Wun-nu-min | Wunnumin First Nation
Community Profile
- Wunnumin First Nation is an Oji-Cree community situated in northwestern Ontario, with a traditional lifestyle closely connected to the boreal forest and lake environments
- Last Updated 2025-05-06 10:54:11 UTC
- Name: Wunnumin (ISC Code: 217)
- Former Names: Wunnumin Lake Band
- Band Style: First Nation
- Cultural Area: Boreal Forest/Northwestern Ontario
- Indigenous Language: Oji-Cree
- Number of Registered Members: 715
Governance
Band Council
- GOVERNANCE TYPE: Not Applicable
- TERM EXPIRES: 09/18/2026
- CHIEF: SAMUEL MAMAKWA
- NUMBER OF COUNCIL MEMBERS:12
- GLEN (ARCHIE) WABASSE
- SAMUEL MAMAKWA
- RANDY JACK MCKAY
- VIVIAN IRIS CARMELITA WASWA
- CURTIS CORY MARTIN
- STANLEY (GORDON) MAKOOP
- CURTIS CORY NORMAN MARTIN
- LAWRENCE GLIDDY
- IRWIN JOHN MCKAY
- DEAN EDWARD CROMARTY
- CLARENCE RUSSELL ANDERSON
- SHEILA ANGEES
Contact Information
- BAND WEBSITE: http://www.wunnumin.ca/
- PHONE NUMBER: (807) 442-2559
- FAX NUMBER: (807) 442-2627
- ADDRESS: PO BOX 105, WUNNUMIN LAKE, ON
- EMAILS:
- Chief GLEN (ARCHIE) WABASSE:
- Chief SAMUEL MAMAKWA:
- Councillor RANDY JACK MCKAY:
- Councillor VIVIAN IRIS CARMELITA WASWA:
- Councillor CURTIS CORY MARTIN:
- Councillor STANLEY (GORDON) MAKOOP:
- Councillor CURTIS CORY NORMAN MARTIN:
- Councillor LAWRENCE GLIDDY:
- Councillor IRWIN JOHN MCKAY:
- Deputy Chief DEAN EDWARD CROMARTY:
- Deputy Chief CLARENCE RUSSELL ANDERSON:
- Head Councillor SHEILA ANGEES:
- 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 - Wunnumin20122013.pdf
- 2011 - Wunnumin20112012.pdf
- 2010 - Wunnumin20102011.pdf
- 2009 - Wunnumin20092010.pdf
- 2008 - Wunnumin20082009.pdf
- 2007 - Wunnumin20072008.pdf
- 2006 - Wunnumin20062007.pdf
- 2005 - Wunnumin20052006.pdf
- 2004 - Wunnumin20042005.pdf
- 2003 - Wunnumin20032004.pdf
- 2002 - Wunnumin20022003.pdf
- 2001 - Wunnumin20012002.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: 6333
WUNNUMIN 1
5855.1 Hectares
ON/SUR SOUTH SHORE/RIVE SUD OF/DE WUNNUMIN LAKE
[52.9329843, -89.298434] -
ISC Code: 6334
WUNNUMIN 2
3794.4 Hectares
PART 1 LOCATION CL 1725 CLSR 59542
[52.8601536, -89.1181872]
- Encompasses areas around Wunnumin Lake and surrounding boreal forest regions
- Historically used lands for hunting, fishing, and trapping
- Traditional territories span parts of northwestern Ontario’s remote wilderness
Consultations and Referrals
Band Submissions
Consultation Reports
Band Business Interests
Band Owned Corporations
Court Records
Downloadable Court Decisions
Active Court Cases
Media Reports
Media Reports
- Wunnumin Lake First Nation celebrates connection to provincial power grid
- Indigenous Services Canada providing mental health support to Wunnumin Lake
- First Nations to get $15M from Housing Accelerator Fund
- Inside the impossible work of Canada’s biggest Indigenous police force
- First Nation in northwestern Ontario celebrates new school and Oji-Cree immersion program
- Aboriginal pilots join Wasaya Airways in northern Ontario
- Wunnumin First Nation Calls on Canada to Ensure Community Members Receive Individual Compensation Under Class Action Settlement
- First Nation celebrates ‘milestone’ electric connection
- Funding provided for Wunnumin Lake First Nation health centre
- Remote Ontario First Nation connected to power grid via Wataynikaneyap Power project
- First Nations ownership group acquires a new partner
- Wunnumin Lake leaders call for assistance following tragedies in remote community, NAN Grand Chief and Kiiwetinoong MPP support plea for assistance
- Oji-Cree First Nation frustrated as majority of community members ineligible for drinking-water settlement
- Ontario’s largest Indigenous-led energy project complete
- Ontario’s largest Indigenous-led energy project complete
- Indigenous graduates set to take part in special convocation traditions
- Indigenous graduates set to take part in special convocation traditions
- Improvements coming to Wunnumin Lake First Nation health centre
- Improvements coming to Wunnumin Lake First Nation health centre
- Deaths in Thunder Bay, Ont., prompt First Nation to pursue new high school
- Deaths in Thunder Bay, Ont., prompt First Nation to pursue new high school
- Ontario chiefs vote for settlement agreement
- Fire leaves 2 children, 1 woman dead in northern Ontario First Nations reserve
- Indigenous Leaders: Mission accomplished, Watay Power declares on northwestern Ont. power line project
- Wunnumin Lake Seeks Help to Deal with Mental Health Crisis in Community
- Milestone revenue marks inequitable impact for First Nations communities
- Leaders plea for help after series of fatal incidents on Wunnumin Lake First Nation
Academic Research
Academic Research
- Bringing home Payahtakenemowin (Peace of Mind): Creating self-governing community services
- “Blue-ice”: framing climate change and reframing climate change adaptation from the indigenous peoples' perspective in the northern boreal forest of Ontario, Canada
- A land not forgotten: Indigenous food security and land-based practices in Northern Ontario
- Aboriginal Ontario: Historical perspectives on the first nations
- Local Control of First Nations Education: The Event and the Process.
