sagamok Anishnawbek First Nation, also known as Many Rivers Joining-Human Beings, is a First Nations group located in Ontario, Canada. The Sagamok occupy a reserve approximately 120 kilometres west of Sudbury, Ontario, and have a population of approximately 1400.In the early years of Canada's...
- Serpent River First NationSerpent River First NationThe Serpent River First Nation, a signatory to the Robinson Huron Treaty of 1850, is an Anishinaabe First Nation in the Canadian province of Ontario, located midway between Sault Ste...
- Shawanaga First Nation
- Sheguiandah First Nation
- Sheshegwaning First Nation
- Six Nations of the Grand River
- Taykwa Tagamou
- Temagami First NationTemagami First NationTemagami First Nation is located on Bear Island, Lake Temagami, Ontario, Canada. It is home to a portion of the Aboriginal community, the Teme-Augama Anishnabai . The island is the seconed largest in Lake Temagami after Temagami Island...
- Thessalon First Nation
- Wahgoshing First Nation
- Wahnapitae First NationWahnapitae First NationThe Wahnapitae First Nation is an Ojibwa First Nation in the Canadian province of Ontario, who primarily reside on the Wahnapitae 11 reserve on the northwestern shore of Lake Wanapitei. The First Nation is a signatory to the Robinson-Huron Treaty of 1850 as the Tahgaiwenene's Band...
- Wahta Mohawks
- Wasauksing First NationWasauksing First NationWasauksing First Nation is an Ojibwa, Odawa and Pottawatomi First Nation located near Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada....
- Washagamis Bay First Nation
- Whitewater Lake First Nation
- Wikwemikong Unceded First Nation
- Zhiibaahaasing First NationZhiibaahaasing First NationZhiibaahaasing is a First Nation in the Canadian province of Ontario.An Ojibwe community located in the Manitoulin District, the First Nation has two distinct parcels of land: the first, on Manitoulin Island and legally designated as Zhiibaahaasing 19A, had a population of 34 in the 2001 Canadian...
First Nations in Northwestern OntarioNorthwestern OntarioNorthwestern Ontario is the region within the Canadian province of Ontario which lies north and west of Lake Superior, and west of Hudson Bay and James Bay. It includes most of subarctic Ontario. Its western boundary is the Canadian province of Manitoba, which disputed Ontario's claim to the...
- Animbiigoo Zaagi'igan Anishinaabek First Nation
- Anishinaabeg of Naongashiing
- Aroland First NationAroland First NationAroland is an Ojibwa and Oji-Cree First Nation in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in the Thunder Bay District approximately 20 kilometres west of Nakina...
- Attawapiskat First NationAttawapiskat First NationAttawapiskat First Nation is an isolated First Nation located in Kenora District in northern Ontario, Canada, at the mouth of the Attawapiskat River at James Bay...
- Bearskin Lake First NationBearskin Lake First NationBearskin Lake First Nation is an Oji-Cree First Nation in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in the Kenora District 425 kilometres north of Sioux Lookout. Bearskin First Nation's total registered population in September, 2007, was 831, of which their on-reserve population was 423.Three...
- Big Grassy First Nation
- Biinjitiwabik Zaaging Anishnabek First NationBiinjitiwabik Zaaging Anishnabek First NationThe Biinjitiwaabik Zaaging Anishinaabek is an Ojibway First Nation in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. Their territory is located on the Rocky Bay 1 Indian reserve in Greenstone, Ontario, near Macdiarmid...
- Cat Lake First NationCat Lake First NationCat Lake First Nation is an Ojibwa community approximately 180 kilometres northwest of Sioux Lookout in northwestern Ontario. Wasaya Airways run daily on regular schedules. Winter/ice roads also connects from Pickle Lake, Ontario, via Northern Ontario Resource Trail during the winter months, which...
- Couchiching First NationCouchiching First NationThe Couchiching First Nation is a Saulteaux First Nation in the Canadian province of Ontario, who live on the Couchiching 16A and Agency 1 reserves in the Rainy River District near Fort Frances....
- Deer Lake First NationDeer Lake First NationDeer Lake First Nation is an Oji-Cree First Nation in Northern Ontario, located north of Red Lake, Ontario. It is one of the few First Nations in Ontario to have signed Treaty 5. It is part of the Keewaytinook Okimakanak Council and the Nishnawbe Aski Nation...
- Eabametoong First NationEabametoong First NationEabametoong, also known as Fort Hope, is an Ojibway First Nation in Kenora District, Ontario, Canada. Located on the shore of Eabamet Lake in the Albany River system, the community is located approximately 300 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay and is accessible only by airplane to Fort Hope...
- Eagle Lake First Nation
- Fort Severn First NationFort Severn, OntarioFort Severn First Nation is located on Hudson Bay and is the most northern community in Ontario, Canada.As of 2001, the population was 401, consisting of 90 families in an area of 40 square kilometres...
