Band Council

• GOVERNANCE TYPE: Not Applicable
• TERM EXPIRES: 06/26/2026
• CHIEF: COREEN SAYAZIE
• NUMBER OF COUNCIL MEMBERS:8
• COREEN SAYAZIE
• LOUIS JIMMY COOK
• AMBROSE BONELEYE
• STEVEN ECHODH
• JOHN TOUTSAINT
• MAGLOIRE BROUSSIE
• EDDIE BONELEYE
• MARY JANE COOK

Contact Information

• BAND WEBSITE: http://www.pagc.sk.ca/submenu/bands.asp?ID=1
• PHONE NUMBER: (306) 284-2044
• FAX NUMBER: (306) 284-2101
• ADDRESS: PO BOX 27, BLACK LAKE, SK
• EMAILS:
• Chief COREEN SAYAZIE:
• Councillor LOUIS JIMMY COOK:
• Councillor AMBROSE BONELEYE:
• Councillor STEVEN ECHODH:
• Councillor JOHN TOUTSAINT:
• Councillor MAGLOIRE BROUSSIE:
• Councillor EDDIE BONELEYE:
• Councillor MARY JANE COOK:
• 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 - Black Lake20122013.pdf
• 2011 - Black Lake20112012.pdf
• 2010 - Black Lake20102011.pdf
• 2009 - Black Lake20092010.pdf
• 2008 - Black Lake20082009.pdf
• 2006 - Black Lake20062007.pdf
• 2004 - Black Lake20042005.pdf
• 2003 - Black Lake20032004.pdf
• 2002 - Black Lake20022003.pdf
• 2001 - Black Lake20012002.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

• Cry-O-Beef Ltd. c. Thorne Riddell Inc.
• Marcoux et Lab société commandite Black Lake
• St-Laurent et Lab Chrysotile (Black Lake) (fermé)
• Club Le Marquis de Black Lake inc. et Ville de Thetford Mines
• Samuel v. Black Lake Asbestos and Chrome Co.
• Samuel v. Black Lake Asbestos and Chrome Co. Ltd.
• Sylvain (Succession de) et Lab Chrysotile (Black Lake)
• Black v. Niagara-on-the-Lake (Town)
• Marcoux et Lab, société en commandite Black Lake
• Gouin et Lab Chrysotile (Black Lake)
• Black Lake Denesuline First Nation Treaty #8 Benefits Board of Trustees v Robillard
• LAB, société en commandite — Black Lake
• St-Laurent et Lab Chrysotile Black Lake
• FADOQ club amical de Black Lake inc et Thetford Mines (Ville)
• Black v. Niagara-on-the-Lake (Town)
• Samuel v. Black Lake Asbestos and Chrome
• Syndicat des travailleurs de l'enseignement de l'amiante c. Commission scolaire Black Lake Disraëli
• Sayazie v. Black Lake Denesuline First Nation
• Labbé c. Black Lake (Ville)
• Black Lake (Ville de) c. Croteau
• Black v. Muskoka Lakes (Township)
• Black v. Muskoka Lakes (Township)
• Black v. Muskoka Lakes (Township)
• Black v. Muskoka Lakes (Township)
• C.G. c. Lab. société en commandite Black Lake

