Pauingassi First Nation

{{Infobox First Nation

| band_name = Pauingassi First Nation

| band_number = 327

| people = Saulteaux

| treaty = Treaty 5

| province = Manitoba

| main_reserve = Pauingassi First Nation Indian Reserve

| area = 2.605

| pop_year = 2019

| on_reserve = 624

| off_reserve = 66

| total_pop = 690

| chief = Roddy Owens

| tribal_council = Southeast Resource Development Council

| footnotes = {{Cite web|url=https://www.serdc.mb.ca/communities/pauingassi|title = SERDC - Pauingassi}}

}}

Pauingassi First Nation ({{langx|oj|Bawingaasi}})Translate Ojibwe Online dictionary - "Pauingassi" [https://www.translateojibwe.com/en/dictionary-english-ojibwe/Pauingassi https://www.translateojibwe.com/en/dictionary-english-ojibwe/Pauingassi] is an Anishinaabe (Saulteaux/Ojibwa) First Nation community located approximately {{convert|280|km|mi}} northeast of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and {{convert|24|km|mi}} north of Little Grand Rapids, Manitoba, on a peninsula jutting southward into Fishing Lake, a tributary of Berens River.

The main economic base of the community remains hunting, fishing, trapping and wild rice harvesting.

The First Nation has one reserve land: Pauingassi First Nation Indian Reserve, spanning a total {{convert|260.50|ha|acres}}, which serves as their main reserve and contains the eponymous settlement of Pauingassi at {{coord|52|09|20|N|95|22|26|W|scale:10000|display=inline}}.

Governance

{{Update|section|date=October 2017|reason=The term of the listed government officials ended in 2011}}

Originally part of Little Grand Rapids First Nation, the Pauingassi received reserve status in 1988 and became a separate First Nation from the Little Grand Rapids First Nation on 7 October 1991.

Today, Pauingassi First Nation is governed by the Custom Electoral System of government. Pauingassi First Nation is a member of the Southeast Resource Development Council and a signatory to Treaty 5.

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