- Fort William First NationFort William First NationFort William First Nation is an Ojibway First Nation south of and adjacent to Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. As of January 2008, the First Nation had a registered population of 1,798 people, of which their on-Reserve population was 832 people....
- Ginoogaming First NationGinoogaming First NationGinoogaming First Nation is a small Anishinaabe First Nation located in Northern Ontario, located approximately 40 km east of Geraldton, Ontario, Canada, on the northern shore of Long Lake, immediately south of Long Lake 58 First Nation and the community of Longlac, Ontario...
- Grassy Narrows First NationAsubpeeschoseewagongAsubpeeschoseewagong First Nation is an Ojibwa First Nation located 80 km north of Kenora, Ontario. Their landbase is the 4145 ha English River 21 Indian Reserve...
- Gull Bay First NationGull Bay First NationGull Bay First Nation or Kiashke Zaaging Anishinaabek is an Anishinaabe First Nation located in Thunder Bay District in northwestern Ontario, Canada. It is approximately north of Thunder Bay, Ontario on Highway 527 on the south western shore of Lake Nipigon...
- Hornepayne First Nation
- Kasabonika Lake First Nation
- Kashechewan First NationKashechewan First NationThe Kashechewan First Nation is a Cree First Nation located near James Bay in Northern Ontario, Canada. The community is located on the northern shore of the Albany River. Kashechewan First Nation is one of two communities that were established from Old Fort Albany in the 1950s...
- Kee Way Win First Nation
- Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First NationKitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First NationKitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug , also known as Big Trout Lake First Nation or KI for short, is a First Nations community in Northwestern Ontario. Part of Treaty 9...
- Lac des Mille Lacs First Nation
- Lac La Croix First NationLac La Croix First NationLac La Croix First Nation is a Saulteaux First Nation located in Rainy River District in northwestern Ontario, Canada, along the Ontario-Minnesota border. It is approximately 200 km northwest of Thunder Bay, Ontario...
- Lac Seul First NationLac Seul First NationLac Seul First Nation is located on the southeastern shores of Lac Seul, northeast of the city of Dryden, Ontario. Though Lac Seul First Nation is a treaty signatory to Treaty 3, the First Nation is a member of the Independent First Nations Alliance, a regional tribal council and a member of the...
- Long Lake First Nation
- Marten Falls First NationMarten Falls First NationMarten Falls First Nation is an Anishinaabe First Nation located in northern Ontario. The First Nation occupies communities on both sides of the Albany River in Northern Ontario, including Ogoki Post in the Cochrane District and Marten Falls in the Kenora District...
- McDowell Lake First NationMcDowell Lake First NationMcDowell Lake First Nation is a small Oji-Cree First Nation located in Northern Ontario, located approximately 155 km northeast of Red Lake, Ontario, Canada, on the central western shore of McDowell Lake. As of December, 2007, their total registered population was 52...
- Mishkeegogamang First NationMishkeegogamang First NationMishkeegogamang First Nation, also known as New Osnaburgh, Osnaburgh House, Osnaburgh or "Oz" for short, is an Ojibwa First Nation in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is located on Highway 599 in the Kenora District, approximately 20 kilometres south of Pickle Lake...
- Muskrat Dam Lake First NationMuskrat Dam Lake First NationThe Muskrat Dam Lake First Nation is an Oji-Cree First Nation in Northern Ontario. They reside on the Muskrat Dam Lake reserve, located on Muskrat Dam Lake in the Kenora District. The community of Muskrat Dam, Ontario, is located on this reserve...
- Naicatchewenin First NationNaicatchewenin First NationThe Naicatchewenin First Nation, also known as the Anishinaabeg of Nagaajiwanaang and formerly known as Northwest Bay First Nation, inhabited a region in Ontario that was cited in the Northwest Angle Treaty of 1873, also known as Treaty 3. Nagaajiwanaang is located approximately northwest of Fort...
- Neskantaga First Nation
- Nibinamik First NationNibinamik First NationNibinamik First Nation , also known as Summer Beaver Band, is a small Oji-Cree First Nation in Northern Ontario, located on the Summer Beaver Settlement that is connected to the rest of the province by its airport, and a winter/ice road that leads to the Northern Ontario Resource...
- Nicickousemenecaning First Nation
- North Caribou Lake First NationNorth Caribou Lake First NationNorth Caribou Lake First Nation or Weagamow First Nation, sometimes also known as Round Lake First Nation, is an Oji-Cree First Nation located in Kenora District in northern Ontario, Canada. It is approximately 320 km or 202 air miles north of Sioux Lookout, Ontario...