Active Court Cases

Media Reports

• Saving Lake Atitlán to Reduce Poverty in Guatemala
• 'A proud moment': Pilot training program launches for Indigenous people in Sask.'s Athabasca Basin
• Rebecca Strong wins Canada’s Got Talent
• Black Lake angler has the right formula for summer crappie
• Bringing back Michigan’s lake sturgeon
• Conservation Coordination: Black Lake sturgeon fishing highlights contrasts between Native and state approaches
• An Anti-Vax Conspiracy Theory Video Went Viral. An Indigenous Community Paid the Price.
• 2023 Black Lake sturgeon fishing season is month away: What to know
• Indian Lake State Park
• Indian Lake Stone Dam’s ‘slight leaks’
• Creation Of Ballard Locks Left One Tribe High And Dry
• Neighborhood Notes – Walk through Black Lake’s Historic Past
• Michigan fishery officials may ax Black Lake sturgeon season due to dangerous ice
• ‘Deeply Rooted’ African American experiences project awarded grant
• LEAF returns to Lake Eden with 'Legends of the Americas' theme
• Black Lake Denesuline First Nation mourns loss of Chief Archie Robillard
• A Message from the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe to All BRC Citizens
• Chefs vs. Wild Presents Indigenous Talent in Survivalist Cooking Show
• On the way to today
• Feds decline to list lake sturgeon under Endangered Species Act
• Who Was Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, the New Namesake of Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive?
• Group of youth from Black Lake, Sask., biking more than 1,400 km for suicide prevention awareness
• Pope acknowledges need for 'concrete action' in mending relationship with Indigenous people
• “We Can’t Have Land Back Without Water Back”
• Michigan’s lake sturgeon under review for federal protections
• Georgia's Lake Lanier - a dark and deadly history has some people seeing ghosts
• Prince Albert Grand Council meets with Navajo Tribal Police to talk community policing
• Non-native Lake Trout Induce Cascading Changes in the Yellowstone Lake
• Long-term drinking water advisory lifted on Black Lake First Nation
• Brainerd man gets 15 months in prison for poaching black bear on Red Lake Reservation
• Black Bear Ruffles Indian Lake Visitors: Report
• Des Nedhe Signs Collaboration Agreement with Saskatchewan Based Team Drilling
• Athabasca Basin News
• ‘Music is powerful’: First-ever Saskatchewan Indigenous Music Awards wraps up a success
• Political and Indigenous studies student finds her potential
• Unresolved: Ernestine Kasyon
• Tuberculosis outbreaks declared in northern First Nations communities
• Mystery of the Great Lakes buffalo
• Indian Lake High School (Lewistown, OH) Girls Varsity Basketball
• How can police better serve Indigenous communities?
• Case Study
• Two northern First Nations settle agricultural claim worth a combined $177 million
• Descendants of Chief Waukazoo join celebration
• ITEP student follows in mother’s footsteps, sets path for her community
• Nehiyaw/Cree woman shares traditional teachings to inspire path forward to fight climate change
• Indian Creek High School (Trafalgar, IN) Girls Varsity Basketball
• Reserves in Saskatchewan
• Family of First Nations man killed in officer involved shooting has questions for RCMP
• Caribou ribbon has been cut on Athabasca Denesuline Education Authority
• Meet the Elders of the Athabasca Denesuline Education Authority
• Frank Black Cloud: Spirit Lake Nation supports 'Fighting Sioux'
• The West Australian Ballet’s Swan Lake brings the story to Perth – but the Noongar elements never feel completely integrated
• First Nations education authority, the first of its kind in Saskatchewan, celebrates launch
• First Nations Take Legal Action Against Government Over Lake Winnipeg Pollution
• Manitoba First Nations suing over Lake Winnipeg pollution
• Agreement paves way for Indigenous-owned company to manage forestry, harvest in eastern Manitoba
• Dene leaders ‘betrayed’ after federal government refuses to initial land settlement agreement
• Negotiation team gives update on North of 60 Final Agreement
• Boort's significant Indigenous history on a global scale
• Bung Yarnda – Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust – welcomes funding for emergency centre after Black Summer ordeal
• Black bullhead catfish population on the rise in Lake Balaton, which is bad news for native fish species
• The Relevance of Native America to Black History
• In the Colombian Amazon, Indigenous communities protect the sacred black caiman
• 'Sugarcane' documentary spotlights Indigenous resilience amid dark residential school history
• Indian Lake Class of 2024: Four graduates
• Black Hawk War - Indian Removal, Illinois Tensions
• Agta (Eye-ta)
• Black Lake Begins Harvest For First-Ever Community Garden
• Fun facts about Michigan's 20 biggest inland lakes
• Sacred land, unholy uranium: Canada's mining industry in conflict with First Nations
• Indian Hill High School (Cincinnati, OH) Girls Varsity Basketball
• Queen’s Bench to hear Black Lake agricultural settlement dispute
• ALUMARINE – 3 YEARS LATER
• Creepshow 2 (1987) ⭐ 6.0 | Fantasy, Horror
• Indigenous teenagers finding a connection to country at the sacred lands of Lake Mungo
• P.A. welcomes back First Nations firefighting competition
• Round goby
• Canada highlights progress settling Agricultural Benefits Claims with Treaty 8 First Nations
• State boosts spending on Adirondack dams to address deferred maintenance
• Ancient Indigenous people made durable rock paint from lake goo
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Black Lake terrapins to be moved
• Sawmill closure ‘dire’ for Fraser Lake and its Indigenous communities: chiefs
• Canada’s Got Talent winner Rebecca Strong to perform at upcoming Rattlers game
• Athabasca Basin News
• 'We must kill the black snake': Prophecy and prayer motivate Standing Rock movement
