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In August 2017 the Anishinabek Nation in Ontario and the government of Canada signed an agreement allowing the Anishinabek Nation to control the classroom curriculum and school resources of its kindergarten-to-grade-12 education system in 23 communities. [42] Approximately 8% of Anishinabek students attend schools on-reserve. [42]
The Anishinabek Nation, also known as the Union of Ontario Indians, is a First Nations political organization representing 39 member Anishinabek Nation First Nations in Canada in the province of Ontario, Canada. [1] The organization's roots predate European contact in the 16th century, in the Council of Three Fires.
The Council of Three Fires (in Anishinaabe: Niswi-mishkodewinan, also known as the People of the Three Fires; the Three Fires Confederacy; or the United Nations of Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi Indians) is a long-standing Anishinaabe alliance of the Ojibwe (or Chippewa), Odawa (or Ottawa), and Potawatomi North American Native tribes.
Trade Language ^[1] A subfamily of Native American languages which includes most of the languages in the Algic language family; distinguished from the orthographically similar Algonquin dialect of the indigenous Ojibwe language (below). ^[2] Distinct Algonquian language closely related to the Ojibwe language or a particularly divergent Ojibwe ...
Anishinabek Nation (also known as Union of Ontario Indians) [1] Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs [2] Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians; Chiefs of Ontario [3] — represents Anishinaabek, Swampy Cree, and Lenape Peoples in Ontario; Grand Council of Treaty 3 [4]
Inaugurated in 2022, Anishinaabe Day or Anishinaabe Giizhigad (ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯ ᑮᔑᑲᐟ; ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯ ᑮᔑᑲᑦ) is the national holiday for the Anishinabek Nation. It is celebrated by the approximately 65,000 citizens hailing from the union of 39 First Nations in Ontario [ 1 ] as a reflection of the proclamation of the Nation's ...
Atikameksheng Anishnawbek (Anishinaabe language: Adikamegosheng Anishinaabeg, syncoped as Dikmegsheng Nishnaabeg), formerly known as the Whitefish Lake First Nation, is an Ojibway First Nation in northern Ontario, Canada. Its reserve is located at Whitefish Lake 6 on the shores of Whitefish Lake, 20 km southwest of Sudbury.
The Saulteaux are a branch of the Ojibwe Nations within Canada.They are sometimes called the Anihšināpē (Anishinaabe). [1] Saulteaux is a French term meaning 'waters ("eaux") - fall ("sault")', and by extension "People of the rapids/water falls", referring to their former location in the area of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, on the St. Marys River (Michigan–Ontario) which connects Lake ...