Ishkonigan Sagaun | Swan Lake First Nation
Community Profile
- Swan Lake First Nation is a federally recognized Indigenous community situated in southern Manitoba, known for its strong cultural preservation efforts and community development initiatives.
- Last Updated 2025-04-27 22:53:18 UTC
- Name: Swan Lake (ISC Code: 293)
- Former Names: Swan Lake Indian Band
- Band Style: First Nation
- Cultural Area: Southern Manitoba Plains
- Indigenous Language: Ojibwe/Anishinaabemowin
- Number of Registered Members: 1595
Governance
Band Council
- GOVERNANCE TYPE: Not Applicable
- TERM EXPIRES: 09/19/2025
- CHIEF: JASON DANIELS
- NUMBER OF COUNCIL MEMBERS:4
- JASON DANIELS
- MICHAEL ESQUASH
- CRAIG SOLDIER
- FRANCINE MEECHES
Contact Information
- BAND WEBSITE: http://www.swanlakefirstnation.com/index.html
- PHONE NUMBER: (204) 836-2101
- FAX NUMBER: (204) 836-2255
- ADDRESS: PO BOX 368, SWAN LAKE, MB
- EMAILS:
- Chief JASON DANIELS:
- Councillor MICHAEL ESQUASH:
- Councillor CRAIG SOLDIER:
- Councillor FRANCINE MEECHES:
- 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 - Swan Lake20122013.pdf
- 2011 - Swan Lake20112012.pdf
- 2010 - Swan Lake20102011.pdf
- 2009 - Swan Lake20092010.pdf
- 2008 - Swan Lake20082009.pdf
- 2007 - Swan Lake20072008.pdf
- 2006 - Swan Lake20062007.pdf
- 2005 - Swan Lake20052006.pdf
- 2004 - Swan Lake20042005.pdf
- 2003 - Swan Lake20032004.pdf
- 2002 - Swan Lake20022003.pdf
- 2001 - Swan 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
Lands and Traditional Territory
Reserves
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ISC Code: 6413
INDIAN GARDENS 8
259.0 Hectares
1 MILE SOUTH OF ASSINIBOINE RIVER 60 MI EAST OF BRANDON TWP 9 RGE 9 WPM
[49.7338439, -98.5876602] -
ISC Code: 10216
NAAWI-OODENA
40.2 Hectares
[49.850994, -97.210493] -
ISC Code: 9715
SWAN LAKE 7A
2636.3 Hectares
[49.7576028, -99.3096812] -
ISC Code: 6412
SWAN LAKE 7
3116.3 Hectares
45 KM SE/SE OF/DE BRANDON
[nil, nil] -
ISC Code: 9690
SWAN LAKE FIRST NATION 8A
14.9 Hectares
[49.8724049, -97.37421189999999]
Traditional Territory Details
- Located in Southern Manitoba Plains
- Traditional lands span current Manitoba agricultural regions
- Historically significant hunting and gathering territories
- Connected to Assiniboine River watershed
- Key ecological zones include grasslands and mixed-wood forests
Consultations and Referrals
Band Submissions
Consultation Reports
Band Business Interests
Band Owned Corporations
Court Records
Downloadable Court Decisions
- Swan Lake Recreation Resort Ltd. v. Kamloops (City, Land Title Registrar)
- United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW Canada local 333) v Amica (Swan Lake) Corporation c.o.b. as Amica at Swan Lake
- United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW Canada local 333) v Amica (Swan Lake) Corporation c.o.b. as Amica at Swan Lake
Active Court Cases
Media Reports
Media Reports
- Promise preserved
- Hansika-The Swan Lake: Sharmila Muherjee brings Indian Touch to the Iconic Tale
- This Week In Culture: South Asian Swan Lake, Indian Cold Brew Coffee Liqueur, & More
- Building relationships on National Indigenous Peoples Day
- Swan Valley Indigenous history comes to Condon
- Swan Lake First Nation teen excels at archery in Manitoba as she connects with culture
- Museum of Mississippi History readies Native American canoe for opening
- Swan Lake First Nation archer aims to connect to culture | story | Kids News
- Tchaikovsky’s ‘Swan Lake’ gets an Odissi flavour
- Ballerina Swan Lake: 10 Compelling Language Characteristics for Cloud Native Programming
- GLOBAL INDIGENOUS: Ruling halts Amazon Rainforest project
- The West Australian Ballet’s Swan Lake brings the story to Perth – but the Noongar elements never feel completely integrated
- Some 15 years and $1.7M later, a First Nation mulls what to do with its potato chip machinery
- Morden holds Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration Saturday
- Swan Lake protester shifts focus to making oil pipelines safer
- US quarters will feature three Indigenous women
- Friday essay: a rare bird — how Europeans got the black swan so wrong
- Tornado touches down in Swan Lake First Nation in Manitoba
- A dance production inspired by ‘Swan Lake’
- Swan Lake Elder David Scott gives feedback to EMMS students on Land Acknowledgement project
- Watch the Indian adaptation of Swan Lake in Odissi dance form
- A Walk Through Time: Embracing Dane-zaa Culture
- Happy Birthday, Swan Lake Provincial Park!
