mə-ˈtaɪ.əs kə-ˈlɒm | Mathias Colomb First Nation
Community Profile
- Mathias Colomb First Nation is a Cree community located in northern Manitoba, with a rich history of traditional land use and cultural preservation.
- Last Updated 2025-04-23 20:22:23 UTC
- Name: Mathias Colomb (ISC Code: 311)
- Former Names: Pukatawagan Band
- Band Style: Cree First Nation
- Cultural Area: Boreal Forest, Northern Manitoba
- Indigenous Language: Cree (Nehiyawewin)
- Number of Registered Members: 4035
Governance
Band Council
- GOVERNANCE TYPE: Not Applicable
- TERM EXPIRES: 10/28/2026
- CHIEF: GORDIE BEAR
- NUMBER OF COUNCIL MEMBERS:16
- GORDIE BEAR
- DAVID HART
- SHIRLEY CASTEL
- ALMA HART
- LORNA BIGHETTY
- TRAVIS DUMAS
- SELENA CASTEL
- STEVEN (MOOSHUM) CASTEL
- WANDA BIGHETTY
- STEVEN "MUSHROOM" CASTEL
- ARLENE CARIBOU
- BRENDA DUMAS
- CHERYLL "CONNIE" CONSTANT
- GORDIE BEAR
- MOSES CASTEL
- KELLY LINKLATER
Contact Information
- BAND WEBSITE: /nations/264-mathias-colomb
- PHONE NUMBER: (204) 553-2090
- FAX NUMBER: (204) 553-2419
- ADDRESS: PO BOX 135, PUKATAWAGAN, MB
- EMAILS:
- Chief GORDIE BEAR:
- Councillor DAVID HART:
- Councillor SHIRLEY CASTEL:
- Councillor ALMA HART:
- Councillor LORNA BIGHETTY:
- Councillor TRAVIS DUMAS:
- Councillor SELENA CASTEL:
- Councillor STEVEN (MOOSHUM) CASTEL:
- Councillor WANDA BIGHETTY:
- Councillor STEVEN "MUSHROOM" CASTEL:
- Councillor ARLENE CARIBOU:
- Councillor BRENDA DUMAS:
- Councillor CHERYLL "CONNIE" CONSTANT:
- Councillor GORDIE BEAR:
- Councillor MOSES CASTEL:
- Councillor KELLY LINKLATER:
- 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 - Mathias Colomb20122013.pdf
- 2011 - Mathias Colomb20112012.pdf
- 2010 - Mathias Colomb20102011.pdf
- 2009 - Mathias Colomb20092010.pdf
- 2008 - Mathias Colomb20082009.pdf
- 2007 - Mathias Colomb20072008.pdf
- 2006 - Mathias Colomb20062007.pdf
- 2005 - Mathias Colomb20052006.pdf
- 2004 - Mathias Colomb20042005.pdf
- 2003 - Mathias Colomb20032004.pdf
- 2002 - Mathias Colomb20022003.pdf
- 2001 - Mathias Colomb20012002.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
-
ISC Code: 6455
HIGHROCK 199
7878.6 Hectares
192 KM W/O OF/DE THOMPSON
[nil, nil] -
ISC Code: 9882
NIHKIK OHNIKAPIHS
367.0 Hectares
[nil, nil] -
ISC Code: 9880
MOOSOWHAPIHSK SAKAHEGAN
806.0 Hectares
[nil, nil] -
ISC Code: 9878
MISTIATEGAMEEK SIPI
732.0 Hectares
[nil, nil] -
ISC Code: 9875
SISIPUK SAKAHEGAN (A)
2090.0 Hectares
[nil, nil] -
ISC Code: 9876
SISIPUK SAKAHEGAN (B)
2.9 Hectares
[nil, nil] -
ISC Code: 9879
OHPAHAHPISKOW SAKAHEGAN
1462.0 Hectares
[nil, nil] -
ISC Code: 9877
SISIPUK SAKAHEGAN (C)
4.2 Hectares
[nil, nil] -
ISC Code: 9851
WEPUSKOW OHNIKAHP
31034.6 Hectares
[nil, nil] -
ISC Code: 9852
NAPAHKAPIHSKOW SAKHAHIGAN
1829.0 Hectares
[nil, nil] -
ISC Code: 9911
PACHAPESIHK WASAHOW
29218.0 Hectares
[nil, nil] -
ISC Code: 10038
KING FISHER BAY INDIAN RESERVE
595.0 Hectares
[-25.3925126, 153.0304038] -
ISC Code: 10158
KISSISSING LAKE
538.9 Hectares
[55.20183189999999, -101.5245965] -
ISC Code: 9853
KIMOSOMINAHK
553.0 Hectares
