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.