- WA Ballet incorporates Whadjuk lore in re-imagined classic
- Washington Native, World Performer Andrew Pontius to Dance Swan Lake with Ballet Northwest
- Russian news channel signs out saying ‘No To War,’ plays ‘Swan Lake’ as staff walks out
- Rich Tradition Of Indigenous People Celebrated At Annual Pow Wow (VIDEO)
- ‘We’re not scary people’: The personal side of Truth and Reconciliation with Elder David Scott
- Manitoba government, MLLC sued over on-reserve smoking ban directive
- Bird-watching couple tout benefit of native plants to biodiversity in Saanich green spaces
- 'That is not consultation': Manitoba First Nation fights $453M Manitoba-Minnesota power line in court
- How First Nations priorities are informing novel ag practices
- Ballet Review: Swan Lake, West Australian Ballet
- When Bengaluru-based classical dance exponent gave Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake an Odissi makeover
- How Indigenous knowledge advances modern science and technology
- How Russia’s indigenous artists reforged Soviet ballet to revive provincial theatre
- First Nations in Manitoba lack adequate security measures, including police, chiefs say
- The Black Swan's Renaissance: Watch A South Asian Reimagining Of A Tchaikovsky Classic
- The Swans Fly In
- A visit to Swan Lake First Nation: Community pride shines through
- Top-ranked archer has gold medal ambitions at Indigenous games | story | Kids News
- Canada First Nations declare drugs state of emergency
- Manitoba First Nations man sues federal government for $11B over 'unfulfilled' treaty annuity payments
- Urban reserves bringing prosperity to First Nations & neighbours
- Learn how to sing 'Ode'min Giizis (Strawberry Moon)'
- Manitoba First Nations Police Service gets $155K from crime confiscations to pay for equipment, training
- Naawi-Oodena officially becomes largest urban reserve in Canada after repatriation of Winnipeg barracks
- Interlake First Nations leaders call new $15M fund connected to flood channel 'a slap in the face'
- 'It's a breach of treaty': Manitoba First Nations want promised land
- Swan Lake comes alive on stage with an Indian twist
- Bringing Oral History to Life: The Secret Treaty Tour and Book Launch
- Gas bar slated to become first business at Naawi-Oodena, 2 decades after Kapyong Barracks closure
- 'Rematriation project' hopes to return vintage Indigenous wares to their home communities
- Long Plain First Nation and Canada settle 100-year-old land sales dispute for $32M
- Indigenous Manitoba teen manufacturing authentic jingle cones, lids
- Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women
- Western University introduces Indigenous-focused residence
- 'These women are powerful': Record number of female chiefs leading Manitoba First Nations
- Indigenous construction venture clears space for Kenora-area lithium pilot plant
- First Nations teen earning rave reviews for archery prowess
- Seven First Nations Celebrate Treaty 1 Signing
- Ella Havelka's journey to become Australian Ballet's first Indigenous dancer
- Native gas-bar proposal panned by members
- New supportive housing facility for Indigenous women opens in Victoria
- Manitoba First Nation schools cautiously optimistic about new year
- Details released on $40M casino
- 10 residential school healing centres across Manitoba to get $500K funding
- Asper School of Business | Recognizing excellence in Indigenous business and entrepreneurship at VIBE 2023
- See: A New Documentary on The Australian Ballet’s First Indigenous Dancer
- Indigenous death doula mentorship program aims to teach youth to help others through grief
- Wilson-Raybould's testimony empowering to young Indigenous women, students say
- Maria Tallchief
- Swan Lake First Nation teen excels at archery in Manitoba as she connects with culture
- ‘It’s like the third world’: tribe feels forgotten as flooding brings misery to a struggling community
- Want to work in the U.S. through the Jay Treaty? Some say process is confusing, frustrating
- Tornado damages Swan Lake powwow grounds
- Province protects Swan Lake
- Anishinaabe artist paints the darker stories of the Indigenous experience
- Faculty of Law | Collaborative Pathways: Visionary Indigenous Business Excellence (VIBE) Awards
- Treaty 1 leadership holds contest to rename Kapyong Barracks site
- First Nations, Métis settlements join forces for deal backed by Indigenous Opportunities Corporation
- Meet the U of M’s first Vice-Provost (Indigenous Engagement)
- Runningbird, Wanner disappearances remain among Red Deer’s unsolved cases
- Sand Hills Casino opens in southwestern Manitoba
- Tornado-damaged powwow arena repaired just in time for Swan Lake First Nation's celebrations
- AMC stands in solidarity with the Swan Lake First Nation on its lawsuit against the government of Manitoba and the MLLC
- Rich Tradition Of Indigenous People Celebrated At Annual Pow Wow (VIDEO)
- First Nations dance group share stage with Fatboy Slim at Glastonbury Festival
- Swan Lake gets an Odissi twist
