This Anishinabe band or community, is located in northern Saskatchewan, not too far from the alberta border. Their tribal history probably involves being allied with the anishinabek and for a long time. They either signed treaty 10, in 1906, or treaty 8, in 1899. Many of the citizens of the Chippewan (chipweyan) birch narrows reserve, still fish, hunt, and trap for a subsistence. There is a year round paved road leading to their community. The total enrolled band population of the birch narrows first nation is 655, with 365 living on the reserve in northern saskatchewan. Many Chippewan speak anishinabe. The Chippewan (Chipewyan) are really Anishinabek who absorbed a great many non Algonquian Indians amongst them.