Atikameksheng Anishnawbek First Nation

Whitefish Lake 6
Indian reserve
Whitefish Lake Indian Reserve No. 6

Whitefish Lake community centre
Whitefish Lake 6
Coordinates: 46°18′N 81°16′W / 46.300°N 81.267°W / 46.300; -81.267Coordinates: 46°18′N 81°16′W / 46.300°N 81.267°W / 46.300; -81.267
Country  Canada
Province  Ontario
District Sudbury
First Nation Atikameksheng Anishnawbek
Area[1]
 • Land 172.61 km2 (66.65 sq mi)
Population (2011)[1]
 • Total 394
 • Density 2.3/km2 (6/sq mi)
Website www.atikameksheng
anishnawbek.ca

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.

It is immediately south of the community of Naughton in Greater Sudbury, and is considered part of Greater Sudbury's Census Metropolitan Area. In the Canada 2011 Census, the community of Whitefish Lake had a population of 394 living on the reserve.

Atikameksheng membership have hunting and fishing rights within the Robinson-Huron Treaty Area. An annual pow-wow is held in July each year.

The current chief of the First Nation is Steve Miller.

In May 2008, the chief and council of Atikameksheng Anishnawbek announced litigation against Canada and Ontario for violating the Robinson-Huron Treaty, which states that the First Nation should have been granted a reserve much larger than Whitefish Lake 6.[2]

In 2010, the community was selected as the host community for Building Homes and Building Skills, a project by television personality Mike Holmes to train First Nations people in construction and building trades.[3]

The community passed a resolution in 2006 to request that the federal government change the community's official name from Whitefish Lake, to realign with the traditional name Atikameksheng Anishnawbek.[4] The name change officially took effect in October 2013.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Whitefish Lake 6 census profile". 2011 Census of Population. Statistics Canada. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  2. ↑ "Whitefish Lake First Nation sues for return of land", SooToday.com, May 13, 2008.
  3. ↑ "Whitefish Lake First Nation scores Mike Holmes project". Northern Life, December 23, 2010.
  4. 1 2 "The name change of a Sudbury area First Nation". Morning North (CBC Sudbury), October 3, 2013.

Further reading

Higgins, Edwin and Whitefish Lake Indian Reserve No. 6 (Ont.), Whitefish Lake Ojibway Memories. Cobalt ON: Highway Book Shop, 1982.

External links

 Greater Sudbury (Naughton)
Greater Sudbury Unorganized North Sudbury
   Whitefish Lake 6  
Unorganized North Sudbury
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