Band Council

• GOVERNANCE TYPE: Not Applicable
• TERM EXPIRES: 04/11/2025
• CHIEF: SIMON JAMES TAIT
• NUMBER OF COUNCIL MEMBERS:5
• SIMON JAMES TAIT
• MICHAEL BEN JONAS TAIT
• CLAUDE HENRY LUKE MCKAY
• WESLEY BRIAN BARKMAN
• EUGENE TYSON TAIT

Contact Information

• BAND WEBSITE: http://www.windigoeducation.on.ca/communities/sachigolake
• PHONE NUMBER: (807) 595-2527
• FAX NUMBER: (807) 595-1119
• ADDRESS: PO BOX 51, SACHIGO LAKE, ON
• EMAILS:
• Chief SIMON JAMES TAIT:
• Councillor MICHAEL BEN JONAS TAIT:
• Councillor CLAUDE HENRY LUKE MCKAY:
• Councillor WESLEY BRIAN BARKMAN:
• Councillor EUGENE TYSON TAIT:
• 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 - Sachigo Lake20122013.pdf
• 2011 - Sachigo Lake20112012.pdf
• 2010 - Sachigo Lake20102011.pdf
• 2009 - Sachigo Lake20092010.pdf
• 2008 - Sachigo Lake20082009.pdf
• 2007 - Sachigo Lake20072008.pdf
• 2006 - Sachigo Lake20062007.pdf
• 2005 - Sachigo Lake20052006.pdf
• 2004 - Sachigo Lake20042005.pdf
• 2003 - Sachigo Lake20032004.pdf
• 2002 - Sachigo Lake20022003.pdf
• 2001 - Sachigo 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

Active Court Cases

Media Reports

• Ontario Supporting the Largest Indigenous-led Energy Project in Province’s History
• Wataynikaneyap Power connects Sachigo Lake First Nation to provincial power grid
• Twelfth First Nation connects to Watay Power line
• Indigenous Services Canada responds to recent house fires in remote northern Ontario First Nations
• This 1,800-km transmission line brings clean, reliable power to 24 remote First Nations — who also own most of it
• Ontario backs largest Indigenous-led energy project in province’s history
• Comprehensive Weather Report for Northern Ontario Indigenous Communities for November 16–18, 2024
• OPEN LETTER to Thunder Bay from Sachigo Lake First Nation
• First Nations communities cope with lack of emergency response resources
• Sachigo Lake First Nation connects to Ontario power grid, ending reliance on diesel generators
• More air quality statements issued in northwestern Ontario First Nations with conditions expected to worsen
• Wataynikaneyap Power checks Sachigo Lake and Deer Lake communities off its list
• First Nations leaders hold emergency meeting in Ottawa on mental health crisis
• Sachigo Lake geologist to be recognized by mining industry association
• 'We are not Oji-Cree': 22 First Nations across Manitoba, Ontario clear the air on distinct identity
• Opinion: How have we grown numb to the suicide of Indigenous children?
• Bear Clan Patrol search Winnipeg streets for 2 Indigenous women, 1 missing nearly a year
• Meet the Barkmans, the First Nations hockey family fuelling the dreams of their youngest son
• First Nation family forced off reserve for health care
• Nishnawbe Aski Nation holds emergency meeting in Ottawa amid surge in sudden deaths on First Nations
• Sachigo Lake First Nation ends boil water advisory after treatment plant upgrades
• First Nations health coverage is hard to do when nurses won't, or can't, talk to you
• Drinking Water Advisory Lifted In Sachigo Lake FN
• Unresolved: Marilyn Rose Munroe
• Over four-year boil water advisory ends in Sachigo Lake
• Inside the impossible work of Canada’s biggest Indigenous police force
• Muskrat Dam First Nation and Sachigo Lake First Nation Sign with North Star Air
• The sun shines on Sachigo Lake
• Opinion: Canada betrays residential school survivors again with funding cuts
• Ontario backs largest Indigenous-led energy project in province’s history
• Northern Ontario Indigenous Communities Weather Report: November 14 – 16, 2024
• "We have work to do": Fiddler
• October 14, 2024: Detailed Weather Report for Northern Ontario Indigenous Communities
• 27 November 2024: Weather Outlook for Northern Ontario Indigenous Communities
• First Nations leaders say mental health crisis worsening at emergency meeting
• Northern Ontario Grid Connection Project
• Helen Cromarty - Obituary - Thunder Bay
• Indigenous high school students and July Talk collaborate on new song
• Little Bands Native Hockey Tournament Grows in Popularity
• Northern Ontario Indigenous Communities Weather Outlook: November 22–24, 2024
• Ontario’s largest Indigenous-led energy project complete
• Weather Outlook for Northern Ontario Indigenous Communities: November 29-December 1 2024
• Sachigo Lake First Nation Energized by Wataynikaneyap Power
• Indigenous Affairs policy blocks funding for indigenous student residence in Thunder Bay, Ont.
• Northern Superior Resources Inc. V. Ontario, 2016 ONSC 3161, Ontario Superior Court Of Justice (Lederer J.), 25 May 2016
• Daniel Randall Levac Thunder Bay's 9th homicide victim
• Editorial: Northern Superior loses case in Ontario

Academic Research

• The economic feasibility of replacing diesel with renewable energy resources in remote First Nation communities in Northern Ontario
• Teaching wilderness first aid in a remote First Nations community: the story of the Sachigo Lake Wilderness Emergency Response Education Initiative
• Where there is no paramedic: The Sachigo Lake wilderness emergency response education initiative
• Community-based participatory research with Indigenous communities: The proximity paradox
• Community-Based First Aid: 3
• SOLAR AND WIND RESOURCES EVALUATION
• Building resilience and community capacity: The sachigo lake wilderness emergency response education initiative
• Community-based first aid: a program report on the intersection of community-based participatory research and first aid education in a remote Canadian Aboriginal …
• Mining versus Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas: Traditional Land Uses of the Anisininew in the Red Sucker Lake First Nation, Manitoba, Canada
• Recent developments in renewable energy in remote aboriginal communities, Ontario, Canada
• Building resilience and community capacity: The sachigo lake wilderness emergency response education initiative
• Community-based first aid: a program report on the intersection of community-based participatory research and first aid education in a remote Canadian Aboriginal …
• Community-Based Emergency Care: An Open Report for Nishnawbe Aski Nation