O'Chiese First Nation

O'Chiese First Nation
Band No. 431
People	Anishinaabe
Treaty	Treaty 6
Headquarters	Rocky Mountain House
Province	Alberta
Land
Main reserve	O'Chiese 203
Other reserve(s)	O'Chiese Cemetery 203A
Land area	141.32 km2
Population (2019)
On reserve	926
Off reserve	527
Total population	1453
Government
Chief	Ray “Douglas” Beaverbones
Tribal Council
	Yellowhead Tribal Council
Website
	ochiese.ca

The O'Chiese First Nation (/oʊˈtʃiːz/) is a Saulteaux First Nation in Alberta, Canada. The First Nation's homeland is the 14,131.9 ha (34,921 acres) O'Chiese 203 Indian reserve, located approximately 52 km northwest of Rocky Mountain House. Also reserved is the O'Chiese Cemetery 203A. As of November 2013, the First Nation had the population of 1,250 registered people, of which the on-reserve population was 831 people.^[2] The primary language spoken on the reserve is Western Ojibwa. Though the ancestors of O'Chiese First Nation made the area about the Baptiste River their winter camp site where they hunted moose and deer, and trapped small game for the fur trade, they also migrated in the summer as far south as the Milk River in what is now Montana.

Governance

The O'Chiese First Nation elect their leadership through the Act Electoral System.^[2] The First Nation is affiliated with Yellowhead Tribal Council.^[2] O'Chiese First Nation is a signatory to Treaty 6 adhesion, signed on May 13, 1950.

References

^ "First Nation Detail". Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada. Government of Canada. Retrieved August 22, 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c "First Nation Detail: O'Chiese". Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada. Government of Canada. Retrieved December 19, 2013.

External links

Official website

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[1] "First Nation Detail". Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada. Government of Canada. Retrieved August 22, 2019.

[AANDC-2] "First Nation Detail: O'Chiese". Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada. Government of Canada. Retrieved December 19, 2013.

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v t e The Numbered Treaties: Treaty Six
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