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Seekaskootch 119

First Nation reserve in Saskatchewan, Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 26, 2024
Entity authorityQ22558626 ↗
Source-derived summary

Seekaskootch 119 is an Indian reserve of the Onion Lake Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. It is about 142 kilometres (88 mi) north-west of North Battleford. In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 2574 living in 578 of its 639 total private dwellings. In the same year, its Community Well-Being index was calculated at 53 of 100, compared to 58.4 for the average First Nations community and 77.5 for the average non-Indigenous community.

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The public source identifies “Seekaskootch 119” as first Nation reserve in Saskatchewan, Canada. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Seekaskootch, First and Nation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Seekaskootch, First and Nation providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Seekaskootch 119”, the useful work is to connect “first Nation reserve in Saskatchewan, Canada” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 26, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q22558626. Authority coordinates are 53.720, -109.890. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Seekaskootch 119” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.