Band Council

• GOVERNANCE TYPE: Not Applicable
• TERM EXPIRES: 01/17/2027
• CHIEF: SHIRLEY LYNNE KEEPER
• NUMBER OF COUNCIL MEMBERS:21
• PADDY PETERS
• SHIRLEY LYNNE KEEPER
• KEN BERRY OWEN
• STEVEN STRANG
• RICHARD KEEPER
• JIM MATHEW STRANG
• MARVIN LEROY MOOSE
• JEFFREY DICKSON STRANG
• LILLY ANN KEJICK
• DEEDRE PETERS
• JIM STRANG
• GABRIEL MOOSE
• NORMAN JR. TURTLE
• LILLY ANN BEKINTIS
• DEEDRE JUDITH PETERS
• LILLYANN BEKINTIS
• JEFFREY STRANG
• BERRY OWEN
• SALADIUS TURTLE
• JONAH STRANG
• CORRY TURTLE

Contact Information

• BAND WEBSITE: http://www.ifna.ca/pikangikum.html
• PHONE NUMBER: (807) 773-5578
• FAX NUMBER: (807) 773-5536
• ADDRESS: PO BOX 323, PIKANGIKUM, ON
• EMAILS:
• Chief PADDY PETERS:
• Chief SHIRLEY LYNNE KEEPER:
• Councillor KEN BERRY OWEN:
• Councillor STEVEN STRANG:
• Councillor RICHARD KEEPER:
• Councillor JIM MATHEW STRANG:
• Councillor MARVIN LEROY MOOSE:
• Councillor JEFFREY DICKSON STRANG:
• Councillor LILLY ANN KEJICK:
• Councillor DEEDRE PETERS:
• Councillor JIM STRANG:
• Councillor GABRIEL MOOSE:
• Councillor NORMAN JR. TURTLE:
• Councillor LILLY ANN BEKINTIS:
• Councillor DEEDRE JUDITH PETERS:
• Councillor LILLYANN BEKINTIS:
• Councillor JEFFREY STRANG:
• Councillor BERRY OWEN:
• Councillor SALADIUS TURTLE:
• Deputy Chief JONAH STRANG:
• Deputy Chief CORRY TURTLE:
• 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 - Pikangikum20122013.pdf
• 2011 - Pikangikum20112012.pdf
• 2010 - Pikangikum20102011.pdf
• 2009 - Pikangikum20092010.pdf
• 2008 - Pikangikum20082009.pdf
• 2006 - Pikangikum20062007.pdf
• 2005 - Pikangikum20052006.pdf
• 2004 - Pikangikum20042005.pdf
• 2003 - Pikangikum20032004.pdf
• 2002 - Pikangikum20022003.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

Band Submissions

Consultation Reports

Band Owned Corporations

Downloadable Court Decisions

• Pikangikum First Nation v. Nault
• Pikangikum v. Nault
• Pikangikum First Nation v. Canada (Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs)
• Pikangikum First Nation v. Robert D. Nault, et al.
• Pikangikum First Nation v. Nault
• Pikangikum First Nation Indian Band v. Nault
• Pikangikum First Nation v. Nault