[nil, nil] -
ISC Code: 9881
KAMIHKOWAPIHSKAK PAWISTIK
1725.0 Hectares
[30.375321, 69.34511599999999] -
ISC Code: 6456
PUKATAWAGAN 198
1536.6 Hectares
ON E SHORE OF PUKATAWAGAN LAKE, 26 MI E OF THE SASK BOUNDARY TWP 78 RANGE 25 WPM
[55.7419161, -101.3173243] -
ISC Code: 6457
GRANVILLE LAKE INDIAN SETTLEMENT
0.0 Hectares
[56.231111, -100.568611]
- Traditional lands span northern Manitoba boreal forest region
- Historically occupied territories around Pukatawagan
- Hunting, fishing, and trapping territories along Churchill River watershed
- Significant cultural sites include ancestral gathering grounds and traditional hunting areas
Consultations and Referrals
Band Submissions
Consultation Reports
Band Business Interests
Band Owned Corporations
Court Records
Downloadable Court Decisions
- Mathias Colomb Cree Nation v. Saskatchewan Power Corporation et al
- Repap Manitoba Inc. v. Mathias Colomb Indian Band et al.
- Repap Manitoba Inc. v. Mathias Colomb Indian Band et al.
- Mathias Colomb Cree Nation et al v. Saskatchewan Power Corporation et al
- Saskatchewan Power Corporation v. Bighetty
- Mathias Colomb Band of Indians v. Saskatchewan Power Corp.
Active Court Cases
Media Reports
Media Reports
- Reserves in Manitoba
- Northern Manitoba community evacuated 20 years ago now fighting for First Nation status
- Mathias Colomb Cree Nation Executes Moratorium and Delivers Eviction Order to Hudbay Minerals and the Province of Manitoba
- Northern First Nations sue province over waterways
- Manitoba’s first Champion Child from remote First Nations community named
- ‘I’m forever getting sick’: Two mothers in Mathias Colomb worry about their new homes
- CLAYTON THOMAS-MÜLLER on Disrupting Planetary Destruction /58
- Mathias Colomb Cree Nation issues second stop work order to Hudbay
- Indigenous ownership group to buy Grace Lake Airport in The Pas
- Mathias Colomb Cree Nation in Manitoba getting help from military, organizations, to manage COVID-19 outbreak
- First Nation students sickened, forced from school due to ‘mould crisis’
- Manitoba Hydro dams caused decades of harm to Mathias Colomb Cree Nation, lawsuit alleges
- Jun 2023: Poverty-stricken Manitoba First Nation strikes gold
- Red Cross evacuation of northern Manitoba First Nation continues
- Mathias Colomb First Nation winter games push COVID-19 aside to carry on in a different way
- Clayton Thomas-Müller reflects on the spirituality, healing and hope in Life in the City of Dirty Water
- First Nation school reopens after mould removed, educational consultant fired
- Cockroaches, mould discovered in Winnipeg hotel rooms housing Mathias Colomb Cree Nation wildfire evacuees
- Chief rejects fishing lodge owner's apology over racist brochure
- 'A human rights issue that has been overlooked': Winnipeggers mark World Water Day
- Plan for satellite internet in Manitoba First Nations may not benefit everyone, chief says
- AMC Expresses Concerns Over Escalating Health Conditions for First Nations Experiencing Long Term Boil Water Advisories.
