Mathias Colomb First Nation
First Nation Band in Canada
The Mathias Colomb Cree Nation (MCCN) (Cree: ᐸᑲᑕᐚᑲᐣ, pukatawâkan)—also known as Mathias Colomb First Nation, Mathias Colomb (Cree) First Nation, and Pukatawagan/Mathias Colomb Cree Nation—is a remote First Nations community in northern Manitoba, located 210 km (130 mi) north of The Pas and 819 km (509 mi) northwest of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
It had two reserves under its jurisdiction, part of Treaty 6. The main community is at Indian Reserve 198 (Pukatawagan 198) in Pukatawagan, consisting of 1,536.6 ha (15.366 km2; 5.933 mi2) on the shore of Pukatawagan Lake, and lying about 210 km (130 mi) north of The Pas. The second reserve, Highrock reserve (Indian Reserve No. 199) (CSD), located on Highrock Lake, 30 km (19 mi) downstream from Pukatawagan, was dissolved by 2006.
Demographics
According to Statistics Canada and based on the 2016 Census the population of Pukatawagan 198 was 1,724, a decrease of 5.6% from 2011. Of the 2016 population 1,680 people were registered or Treaty Indian, 45 identified as neither and 25 people identified non-Aboriginal. No other Indigenous peoples were identified. The First Nations peoples identified as Cree, Ojibway, Saulteaux and Sioux. Besides English people in the community spoke Cree-Montagnais languages, Central Algonquian languages and the Ojibway language
History
The modern day residents of Mathias Colomb Cree Nation are primarily ancestral descendants of indigenous Cree peoples who have populated the Canadian Shield region of northern and central Canada since the retreat of the glaciers about 10,000 years ago.
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