Mis-koh Zha-sho-de-win | Red Rock First Nation
Community Profile
- The Red Rock First Nation is an Ojibwe community located in the boreal forest region of Ontario, with a strong connection to traditional lands and Lake Superior.
- Last Updated 2025-05-01 05:21:50 UTC
- Name: Red Rock (ISC Code: 193)
- Former Names: Red Rock Indian Band, Pic Mobert First Nation
- Band Style: Ojibwe First Nation
- Cultural Area: Boreal Forest, Lake Superior North Shore
- Indigenous Language: Ojibwe (Anishinaabemowin)
- Number of Registered Members: 2493
Governance
Band Council
- GOVERNANCE TYPE: Not Applicable
- TERM EXPIRES: 09/11/2027
- CHIEF: ALLAN JOSEPH ODAWA JR.
- NUMBER OF COUNCIL MEMBERS:6
- ALLAN JOSEPH ODAWA JR.
- NORMA KATHERINE LESPERANCE
- ROBERT COREY FOWLER
- JOLENE CATHERINE COTE
- TIMOTHY JAMES THEODORE WAWIA
- ROBERT (COREY) FOWLER
Contact Information
- BAND WEBSITE: http://www.redrockband.ca/
- PHONE NUMBER: (807) 887-2510
- FAX NUMBER: (807) 887-3446
- ADDRESS: PO BOX 1030, NIPIGON, ON
- EMAILS:
- Chief ALLAN JOSEPH ODAWA JR.:
- Councillor NORMA KATHERINE LESPERANCE:
- Councillor ROBERT COREY FOWLER:
- Councillor JOLENE CATHERINE COTE:
- Councillor TIMOTHY JAMES THEODORE WAWIA:
- Councillor ROBERT (COREY) FOWLER:
- General Band Office:
- Media Contact:
- Referrals Contact:
- Websites
Band Financial Statements
- 2023 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2022 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2021 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2020 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2019 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2018 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2017 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2016 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2015 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2014 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2013 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2012 - Red Rock20122013.pdf
- 2011 - Red Rock20112012.pdf
- 2010 - Red Rock20102011.pdf
- 2009 - Red Rock20092010.pdf
- 2008 - Red Rock20082009.pdf
- 2007 - Red Rock20072008.pdf
- 2006 - Red Rock20062007.pdf
- 2005 - Red Rock20052006.pdf
- 2004 - Red Rock20042005.pdf
- 2003 - Red Rock20032004.pdf
- 2002 - Red Rock20022003.pdf
- 2001 - Red Rock20012002.pdf
Band Council Remuneration
- 2023 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2022 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2021 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2020 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2019 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2018 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2017 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2016 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2015 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2014 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2013 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
Laws, Bylaws, and Codes
Intergovernmental Agreements
Lands and Traditional Territory
Reserves
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ISC Code: 6307
LAKE HELEN 53A
74.7 Hectares
177 KM N/N OF/DE THUNDER BAY
[49.0304448, -88.2395109] -
ISC Code: 6308
RED ROCK 53
184.0 Hectares
ON WEST SHORE OF HELEN LAKE, 3 MILES N.E. OF NIPIGON
[49.0125155, -88.26328050000001]
Traditional Territory Details
- Northwestern Ontario
- Lake Superior North Shore
- Boreal Forest Region
- Key Areas:
- Nipigon River watershed
- Lake Superior coastal regions
- Dense boreal forest lands
Consultations and Referrals
Band Submissions
Consultation Reports
Band Business Interests
Band Owned Corporations
Court Records
Downloadable Court Decisions
- Nipigon v. Red Rock
- Red Rocks Capital, llc (Re)
- Rock v. Canadian Red Cross Society
- Bar C Ranch and Cattle Company Ltd. v. Red Rock Sawmills Ltd.
- Stotz v. Red Rock Developments
- Nipigon v. Red Rock
- Bar C Ranch and Cattle Company Ltd. v. Red Rock Sawmills Ltd.
