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The large Blackfoot reserves in Southern Alberta apparently produced an "immense" potato crop in 1884 and achieved good sales. Local settlers , often unaware of the terms of the treaties and hostile to their Indigenous neighbours, felt the assistance being given to First Nations gave them an unfair advantage and complained to the Indian ...
Muskowekwan First Nation (Ojibwe: Mashkawigwaning) [2] is a Saulteaux First Nation who inhabit approximately 100 km northwest of Melville, Saskatchewan, Canada. As of May, 2008, the First Nation has 1,517 registered people, of which their on- reserve population was 400.
Its reserves are approximately 35 kilometres (22 mi) and 22 kilometres (14 mi) north of North Battleford. It borders the rural municipalities of Meota No. 468 and Round Hill No. 467 . Moosomin First Nation has over 1,500 Band members and control of more than 50,000 acres (200 km 2 ) of land.
As of February 2013, the total membership of Barren Lands First Nation was 1,075 with 455 members living on-reserve or on crown land and 620 members living off-reserve. [ 2 ] The First Nation is governed by a Chief and three councillors [ 2 ] and is affiliated with the Keewatin Tribal Council .
The Siksika Nation reserve, Siksika 146, is located approximately 95 km (59 mi) east of Calgary, and 3 km (1.9 mi) south of the Trans Canada Highway . Its administrative and business district is located adjacent to the community of Gleichen. Siksika Nation is the second largest, land-based, in Canada.
The Big River 118 reserve is 11571.80 hectares and the Big River 118A is 393 hectares in area. [5] Their administrative headquarters are located in the village of Debden and the two reserves are located west of Debden. [3] The Cree is the largest Native population in Canada and has 154 bands, one of them being the Big River First Nation. [6]
The governments of Alberta and Canada authorized "300 projects or developments" representing 19,000 individual authorizations" related to "oil and gas, forestry, mining and other activities" on Beaver Lake Cree Nation core lands, covering a large portion of northeast Alberta and falling outside the boundaries of any Indigenous reserve including ...
The Sturgeon Lake First Nation (Cree: ᓇᒦᐏ ᓵᑲᐦᐃᑲᓂᕽ, namîwi-sâkahikanihk [1]) is a Cree First Nation band government in Saskatchewan, Canada. Its location is on the eastern shore of Sturgeon Lake about 30 km northwest of Prince Albert. The First Nation's territory consists of one reserve, Sturgeon Lake 101.