LOCATION

Whitewater Lake First Nation joined the Windigo First Nations Council in 2000. Whitewater is a small community located north of Armstrong about 60 kilometres in the Treaty No. 9 territory (James Bay and Hudson Bay watersheds in Ontario). The closest First Nation Reserves to Whitewater are [Osnaburgh]. It is just located just less than fifty kilometres above the Robinson-Superior Treaty of 1850 and is about 100 kilometres east of the northeastern boundry of Treaty No Three of 1873. The Treaty and First Nation territorial overlap in the area make it especially challenging to establish identity of Whitewater. This would not have been a problem if the federal and provincial Treaty commissioners in 1905 had recognized Whitwater as a separate community, as they should have.

POPULATION

Aproximately 150 status members with about 60 off reserve.