Sagkeeng First Nation

The Sagkeeng First Nation is an Anishinaabe First Nation which holds territory east of Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada 145 kilometers north of Winnipeg coordinates: 50°36′32″N 96°17′44″W. The Sagkeeng people are direct descendants of the Anishinabe tribes that migrated from the Ontario Sault Ste. Marie area during the 1700's. Sagkeeng, which was once called Fort Alexander, has a total population of approximately 7,600 registered band members with more than 1/2 of members living off reserve. The name "Sagkeeng" is derived from the Ojibwe word zaagiing meaning "at the outlet". The Reserve is located on both North and South shores "at the outlet" of the Winnipeg River and lies adjacent to the northern border of the Rural Municipality of Alexander, which also borders the Town of Powerview-Pine Falls. The territory of Sagkeeng/Fort Alexander Reserve #3 originally, was to have commenced one mile upstream from the Fort Alexander trading post occupied by the Hudson’s Bay Company. INAC files indicate the Chief and Council requested it be moved to its present location. Had the boundaries not been moved the eastern boundary would have taken in all of Powerview and St. George. The Manitoba Hydro Generating Station would also have been within this boundary.

There is a long history of the Anishinaabe people and white explorers/traders in the area. In 1732 during the fur trading era La Vérendrye's built a trading post on the north side of the river, calling it Fort Maurepas north of Selkirk, Manitoba Later, in 1792 the North West Company built a post on the south side of the River near Lake Winnipeg sometimes called Fort Bas de la Rivière. In 1807, the Hudson Bay Company built Fort Alexander to facilitate trade with the natives in the area. The Fort was named after Alexander Mackay a Northwest Company partner. This then became the site of Fort Alexander when the North West Company and the Hudson Bay Company merged

Recently of note is dance group Sagkeeng's Finest, winners of the first season of Canada's Got Talent.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Treaty

Kakakepenaise (Gekeki-binesi, "Hawk-bird", a.k.a. William Mann I) signed Treaty 1 on behalf of the Sagkeeng people in 1871.^[4] Although Sagkeeng is a Treaty 1 nation, it is a member of the Grand Council of Treaty 3 which means it belongs to 3 treaty territories.

Community Elders speak about "five original families" at the signing of the treaty. Other families were mixed-blood Metis (French and Anishinaabe) who became part of the Treaty three years after the original signing. For several decades, the competing Catholic and Anglican churches caused division between the mixed families (Catholic) and the original Treaty families (Anglican). The residential school system left a lasting (to this day) legacy of pain and suffering among the Anishinaabe people. Today the churches have less influence in the community, the former rivalries between the full-blooded and mixed-blooded families have mostly been forgotten, and the community has embraced their Anishinaabe heritage and are continuing to heal from the legacy of the residential school system. The Canadian Government owned up to the wrong doings of the residential schools systems and paid monies to the Anishinaabe peoples who were forced to attend these schools.

Virginia Fontaine Addictions Foundation Scandal

On October 18, 2000, Canadian Press organization reported that the Director of the Foundation, Perry Fontaine and 74 other persons attended a cruise to the Caribbean that was termed a "Staff Retreat". The cost of this trip was reported later to be over 135,000 dollars. Health Canada eventually investigated the financial books of the Center and found massive fraud and kickback schemes.

Sagkeeng First Nation now hosts a family treatment centre, the Sagkeeng Mino Pimatiziwin Family Treatment Centre. The program has been successfully running for a few years.

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First Nations in Southern Manitoba

Barren Lands First Nation Birdtail Sioux First Nation Brokenhead Ojibway Nation Buffalo Point First Nation Canupawakpa Dakota First Nation Crane River First Nation Dakota Plains First Nation Dakota Tipi First Nation Dauphin River First Nation Ebb and Flow First Nation Fairford First Nation Gamblers First Nation Keeseekoowenin First Nation Lake Manitoba First Nation Lake St. Martin First Nation Little Saskatchewan First Nation Long Plain First Nation Mathias Colomb First Nation Northlands First Nation Pinaymootang First Nation Pine Creek First Nation Rolling River First Nation Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation Sagkeeng First Nation Sandy Bay First Nation Sapotaweyak Cree Nation Sioux Valley Dakota Nation Skownan First Nation Swan Lake First Nation Tootinaowaziibeeng First Nation Waywayseecappo First Nation

The following regions of Manitoba are defined as constituting Southern Manitoba for the purposes of this template: Winnipeg Capital Region Central Plains Eastman Interlake Parkland Pembina Valley Westman

The Numbered Treaties: Treaty One

Numbered Treaties	Treaty 1 Treaty 2 Treaty 3 Treaty 4 Treaty 5 Treaty 6 Treaty 7 Treaty 8 Treaty 9 Treaty 10 Treaty 11

Treaty One Nations	Brokenhead Ojibway Nation Sagkeeng First Nation Long Plain First Nation Peguis First Nation Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation Sandy Bay First Nation Swan Lake First Nation

Grand Council of Treaty 3

Anishinabeg of Kabapikotawangag Resource Council	Animakee Wa Zhing 37 Big Grassy Naongashiing (Big Island) Northwest Angle 33 Onigaming Wauzhushk Onigum

Bimose Tribal Council	Asubpeeschoseewagong (Grassy Narrows) Eagle Lake Iskatewizaagegan (Shoal Lake) 39 Lac des Mille Lacs Naotkamegwanning (Whitefish Bay) Obashkaandagaang Bay Ochiichagwe'Babigo'Ining Shoal Lake 40 Wabaseemoong (Whitedog) Wabauskang Wabigoon Lake

Pwi-Di-Goo-Zing Ne-Yaa-Zhing Advisory Services	Couchiching Lac La Croix Mitaanjigamiing Naicatchewenin Nigigoonsiminikaaning Rainy River Seine River

Non-member Treaty 3 First Nations	Buffalo Point Lac Seul Sagkeeng (Fort Alexander) Saugeen

Subdivisions of Manitoba

Subdivisions	Regions Census divisions Municipalities Communities Indian reserves Population centres Designated places

Cities	Brandon Dauphin Flin Flon Morden Portage la Prairie Selkirk Steinbach Thompson Winkler Winnipeg

Towns	Altona Arborg Beausejour Carberry Carman Churchill Gillam Grand Rapids Lac du Bonnet Leaf Rapids Lynn Lake Melita Minnedosa Morris Neepawa Niverville The Pas Powerview-Pine Falls Snow Lake Ste. Anne Swan River Teulon Virden Winnipeg Beach Former towns: Birtle Boissevain Deloraine Emerson Erickson Gilbert Plains Gladstone Grandview Gretna Hamiota Hartney MacGregor Manitou Minitonas Oak Lake Pilot Mound Plum Coulee Rapid City Rivers Roblin Rossburn Russell Souris Sainte Rose du Lac Treherne

Villages	Dunnottar St-Pierre-Jolys Former villages: Benito Binscarth Bowsman Cartwright Crystal City Elkhorn Ethelbert Glenboro McCreary Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes Riverton Somerset St. Claude St. Lazare Waskada Wawanesa Winnipegosis

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Coordinates: 50°36′23″N 96°17′38″W / 50.60639°N 96.29389°W / 50.60639; -96.29389

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