Page 10 - Chippewas of Rama First Nation

From the air, our community
looks a bit like a checkerboard, Location and Territory
as there are a number of
Our community, now known as Chippewas of Rama First
properties owned by non-
Nation, is formally registered by Crown–Indigenous Relations
Indigenous people in and
around the First Nation and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC—a federal government
territory. You can see this on department) as Rama Indian Reserve #32. We are located
the map on page 6.
154 kilometres north of Toronto and 5 kilometres northeast
of Orillia, on Rama Road. We are on the eastern shore of
Lake Couchiching, northeast of the Atherley Narrows between
Lake Simcoe and Lake Couchiching.

Our territory includes a number of islands in Lake Couchiching,
of which Chiefs Island is the largest. We also jointly own Indian
WORDS TO KNOW
River with the Mohawks of Wahta, and Chippewa Island, a small
non-Indigenous: someone piece of land off Moose Deer Point, with Beausoleil First Nation
whose ancestors are not First
and Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation. Our territory
Nations, Inuit, or Métis
measures 1464 hectares, but land and treaty claims include
treaty: an agreement
between nations much more land.

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