Okanese First Nation
Cree-Saulteaux band government
- Cree
- Saulteaux
- Okanese 82(A) through
- Okanese 82(HH)
The Okanese First Nation (Cree: ᐅᑭᓃᐢ, okinîs, literal meaning: Little Rose-hip)[2] is a Cree-Saulteaux First Nation band government in Balcarres, Saskatchewan, Canada.[3][4][5]
The Okanese First Nation was a signatory to Treaty number four.[5] It is named after a leader named Okanis, who signed the treaty on their behalf, on September 9, 1875.[3] The Nation's population was 104 in 1879. 225 of the 459 members lived on the Nation's Reserve in 1999.
In June 2008 Canwest reported Marie-Anne Day Walker-Pelletier the Chief of the Okanese since 1981, was the longest-serving female Chief in Saskatchewan.[6]
Notable births
- Dawn Dumont, writer
- Connie Walker (1979), journalist
- Richard Wolfe, gangster.
- Danny Wolfe, gangster.
References
- ^ "First Nation Detail". Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada. Government of Canada. Retrieved September 10, 2019.
- ^ Wolvengrey, Arok, editor. Cree: Words. Regina, University of Regina Press, 2001. https://itwewina.altlab.app/word/okin%C3%AEs@3/
- ^ a b "Okanese First Nation". Saskatchewan First Nations. Archived from the original on 2009-11-19.
This reserve was named after its first Chief, Okanis, who signed an adhesion to treaty four on September 9, 1875. The Okanese band settled in the File Hills area along with Peepeekisis, Little Black Bear and Starblanket.
- ^ "Saskatchewan Treaty Land Entitlement (TLE) Fact Sheet". Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. 2009-03-30. Archived from the original on 2011-06-13.
- ^ a b "First Nations Communities and Treaty Boundaries in Saskatchewan" (PDF). Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. 2009-03-30. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-02-05.
- ^ "Sask. women are leaders". Canwest. 2008-06-18. Archived from the original on 2012-11-07.
Marie-Anne Day Walker-Pelletier from the Okanese First Nation is the longest-serving female chief in Saskatchewan, having first taken office in 1981.
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The Numbered Treaties: Treaty Four
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- Muscowpetung First Nation
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- Nekaneet Cree Nation
- Ocean Man First Nation
- Ochapowace First Nation
- Okanese First Nation
- Pasqua First Nation
- Peepeekisis First Nation
- Pheasant Rump Nakota First Nation
- Piapot First Nation
- Standing Buffalo First Nation (included, though not a signatory)
- Star Blanket Cree Nation
- White Bear First Nation
- Wood Mountain First Nation (included, though not a signatory)
- Yellow Quill First Nation
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