Band Council

• GOVERNANCE TYPE: Not Applicable
• TERM EXPIRES: 03/10/2026
• CHIEF: MARCEL HEAD
• NUMBER OF COUNCIL MEMBERS:5
• MARCEL HEAD
• KEVIN BEAR
• EDGAR COOK
• ERMA MERASTY
• REME WHITECAP

Contact Information

• BAND WEBSITE: http://www.pagc.sk.ca/submenu/bands.asp?ID=10
• PHONE NUMBER: (306) 768-3551
• FAX NUMBER: (306) 768-3486
• ADDRESS: PO BOX 51, PAKWAW, SK
• EMAILS:
• Chief MARCEL HEAD:
• Councillor KEVIN BEAR:
• Councillor EDGAR COOK:
• Councillor ERMA MERASTY:
• Councillor REME WHITECAP:
• 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 - Shoal Lake Cree Nation20122013.pdf
• 2011 - Shoal Lake Cree Nation20112012.pdf
• 2010 - Shoal Lake Cree Nation20102011.pdf
• 2009 - Shoal Lake Cree Nation20092010.pdf
• 2008 - Shoal Lake Cree Nation20082009.pdf
• 2007 - Shoal Lake Cree Nation20072008.pdf
• 2006 - Shoal Lake Cree Nation20062007.pdf
• 2004 - Shoal Lake Cree Nation20042005.pdf
• 2003 - Shoal Lake Cree Nation20032004.pdf
• 2002 - Shoal Lake Cree Nation20022003.pdf
• 2001 - Shoal Lake Cree Nation20012002.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