Active Court Cases

Media Reports

• Northern Ontario Indigenous Communities Weather Outlook: November 25-26, 2024
• Pikangikum bridge and all-weather road to be built
• Ontario, Canada partnering to construct Berens River Bridge for Pikangikum First Nation
• Pikangikum First Nation and Canada celebrate the grand opening of their new Knowledge Keepers Elders' Complex
• ‘Milestone’ bridge announcement made in Pikangikum
• Berens River bridge, road funding will be regional catalyst for northwest First Nations
• 'Gamechanging' agreement for education in Pikangikum
• How SpaceX and FSET Brought Starlink to a First Nations Community
• Nine dead in family house fire at remote Canadian indigenous community
• Children as young as six sniffing gas in Pikangikum
• 27 November 2024: Weather Outlook for Northern Ontario Indigenous Communities
• After 'extraordinary security measures and personnel,' nurses return full time to Pikangikum First Nation
• New school opens in Pikangikum First Nation nearly a decade after old one burned down
• Trudeau becomes first sitting PM to visit northern Ontario reserve
• December 2 2024: Northern Ontario Indigenous Communities Weather Update
• Pikangikum teens share their lives through the lenses of their cameras
• Fig. 1. The Whitefeather Forest: an area of provincial Crown land that...
• See Pikangikum First Nation through this teenage photographer's lens
• Drums and despair: Inside Canada's Pikangikum community
• 3 people confirmed dead in Pikangikum First Nation house fire
• One person dead, two others unaccounted for after house fire in Pikangikum First Nation
• ‘Every community should have one’: newborn baby warmers coming to remote First Nations
• Pikangikum First Nation celebrates its largest-ever graduating class — and it's a big deal
• First Nations replacing dangerous wood stoves to save lives
• Ontario announces new mental health workers for troubled Pikangikum First Nation
• Ruling on intermittent sentencing for remote First Nations members will have widespread implications
• Daytime health services resume in Pikangikum First Nation after nurses leave following OPP expulsion
• 'A race against time': First Nations, towns in northwestern Ontario prepare to evacuate as wildfires approach
• After another fatal fire strikes Pikangikum First Nation, calls continue for preventing future losses
• Opinion | Indigenous communities must have internet access on their terms
• Trucking Right Along: Unique remediation solutions for a remote First Nations community
• ‘Trust has been broken’: Pikangikum First Nation, the OPP, and the future of policing
• Forest fire evacuees head back home to Keewaywin and Pikangikum First Nations in Ontario
• Pikangikum First Nation fire kills 3 children, 6 adults
• How energy poverty devastates Pikangikum First Nation
• Duty to consult extends to administration of justice in First Nations, lawyer says
• Pikangikum First Nation expels provincial police from community
• A year after a tragedy, a First Nations fire chief seeks solutions
• 'At a loss for words': Teenage Pikangikum evacuee Kelsey Strang killed in Cochrane, Indigenous leaders say
• APTN Investigates 10: Local control plus adequate funding equals progress in Pikangikum
• First Nations community receives funding for Native Horizons Treatment Centre
• First Nations-owned company receives 'up to $60M' to connect Pikangikum to Ontario power grid
• Pikangikum First Nation moves to restore Anishinaabe law after landmark court ruling
• Plight of Pikangikum native reserve spurs Toronto relief effort
• Indigenous leaders call for coroner's inquest into First Nations fire deaths
• Wataynikaneyap Power Energizes Remote First Nation Communities
• Evacuation of Pikangikum to continue Friday ahead of forest fire
• Shacks and slop pails: infrastructure crisis on native reserves
• Pikangikum fire highlights dire conditions faced by First Nations, grand chief says
• Gas sniffing and lead poisoning may be causing indigenous suicides across generations: Toronto researchers
• First Nations housing in dire need of overhaul
• Pikangikum expels OPP over misconduct allegations
• Pikangikum First Nation documents decades-long quest for government help
• Provincial police expelled from Pikangikum First Nation
• Ottawa to spend $60M connecting Pikangikum First Nation to power grid
• Unresolved: Judy Ann Quill
• Pikangikum wants restoration of Anishinaabe law, renewal of treaty relationship following ‘landmark’ ruling
• One dead, two unaccounted for after house fire in Pikangikum First Nation
• OPP returns to Pikangikum First Nation after sexual-assault allegations
• Pikangikum Residents Heading Home After Four Week Evacuation
• Sentencing law ignores treaties, violates charter rights of Pikangikum residents says judge
• Trudeau visits First Nation with a housing shortage worse than ever
• 'Racial discrimination' clouded Thunder Bay police investigation into Indigenous woman's death
• Ontario announces new mental health workers for troubled Pikangikum First Nation
• Chief Owen and Pikangikum Band Council expel OPP, Indigenous Services Canada flies out nursing staff nightly
• Canada evacuates by air remote indigenous community due to wildfire
• Indigenous-led projects seek housing solutions
• Figure 1. First Nation communities in the Far North (OMNR, 2011). Map...
• Ont. First Nations school nearly shuttered by mould
• Police help Pikangikum youth build safer community
• Pikangikum is finally on the grid
• Feds announce money for Pikangikum-area bridge project
• Ottawa stopped counting fires on First Nation reserves in 2010
• Prime Minister Trudeau Visits Pikangikum First Nation
• November 20, 2024: Comprehensive Weather Report for Northern Ontario Indigenous Communities
• About 300 residents from Pikangikum First Nation flown to Winnipeg to escape fire
• SpaceX Starlink Boosts Internet Speeds from 60kbps to 130Mbps for Indigenous Community in Canada
• Water crisis in First Nations communities runs deeper than long-term drinking water advisories
• Ontario, Pikangikum First Nation and Canada Partnering to Advance Construction of Berens River Bridge
• Adventist Youth Serve Indigenous Communities in Northern Ontario
• Ontario Partnering with Indigenous Communities to Advance Economic Development
• 2017 North American Indigenous Games ’empower’ athletes from Pikangikum First Nation
• Canadian youth pushed to despair in poverty-stricken indigenous community
• Pikangikum First Nation in mourning after blaze kills 3 children, 6 adults
• First Nation in Ontario expands health services for youth
• First Nations need more than a ‘band-aid solution’
• Pikangikum First Nation and Canada celebrate the grand opening of their new Knowledge Keepers Elders' Complex
• First Nations-owned power company gets $1.34 billion nod to connect remote Nations to the grid
• NAN grand chief responds to court decision ruling law unfair to Indigenous accused persons
• Ontario boosts resources to remote First Nation facing suicide crisis
• 'I always think of him' says friend of First Nations student who died
• Ottawa approves $60-million in funding for electricity in remote Ontario First Nation
• Berens River Bridge, all-season road to be built for Pikangikum First Nation
• How Canada turned a blind eye to the suicide crises in First Nations
• Globe editorial: The unspoken problem in Pikangikum
• Pikangikum First Nation chief and council expel OPP from community
• First Nations ramping up efforts to address food insecurity
• NDP MPPs demand action as COVID seeps into First Nations communities
• Fig.2 Painting by Pikangikum artist Mario Peters (2007) portraying...
• Intermittent sentence law unfair to Indigenous in remote areas: Judge
• When you grow up surrounded by suicide, it seems normal. How do you heal a ‘broken spirit’?
• Data reveals close to 600 suicides in northern Ontario since the mid-1980s
• A decade of despair in the Pikangikum First Nation
• Fig. 3. Pikangikum head trapper Larry Pascal leading research on his...
• Figure 2. Knowledge network of Iskatewizaagegan No. 39 Independent...
• Chief Isadore Day: ’These children didn’t have to die’
• Indigenous Games ’empower’ athletes from Pikangikum First Nation
• Ontario announces new mental health workers for troubled Pikangikum First Nation
• First Nation in northwestern Ont. moves ahead with permanent bridge, all-season road
• Fig. 3 . Following a successful hunt Pikangikum hunters show respect to...
• Keir Johnston
• Fort William First Nation celebrates National Indigenous Peoples Day
• Four suicides in northern Ontario First Nations communities this week: spokesperson
• First Nations housing should be 'front and centre' of national housing strategy, chief says
• OPP return to Pikangikum under new agreement
• PWRDF assists with water supply for First Nations community in Canada
• How Canada turned a blind eye to the suicide crises in First Nations
• How Canada turned a blind eye to the suicide crises in First Nations
• Roughly half of Pikangikum residents now evacuated as forest fire burns
• Roughly half of Pikangikum residents now evacuated as forest fire burns
• Indigenous child poverty: act now or risk another lost generation, study says
• Indigenous child poverty: act now or risk another lost generation, study says
• Nine dead in family house fire at remote Canadian indigenous community
• Pikangikum First Nation refuses to host polling station
• Six Nations donates $1K to Pikangikum, one month after tragic fire
• 'What this community needs': Pikangikum First Nation opens safe house for families in crisis

