Moosomin First Nation

Located about 35 kilometers or 22 miles north of North Battleford, Saskatchewan, is the Anishinabe moosomin first nation. There are ten Reserves which make up this First Nation. They cover an area of 18,647 hectares or 46,077 total acres. Total population is 1,553, with most (1,029) living on-reserve, while 470 live off-reserve, and 53 live on other reserves, and 1 lives 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.