Active Court Cases

Media Reports

• First Nations to get $15M from Housing Accelerator Fund
• Make it Safe: Canada’s Obligation to End the First Nations Water Crisis
• ‘About damn time’: First Nation gets clean water after 24-year wait
• With Unfit Drinking Water, Indigenous Communities in Canada Bear Hardship (Published 2022)
• ’We’ve been stranded on this man-made island for the past 100 years’
• Health, livelihoods at risk because of wildfires, say chiefs of two Indigenous communities
• Dozens of Canada’s First Nations lack drinking water: ‘Unacceptable in a country so rich’
• Shoal Lake First Nation lifts 24-year boil water advisory, but there’s more to do: experts
• ‘Spirits of our ancestor’: Shoal Lake 40 is rectifying a century of hardships
• Shoal Lake First Nation gets clean water after 24-year wait
• New road links isolated First Nation to mainland for 1st time in 100 years
• After 24 years of water advisories, Shoal Lake 40 First Nation can drink from the tap
• A century of water: As Winnipeg aqueduct turns 100, Shoal Lake finds freedom
• What Freedom Road can teach Ontario about partnering with Indigenous communities
• Woman from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation speaks to UN about human rights
• Shoal Lake 40 First Nation sues Winnipeg, feds over impacts of diverted drinking water
• Campaign to help Shoal Lake 40 First Nation intensifies
• First Nations launch human rights violations museum on CMHR grounds
• Ontario First Nation fights for compensation for Winnipeg taking water from Shoal Lake
• This First Nation has a new highway and a water-treatment plant that's 'like our Stanley Cup'
• Justin Trudeau visiting Shoal Lake 40 for documentary filming
• Road to isolated Shoal Lake First Nation a long-awaited step in tangled history
• Judge dismisses Ontario motion to be removed from Shoal Lake water taking lawsuit
• Tip of the iceberg: The true state of drinking water advisories in First Nations
• Frank Young's family speaks out about 5-year-old's death, how he will be remembered
• 17 years into boil water advisory, Shoal Lake 40 First Nation taking its case to UN
• RCMP confirms death of missing 5-year-old Frank Young
• Shoal Lake First Nation sues for long-promised compensation
• The price of Winnipeg’s water: Man-made misery for a native community
• 'Why has it taken 134 years?': First Nations in Manitoba, Ontario move closer to flood compensation
• Government officials knew $30M Shoal Lake road project could cost $52M when they announced it, documents show
• Shoal Lake 40 First Nation's Freedom Road a path to reconciliation: Chief
• Sask. First Nations evacuate from wildfires for 2nd time this year
• First Nation urges human rights museum to acknowledge 'hypocrisy'
• Red Earth and Shoal Lake Cree Nations remember Frank Young
• Calls for more government support as search for missing boy continues
• ‘An ongoing symbol of colonization’: How bad water affects First Nations’ health
• Sacred fire planned at human rights museum to highlight First Nations water issues
• Northern Manitoba First Nations, leaders raise alarm about lack of fire safety after apartment building burns
• Despite pledge to end drinking water advisories, these 2 Manitoba First Nations still live under them
• First Nation offended by Canadian Museum for Human Rights
• Human rights museum needs to act on First Nations right to water
• Shoal Lake 40 First Nation launching lawsuit against Winnipeg, federal government for harms caused by aqueduct
• Sask. First Nation, RCMP continue search for 5-year-old missing for 64 days
• Troubled waters: Disputes over lakes, waterfronts have roared between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians
• Report: Lifespan of First Nations water infrastructure cut short by underfunding
• Ottawa pressed to make good on promise to end all long-term drinking-water advisories for First Nations
• 10 First Nations with more than 10 years of bad water
• Invasive zebra mussel larva found in lake that supplies Winnipeg drinking water
• Successful play from Curve Lake First Nation playwright adapted into documentary
• First Nation community 2 hours from Toronto still doesn’t have clean, running water
• Shoal Lake and Winnipeg's Drinking Water
• ‘Sad situation’: Shoal Lake Cree Nation chief thanks those who helped search for Frank Young
• 'Our hopes are fading': Search for missing 5-year-old Frank Young enters 3rd week
• Impassable winter roads create 'dire' situation for Ontario First Nations: NAN
• This First Nation was on water advisories for 24 years. Now, its treatment plant has won an award
• Shoal Lake 40 to make clean water case before United Nations
• Shoal Lake No. 40 gets backing from IJC
• After years of hauling water, a Treaty 3 First Nation celebrates lifting of long-term boil water advisory
• First Nations workers in Saskatchewan sacrifice wages, vacation to run underfunded water systems
• City of Winnipeg to begin bridge construction at Shoal Lake 40 First Nation
• First Nation chiefs join together to speak out against Saskatchewan First Act
• ‘They are in distress’: Family of Frank Young emotionally, physically exhausted says chief
• ‘Sad situation’: Shoal Lake Cree Nation chief thanks those who helped search for Frank Young
• Shoal Lake 40 First Nation’s transformational fight for clean water
• Helping build more homes, faster in Northern Indigenous Ontario
• Hundreds of Winnipeg walkers call for clean drinking water on First Nations
• Remote First Nations urgently need all-season road in face of climate change, chiefs say
• New federal water legislation aims to do better on Indigenous rights
• How some First Nations in Ontario's northwest are overcoming the effects of climate change
