Pauingassi First Nation

Pauingassi First Nation is an Anishinaabe First Nation community located approximately northeast of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and north of Little [Grand Rapids, Manitoba], on a peninsula jutting southward into Fishing Lake, a tributary of Berens River.
The main economic base of the community remains hunting, fishing, trapping and wild rice harvesting.
The First Nation has one reserve land: Pauingassi First Nation Indian Reserve, spanning a total, which serves as their main reserve and contains the eponymous settlement of Pauingassi at.

Governance

Originally part of Little Grand [Rapids First Nation], the Pauingassi received reserve status in 1988 and became a separate First Nation from the Little Grand Rapids First Nation on 7 October 1991.
Today, Pauingassi First Nation is governed by the Custom Electoral System of government. Pauingassi First Nation is a member of the Southeast Resource Development Council and a signatory to Treaty 5.