ka-SHEH-cheh-wan | Kashechewan First Nation
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- Kashechewan First Nation is an Omushkego Cree Indigenous community located on the west coast of James Bay in northern Ontario, Canada.
- Last Updated 2025-05-07 04:53:11 UTC
- Name: Kashechewan (ISC Code: 243)
- Former Names: Albany River Settlement, Fort Albany Reserve
- Band Style: Cree First Nation
- Cultural Area: James Bay Lowlands
- Indigenous Language: Omushkego Cree
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- GOVERNANCE TYPE: Not Applicable
- TERM EXPIRES: Not Applicable
- CHIEF: Not Applicable
- NUMBER OF COUNCIL MEMBERS:0
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ISC Code: 6258
FORT ALBANY 67
36345.7 Hectares
ON/SUR W/O SHORE/RIVE OF/DE JAMES BAY
[52.3063606, -81.7276723]
- Located in the James Bay Lowlands region
- Traditional lands along the Albany River watershed
- Covers approximately 15 square kilometers of treaty lands
- Historically part of Omushkego Cree traditional territories
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Media Reports
- Kashechewan First Nation evacuees arriving in Barrie this week
- How an Ontario First Nation is taking an Indigenous-led response in times of crisis
- Northern Ontario chief says his community continues to 'fear' flooding because of neighbouring First Nation
- Kashechewan First Nation Has Been Evacuated Every Spring For 17 Years. Leaders Want Action.
- The Indigenous-led plan to protect a vast swath of northern Ontario
- Kashechewan taking new path for evacuations
- Traditional Indigenous knowledge supports flood mitigation research in James Bay region
- Remote northern Ontario First Nation 'operating on life support' due to nurse shortage
- Responsibility for Kashechewan’s crises lies with Crown
- COVID-19 and flooding: How Kashechewan is prepping for two natural disasters
- New chief of flood-prone northern Ontario First Nation asks for patience with long-delayed relocation
- COVID-19 has 'spread like wildfire' through Kashechewan — and children are suffering most: Miller
- Remote First Nations in northern Ontario lift state of emergency due to nursing shortages
- Hundreds evacuate as floods hit northern Ontario First Nation
- Kashechewan students rally on Parliament Hill to plead for new school
- Mushkegowuk Grand Chief Jonathan Solomon is retiring
- Kashechewan chief signs deal to move flood-prone community - but fears governments won't follow through
- Kashechewan and Fort Albany First Nations residents evacuated due to flooding
- Indigenous Services minister says housing shortage aggravating COVID-19 outbreak in Kashechewan
- Kashechewan First Nation goes to Ontario legislature for action on annual flooding
- The high cost of food on First Nations reserves
- Leaders of First Nations in northern Ontario ask for seat at health-care table
- Kashechewan and Fort Albany First Nations in Ontario evacuate due to flooding
- Inside Kashechewan
- Kashechewan rash outbreak highlights woeful First Nations health care, say critics
- Northern Ontario First Nation Kashechewan heads to land to avoid flooding, COVID-19
- Anger mounts as Kashechewan First Nation declares state of emergency due to flooding
- Kashechewan First Nation gets agreement from feds, Ontario to relocate
- Kashechewan First Nation teen's message about bullying goes viral on Facebook
- 'Huge loss of trust,' First Nation leader says about Kashechewan fraud charges
- 'Stop playing politics' with flood-threatened Kashechewan, regional chief says
- Face mask initiative sending masks with Indigenous designs to remote First Nations
- First Nations leaders call for action as Kashechewan grapples with annual flooding
- Kashechewan First Nation is getting ready to evacuate, again
- Kashechewan First Nation faces 'massive trauma' with flooding: MP
- ‘We’re really afraid’: Kashechewan First Nation grapples with COVID-19 outbreak
- Indigenous communities across Canada receive funding for food security projects
- Kashechewan expects ice breakup ‘anytime’ as water rises on Albany River
- Military in talks with Kashechewan as municipalities say no to evacuees
- Northern Ontario Indigenous community set for another spring flood evacuation
- Justin Trudeau to meet with Attawapiskat chief, First Nations youth in Ottawa June 13
- More nurses headed to Kashechewan First Nation amid shortage: regional care provider
- OPINION: Water everywhere ... except on Indigenous lands
- Kashechewan flood evacuees arriving in Cornwall, Ottawa today
- Chiefs say feds taking ‘harmful and dishonourable’ course on Ring of Fire environmental assessment
- ‘I want to be treated like other kids in Canada’ | story | Kids News
- Kashechewan mother told to give daughter bleach bath for skin sores
- Doctors trying to figure out what is causing skin rashes on children in Ontario Indigenous community
- A move to higher ground for Kashechewan
- Indigenous communities need better emergency preparedness. NDP calls on feds to do more
- First Nations communities cope with lack of emergency response resources
- 'It's just like we're forgotten people': Indigenous evacuees waiting to go home
- Feds underfunding emergency preparation in First Nations communities says report