• Council of Canadians call on federal party leaders to 'end First Nations water crisis'
• Indspire Celebrates Indigenous Excellence With Announcement of 2025 Indspire Awards Recipients
• Colonization is far from over
• Ontario Partnering with Indigenous Communities to Advance Economic Development
• After 24 years of water advisories, Shoal Lake 40 First Nation can drink from the tap
• Voting in a time of pandemic: Why Shoal Lake 39 felt pressed to hold an election
• 2 Indigenous communities under evacuation ask Sask. to do more to combat wildfires
• Justin Trudeau promises road for Shoal Lake 40 First Nation
• Justin Trudeau visits Shoal Lake 40 First Nation
• Shoal Lake 40 First Nation launching lawsuit against Winnipeg, federal government for harms caused by aqueduct
• Canada violates human rights, northern Ontario First Nations tell UN
• Impassable winter roads create 'dire' situation for Ontario First Nations: NAN
• Liberal government lifts sanctions on First Nations funding
• Road to isolated Shoal Lake First Nation a long-awaited step in tangled history
• Sask. First Nations evacuate from wildfires for 2nd time this year
• Indigenous corporation plans Kenora apartment project
• Shoal Lake 40 'Human Rights Violations Museum' highlights water problems
• The Keystone Professional: University of Manitoba’s Design Build Collaboration with Shoal Lake 40
• A First Nations man died day after leaving Ontario hospital with headache pills. Now his family wants answers
• Shoal Lake 40 and Winnipeg's drinking water: What's at stake?
• 60 years after he ran away from residential school, survivor searches for woman who helped him
• A secret 'you didn't speak of': Ex-MLA recalls hearing Manitoba Hydro worker allegations
• Shoal Lake Cree Nation woman last seen at Nipawin pharmacy
• Youth wellness summit brings together Indigenous youth from across Saskatchewan
• ‘It brings us together’: Tony Cote Winter Games welcome athletes from all over province
• Northern Ont. First Nation under boil water advisory gets water treatment plant
• Opinion: Shoal Lake 39 is a classic David and Goliath story. It shouldn’t have to be
• Indspire Celebrates Indigenous Excellence With Announcement of 2025 Indspire Awards Recipients
• Delivering an award-winning $33-million water treatment plant with locally sourced labour
• Shoal Lake evacuees hope they can return home soon
• Canada’s indigenous thirsty for water rights
• Shoal Lake 40 nears completion of Freedom Road
• Want common ground on First Nations issues? Start by fixing the water supply
• Kenora's new Indigenous relations adviser aims to build bridges between municipality and First Nations
• Shoal Lake 40 sues Winnipeg, Ottawa for compensation due to water diversion
• Memorial service held 1 year after Sask. boy found drowned
• Grandmother of missing 5-year-old Frank Young says family is still hopeful as search reaches Day 28
• Shoal Lake 40 First Nation celebrates the official opening of Freedom Road
• Shoal Lake 40 shares optimistic vision of future during annual treaty day celebrations
• ‘Fought hard for this day’: Decades-old water advisory lifted for Shoal Lake 40 First Nation
• Next phase of Shoal Lake 40's 'Freedom Road' construction set to begin
• Cleaning up water in First Nations communities: Advice to Prime Minister-designate Justin Trudeau
• Op-ed: The strike, Shoal Lake and Indigenous dispossession
• Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits Shoal Lake 40 reserve, hauls water
• Winnipeg's drinking water source of frustration for northern Ontario Indigenous community
• Kelowna orchestra teams up with First Nation beatboxer for musical performance
• The growing movement of Indigenous leaders across Northern Ontario opposing nuclear waste dump
• Nipawin's Oasis Centre celebrates National Indigenous Peoples Day
• Weekend fires in 2 First Nations leave people homeless
• Access to clean drinking water remains an issue in First Nations communities
• After Trudeau visit, Shoal Lake First Nation hopes 100-year wait for ‘Freedom Road’ near end
• Growing calls for Catholics to boycott Sunday mass in protest over heinous discoveries of Canadian n
• Shoal Lake 40 First Nation launching lawsuit against Winnipeg, federal government for harms caused by aqueduct
• Red Earth and Shoal Lake Cree Nations memorialize late five-year-old boy
• Fire near evacuating First Nations preventable, Chief says
• Energy East pipeline opposed by Anishinaabe Water Walkers
• First Nations leaders call for more support as search for missing 5-year-old enters third week
• Compensation sought for freshwater diversion that isolated First Nation community on man-made island
• More Than $20 Million Investment Into Improving Highway 55 In Northeast Saskatchewan Complete
• Wildfires force the evacuations of two First Nations
• Tip of the iceberg: The true state of drinking water advisories in First Nations
• Shoal Lake 40 First Nation Says Its Road To The Rest Of The Country Is Finally Going To Get Built
• University study seeks Indigenous participants for emergency evacuation research
• Cumberland House Cree Nation, Metis Nation-Sask. formalize relationship
• Shoal Lake 40 First Nation sues Winnipeg, feds over impacts of diverted drinking water
• ‘This is still a rescue mission’: Update provided on day 64 of search for Frank Young
• Prince Albert Grand Council leaders in Ottawa demanding help for housing and health care crisis
• RRC Polytech’s Mobile Training Lab helping to build skillsets, structures and relationships in Shoal Lake 40 First Nation
• Federal government falling short on funding to help First Nations operate water systems, PBO says