- Red Rock First Nation Indian Band v. Canada (Attorney General)
- Corporation of the Township of Red Rock (Re)
- Red Rock (Corporation of the Township) (Re)
- Dragan Karadzic (Red Rocks Bar and Eatery) (Re)
- Red Rock Police Service (Re)
- Red Rock First Nation v. Canada (Attorney General)
- Red Rock First Nation v. Canada (Attorney General)
- Canada (Attorney General) v. Red Rock First Nation
- Canada (Attorney General) v. Red Rock First Nation
- Peaire and McGinnis v. Director, Red Deer-North Saskatchewan Region, Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development, re: BURNCO Rock Products Ltd., 15-003-010-ID1
Active Court Cases
Media Reports
Media Reports
- Red Rock community rallies after Native American boy's hair cut at school
- ‘They never forgot their Grandfather’: Sacred Red Rock reunited with Kaw people, Kaw land
- Red Rock Indian Band to hold Truth and Reconciliation walk
- Native voices echo in the Grand Canyon
- Red Rock Indian Band in Ontario fights for the return of its ancestors
- Red Rock Indian Band calls out feds after discovery of ancestral remains in Nipigon, Ont.
- Oklahoma mother outraged after child came home with hair cut from school
- Red Rock Indian Band plans peaceful protest in fight to return ancestors home
- Lawrence group that helped remove prayer rock from Robinson Park gets plan to add educational panels on Indigenous history approved
- A sacred boulder stolen to honor Kansas settlers was finally returned to the Kaw Tribe
- Handling Of Ancestral Remains Sparks Indigenous Protest In Northern Ontario
- Northern Ont. First Nation protests after ancestral remains found during excavation
- Red Rock Indian Band holds peaceful protest
- Red Rock Indian Band Plans Peaceful Protest to Reclaim Ancestors’ Remains
- Red Rock Indian Band getting $1.9M for new facility
- Testing day to raise awareness, educate about HIV/HVC
- Education minister visits Red Rock school
- Crown must settle with First Nations for breaching Robinson treaties: Supreme Court
- Demonstration planned over handling of Indigenous remains found in Nipigon
- UPDATE: Protest closes southbound section of Highway 11
- Group that helped return prayer rock to the Kaw Nation wants more input on how to honor Indigenous people at Robinson Park
- Red Rock selected for proposed lithium refinery
- Nip-Rock High students building a home for Ginoogaming
- Parks Canada making amends after unearthing Indigenous remains: Hajdu
- Red Rock Indian Band holds protest on TransCanada highway over discovery of ancestral remains
- Red Rock Indian Band holds peaceful demonstration beside Nipigon River Bridge
- Peaceful demonstration near Nipigon may disrupt traffic
- Sacred Red Rock unveiled: A remarkable journey of rediscovery and repatriation
- Some members of Red Rock Indian Band and chief at odds over council vote
- Nipigon lithium miner chooses Red Rock for a refinery site
- Crown made a 'mockery' of 2 treaties with First Nations for 150 years, Supreme Court rules
- Eden Prairie's ancient Red Rock returned to Dakota hands
- Lawyers say First Nations could get up to $126B after Supreme Court rules Crown breached treaty
- Kaw Nation reclaims prayer rock exhibited for nearly 100 years in honor of white settlers
- Helping build more homes, faster in Northern Indigenous Ontario
- Rock Tech selects Red Rock as the location for Ontario's First Lithium Refinery and secures CAD 5.5mn project investment from the BMI Group
- Chief condemns “lack of expertise” at Parks Canada construction site after human remains discovered
- Red Rock Indian Band Faces Leadership Dispute: Calls for Chief’s Removal Stir Community
- 'Times are changing' as Red Rock preps for lithium refinery
- Congratulations to John Carlson, winner of the Governor General’s Gold Medal
- Court orders settlement talks in First Nations lawsuit
- 2024–25 Indigenous Transportation Initiatives Fund
- Religious gatekeeping in red-rock country
- Navajo Nation Council Passes Resolution Supporting America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act!
