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Woodland Cree First Nation
Band No. 474

People	Cree
Treaty	Treaty 8
Headquarters	Cadotte Lake
Province	Alberta
Land
Reserve(s)	Woodland Cree 226 Woodland Cree 227 Woodland Cree 228
Land area	161.06 km
Population (2019)
On reserve	814
On other land	6
Off reserve	356
Total population	1176
Government
Chief	Isaac Laboucan-Avirom
Tribal Council
Kee Tas Kee Now Tribal Council
Website
woodlandcree.net

The Woodland Cree First Nation is a First Nation in Alberta, Canada, in Northern Sunrise County northeast of the town of Peace River, encompassing the hamlet of Cadotte Lake.

As of September 2010, 986 people are registered in Woodland Cree First Nation, 697 of them on 16,106 hectarces of reserve.

Woodland Cree First Nation was recognized by Canada on August 28, 1989. On August 20, 1991, it signed a land entitlement treaty with the federal government and received three reserves.

Reserves

Notable people

• Angelique Merasty (1924–1996), birchbark biting artist

See also

• First Nations in Alberta
• List of Indian reserves in Alberta
• List of First Nations peoples
• Indian Act
• List of Aboriginal communities in Canada

References

1. "First Nation Detail". Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada. Government of Canada. Retrieved September 11, 2019.
2. Registered Population Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
3. Indigenous Knowledge Remediation, Reclamation and the AER: A Project with the Woodland Cree First Nation

External links

v t e First Nations in Alberta
Cultural areas: Plains, Subarctic
Ethnolinguistic groups (by language family)	Algic / Algonquian Blackfoot Cree Plains Woodland Saulteaux Athapascan / Dene Daneẕaa Dënesųłı̨ne Dene Tha' Tsuut'ina Siouan Nakoda
Historical polities	Blackfoot Confederacy Iron Confederacy
Numbered Treaties	Treaty 6 (1876) Treaty 7 (1877) Treaty 8 (1899)
Tribal councils and band governments	Athabasca Tribal Council (Fort McMurray) Athabasca Chipewyan Chipewyan Prairie Fort McKay Fort McMurray Mikisew Cree Blackfoot Confederacy (Standoff) Kainai Piikani Siksika Confederacy of Treaty 6 First Nations (Enoch) Alexander Alexis Beaver Lake Cree Cold Lake Enoch Cree Ermineskin Cree Frog Lake Whitefish Lake (Goodfish) Heart Lake Kehewin Cree Louis Bull Montana O'Chiese Paul Saddle Lake Samson Cree Sunchild Kee Tas Kee Now Tribal Council (Atikameg) Loon River Cree Lubicon Lake Band Peerless Trout Whitefish Lake (Atikameg) Woodland Cree Lesser Slave Lake Indian Regional Council (Slave Lake) Driftpile Kapawe'no Sawridge Sucker Creek Swan River North Peace Tribal Council (High Level) Beaver Dene Tha' Little Red River Cree Tallcree Stoney Nakoda - Tsuut'ina Tribal Council (Tsuut'ina) Stoney Nakoda Bearspaw Chiniki Wesley Tsuut'ina Tribal Chiefs Ventures (Beaver Lake Cree) Beaver Lake Cree Cold Lake Frog Lake Heart Lake Kehewin Cree Western Cree Tribal Council (Valleyview) Duncan's Horse Lake Sturgeon Lake Yellowhead Tribal Council (Morinville) Alexander Alexis O'Chiese Sunchild Unaffiliated Bigstone Not federally recognized Aseniwuche Winewak Lubicon Lake Indian Nation Not headquartered in Alberta Acho Dene Koe (NT) Kelly Lake (BC) Onion Lake (SK) Smith's Landing (NT) Terminated Papaschase (1891) Sharphead (1897) Michel (1958)
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• Cree governments
• Northern Sunrise County