Pauingassi First Nation

Pauingassi First Nation (Ojibwe: Bawingaasi)^[2] is an Anishinaabe (Saulteaux/Ojibwa) First Nation community located approximately 280 kilometres (170 mi) northeast of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and 24 kilometres (15 mi) north of Little Grand Rapids, Manitoba, on a peninsula jutting southward into Fishing Lake, a tributary of Berens River.

Pauingassi First Nation
Band No. 327

People	Saulteaux
Treaty	Treaty 5
Province	Manitoba
Land[1]
Main reserve	Pauingassi First Nation Indian Reserve
Land area	2.605 km2
Population (2019)[1]
On reserve	624
Off reserve	66
Total population	690
Government[1]
Chief	Roddy Owens
Tribal Council[1]
Southeast Resource Development Council[1]

The main economic base of the community remains hunting, fishing, trapping and wild rice harvesting.^[1]

The First Nation has one reserve land: Pauingassi First Nation Indian Reserve, spanning a total 260.50 hectares (643.7 acres), which serves as their main reserve and contains the eponymous settlement of Pauingassi at 52°09′20″N 95°22′26″W.

Governance

Originally part of Little Grand Rapids First Nation, the Pauingassi received reserve status in 1988 and became a separate First Nation from the Little Grand Rapids First Nation on 7 October 1991.

Today, Pauingassi First Nation is governed by the Custom Electoral System of government. Pauingassi First Nation is a member of the Southeast Resource Development Council and a signatory to Treaty 5.