- Red Rock School students engage in special cultural Indigenous activity
- Red Rock Indian Band holds annual powwow
- After Years Of Debate, Australia's Iconic Red Rock Will Be Off-Limits To Climbers
- Native Americans Keep Pipe-Making Tradition Alive
- Rock Tech and The BMI Group-Red Rock Indian Band Partner to Analyse Next Steps for Lithium Processing Site
- Documentary filmmakers bring change to environmental issues
- First Nations to get $15M from Housing Accelerator Fund
- Crown made a ‘mockery’ of 2 treaties with First Nations: Supreme Court
- Vincent Randall, a teacher, Apache scholar and former Yavapai-Apache Nation Tribal Council chairman has died
- Ontario Partnering with Indigenous Communities to Advance Economic Development
- Opinion: Supreme Court gives government a spanking for failing to uphold Indigenous treaty rights
- Rock Tech & BMI Group Red Rock join to process lithium
- New memoir ‘Red Paint’ draws inspiration from punk rock and Indigenous ancestry
- Examining the origins of Sedona's 'sacred' land
- 'Guardians Of The Grand Canyon': The Havasupai Tribe's Long Connection To The Canyon's Red Rocks | Here & Now
- Race and power collide in a fight over sacred rock art in remote Australia
- Red Rock Indian Band continues to work on food sovereignty with opening of its own butcher shop
- Red Rock Indian Band’s Lana Ray begins new role as Lakehead University’s inaugural Indigenous research chair in Decolonial Futures – Anishinabek News
- Red Rock Indian Band’s clean energy program featured at virtual gathering
- Red Rock Indian Band hosts the 2022 Anishinabek Nation Grand Council Assembly
- Nipigon-area lithium miner sees Red Rock for potential refinery
- Religious gatekeeping in Arizona's red-rock country
- All-Indian fastpitch softball tournaments to proceed
- The Butcher Shop project bringing food security and a return to traditional diets at the Red Rock Indian Band
- Red Rock Indian Band’s Sara Kae (Kanutski) performs with the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra
- A beautiful partnership helps develop the logistics of the Ring of Fire: A First Nations heavy-cargo port in northern Ontario
- The Crown promised riches to First Nations in Canada – over 150 years on, they could finally get billions
- Ancient Indigenous people made durable rock paint from lake goo
- Native American Heritage Month honored at national monuments
- Superior-Greenstone board renews commitment to Indigenous education
- Red Rock Indian Band exploring wild rice enterprise
- Datebook: December 2022
- First Nations heavy-cargo port partnership in Northern Ontario.
- Remote First Nation a finalist for national community of the year award
- Remembering Indigenous veterans
- Alice Springs addiction program sees engagement quadruple after introducing Aboriginal leadership
- Northwest First Nations protest provincial caribou strategy
- No, it’s not just a big red rock – meet the Uluru family
- Settlement of annuities case would mean 'the good life,' First Nations leader says
- Three First Nations sign joint agreement with Indigenous-owned mining company
- What is the significance of the Jeffers Petroglyphs in southwestern Minnesota?
- First Nations join Nipigon River alternate crossing study
- Mining company collaborates with Thunder Bay-area First Nations
- Doc and talk will focus on saving sacred lands
- Indigenous veteran reflects on time spent in the Canadian Forces
- Revamped Chalet Lodge to open to public Thursday
- Northern Ontario artist headed to Indigenous Fashion Week
- Indigenous Leaders: The Warrior spirit fuels Jason Thompson
- Indigenous virtual reality company looking for knowledge keepers, storytellers, artists to promote culture
- Anishinabek Employment service continuing to fill training gap
- First Nation woman wins trapline licence because of ancestral connection
- WA Museum buys majority of incredibly significant Indigenous art collection, Red Rock
- Red Rock band's Ed Wawia heralded as national forestry champion
- At an Indigenous-owned Thunder Bay factory, a glimpse of what economic reconciliation looks like
- Reconciliation’s reckoning: For Indigenous people in Northern Ontario, election season brings disenchantment and defiance
- Red Rock Indian Band musical artist releases new single
- Red Rock Indian Band and chief at odds over council vote
- Supreme Court tells governments to pay for ‘empty shell’ treaty promises
