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Grand Rapids Ojibway Reserve (aka Misipawistik Ojibway Reserve)
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Manitoba, Ontario and Saskatchewan
This is a vast Ojibway Reserve located in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario. Below is a map of Grand Rapids Ojibway Reserve (aka Misipawistik Ojibway Reserve), links to google earth photos of Misipawistik (Grand Rapids) and Demographics of this Ojibway Reserve. Before 1900, Canada used Deceit to conceal large Ojibway Reserves. Their way of concealing large Ojibway Reserves was by using one "Agency" to manage affairs of many Ojibway Communities. First agent for Grand Rapids Ojibway Reserve was appointed on January 1, 1877. They originally named this Reserve Treaty 5 Agency. They really named the agency that managed Grand Rapids Ojibway Reserve, Treaty 5 Agency. Then they named it Agency of Mr. McKay. First name of this Reserve is Grand Rapids Ojibway Reserve. Other names used include Berens River and Norway House. However, we will use Grand Rapids Ojibway Reserve (aka Misi Pawistik Ojibway Reserve). All Ojibway Districts of GROR are signatories to Treaty 5. Treaty 5 adhesion signings followed in 1908-1910. They added God's Lake including God's Lake Narrows, Nelson House including South Indian Lake, Oxford House and Split Lake. Supposedly Island Lake was added in 1909 yet they signed Treaty 5 decades earlier which indicates corruption! They were listed as Island Bands from 1880. I suspect the Island Lake they dealt with in 1909 is Reindeer Lake, which is located in north Manitoba and north Saskatchewan. Ojibway People living around Reindeer Lake agreed to relocate to the south where Garden Hill, St. Theresa Point and Wasagamack are and other locations. We know Lac La Ronge, Montreal Lake and Peter Ballantyne were settled by Saulteaux Ojibway's from Grand Rapids. There are excerpts below to help you learn.These following Ojibway Districts including Lac La Ronge, Montreal Lake and Peter Ballantyne, make up Grand Rapids Ojibway Reserve:
Berens River - 1880
Birch River - ?
Bloodvein - 1879
Chemawawin - 1880
Churchill - ?
Cross Lake - 1879
Cumberland House - 1879
Deer Lake - 1908-1910 (possibly Reindeer Lake)
Fisher River - 1879 (they originally lived at the Ojibway St. Peters Reserve - they were not from Norway House)
God's Lake including God's Lake Narrows - 1909 (Ojibway Settlers from Reindeer Lake)
Grand Rapids - 1879
Hollow Water - 1879
Island Bands - 1880 - (Island Lake Ojibway's and later Ojibway Settlers from Reindeer Lake)
Jackhead - 1881
Little Grand Rapids - 1883
Little Black River - 1883
Loon Straits - 1880
Marcel Colomb - 1889 (from Mathias Colomb - originally a part of Lac La Ronge, Montreal Lake and Peter Ballantyne)
Moose Lake - 1880
Nelson House - 1908 (Ojibway Settlers from Reindeer Lake)
Norway House - 1879
Oxford House - 1909 (Ojibway Settlers from Reindeer Lake)
Pas Mountain - 1879
Pikangikum - 1889 (aka Mathias Colomb - originally a part of Lac La Ronge, Montreal Lake and Peter Ballantyne)
Poplar River - 1879
Split Lake - 1908 (Ojibway Settlers from Reindeer Lake)
The Pas - 1879
Question marks next to Ojibway Districts indicates lost information or a cover-up. They probably officially became affiliated with Grand Rapids Reserve's Agency in 1879 or 1880. You noticed Grand Rapids and Little Grand Rapids! At Grand Rapids they name it in Ojibway "Mis-si Pa-wis-tik." Translated it means Little Grand Rapids Place in Ojibway which is suspicious. Ojibway diminutives are an "s or z." They are placed at ends of syllables. If the Ojibway word ends with a consonant, a vowel is added with the "s or z" following. If the Ojibway word ends in a vowel, the "s or z" follows the vowel. So "Pawi" means "Falls and Rapids" in Ojibway. And "Pawi" ends with a vowel which means "Pawis" means Little Falls and Little Rapids. Locative in Ojibway is their word for tree which is "tig." So Mis-si Pa-wis-tik does in fact mean Little Grand Rapids Place or Grand Little Rapids Place! Below is an excerpt from Treaty 5. Read it and you'll find out why they corrupted it! And don't believe the treaty text! Ojibway leaders would never accept land allotments as their Reserves. And there is no strong confirmation of an Ojibway written account of Treaty 5. We are going to add Lac La Ronge, Mathias Colomb including Marcel Colomb, Montreal Lake and Peter Ballantyne to Grand Rapids Ojibway Reserve. Evidence indicates they are from Grand Rapids Saulteaux Ojibway's. Below is an excerpt about Montreal Lake. They supposedly signed an adhesion to Treaty 6 in 1889 along with Lac La Ronge. Mathias Colomb and Peter Ballantyne are from Lac La Ronge and Montreal Lake. They are very weak Ojibway's! They are not strong at all! Grand Rapids Ojibway Reserve is very large and adjacent to Lake Manitoba Ojibway Reserve. Clandeboye Ojibway Reserve is located on it's extreme south.
Pawis'tig Road View
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Demographics of Grand Rapids Ojibway Reserve
Land Area: over 100,000 sq. mi. or over 258,000 sq. km. (estimate)
Population: 56,452
Language: Ojibway and Corrupted Ojibway