- Visitors get glimpse of plans for Kapyong Barracks during Indigenous day celebrations
- One of a kind red jingle dress cone project raising awareness of MMIWG
- Bird flu H5N1 strain could cause 'mass mortality' of black swans, other native birds
- Prepaid credit cards used for off-reserve First Nations COVID-19 relief cause headaches
- Swan Lake First Nation celebrates rebuilt powwow arbour
- Building relationships on National Indigenous Peoples Day
- Swan Lake Cultural Support/Resource Worker Reflects On Indigenous Recognition
- Anishinaabe artist looks to honour his grandmothers, women he never met, with latest project
- Local teacher combines love of music, computers with Indigenous pride
- Song of the swans
- Indigenous artists and craftspeople go online to connect with holiday shoppers
- Trouble in Swan Lake
- Swan Lake: the South African adaptation
- Liaison role a career stepping stone for First Nations worker
- Meet the 2025 candidates in the Kiiwetinoong riding
- Jul 2016: First Nations are growing their economies
- Milestone moment at Swan Lake opening night
- Rich Tradition Of Indigenous People Celebrated At Annual Pow Wow
- Invasive species: mute swan
- Queensland Ballet to perform Swan Lake after bumper season
- Swan Lake Beta Release of Ballerina Programming Language Lowers Barriers to Delivering Cloud-Native Applications
- New supportive housing complex for Indigenous women opens in Victoria
- Manitoba investing in 10 Indigenous residential school healing centres
- Native Americans traveled trails before white settlers arrived
- Latest updates on tornadoes, storms in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana: 3 dead, homes damaged
- 'The ultimate goal is to reduce the number of children in care': Indigenous Affairs minister
- Court of Appeal rules Lake Victoria traditional owner has right to make historic compensation claim
- Outrage over Victoria's black swan cull
- 'Swan Lake' — Russian Ballet Theatre presents updates to traditional performance in show set for Jefferson Center
- Hansika-The Swan Lake: Sharmila Muherjee brings Indian Touch to the Iconic Tale
- ‘A warrior by heart:’ Indigenous people enlisted to monitor pipelines
- Introducing ‘Ella’: The Story Of The Australian Ballet’s First Indigenous Dancer
- ‘A warrior by heart:’ Indigenous people enlisted to monitor pipelines
- Panel: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
- May 2017: News briefs
- A daring new Indigenous take on Swan Lake
- Recipients of 2024 TD Scholarship for Indigenous Peoples named
- When the Swan Lake alights on the Indian stage
- First Nations Community Policing Booming in MB out of Portage Area
- Muckleshoot Indian Tribe and City of Seattle sign settlement agreemen
- RRC Polytech key to success for Indigenous banking expert and Business Administration alum
- Lita Fontaine on Winyan, her new exhibit celebrating Indigenous women and their resilience
- Children at Lake Manitoba Indian day school were strapped for speaking their language, say former students
- Indigenous oral history gives archeologists insight into early human life
- Memorial ride to Headingley jail held for William Ahmo, who died after incident with corrections officers
- New clinic offers culturally safe health care for Indigenous Peoples
- Indigenous educator creates program teaching computer science and coding via music
- See: A New Documentary on The Australian Ballet’s First Indigenous Dancer
- Province protects Swan Lake in the Okanagan
- Fuel spill impacting Swan Lake traced to Saanich home’s oil furnace
- First Nations teen entrepreneur feels the sting of Canada-U.S. trade war
- Elites’ ticket offer: diversity in the cheap seats
Academic Research
Academic Research
- Black Swan Lake: life of a wetland
- Investigating Cultural Appropriateness in On-Reserve Housing in the Swan River First Nation Community
- Australian speculative indigenous fiction as counter-narrative: Post-apocalyptic environments and indigenous ancestral knowledge in Alexis Wright's The Swan Book
- Erased Places? Revealing the Mission network of the Swan River Colony, 1829-1879.
- Swan River belonging: social and emotional interactions with an urban river in the South West of Western Australia
- People and place of the hissing swan: Kaawirn Kuunawarn, Lake Connewarren, the Weatherlys and'Connewarran'station
- Climate Change and the Politics with the Indigenous: A Comparative Study of The Swan Book and The Last Wave
- Indigenous planning: process and development of a community housing plan for Swan Lake First Nation
- Urban watershed health and resilience, evaluated through land use history and eco-hydrology in Swan Lake watershed (Saanich, BC)
- Researching the past: oral history and archaeology at Swan Reach
- Human-wetland relations in an agricultural landscape: Ojibway and non-Indigenous perspectives from the Swan Lake region, Manitoba
- Past, present, and future land use of Swan River First Nation
- Swan Lake Conservation Reserve (C114)
- Investigating Cultural Appropriateness in On-Reserve Housing in the Swan River First Nation Community
Expert Analysis