- Missing and murdered women remembered in Williams Lake
- Indigenous Leaders: The Warrior spirit fuels Jason Thompson
- Red Rock Indian Band members receiving land claim funds
- Discussing the impact of Indigenous business in Thunder Bay
- Northern Ont. First Nation protests after ancestral remains found during excavation
- After nearly a century, Lawrence is returning a sacred boulder to the Kaw Nation
- Sacred Red Rock returned to Kaw Nation as leaders gather to mark the moment
- Talks on how many billions in annuities Canada, Ontario owe Robinson Superior First Nations begin this week
- Gov. Kelly calls return of red prayer rock ‘a significant step forward’
- A clean energy proposal near a sacred Indigenous site divides a Minnesota community
- All about a bush-whacking, canoe-dragging, fifth-time's-a-charm back waterway journey
- Thunder Bay police leadership will be entirely Indigenous following recent appointments
- Red Rock Indian Band plans peaceful protest in fight to return ancestors home
- Red Rock Indian Band elects new chief
- The Peoples' Crossing
- Sports Series: Indigenous curler continues adding to his impressive resume
- Pilbara Indigenous company Red Rock Services creates solar amenity block
- Activist Russell Means speaks
- Secret gorge in WA's Pilbara unveiled by Indigenous tour guide
- Red Rock Indian Band trapper imparts teachings at Lakehead University trapping session
- Lake Superior port being developed as link to Ring of Fire
- Red Rock Drums walk us through design process for their bespoke pieces
- Red Rock Indian Band artist performs at Thunder Bay Art Gallery’s newest exhibition opening
- All about a bush-whacking, canoe-dragging, fifth-time's-a-charm back waterway journey
- Indigenous owned and operated project management consulting company expands services during pandemic
- Friday essay: lessons from stone – Indigenous thinking and the Law
- ‘Repeated indignities’: First Nation shuts down highway following discovery of early 15th century human remains
- Off-reserve Red Rock members get settlement-cheque relief
- Red Rock Indian Band musician to release new single this summer
- L.A. Indigenous Peoples Day announces Taboo, MC Gene Brave Rock, Tribe Called Red
- Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation hires Amber-Dawn Boudreau
- Red Rock Indian Band set to protest nuclear waste storage
- Final arguments begin in a lawsuit that could award Ontario Indigenous groups billions
- Robinson Superior Treaty annuities case heads back to court after settlement talks fail
- Nipigon-area lithium miner sees Red Rock for potential refinery
- Rally at Frontier High School after Indigenous student's hair cut
- Red Rock Indian Band Chief to appeal vote after emergency meeting
- Red Rock Indian Band PhD student awarded prestigious scholarship
- Rock Tech gives the lowdown on lithium refining
- Rock Tech gives the lowdown on lithium refining
- Red Rock Indian Band honours spirit walkers
- Indigenous Peoples from around the globe come together at Lakehead University campus
- 7 Slow-Paced Towns To Visit In New Mexico
- Verde Valley Archaeology Center hosts film festival
- 15 Fun Facts About Red Rocks That May Surprise You
- Court Says BLM Must Survey Utah’s Red Rock Country for Cultural Artifacts
- Your guide to the great Indigenous Red Centre art trail
- 3 Places Where Your Tourism Dollars Support Indigenous People
- Red Rock First Nation artist recognized with award
- New signs about Indigenous history installed in downtown Lawrence park where Kaw prayer rock once stood
- How the Wake the Giant Music Festival welcomes Indigenous high school students to Thunder Bay
- First Nations protest ‘morbid’ situation in Nipigon
- Indigenous Travel | Destinations | Open Road
- Innovative Indigenous business strives to alter the fabric of recycling in northern communities
- Project leads discuss clean energy projects in their Indigenous communities
- Rock Tech and The BMI Group-Red Rock Indian Band Partner to Analyse Next Steps for Lithium Processing Site
- Robinson Superior Treaty Settlement was doomed to fail, suggests Gull Bay chief
- Top Five Activists Making Redrock History
- Business strives to alter fabric of recycling in northern communities
- An Activist Stands Accused of Firing a Gun at Standing Rock. It Belonged to Her Lover — an FBI Informant.
