Montreal Lake First Nation

Located at Montreal Lake, Saskatchewan, is the Anishinabe montreal lake first nation. In history, this band of Anishinabek had an ogima (chief) who signed an adhesion to treaty six in 1889 with the Freemason colony of Canada. Before that, they had probably lived a little further towards the south but fled to the north to escape the horrible white problem. These Anishinabek possibly participated in the wars the Anishinabek were fighting on the northern plains of the United States and the 1885 Northwest Rebellion. There are two Reserves which make up this First Nation. They cover an area of 8,289 hectares or 20,482 total acres. Total population is 3,463, with most (1,900) living on-reserve, while 1,304 live off-reserve, and 23 live on other reserves, and 206 live on crown land. Many can trace their origins back to Montana, where they originally lived but were driven out by the whites, after the 1868-1886 war. Ogimak Big Bear or Sitting Bull, led them up to Canada.