Chippewa Indians Pays Plat First Nation

This band of chippewa indians live along the north shores of lake superior. Their tribal history probably involves many anishinabek from michigan, minnesota, southern ontario, and wisconsin moving into their area to escape from the whites. They proved to the world in august of 1990, that they have never signed a treaty with canada which ceded their land. They were backed by the ginoogaming, pic mobert, and pic river chippewa first nations, to support the long lake 58 chippewa's.

In fact, some war may have occurred late during that year between the anishinabek of northern ontario and canada. The canadians claim that the fighting which erupted that year between indians and whites, was between the mohawks and canada. They refer to the event as the Oka Crisis. However, the whites have a bad reputation for being liars. Something happened in 1990 in northern ontario and it was probably a short war. In august of 1990, many citizens from the pays plat and long lake 58 first nation blockaded the cnr tracks to make it clear to canada that they did not appreciate what canada was doing to their land. Canada was regularly spraying their lands in order to destroy their land. From their first nation, which sits next to lake superior, to longlac it is about 70 miles, and from west to east, for nearly 200 miles, there are no white settlements. Many of the citizens of this reserve still fish, hunt, and trap for a subsistence. Something is not right about this predicament in northern ontario. Many of northern ontario's chippewa's deny their ancestors ceded their land to the whites. And then there may have been a short war in 1990. Their total enrolled band population is 174, but is probably much higher because of the isolation of the community and the resources available.