- This Thunder Bay-based organization is getting funding to help more women become entrepreneurs
- Readers Write: Red Rock Ridge, Ilhan Omar, UnitedHealthcare coverage, Walker Arts Center
- Student-led pow wow brings together local community
Academic Research
Academic Research
- The Red Day Star, The Women's Star and Venus: D (L/N) akota, Ojibwe and Other Indigenous Star Knowledge
- Red medicine: Traditional Indigenous rites of birthing and healing
- Ecological relations and Indigenous food sovereignty in Standing Rock
- A (Mexican) Native American Rock Band: Redbone, Racial Legibility, and Native-Chicanx Intimacy
- Sacred Red Rock
- Race, Culture, and Resistance at Standing Rock: an Analysis of Racialized Dispossession and Indigenous Resistance
- Standing rock and the Indigenous commons
- 14: A CIRCLE OF ROCKS
- A place to be Navajo: Rough Rock and the struggle for self-determination in indigenous schooling
- From settler colonialism to Standing Rock*: Hearing native voices for peace
- 14: A CIRCLE OF ROCKS
- From Idle No More to Standing Rock The Fight for Indigenous Environmental Justice
- Red medicine: Traditional Indigenous rites of birthing and healing
- From Idle No More to Standing Rock
- 14: A CIRCLE OF ROCKS
- Red medicine: Traditional Indigenous rites of birthing and healing
- 14: A CIRCLE OF ROCKS
- Red medicine: Traditional Indigenous rites of birthing and healing
- 14: A CIRCLE OF ROCKS
- From Idle No More to Standing Rock The Fight for Indigenous Environmental Justice
- Red medicine: Traditional Indigenous rites of birthing and healing
- From Idle No More to Standing Rock
- 14: A CIRCLE OF ROCKS
- Beneath the Shadow of the Red Rock: A Novel With a Critical Introduction and an Afterword
- 14: A CIRCLE OF ROCKS
- From Idle No More to Standing Rock The Fight for Indigenous Environmental Justice
- From Idle No More to Standing Rock
- Red medicine: Traditional Indigenous rites of birthing and healing
- From Idle No More to Standing Rock The Fight for Indigenous Environmental Justice
- From Idle No More to Standing Rock
- Red medicine: Traditional Indigenous rites of birthing and healing
- 14: A CIRCLE OF ROCKS
- From Idle No More to Standing Rock The Fight for Indigenous Environmental Justice
- From Idle No More to Standing Rock
- Red medicine: Traditional Indigenous rites of birthing and healing
- 14: A CIRCLE OF ROCKS
- 14: A CIRCLE OF ROCKS
- From Idle No More to Standing Rock The Fight for Indigenous Environmental Justice
- From Idle No More to Standing Rock The Fight for Indigenous Environmental Justice
- From Idle No More to Standing Rock
- From Idle No More to Standing Rock
- Red medicine: Traditional Indigenous rites of birthing and healing
- Red medicine: Traditional Indigenous rites of birthing and healing
- 14: A CIRCLE OF ROCKS
- From Idle No More to Standing Rock The Fight for Indigenous Environmental Justice
- From Idle No More to Standing Rock
- Red medicine: Traditional Indigenous rites of birthing and healing
- 'Indians of All Tribes': The Birth of Red Power
- 14: A CIRCLE OF ROCKS
- From Idle No More to Standing Rock The Fight for Indigenous Environmental Justice
- From Idle No More to Standing Rock
- Red medicine: Traditional Indigenous rites of birthing and healing
- 14: A CIRCLE OF ROCKS
- From Idle No More to Standing Rock The Fight for Indigenous Environmental Justice
- From Idle No More to Standing Rock
- Red medicine: Traditional Indigenous rites of birthing and healing
- 14: A CIRCLE OF ROCKS
- From Idle No More to Standing Rock The Fight for Indigenous Environmental Justice
- From Idle No More to Standing Rock
- Red medicine: Traditional Indigenous rites of birthing and healing
- 14: A CIRCLE OF ROCKS
- From Idle No More to Standing Rock The Fight for Indigenous Environmental Justice
- From Idle No More to Standing Rock
- Red medicine: Traditional Indigenous rites of birthing and healing
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