• 'Sugarcane' documentary spotlights Indigenous resilience amid dark residential school history
• New podcast empowers communities to contribute to global climate action
• Land claims in NWT’s barrenlands reach ratification stage
• Braiding heritage and education: Michigan program redefines paths for Native students
• Supporting Journalism By and For Immigrant and Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) Communities
• Remembering Black Hawk
• 'Sugarcane' And The Dark History Of Indigenous Residential Schools : 1A
• Black-owned Temple of Earth Apothecary soft-opens near Lake Merritt
• Rising Youth Mortality Rates Hit Native American, Black Youth the Hardest
• Only in Louisiana: Native American names of Louisiana’s hotspots
• Wisconsin changing 28 place names that slur Native American women
• Boil water advisory lifted on Black Lake Denesuline First Nation after more than 7 years
• Water’s natural rhythms nourished our area’s native culture. Then came the Ballard Locks.
• Canadian Government reaches $177 million settlement with Black Lake, Fond du Lac
• Biodiversity loss on Indigenous territories
• Ruckus over rice: A thorny issue that has Indigenous activists facing off with local cottagers and residents
• Hip hop and spoken word poetry celebrated by Sask. Indigenous artist
• 6 First Nations challenge Ontario's Mining Act, a month after similar legal action by Grassy Narrows
• Makwa Sahgaiehcan under 'black cloud' after recent suicides, including 10-year-old girl: chief
• Indigenous Council for Wah-ila-toos
• Sask. First Nation communities have 8 active outbreaks as COVID-19 cases continue to rise
• Round goby
• First Nations Elders win campaign to change name of Lake Monger
• 2025 Black Lake sturgeon season results announced
• Greenridge Exploration and Ya’thi Néné Lands and Resources
• History & Culture
• Athabasca Basin News
• Figure 1. Black Lake and Stony Rapids, two northern, remote, Indigenous...
• Uranium Exploration Deal: Greenridge Partners with Indigenous Communities in Resource-Rich Athabasca
• Distribution of known lake trout populations (including native and...
• Uranium exploration company signs agreement to ensure sustainable future for Athabasca Basin
• What lies beneath? Debunking myths and celebrating assets of Thetis Lake
• 2025 Black Lake sturgeon season results announced
• Washington wetlands are renamed to honor Black, Indigenous history
• Greenridge Exploration and Ya’thi Néné Lands and Resources Announce Exploration Agreement in the Athabasca Region
• 'We need more hands-on': Suicide attempts rise on Black Lake First Nation
• Black Lake Denesuline Nation Chief Archie Robillard dead at 60
• Billion dollar bubble burst for Black Lake Denesuline Nation
• Saskatchewan woman wins Canada’s Got Talent and is congratulated in the Legislature
• Southern walleye making comeback in Kentucky
• It’s First Nations money. How did their leaders spend it?
• Responsible mineral exploration agreement signed
• Black Lake says video about military forcing people to get vaccinated in Saskatchewan community false
• Canada Post pushes mail revamp for Indigenous, northern communities
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Black Lake terrapins to be moved
• Michigan Tribe to Restore Fish Passage for Native Great Lakes Fish Species
• Black Miners Bar, Folsom Lake State Recreation Area
• Canada commits $340 million to Indigenous protected areas, guardians programs
• Dene First Nations slam Ottawa over land and resource negotiations
• Little Black Bear partners with Muscowpetung on building aquaponics facilities
• Greenridge Exploration and Ya’thi Néné Lands and Resources
• ELK IN WISCONSIN
• Non-Native Minnesota Man Sentenced to Prison for Killing and Beheading 700-Pound Black Bear on Red Lake Indian Reservation
• Northern Saskatchewan First Nations seeing COVID-19 outbreaks
• ‘I just wish my mom and dad were here right now to witness,’ says First Nations Catholic on visit to Canada by Pope Francis
• Sask. elders advocate for teaching of their languages, traditions
• Lake Charles native makes history, devotes life to public service
• Climate change endangering native wildlife in Hungary’s Lake Balaton
• Carving more diversity into the slopes; California native continues to elevate mountain spaces for Black Americans as documentary nears completion
• Hatchet Lake pressures province to further contribute to northern seasonal road
• ‘Life is precious:’ Black Lake, Sask. youth concluding cycle for suicide prevention
• ALUMARINE – 3 YEARS LATER
• Art Lander's Outdoors: Crappie a highly popular native game fish abundant throughout Kentucky
• Canada confronts its dark history of abuse in residential schools
• Firekeepers Indigenous Song Circle coming to Saskatchewan
• Claims period open for First Nations Drinking Water Settlement
• Watch the trailer for Björk's short film Black Lake
• Williams Lake First Nation’s archaeology company wins Indigenous Business Award
• ‘Singing up Country’: reawakening the Black Duck Songline, across 300km in Australia’s southeast
• Black Lake Denesuline First Nation mourns loss of Chief Archie Robillard
• Black Lake Denesuline First Nation mourns Chief Archie Robillard
• Black bullhead catfish population on the rise in Lake Balaton, which is bad news for native fish species
• Chief calls for action after 30 recent suicide attempts in Black Lake
• Overcrowding, mold among housing issues in Hatchet Lake
• Michigan 2025 sturgeon fishing on Black Lake lasts 17 minutes
• Steel River Group Announces Partnership with Black Lake Denesuline First Nation
• New York Snowmobiler Rescued After Being ‘Catapulted’ 150 Feet
• Lake Forest Native Sydney Barber Makes History At Naval Academy
• Teejop & Beyond: Celebrating Native Nations
• Mathias Colomb Cree Nation welcomes boxing and survival training
• Why we decided to capitalize Black, Aboriginal and Indigenous

