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The Nipissing First Nation's council is a member of Waabnoong Bemjiwang Association of First Nations, which is a regional chiefs' council. The First Nation is also a member of the Union of Ontario Indians , a tribal political organization representing many of the Anishinaabe First Nations in central and southern Ontario.
However, the number of eagle totem members grew when new members whose paternal ancestors were Americans were assigned to this totem. Since the first sustained contact by the Anishinaabe with the United States was through government officials, the symbol of the American eagle was taken for a clan marker. Members of the Eagle clan include:
The AEI campuses are located on the Nipissing First Nation, and Munsee-Delaware First Nation. The Nipissing Campus is located at 1 Migiizi Miikan in North Bay. The Munsee-Delaware Campus is located at 533 Thomigo Road in Muncey. The Fort William Campus is located in 300 Anemki Place, Suite A in Fort William First Nation.
In 1994, Garden River, Curve Lake, Sagamok and Saugeen First Nations stepped away from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) to form the Anishinabek Police Service. At this time it was also decided that Garden River would be home to Headquarters because geographically it is situated in the center of the province.
Temagami, formerly spelled Timagami, is a municipality in northeastern Ontario, Canada, in the Nipissing District with Lake Temagami at its heart.. The Temagami region is known as n'Daki Menan, the homeland of the area's First Nations community, most of whom are Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), living on Bear Island.
The general term for the Nipissing peoples arise from the Anishinaabe word Nibii(n)sing, meaning "at the little water". When the name is syncoped, it can appear as either Nbii(n)sing, Mbii(n)sing or Bii(n)sing. Neperinks. — Clinton (1745) in New York Documents of Colonial History, VI, 276, 1855. Nepesangs.
4.2 Nipissing First Nation. 4.3 Odawa. 4.4 Ojibwa. 4.5 Oji-Cree. 4.6 Potawatomi. 4.7 Saulteaux. 5 Tribal Government. 6 Environmental Protests and Land Disputes. 7 ...
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