This mixed Anishinabe-Athabascan band or community, is located in northern Saskatchewan, not too far from the northwest territories. 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) black lake reserve, still fish, hunt, and trap for a subsistence. There are no year round paved roads leading to their community. The total enrolled band population of the black lake first nation is 1,931, with 1,522 living on the reserve in far northern saskatchewan. Many Chippewan (chipewyans) speak anishinabe. The Chippewan (Chipewyan) are really Anishinabek who absorbed a great many non Algonquian Indians amongst them.