- Thunder Bay Steps Up to Host Kashechewan First Nation Evacuees
- The unasked question about Attawapiskat
- Fears of COVID-19 sees 9 James Bay Coast teams pull out of Little NHL tournament
- Grand chief of flood-hit Kashechewan says he's praying for other Canadians caught by flooding
- How to keep kids in school when Kashechewan floods
- New $15M 'temporary' school opens in Kashechewan First Nation
- Body of paramedic who drowned in boating accident recovered in northern Ontario
- Kashechewan First Nation gets agreement from feds, Ontario to move
- Mysterious skin lesions on children put focus on aboriginal health
- Kashechewan fire inquest calls for more funds for police stations, training
- Land-based detox healing program reconnects people to their culture, identity
- Kashechewan First Nation's Children At Front And Centre Of Recurrent Crisis
- Frequent Kashechewan evacuations cost taxpayers millions
- First Nations leaders call for solution to Kashechewan flooding
- All the teachings with drumming and dancing at the sunny Maamwi Kindaaswin Pow-Wow
- Evacuation underway in Kashechewan, Ont., due to spring flooding of Albany River
- COVID-19 outbreak infects 138 children in remote Northern Ontario First Nation
- The struggle to trust while conserving nature in the North
- Flooding risk has 'not yet peaked' says agency co-ordinating James Bay evacuations
- Kashechewan kids lobby Ottawa for new school—'It should be treated as an emergency, because it's an emergency'
- Thunder Bay to Host Kashechewan Flood Evacuees
- Kashechewan First Nation faces ‘massive trauma’ with flooding: MP
- UPDATE: Kashechewan Evacuees Set to Arrive
- Rally for Kashechewan First Nation Demands Federal and Provincial Governments Permanently Relocate Community
- Kashechewan First Nation: Flooding sparks state of emergency
- 10 years after fatal fire, community still looking for help
- Ottawa took years to warn Ontario First Nations about fraud
- Infant in Kashechewan First Nation dies due to respiratory illness
- Figure 1. A map of the western James Bay region depicting First Nations...
- Plan finalized to move Kashechewan First Nation
- Kashechewan First Nation says COVID-19 outbreak hitting teenagers in the community
- Cargo North signs revenue sharing deal with First Nations
- A summary of federal investments and program actions related to Indigenous water supplies: Matthew Cameron and Ken Coates
- Doctors treating indigenous children’s rashes cite medical crisis
- Kashechewan First Nation evacuates due to water treatment plant issues
- Responsibility for Kashechewan’s crises lies with Crown
- Sabrina Maddeaux: Trudeau Liberals turn blind eye as COVID rages through Kashechewan First Nation
- Kashechewan First Nation declares state of emergency, begins annual precautionary evacuation
- Kashechewan evacuees arriving in Barrie this week
- Kashechewan outbreak may have peaked, Chief Friday says
- Kashechewan kids with rashes, open sores to be evacuated
- How an Ontario First Nation is taking an Indigenous-led response in times of crisis
- Thunder Bay to host evacuees from Kashechewan First Nation
- Cree entrepreneur striving to better people's lives, help youth
- Ontario First Nations residents evacuated due to expected spring flooding
- Cree community forced to pause suicide-prevention program due to Jordan's Principle changes
- Severe Shortage of Nurses Impacts Kashechewan Nursing Station
- Everyone in Kashechewan community ordered to evacuate
- This Flooded First Nation Has Been Evacuated Every Spring For 17 Years
- Proposed marine conservation area in Ontario's far north draws mixed reaction
- FIG. 4. The location of Akimiski Island in relation to the western...
- 'Overwhelming' response to initiative sending masks to Indigenous youth (2 photos)
- Two fly-in First Nations along James Bay evacuating amid spring flooding
- Fort Albany joins Kashechewan in evacuation ahead of spring flooding in Ontario's far north
Academic Research
Academic Research
- Frequent Spring Flooding Impacts, Evacuation Experiences, and Perceived Adaptive Capacity of Kashechewan First Nation, Northern Ontario
- Flooding in Kashechewan first nation: Is it an environmental justice issue?
- Completely normal chaos: the Kashechewan crisis and the public normalization of risk on Indigenous reservations.
- Flooding in the James Bay region of northern Ontario, Canada: Learning from traditional knowledge of Kashechewan First Nation
- Spring flooding and recurring evacuations of Kashechewan First Nation, northern Ontario, Canada
- Resurging through Kishiichiwan: The spatial politics of Indigenous water relations
- Voice of the People on the Re-Location Issue: Kashechewan First Nation, Ontario, Canada
- Family or bureaucratic traplines? The registered trapline system as a tool of colonialism in Kashechewan
- Schooling at Kashechewan: Then and now
- Frequent flooding and perceived adaptive capacity of subarctic kashechewan first nation, Canada
- Family or bureaucratic traplines?: the registered trapline system as a tool of colonialism in Kashechewan
- Diets, body composition, physical activity and fitness of First Nations youth from Kashechewan, Ontario: an opportunity for collaborative initiatives to …
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