{{Short description|First Nation in Manitoba, Canada}} {{Infobox First Nation | band_name = Pauingassi First Nation | band_number = 327 | people = Saulteaux | treaty = Treaty 5 | province = Manitoba | main_reserve = Pauingassi First Nation Indian Reserve | area = 2.605 | pop_year = 2019 | on_reserve = 624 | off_reserve = 66 | total_pop = 690 | chief = Roddy Owens | tribal_council = Southeast Resource Development Council<ref name="SERDC"/> | footnotes = <ref name="SERDC">{{Cite web|url=https://www.serdc.mb.ca/communities/pauingassi|title = SERDC - Pauingassi}}</ref> }}
'''Pauingassi First Nation''' ({{langx|oj|Bawingaasi}})<ref>Translate Ojibwe Online dictionary - "Pauingassi" [https://www.translateojibwe.com/en/dictionary-english-ojibwe/Pauingassi https://www.translateojibwe.com/en/dictionary-english-ojibwe/Pauingassi]</ref> is an Anishinaabe (Saulteaux/Ojibwa) First Nation community located approximately {{convert|280|km|mi}} northeast of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and {{convert|24|km|mi}} north of Little Grand Rapids, Manitoba, on a peninsula jutting southward into Fishing Lake, a tributary of Berens River.
The main economic base of the community remains hunting, fishing, trapping and wild rice harvesting.<ref name="SERDC"/>
The First Nation has one reserve land: '''Pauingassi First Nation Indian Reserve''', spanning a total {{convert|260.50|ha|acres}}, which serves as their main reserve and contains the eponymous settlement of Pauingassi at {{coord|52|09|20|N|95|22|26|W|scale:10000|display=inline}}.
==Governance== {{Update|section|date=October 2017|reason=The term of the listed government officials ended in 2011}} Originally part of Little Grand Rapids First Nation, the Pauingassi received reserve status in 1988 and became a separate First Nation from the Little Grand Rapids First Nation on 7 October 1991.
Today, Pauingassi First Nation is governed by the Custom Electoral System of government. Pauingassi First Nation is a member of the Southeast Resource Development Council and a signatory to Treaty 5.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://fnp-ppn.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/fnp/Main/Search/FNMain.aspx?BAND_NUMBER=327&lang=eng AANDC profile] * [https://www.gov.mb.ca/conservation/wno/status-report/fa-8.15_pauingassi.pdf 2004-2005 First Nations Community Profiles - MB Region] * [http://www.seed.mb.ca/pauingassi.html Southeast Community Futures Development Corporation profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090709075257/http://www.seed.mb.ca/pauingassi.html |date=2009-07-09 }} * [http://geodepot.statcan.ca/GeoSearch2006/GeoSearch2006.jsp?resolution=H&lang=E&otherLang=F&census=Yes&DisplayData=Yes&NewImage=yes&layer=csd&IdentName=Pauingassi%20First%20Nation%20(IRI)&IdentUID=4619079 Map of Pauingassi First Nation at Statcan] {{Southeast Resource Development Council}}{{First Nations in the Northern Region of Manitoba}} {{Numbertreaty|treaty=5}} {{MBDivision19}} {{Authority control}}
{{Coord|52|09|51|N|95|22|43|W|type:city_region:CA-MB|display=title}} Category:Southeast Resource Development Council Category:Saulteaux