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The area is historically unceded land, and is an area with more than 1.2 million people. [1] The Algonquins of Ontario are a group of ten Indigenous communities in eastern Ontario: the Antoine, the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation, the Bonnechere, the Greater Golden Lake, the Kijicho Manito Madaouskarini (Bancroft), the Mattawa/North Bay ...
The name Anishinaabe is sometimes shortened to Nishnaabe, mostly by Odawa people. The cognate Neshnabé comes from the Potawatomi, a people long allied with the Odawa and Ojibwe in the Council of Three Fires. The Nipissing, Mississaugas, and Algonquin are identified as Anishinaabe but are not part of the Council of Three Fires.
www.nfn.ca. Nipissing First Nation (Ojibwe: Nipissing, Niipsing, Nbisiing), meaning "place of little waters", is a long-standing community of Nishnaabeg peoples, who traditionally speak Anishinaabemwin, [2] located along the shorelines of Lake Nipissing in northern Ontario. They are referred to by many names in European historical records ...
The Wabanaki Confederacy (Wabenaki, Wobanaki, translated to "People of the Dawn" or "Easterner"; also: Wabanakia, "Dawnland" [1]) is a North American First Nations and Native American confederation of five principal Eastern Algonquian nations: the Abenaki of St. Francis, Mi'kmaq, Wolastoqiyik, Passamaquoddy (Peskotomahkati) and Penobscot.
Having a total area of 210.09 km 2 (81.12 sq mi), [4] it is the largest Algonquin Nation in Canada in both area and population. [ 5 ] Present on the reserve are shops, an elementary and secondary school, a community hall, a health centre, police services, a youth centre, a retirement home, a cultural centre, and the CKWE 103.9 radio station.
The Anishinaabe, like most Algonquian -speaking groups in North America, base their system of kinship on clans or totems. The Ojibwe word for clan (doodem) was borrowed into English as totem. The clans, based mainly on animals, were instrumental in traditional occupations, intertribal relations, and marriages.
The Robinson Treaties are two treaties signed between the Ojibwa chiefs and the Crown in 1850 in the Province of Canada. The first treaty involved Ojibwa chiefs along the north shore of Lake Superior, and is known as the Robinson Superior Treaty. The second treaty, signed two days later, included Ojibwa chiefs from along the eastern and ...
The Treaty No. 3 area in what is referred to as Northwestern Ontario is an area rich with trees, water, rocks, and other resources that contributed to the survival of Anishinaabe peoples and the settlers that followed. Tensions rooted in differing cultural relations to the land between Indigenous nations and settlers exist to this day.