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Mishkeegogamang Ojibway Nation
First Nation
Mishkeegogamang First Nation
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Coordinates: 51°14′06″N 090°14′20″W / 51.23500°N 90.23889°W / 51.23500; -90.23889
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
Provincial Territorial Organization	Nishnawbe Aski Nation
District	Kenora
Government
• Chief	Merle Loon
• Federal riding	Kenora
• Provincial riding	Kiiwetinoong
Area
• Total	18,696.4 ha (46,199.8 acres)
Population
• Total	2,100+ Registered Band Members
Postal Code	P0V 2H0
Area code	807
Website	www.mishkeegogamang.ca

Mishkeegogamang First Nation is an Ojibway band government (First Nation) in the Canadian province of Ontario. Until 1993, the band was called the Osnaburgh First Nation, with various settlements at times being called New Osnaburgh, Osnaburgh House, or Osnaburgh ("Oz" for short).

The traditional territory of the Mishkeegogamang Ojibway extends to the north, south, east and west, beyond the boundaries of Reserves 63A and 63B. The traditional territory is made up of the communities of the Main Reserve, Bottle Hill, Poplar Heights, Sandy Road, Doghole Bay, Rat Rapids, Cedar Rapids, Ten Houses, Eric Lake, Ace Lake, Metcalfe, Pashkokogan, Mile 50, Fitchie Lake, Mile 42, Mile 29, Menako Lakes, and the shores of Lake St. Joseph.

Mother Tongues: Ojibwe Anishinaabemowin, ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ

It is located along Highway 599 in the Kenora District, approximately 20 km (12 mi) south of Pickle Lake. Its total registered population as of March 2022 is 2,028 (of which the on-reserve population was over 1,000 people as of the 2016 Census). At one time a member of the Windigo First Nations Council, Mishkeegogamang First Nation is not part of any regional tribal councils as of February 2015; however, they have retained their membership with the Nishnawbe Aski Nation.

Geography

• The Mishkeegogamang First Nation's landbase consists of two reserves, the smaller 5,018.6-hectare (12,401-acre) Osnaburgh Indian Reserve 63A and the larger 13,677.8-hectare (33,799-acre) Osnaburgh Indian Reserve 63B.
• The First Nation land is located within two districts, the smaller Osnaburgh 63A is located in the boundary of the Thunder Bay District, meanwhile the larger Osnaburgh 63B is located in the boundary of the Kenora District. Mishkeegogamang does not observe daylight saving time.
• Oz is made up of separate and somewhat geographically disconnected communities. On their main reserve are the communities of Bottle Hill, Poplar Heights and Sandy Road. A community about 24 km (15 mi) south called Ten Houses is also associated with this First Nation. Additionally, some small communities called Doghole Bay, Eric Lake, Ace Lake and a few others are also associated with Osnaburgh.

Infrastructure

Transportation

• Mishkeegogamang First Nation has year-round access by road, It is located along Highway 599 in the Kenora District, approximately 20 km (12 mi) south of Pickle Lake.
• The community is also served by nearby Pickle Lake Airport for passenger and cargo services to all flying destinations.

Medical centres and nearby hospitals

• MIshkeegogamang Health Centre is located along Highway 599 on the Main Reserve community, one of the many sub-division communities of the First Nation. It serves as the Nursing Station and administration office for health programs, coordinates health care services through Nursing staff, Community Health Representatives, visiting community Physicians and Doctors.
• Participates in Thunder Bay's Regional Critical Care Response Program (RCCR) with other First Nation communities which enables patients to be triaged and cared for by critical care doctors and other highly-skilled staff at TBRHSC's Intensive Care Unit via videoconferencing equipment prior to transfer via Air Amublance (Ornge)
• Major hospitals nearby Mishkeegogamang include Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre, Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, Health Sciences Centre and The Children's Hospital of Winnipeg.

Utilities

• Water, sewage services, garbage, street plowing and snow removal are provided by Mishkeegogamang First Nation. It also contracts out several services to private companies off-reserve for other work needed, such as electrical, plumbing and propane services for the residents of the First Nation
• Mishkeegogamang First Nation is connected to the provincial grid through the Wataynikaneyap Power transmission line via Pickle Lake Substation.
• The primary telecommunications carrier is Bell Canada which provides telephone, cellular, television and internet services to the First Nation. Although residents can subscribe other corporations such as Starlink, Shaw, Xplornet, Virgin Mobile, Neighbourhood Connection, Kuhkenah Network (KNET), Koodo Mobility and many more.

