Pauingassi First Nation

Pauingassi First Nation is an Anishinaabe (Saulteaux/Ojibwa) First Nation located approximately 280 kilometres (170 mi) northeast of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and 24 kilometres (15 mi) north of Little Grand Rapids, Manitoba, on a peninsula jutting southward into Fishing Lake, a tributary of Berens River. As of May 2009, the First Nation had a registered population of 583 people, of which their own on-reserve population was 544. The main economic base of the community remains hunting, fishing, trapping and wild rice harvesting.

Reserves

The First Nation have reserved for themselves one reserve:

260.50 hectares (643.7 acres) Pauingassi First Nation Indian Reserve, which serves as their main Reserve and contains the Settlement of Pauingassi at 52°09′20″N 95°22′26″W.

Governance

Originally part of Little Grand Rapids First Nation, the Pauingassi received reserve status in 1988. They became a separate First Nation from the Little Grand Rapids First Nation on October 7, 1991. Today, Pauingassi First Nation is governed by the Custom Electoral System of government. The current leadership is Chief Michael Owens and Councillors Susanne Keeper, Harold Crow and Robert Owens. The Chief's and Councillors' three-year elected term began on August 27, 2008, and will conclude on August 26, 2011. Pauingassi First Nation is a member of the Southeast Resource Development Council and a signatory to Treaty 5.

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The Numbered Treaties: Treaty Five
Numbered Treaties	Treaty 1 Treaty 2 Treaty 3 Treaty 4 Treaty 5 Treaty 6 Treaty 7 Treaty 8 Treaty 9 Treaty 10 Treaty 11
Manitoba	Berens River First Nation Black River First Nation Bloodvein First Nation Bunibonibee Cree Nation Chemawawin Cree Nation Cross Lake First Nation Fisher River Cree Nation Fox Lake Cree Nation Garden Hill First Nation God's Lake First Nation Grand Rapids First Nation Hollow Water First Nation Kinonjeoshtegon First Nation Little Grand Rapids First Nation Manto Sipi Cree Nation Mosakahiken Cree Nation Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation Norway House Cree Nation Opaskwayak Cree Nation Pauingassi First Nation Poplar River First Nation Red Sucker Lake First Nation St. Theresa Point First Nation Sayisi Dene First Nation Shamattawa First Nation Tataskweyak Cree Nation War Lake First Nation Wasagamack First Nation York Factory First Nation
Saskatchewan	Cumberland House First Nation Red Earth First Nation Shoal Lake First Nation
Ontario	Deer Lake First Nation North Spirit Lake First Nation Pikangikum First Nation Poplar Hill First Nation Sandy Lake First Nation

Division No. 19, Manitoba (North East Manitoba)
First Nations	Berens River Black River Bloodvein Chemawawin Dauphin River Fisher River Hollow Water Kinonjeoshtegon Lake St. Martin Little Grand Rapids O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi Pauingassi Peguis Pinaymootang Pine Creek Poplar River Sagkeeng Sapotaweyak Skownan Wuskwi Sipihk
Indian reserves	Berens River 13 Black River 9 Bloodvein 12 Chemawawin 3 Crane River 51 Dauphin River 48A Fairford 50 (part) Fisher River 44 Fisher River 44A Fort Alexander 3 Hole or Hollow Water 10 Jackhead 43 Little Grand Rapids 14 The Narrows 49 Pauingassi First Nation Peguis 1B Pine Creek 66A Poplar River 16 Shoal River 65A Swan Lake 65C Waterhen 45
Unorganized areas	Unorganized Division No. 19
Unincorporated communities	Berens River Dauphin River Fort Alexander Little Grand Rapids Pine Creek
See also: Municipalities in Manitoba Census divisions of Manitoba 2015 municipal amalgamations