- Manitobans mark Louis Riel Day with family, celebrating music, traditions
- The problem with Gord Downie's Order of Canada
- Manitoba First Nation under 6-year boil water advisory taking feds to court over funding for treatment plant
- Clayton Thomas-Müller
- Mercenary colonialism: Third-party management
- In ‘Life in the City of Dirty Water,’ a Cree Man Finds His Way Home
- ‘Our people are sick’: AFN says mould in First Nation communities must be addressed immediately
- Sky’s not the limit for first female Indigenous Medivac crew
- Hudbay granted court injunction against Chief Arlen Dumas and Pam Palmater
- Unresolved: Nancy Dumas
- 'We weren't heard:' Northern Manitoba mom claims health-care negligence after daughter’s near-death experience
- Manitoba First Nation suing for $800M over flooding caused by SaskPower dam
- Man from Mathias Colomb Cree Nation stays behind to care for animals during wildfire evacuation
- Mould keeps hundreds of students away from northern Manitoba school for 2 months
- Military, Red Cross on the way to help Mathias Colomb Cree Nation's COVID-19 outbreak
- Lack of control over land leaves Indigenous communities exposed to pollution, says activist
- Manitoba parents believe mould poisoned their dying son; doctor says it's more complicated
- A Cree environmental activist talks climate solutions
- 'Virtually everyone out' as wildfire nears Mathias Colomb Cree Nation
- Federal COVID-19 supply council member quits over links to company that landed Indigenous Services contract
- Calls for change to Winnipeg's treaty annuity payment event after feds underestimate attendance
- Young drummers to trade plastic bin for real drum after outpouring of support
- Clayton Thomas-Müller
- Most Mathias Colomb Cree Nation residents have fled wildfire near community
- Pukatawagan residents celebrate opening of First Nation's new community-owned grocery store
- Woman says Winnipeg taxi driver's demand for deposit mid-ride made her feel unsafe
- 4 documentaries about Cree life in Canada
- Man's death at Pukatawagan nursing station, 3 days after calling for help, sparks federal review
- Mathias Colomb Cree Nation welcomes boxing and survival training
- Mathias Colomb Cree Nation welcomes boxing and survival training
- Cree puppeteers from Pukatawagan on mission of laughter and language
- Neighbours battle for a tiny railway that has become a lifeline in northern Manitoba
- APTN clears Indigenous aviation docuseries for takeoff
- Northern Manitoba community under evacuation order due to fire
- Feb 2016: Gov't doesn't know how many First Nations homes have been built through its funding programs
- Manitoba First Nation proposal to repurpose youth centre as field hospital passed over for temporary shelters
- Wildfire Pushes 2,000 to Evacuate from Manitoba’s Mathias Colomb Cree Nation
- This year’s Champion Child is first from a remote First Nation in Canada
- Hudbay Minerals denounced for criminalizing land defenders, infringing on indigenous rights around the world
Academic Research
Academic Research
- Strengthening Indigenous midwifery and intercultural health care: A collaboration between Guatemalan and Canadian Aboriginal health organizations: Final …
- How does newspaper coverage of collective action vary?: Protest by indigenous people in Canada
- A new definition of health? An open letter of autochthonous peoples and medical anthropologists to the WHO
- K “ADOPTED RESOLUTIONS
- Decolonize Wall Street! Situating Indigenous Critiques of the Occupy Wall Street Movement
- Appendix 1. Communities and Relevant Interests in the Northern NCRB
- The significance of creating First Nation traditional names maps
- 'Ready to Step Up and Hold the Front Line': Transitioning from Sport History to Indigenous Studies, and Back Again
- Strengthening indigenous and intercultural midwifery: evaluation of a collaboration between Guatemalan and Canadian aboriginal organizations.
- The radical politics of Indigenous resistance and survival 1
- An Indigenous Warrior Code of Honour
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