Current Governance

Chief and Council (2023-2025)

Membership Authority

Section 11 Band

Election System

Indian Act

Council Quorum

4

First Nation Affiliations

• Mishkeegogamang First Nation is governed by one Chief and five Band Councillors who are elected every two years.
• Mishkeegogamang is not affiliated with any tribal organization, but is associated with Nishnawbe Aski Nation lobby group.
• Mishkeegogamang is policed by the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service, an aboriginal-based service. The Mishkeegogamang NAPS detachment can also refer cases to the Pickle Lake detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police, in nearby Pickle Lake.
• Mishkeegogamang First Nation residents vote in the Kenora federal riding and the Kiiwetinoong provincial electoral district. Kiiwetinoong has a population of 32,987 and means "North" in Ojibwe. Kiiwetinoong is 68 percent indigenous.

Official Address

Mishkeegogamang Band Office

1 First Nation Street

Mishkeegogamang, Ontario, Canada

P0V 2H0

History

Early history

• The Mishkeegogamang people are Ojibway who are believed to have originated in the Great Lakes region. The tribe might have moved north when European Hudson's Bay Company traders started establishing interior posts and routes, or possibly beforehand. Their arrival pushed the previous Cree occupants farther northward.

Osnaburgh House

• As the Hudson's Bay Company sought to establish interior trading posts to compete with rival companies, it sent John Best along the Albany River to scout locations for such a post. He chose a spot near the northeast end of Lake St. Joseph and called the post Osnaburgh House (51°08′14″N 90°16′00″W / 51.13722°N 90.26667°W / 51.13722; -90.26667). The house itself survived for around 200 years, later giving its name to the settlement of Osnaburgh (51°07′30″N 90°15′14″W / 51.12500°N 90.25389°W / 51.12500; -90.25389), which lay directly across the lake from the house. The house was abandoned in 1963, after which it fell into ruin. Since the 1980s, the site (which is not inside the boundaries of the first nation) has been the Old Post Lodge fishing camp.

Twentieth and twenty-first century

• In 1905, the Government of Canada sent commissioners to the area to attain the land for the Crown. Treaty 9 between them and the Mishkeegogamang (among other groups) set aside two pieces of land for reserves (Osnaburgh 63A and 63B) with the promise that the people would not necessarily have to live on the reserves and would have full use of all of their traditional lands. The tribe was formalised at this time with Missabay chosen as the first chief and a band and council system was instituted.

• The completion of Highway 599 in 1954 from Savant Lake to an earlier mine road brought great social change to the Mishkeegogamang. The highway was several kilometres from Osnaburgh village (in Osnaburgh 63A), so the government encouraged people to move a new village, New Osnaburgh (51°14′06″N 90°14′20″W / 51.23500°N 90.23889°W / 51.23500; -90.23889), on Doghole Lake (Osnaburgh 63B) which today is the Main Reserve.

• MIshkeegogamang maintains strong ties with Cat Lake First Nation, Slate Falls First Nation and the Ojibway Nation of Saugeen.

Elected Chiefs since 1905

References

1. Branch, Government of Canada; Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada; Communications (2008-11-14). "First Nation Profiles". fnp-ppn.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca. Retrieved 2023-08-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. ^ "History". Mishkeegogamang First Nation. 2010. Retrieved 2004-02-15.
3. ^ "History". Old Post Lodge. 2013. Retrieved 2014-02-15.

External links

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• GPX (all coordinates)
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* Official website

• AANDC profile
• 052O01 Osnaburgh House Topographic Map
• Map of Osnaburgh First Nation
• Map of (old) Osnaburgh in 1959

v t e Thunder Bay District, Ontario
Cities	Thunder Bay
Towns	Greenstone Marathon
Townships	Conmee Dorion Gillies Manitouwadge Neebing Nipigon O'Connor Oliver Paipoonge Red Rock Schreiber Shuniah Terrace Bay
First Nations	Animbiigoo Zaagi'igan Anishinaabek Aroland Biigtigong Nishnaabeg Biinjitiwabik Zaaging Anishnabek (Rocky Bay) Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek (Sand Point) Fort William Ginoogaming Kiashke Zaaging Anishinaabek (Gull Bay) Lac des Mille Lacs Long Lake 58 Mishkeegogamang Namaygoosisagagun Netmizaaggamig Nishnaabeg (Pic Mobert) Ojibways of Saugeen Pays Plat Red Rock (Lake Helen) Whitesand
First Nations reserves	Fort William 52 Ginoogaming (Long Lac 77) Gull River 55 Lac des Mille Lacs 22A1 Lac des Mille Lacs 22A2 Lake Helen 53A Lake Nipigon Long Lake 58 Ojibway Nation of Saugeen (Savant Lake) Osnaburgh 63A Pays Plat 51 Pic Mobert North Pic Mobert South Pic River 50 Red Rock 53 Rocky Bay 1 Sand Point First Nation Whitesand
First Nations settlements	Armstrong Aroland Collins Lake
Unorganized areas	Unorganized Thunder Bay
Local services boards	Armstrong East Gorham Hurkett Kaministiquia Lappe Nolalu Rossport Shebandowan Upsala
Unincorporated communities	Amethyst Harbour Ancliff Auden Baird Beardmore Bowker Burchell Lake Caramat Carters Corners Cloud Bay English River Finmark Flint Fort William Geraldton Gorham Harstone Hemlo Hillside Hume Hymers Jackfish Jacques Jarvis River Jellicoe Kakabeka Falls Kashabowie Lee Leeblain Leeper Longlac Loon Macdiarmid Mackenzie McCluskeys Corners Millar Mokomon Moose Hill Murillo Nakina Navilus Nolalu Ombabika Orient Bay Pass Lake Pays Plat Pearl Port Arthur Raith Rosslyn Savanne Savant Lake Scoble West Sellers Shabaqua Shabaqua Corners Silver Harbour Silver Islet Silver Mountain Slate River Valley South Gillies Stanley Sorrell Lake Suomi Twin City Wamsley Wild Goose
See also Communities in Thunder Bay District List of census divisions of Ontario