Academic Research

• The vulnerability of the James Smith and Shoal Lake First Nations to climate change and variability.
• Assessing alternative land and natural resources management regimes at Shoal Lake First Nation No. 40
• Nêhiyawak (cree) and climate change in saskatchewan: Insights from the james smith and shoal lake first nations
• The vulnerabilities of First Nations communities: the cases of Shoal Lake and James Smith
• Isi Wipan–Climate: Identifying the impacts of climate change and capacity for adaptation in two Saskatchewan First Nation communities
• THE VULNERABILITIES OF FIRST NATIONS COMMUNITIES: THE CASES OF SHOAL LAKE AND JAMES SMITH
• Indigenous lands management, cultural landscapes and Anishinaabe people of Shoal Lake, Northwestern Ontario, Canada
• … design build course: a case study on engineering and architecture students' learning impact at a Canadian university in partnership with Shoal Lake 40 First Nation
• Coping with Change-Family Camp at the Shoal Lake Cree Nation
• Transdisciplinary design build studio course in collaboration with Shoal Lake 40 First Nation: Development and assessment
• THE VULNERABILITIES OF FIRST NATIONS COMMUNITIES: THE CASES OF SHOAL LAKE AND JAMES SMITH
• THE VULNERABILITIES OF FIRST NATIONS COMMUNITIES: THE CASES OF SHOAL LAKE AND JAMES SMITH
• THE VULNERABILITIES OF FIRST NATIONS COMMUNITIES: THE CASES OF SHOAL LAKE AND JAMES SMITH
• Presidential Address. Starting with Water: Canada, Colonialism, and History at 2019
• THE VULNERABILITIES OF FIRST NATIONS COMMUNITIES: THE CASES OF SHOAL LAKE AND JAMES SMITH
• In the Water: Race, Empire, and the Winnipeg General Strike.”
• THE VULNERABILITIES OF FIRST NATIONS COMMUNITIES: THE CASES OF SHOAL LAKE AND JAMES SMITH
• The vulnerabilities of First Nations communities: the cases of Shoal Lake and James Smith
• Learning and unlearning: Settler engagements in long-term Indigenous–settler alliances in Canada
• The vulnerabilities of First Nations communities: the cases of Shoal Lake and James Smith
• Nahayow/Ininew Aski-Nipi Pimatisiwin: Kayask, Anoch, Nikaanote Pimacihowin (Cree Family Stories of Land-Water Life: Past, Present, and Future Livelihood)
• Nêhiyawak (cree) and climate change in saskatchewan: Insights from the james smith and shoal lake first nations
• The vulnerabilities of First Nations communities: the cases of Shoal Lake and James Smith
• Plains Cree identity: Borderlands, ambiguous genealogies and narrative irony
• The vulnerabilities of First Nations communities: the cases of Shoal Lake and James Smith
• Nahayow/Ininew Aski-Nipi Pimatisiwin: Kayask, Anoch, Nikaanote Pimacihowin (Cree Family Stories of Land-Water Life: Past, Present, and Future Livelihood)
• The vulnerabilities of First Nations communities: the cases of Shoal Lake and James Smith
• Nahayow/Ininew Aski-Nipi Pimatisiwin: Kayask, Anoch, Nikaanote Pimacihowin (Cree Family Stories of Land-Water Life: Past, Present, and Future Livelihood)
• The vulnerabilities of First Nations communities: the cases of Shoal Lake and James Smith
• Nahayow/Ininew Aski-Nipi Pimatisiwin: Kayask, Anoch, Nikaanote Pimacihowin (Cree Family Stories of Land-Water Life: Past, Present, and Future Livelihood)
• The vulnerabilities of First Nations communities: the cases of Shoal Lake and James Smith
• Nahayow/Ininew Aski-Nipi Pimatisiwin: Kayask, Anoch, Nikaanote Pimacihowin (Cree Family Stories of Land-Water Life: Past, Present, and Future Livelihood)
• The vulnerabilities of First Nations communities: the cases of Shoal Lake and James Smith
• Nahayow/Ininew Aski-Nipi Pimatisiwin: Kayask, Anoch, Nikaanote Pimacihowin (Cree Family Stories of Land-Water Life: Past, Present, and Future Livelihood)
• The vulnerabilities of First Nations communities: the cases of Shoal Lake and James Smith
• Nahayow/Ininew Aski-Nipi Pimatisiwin: Kayask, Anoch, Nikaanote Pimacihowin (Cree Family Stories of Land-Water Life: Past, Present, and Future Livelihood)
• Plains Cree identity: Borderlands, ambiguous genealogies and narrative irony
• The vulnerabilities of First Nations communities: the cases of Shoal Lake and James Smith
• Nahayow/Ininew Aski-Nipi Pimatisiwin: Kayask, Anoch, Nikaanote Pimacihowin (Cree Family Stories of Land-Water Life: Past, Present, and Future Livelihood)
• The vulnerabilities of First Nations communities: the cases of Shoal Lake and James Smith
• Nahayow/Ininew Aski-Nipi Pimatisiwin: Kayask, Anoch, Nikaanote Pimacihowin (Cree Family Stories of Land-Water Life: Past, Present, and Future Livelihood)