- North Spirit Lake First NationNorth Spirit Lake First NationNorth Spirit Lake First Nation is a small Oji-Cree community in Northern Ontario, located north of Red Lake, Ontario. It is connected to Sandy Lake First Nation, and Deer Lake First Nation by winter/ice roads...
- Northwest Angle No. 33 First Nation
- Northwest Angle No. 37 First Nation
- Ochiichagwe'babigo'ining First Nation
- Ojibways of OnegamingOjibways of OnegamingOjibways of Onegaming or Onegaming First Nation is an Anishinaabe community in Northwestern Ontario. The present day reserve is located on a portage between Lake of the Woods and Crow Lake, intersected by Highway 71. The traditional name for this settlement is Kakagewaatisoonigaming, or Raven's...
- Ojibways of the Pic River First NationOjibways of the Pic River First NationOjibways of the Pic River First Nation is an Ojibwa First Nation band on the north shore of Lake Superior at the mouth of the Pic River. Pic River is not a signatory to the Robinson Superior treaty. The community is located on 316.6 ha Pic River 50 Indian reserve...
- Pays Plat First NationPays Plat First NationPays Plat First Nation is a small reserve community located about 175 km Northeast of Thunder Bay, Ontario. The Pays Plat reserve is in the boundaries of the territory described the Robinson-Superior Treaty in 1850...
- Pikangikum First NationPikangikum First NationThe Pikangikum First Nation is an Ojibwe First Nation located on the Pikangikum 14 Reserve, in Unorganized Kenora District in Northwestern Ontario, Canada...
- Poplar Hill First NationPoplar Hill First NationPoplar Hill First Nation is an Anishinaabe First Nation located in Northern Ontario, approximately 120 km north of Red Lake, Ontario near the Ontario-Manitoba border. The First Nation is accessible by air and winter road...
- Rainy River First Nation
- Red Rock Band
- Sachigo Lake First NationSachigo Lake First NationSachigo Lake First Nation is an Oji-Cree First Nation in Unorganized Kenora District in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. It is located on Sachigo Lake, part of the Sachigo River system and Hudson Bay drainage basin, approximately north of the town of Sioux Lookout...
- Sand Point First Nation
- Sandy Lake First NationSandy Lake First NationSandy Lake First Nation is an independent Oji-Cree First Nation. The First Nation community, in the west part of Northern Ontario, is located in the Kenora District, northeast of Red Lake, Ontario. Its registered population in June 2007 was 2,474...
- Saugeen First Nation
- Seine River First NationSeine River First NationSeine River First Nation is an Ojibwe nation located roughly 300 km west of Thunder Bay, Ontario....
- Shoal Lake First Nation
- Slate Falls First NationSlate Falls First NationSlate Falls is a First Nation in Ontario....
- Stanjikoming First Nation
- Wabaseemoong Independent Nation
- Wabauskang First Nation
- Wabigoon First Nation
- Wapekeka First NationWapekeka First NationWapekeka First Nation is a First Nation in the Canadian province of Ontario. An Oji-Cree community in the Kenora District, the community is located approximately 450 kilometres northeast of Sioux Lookout...
- Wauzhushk Onigum First Nation
- Wawakapewin First NationWawakapewin First NationWawakapewin First Nation is an Oji-Cree First Nation located 350 kilometers north of Sioux Lookout, Ontario. More specifically in geological terms, it is located at . It is only accessible by air and the winter road system from Pickle Lake. It is a small community in which the registered...
- Webequie First NationWebequie First NationWebequie First Nation is located on the northern peninsula of Eastwood Island on Winisk Lake, 540 km north of the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario. Webequie is a fly-in community with no summer road access. The primary way into the community is by air to Webequie Airport or winter road, which...
- Weenusk First NationWeenusk First NationWeenusk First Nation ; unpointed: ᐧᐃᓇᐢᑯ ᐃᓂᓂᐧᐊᐠ) is a Cree First Nation in the Canadian province of Ontario. In September, 2007, its total registered population was 516...
- Whitefish Lake First NationWhitefish Lake First NationThe Atikameksheng Anishnawbek First Nation , formerly known as the Whitefish Lake First Nation, is an Ojibwa First Nation in Ontario, Canada, who live mainly on the Whitefish Lake reserve, 20 km southwest of Sudbury.Atikameksheng Anishnawbek have hunting and fishing rights...
- Whitesand First NationWhitesand First NationThe Whitesand First Nation is an Ojibwa First Nation in Northern Ontario. They have reserved for themselves the Whitesand reserve. The community of Armstrong Settlement is their main community, located coterminously with Armstrong, Thunder Bay District, Ontario...
- Wunnumin Lake First NationWunnumin Lake First NationWunnumin Lake First Nation is an Oji-Cree First Nation located 360 km northeast of Sioux Lookout in Ontario, Canada...