Academic Research

• Partnerships towards NTFP development: perspectives from Pikangikum First Nation
• Living with boreal forest fires: Anishinaabe perspectives on disturbance and collaborative forestry planning, Pikangikum First Nation, northwestern Ontario
• Boil-water advisories and federal (in) action: The politics of potable water in Pikangikum First Nation
• Indigenous knowledge and values in planning for sustainable forestry: Pikangikum First Nation and the Whitefeather Forest Initiative
• Agency and resilience: teachings of Pikangikum First Nation elders, northwestern Ontario
• Chapter Two Anishinaabe Stewardship Values for Sustainable Forest Management of the Whitefeather Forest, Pikangikum First Nation, Ontario
• Getting to living cultural landscapes of the boreal forest through holistic forest management. The Whitefeather Forest Initiative of Pikangikum First Nation, Northwest …
• Talking about fire: Pikangikum First Nation elders guiding fire management
• Changing the Culture of Forestry in Canada
• Developing and commercializing non-timber forest products: an Anishinaabe perspective from Pikangikum First Nation, Northwestern Ontario
• Chapter Seven Pikangikum Family Hunting Areas and Traplines: Customary Lands and Aboriginal Land Use Planning
• A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single blueberry: Learning journeys of the Whitefeather Forest, Pikangikum First Nation, Ontario