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Gakijiwanong Anishinaabe Nation

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nameNeguaguon Lake 25D
official_nameNeguaguon Lake Indian Reserve No. 25D
settlement_typeIndian reserve
pushpin_mapCanada Ontario
pushpin_mapsize200
coordinates
subdivision_typeCountry
subdivision_name
subdivision_type1Province
subdivision_name1
subdivision_type2District
subdivision_name2Rainy River
subdivision_type5First Nation
subdivision_name5Lac La Croix
area_footnotes
area_land_km262.70
population_footnotes
population_total118
population_as_of2021
population_density_km21.9
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Gakijiwanong Anishinaabe Nation (formerly Lac La Croix First Nation) () is a Saulteaux First Nation band government who reside in the Rainy River District of northwestern Ontario, Canada, along the Ontario-Minnesota border. It is approximately 200 km northwest of Thunder Bay, Ontario. As of January 2008, the First Nation had a registered population of 398 people, of which their on-Reserve population was 273.

Governance

The First Nation elect their officials through the Act Electoral System, consisting of a Chief and four councillors. The current Chief is Carrie Atatise-Norwegian, whose term began in January 2022. The four councillors are Curtis Atatise, Carrie Atatise-Norwegian, Blair Whitefish and Norman Jordan. Carrie Atatise-Norwegian is Lac La Croix's first female Chief.

As a signatory to Treaty 3, Lac La Croix First Nation is a member of the Pwi-Di-Goo-Zing Ne-Yaa-Zhing Advisory Services, a Regional Chiefs Council, and Grand Council of Treaty 3, a Tribal Political Organization that represents many of First Nation governments in northwestern Ontario and southeastern Manitoba.

History

Seven Generations Education Institute (SGEI) is an Aboriginal-owned and controlled post-secondary institution co-founded by the ten bands in the Rainy Lake Tribal area in 1985. The ten bands are: Big Grassy, Big Island, Couchiching, Lac La Croix, Naicatchewenin, Nigigoonsiminikaaning, Ojibways of Onigaming, Rainy River, Seine River and Mitaanjigaming. Each of the ten bands appointed one member to a board of directors of Seven Generations Education Institute, which functions with the leadership of the executive director.

In 2023, Lac La Croix First Nation changed its name to Gakijiwanong Anishinaabe Nation. 'Gakijiwanong' is Ojibwe for "Where the water flows".

Reserve

The First Nation reserved for themselves the 6214.1 ha Neguagon Lake Indian Reserve 25D (formerly known as Lac La Croix Indian Reserve 25D). Originally, the First Nation also had reserved the Sturgeon Lake Indian Reserve 24C but the Ontario Provincial Park Act in 1950 took this second Indian reserve and made it part of Quetico Provincial Park. The Reserve also was home to the last free-roaming population of the Lac La Croix Indian Pony, now an endangered rare breed with preservation efforts supported by the First Nation and other related Ojibwe people.

References

USMN St. Louis County

References

  1. (9 February 2022). "Neguaguaon Lake 25D census profile". Statistics Canada.
  2. "Welcome to Gakijiwanong Anishinaabe Nation".
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