- Can selling traditional food increase food sovereignty for First Nations in northwestern Ontario (Canada)?
- Mining, the environment, and indigenous development conflicts
- Filter to Retrieve Articles Related to Indigenous Peoples of Ontario from the Ovid MEDLINE Database
- Resource Revenue Allocation Strategies and Indigenous Communit y Sustainable Development
- Krystyna Z. Sieciechowicz (1948–2012)
- Mining, the environment, and indigenous development conflicts
- Aboriginal Ontario: Historical perspectives on the first nations
- A land not forgotten: Indigenous food security and land-based practices in Northern Ontario
- Mining, the environment, and indigenous development conflicts
- A land not forgotten: Indigenous food security and land-based practices in Northern Ontario
- Aboriginal Ontario: Historical perspectives on the first nations
- Mining, the environment, and indigenous development conflicts
- A land not forgotten: Indigenous food security and land-based practices in Northern Ontario
- Aboriginal Ontario: Historical perspectives on the first nations
- Bringing home Payahtakenemowin (Peace of Mind): Creating self-governing community services
- Mining, the environment, and indigenous development conflicts
- A land not forgotten: Indigenous food security and land-based practices in Northern Ontario
- Aboriginal Ontario: Historical perspectives on the first nations
- Mining, the environment, and indigenous development conflicts
- A land not forgotten: Indigenous food security and land-based practices in Northern Ontario
- Aboriginal Ontario: Historical perspectives on the first nations
- Mining, the environment, and indigenous development conflicts
- A land not forgotten: Indigenous food security and land-based practices in Northern Ontario
- Aboriginal Ontario: Historical perspectives on the first nations
- Mining, the environment, and indigenous development conflicts
- A land not forgotten: Indigenous food security and land-based practices in Northern Ontario
- Aboriginal Ontario: Historical perspectives on the first nations
- Mining, the environment, and indigenous development conflicts
- A land not forgotten: Indigenous food security and land-based practices in Northern Ontario
- On the path to reclaiming Indigenous midwifery: Co‐creating the Maternal Infant Support Worker pilot program
- Aboriginal Ontario: Historical perspectives on the first nations
- Mining, the environment, and indigenous development conflicts
- A land not forgotten: Indigenous food security and land-based practices in Northern Ontario
- A land not forgotten: Indigenous food security and land-based practices in Northern Ontario
- Aboriginal Ontario: Historical perspectives on the first nations
- Aboriginal Ontario: Historical perspectives on the first nations
- Mining, the environment, and indigenous development conflicts
- A land not forgotten: Indigenous food security and land-based practices in Northern Ontario
- Aboriginal Ontario: Historical perspectives on the first nations
- Mining, the environment, and indigenous development conflicts
- A land not forgotten: Indigenous food security and land-based practices in Northern Ontario
- Aboriginal Ontario: Historical perspectives on the first nations
- Mining, the environment, and indigenous development conflicts
- A land not forgotten: Indigenous food security and land-based practices in Northern Ontario
- Aboriginal Ontario: Historical perspectives on the first nations
- Mining, the environment, and indigenous development conflicts
- A land not forgotten: Indigenous food security and land-based practices in Northern Ontario
- Aboriginal Ontario: Historical perspectives on the first nations
- Mining, the environment, and indigenous development conflicts
- A land not forgotten: Indigenous food security and land-based practices in Northern Ontario
- Aboriginal Ontario: Historical perspectives on the first nations
- Mining, the environment, and indigenous development conflicts
- A land not forgotten: Indigenous food security and land-based practices in Northern Ontario
- Aboriginal Ontario: Historical perspectives on the first nations
- Mining, the environment, and indigenous development conflicts
- A land not forgotten: Indigenous food security and land-based practices in Northern Ontario
- Aboriginal Ontario: Historical perspectives on the first nations
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