Academic Research

• A tale of two ethnicities identity and ethnicity at lake of two mountains, 1721-1850
• Indigenous-based approaches to territorial conservation: a case study of the Algonquin Nation of Wolf Lake
• Social-ecological thresholds in a changing boreal landscape: insights from Cree knowledge of the Lesser Slave Lake region of Alberta, Canada
• Meaningful engagement with Indigenous peoples: a case study of Ontario's Great Lakes Protection Act
• The prehistoric occupations of Black Lake, northern Saskatchewan
• Indigenous lands management, cultural landscapes and Anishinaabe people of Shoal Lake, Northwestern Ontario, Canada
• Monitoring of black oak (xánthiip) to center indigenous ecocultural revitalization
• Indigenous in cyberspace: CyberPowWow, god's lake narrows, and the Contours of online indigenous territory
• Indigenous Lake Monitoring Program
• The Lubicon Lake nation: Indigenous knowledge and power
• The Lubicon Lake nation: Indigenous knowledge and power
• The Lubicon Lake nation: Indigenous knowledge and power
• The Lubicon Lake nation: Indigenous knowledge and power
• The Lubicon Lake nation: Indigenous knowledge and power
• The Lubicon Lake nation: Indigenous knowledge and power
• Woman, black, indigenous: recognition struggles in dialogue
• The Lubicon Lake nation: Indigenous knowledge and power
• Woman, black, indigenous: recognition struggles in dialogue
• The Lubicon Lake nation: Indigenous knowledge and power
• Woman, black, indigenous: recognition struggles in dialogue
• The Lubicon Lake nation: Indigenous knowledge and power
• Experiences and insights on bridging knowledge systems between indigenous and non-indigenous partners: learnings from the Laurentian Great Lakes
• Woman, black, indigenous: recognition struggles in dialogue
• The Lubicon Lake nation: Indigenous knowledge and power
• Woman, black, indigenous: recognition struggles in dialogue
• The Lubicon Lake nation: Indigenous knowledge and power
• Domesticating the country: Indigenous power and colonialism in the black swamp of the old northwest
• Woman, black, indigenous: recognition struggles in dialogue
• Rethinking Indigenous Hunting in National Parks
• Rethinking sustainability through indigenous language futures
• The Lubicon Lake nation: Indigenous knowledge and power
• Woman, black, indigenous: recognition struggles in dialogue
• The Lubicon Lake nation: Indigenous knowledge and power
• Woman, black, indigenous: recognition struggles in dialogue
• The Lubicon Lake nation: Indigenous knowledge and power
• Woman, black, indigenous: recognition struggles in dialogue
• The Lubicon Lake nation: Indigenous knowledge and power