Fond du Lac Denesuline First Nation
{{Distinguish|Fond du Lac, Wisconsin}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2023}}
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{{Infobox First Nation
| band_name = Fond du Lac Denesuline First Nation
| band_number = 351
| endonym = Gánį Kóé
| image = Fond du Lac Dene Nation logo.png
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| people = Denesųłiné
| treaty = Treaty 8
| headquarters = Fond du Lac
| province = Saskatchewan
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| area = 368.121
| pop_year = 2019
| on_reserve = 1133
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| off_reserve = 995
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| tribal_council = Prince Albert Grand Council
| website = [https://www.fonddulac.ca/ fonddulac.ca]
| footnotes = {{Cite web|title=First Nation Detail|access-date=September 10, 2019|website=Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada|date=November 14, 2008 |publisher=Government of Canada|url=https://fnp-ppn.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/fnp/Main/Search/FNMain.aspx?BAND_NUMBER=351&lang=eng}}
}}
{{Infobox settlement
|official_name = Fond du Lac
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|native_name = Gánį Kóé
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|leader_title =Chief
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|leader_title1 = MLA Athabasca
|leader_name1 =Buckley Belanger
|leader_title2 = MP Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River
|leader_name2 =Georgina Jolibois
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| title =2011 Community Profiles
| work =Statistics Canada
| publisher =Government of Canada
| url =http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/prof/index.cfm?Lang=E
| access-date =2013-04-05
| archive-date =December 26, 2018
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|timezone =Central Standard Time
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|postal_code = S0J 0W0
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|first=Archivia Net
|title=Post Offices and Postmasters
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|archive-date=2006-10-06
|last=Government of Saskatchewan
|first=MRD Home
|title=Municipal Directory System
|url=http://www.mds.gov.sk.ca/apps/Pub/MDS/welcome.aspx
|access-date=2013-04-05
|url-status=dead
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160115125115/http://www.mds.gov.sk.ca/apps/Pub/MDS/welcome.aspx
|archive-date=2016-01-15
|last = Commissioner of Canada Elections
|first = Chief Electoral Officer of Canada
|title = Elections Canada On-line
|year = 2005
|url = http://www.elections.ca/home.asp
|access-date = 2013-04-05
|url-status = dead
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|archive-date = 2007-04-21
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Fond du Lac Dene Nation ({{langx|chp|Gánį Kóé}}) is a Dene First Nation located in the boreal forest area of northern Saskatchewan, Canada. The main settlement is Fond-du-Lac, situated on the east side of Lake Athabasca. It is a remote fly-in community. The population in 2011 was 874, mainly of Dene and Métis descent. 705 residents selected Dene as their mother tongue in 2011.
Fond du Lac is a geographic name meaning "far end of the lake" in the French language (literally it translates as "bottom of the lake").{{cite web |url=http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=161&search_term=fond+du+lac |title=Dictionary of Wisconsin History |publisher=Wisconsin Historical Society |access-date=2008-10-20 |archive-date=2011-06-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611120454/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=161&search_term=fond+du+lac |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.uwgb.edu/wisfrench/study/research/fondlac.htm |title=Fond du Lac: Links to our Past |access-date=2007-03-20 |author=Clorissa Swingen |date=Spring 1988 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100607175912/http://www.uwgb.edu/wisfrench/study/research/fondlac.htm |archive-date=2010-06-07 |url-status=dead }}
History
File:NASA Saskatchewan Canada.A2002236.1810.721.250m (1).jpg image showing Fond-du-Lac on Lake Athabasca ]]
Founded as a community over 150 years ago, by Denesuline First Nations in pursuit of furs, fishing, hunting and trapping the community has seen little changes. Many in the community can trace their ancestral roots to the early 19th century. "Living off the land" is still a way of life in Fond-du-Lac.{{cite web
|title = Prince Albert Grand Council (Fond-du-Lac)
|url = http://eculture.pagc.sk.ca/eculture.php?pid=COMMUNITIES&tp=lnk&language=&ver=
|access-date = 2013-03-02
|url-status = dead
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130503090541/http://eculture.pagc.sk.ca/eculture.php?pid=COMMUNITIES&tp=lnk&language=&ver=
|archive-date = 2013-05-03
}}
Many of the residents are descendants of the Maurice's Band who signed an adhesion to Treaty 8 in 1899. The Maurice's Band (Chief Maurice Piche's Band) split in 1949 forming the Fond-du-Lac Band and the Black Lake Band.
Reserves
Fond du Lac Dene Nation is a First Nation band government with 6 territories around the eastern area of Lake Athabasca.{{cite web
|title = AANDC (First Nation Detail)
|url = https://fnp-ppn.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/fnp/Main/Search/FNMain.aspx?BAND_NUMBER=351&lang=eng
|website = Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada
| date=November 14, 2008 |publisher = Government of Canada
|access-date = 2013-10-15
| title = Natural Resources Canada-Canadian Geographical Names (Query by Geographical Name)
| url = http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique/HAXUD
| access-date =2015-02-04}}
- Fond du Lac 227 is {{convert|15520|ha|acres}} {{Coord|59.3485|N|106.9729|W}} on the north shore of Lake Athabasca and contains the village of Fond du Lac.