v t e Kenora District, Ontario
Cities	Dryden Kenora
Towns	Red Lake Sioux Lookout
Townships	Ear Falls Ignace Machin Pickle Lake Sioux Narrows–Nestor Falls
First Nations	Animakee Wa Zhing 37 Asubpeeschoseewagong Attawapiskat Bearskin Lake Big Grassy Buffalo Point Cat Lake Deer Lake Eabametoong Eagle Lake Fort Albany Fort Severn Iskatewizaagegan 39 Kasabonika Lake Kashechewan Keewaywin Kingfisher Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug Lac Seul Marten Falls Mishkeegogamang Muskrat Dam Lake Naongashiing Naotkamegwanning Neskantaga Nibinamik Niisaachewan North Caribou Lake North Spirit Lake Northwest Angle 33 Obashkaandagaang Bay Onigaming Pikangikum Poplar Hill Sachigo Lake Sandy Lake Shoal Lake 40 Slate Falls Wabaseemoong Wabauskang Wabigoon Lake Wapekeka Wauzhushk Onigum Wawakapewin Webequie Weenusk Wunnumin Lake
Indian reserves	Agency 30 Attawapiskat 91 Attawapiskat 91A Bearskin Lake Cat Lake 63C The Dalles 38C Deer Lake Eagle Lake 27 English River 21 Fort Albany 67 (part) Fort Hope 64 Fort Severn 89 Kasabonika Lake Kee-Way-Win Kenora 38B Kingfisher 2A Kingfisher 3A Kingfisher Lake 1 Kitchenuhmaykoosib Aaki 84 Lac Seul 28 Lake of the Woods 31B Lake of the Woods 31C Lake of the Woods 31G Lake of the Woods 35J Lake of the Woods 37 Lake of the Woods 37B Marten Falls 65 Muskrat Dam Lake Naongashing 35A Neskantaga North Spirit Lake Northwest Angle 33B Northwest Angle 34C & 37B Obabikong 35B One Man Lake 29 Osnaburgh 63B Pikangikum 14 Poplar Hill Rat Portage 38A Sabaskong Bay 35C (part) Sabaskong Bay 35D Sabaskong Bay 35F (part) Sachigo Lake 1 Sachigo Lake 2 Sachigo Lake 3 Sandy Lake 88 Shoal Lake 31J Shoal Lake 34B1 Shoal Lake 34B2 Shoal Lake 37A (part) Shoal Lake 39 (part) Shoal Lake 39A (part) Shoal Lake 40 (part) Swan Lake 29 Wabaseemoong Wabauskang 21 Wabigoon Lake 27 Wapekeka 1 Wapekeka 2 Wawakapewin Weagamow Lake 87 Webequie Winisk 90 Whitefish Bay 32A Whitefish Bay 33A Whitefish Bay 34A Wunnumin 1 Wunnumin 2 Yellow Girl Bay 32B
Indian settlements	Kashechewan Kee Way Win Lansdowne House McDowell Lake Peawanuck Slate Falls Summer Beaver
Unorganized areas	Unorganized Kenora
Local services boards	Greater Oxdrift KeeMan Melgund Minaki Pellatt, Pelican, Umbach, Gidley Redditt Round Lake Wabigoon
Unincorporated communities	Balmertown Borups Corners Central Patricia Cochenour Dyment Eagle River Eton–Rugby Hudson Jaffray–Mellick Keewatin Madsen McKenzie Island Minnitaki Nestor Falls Norman Oxdrift Pickle Crow Rat Portage Sioux Narrows Starratt–Olsen Superior Junction Vermilion Bay
See also Communities in Kenora District Census divisions of Ontario

• First Nations governments in Ontario
• Ojibwe governments
• Communities in Kenora District
• Nishnawbe Aski Nation