- Fond du Lac 228 is {{convert|1082.5|ha|acres}} {{Coord|59.2999|N|107.2063|W}} across the lake from the village.
- Fond du Lac 229 is {{convert|7821.1|ha|acres}} {{Coord|59.4338|N|107.7124|W}} west of the village on the north shore of the lake. Population 0 in 2011.
- Fond du Lac 231 is {{convert|2023.5|ha|acres}} {{Coord|59.1222|N|107.9026|W}} borders the Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial Park on the McFarlane River. Population 0 in 2011.
- Fond du Lac 232 is {{convert|2023.5|ha|acres}} {{Coord|59.1410|N|107.4107|W}} on the Otherside River east of Fond du Lac 231. Population 0 in 2011.
- Fond du Lac 233 is {{convert|8341.5|ha|acres}} {{Coord|59.2764|N|107.2757|W}} on the south side of the lake surrounding Fond du Lac 228. Population 0 in 2011.
Fond du Lac had a total registered membership of 1,895 with 1,066 members residing on-reserve and 829 members residing at locations off-reserve in September 2013.{{cite web
|title = AANDC (Registered Population)
|url = https://fnp-ppn.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/fnp/Main/Search/FNRegPopulation.aspx?BAND_NUMBER=351&lang=eng
|website = Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada
| date=November 14, 2008 |publisher = Government of Canada
|access-date = 2012-10-17
}} The Fond du Lac First Nation is a member of the Prince Albert Grand Council.{{cite web
|title = Prince Albert Grand Council
|url = http://www.pagc.sk.ca/pagc.asp?ID=3
|access-date = 2013-03-02
|url-status = dead
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120212123739/http://www.pagc.sk.ca/pagc.asp?ID=3
|archive-date = 2012-02-12
}}
Demographics
{{canada_census
|location = Fond du Lac 227
|2021_population=926 | 2021_pop_delta=+2.5 | 2021_land_area=125.45 | 2021_pop_density=7.4
|2021_median_age=25.6 | 2021_median_age_m=25.6 | 2021_median_age_f=25.2
|2021_total_pvt_dwell=260 |2021_occ_pvt_dwell=238 |2021_mean_hh_income=69,500
|2021_geocode=2021A00054718824 | 2021_access_date=2023-10-19
|2011_population=874
|2011_pop_delta=+9.1
|2011_land_area=138.26
|2011_pop_density=6.3
|2011_median_age=22.9
|2011_median_age_m=22.3
|2011_median_age_f=23.4
|2011_total_pvt_dwell=229
|2011_total_pvt_dwell_usual=197
|2011_access_date=2012-06-02
|2006_population=801
|2006_pop_delta=+17.4
|2006_land_area=138.26
|2006_pop_density=5.8
|2006_median_age=19.9
|2006_median_age_m=19.8
|2006_median_age_f=20.2
|2006_total_pvt_dwell=182
|2006_total_pvt_dwell_usual=182
|2006_access_date=2012-06-02
|2001_population=682
|2001_pop_delta=-9.2
|2001_land_area=138.26
|2001_pop_density=4.9
|2001_median_age=18.4
|2001_median_age_m=17.4
|2001_median_age_f=19.3
|2001_total_pvt_dwell=146
|2001_total_pvt_dwell_usual=
|2001_access_date=2012-06-02
}}
Economy
The main enterprise today in Fond du Lac is working in the mineral and other resource extraction business. Others follow a tradition of fishing, hunting, and trapping as well as providing guide services to the many fishing camps in the area.
Transportation
There are minimal roads within the community and no year-round roads to the community. It is only accessible by air (through the Fond-du-Lac Airport), inland water transport and snowmobile.{{cite web
| title =Google Maps
| url = https://maps.google.com/
| access-date =2013-03-02 }} Common transportation for community members includes driving large trucks and ATVs better known as four wheelers. In the winter there is a seasonal ice road with access to Uranium City and Stony Rapids (with the latter community in turn connected to the rest of the province via another ice road). The community greatly relies on aircraft and barges for supplies and services. In the winter the occasional truck will venture in on the ice road with supplies.
Climate
Fond-du-Lac has a typical northern Saskatchewan subarctic climate (Köppen Dfc) with long, frigid winters and short, mild to warm summers.
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|May high F=48
|Jun high F=62
|Jul high F=68
|Aug high F=64
|Sep high F=51
|Oct high F=35
|Nov high F=15
|Dec high F=2
|Jan mean F=-18
|Feb mean F=-13
|Mar mean F=0
|Apr mean F=21
|May mean F=39
|Jun mean F=51
|Jul mean F=59
|Aug mean F=55
|Sep mean F=44
|Oct mean F=32
|Nov mean F=10
|Dec mean F=-9
|Jan low F=-25
|Feb low F=-22
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|Jun low F=41
|Jul low F=50
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|Sep low F=35
|Oct low F=26
|Nov low F=5
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|Feb precipitation inch=0.6
|Mar precipitation inch=0.7
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|Aug precipitation inch=1.9
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|Oct precipitation inch=1.3
|Nov precipitation inch=1.1
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Category:First Nations in Saskatchewan
Category:Unincorporated communities in Saskatchewan
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