Ō-chē-sē | O'Chiese First Nation
Community Profile
- The O'Chiese First Nation is a Woodland Cree community situated in central Alberta, with a rich history of traditional land use and cultural preservation
- Last Updated 2025-05-11 09:06:41 UTC
- Name: O'Chiese (ISC Code: 431)
- Former Names: O'Chiese Indian Band
- Band Style: First Nations
- Cultural Area: Western Woodlands
- Indigenous Language: Cree (ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍwin)
- Number of Registered Members: 1565
Governance
Band Council
- GOVERNANCE TYPE: Not Applicable
- TERM EXPIRES: 02/20/2029
- CHIEF: DOUGLAS BEAVERBONES
- NUMBER OF COUNCIL MEMBERS:12
- PHYLLIS WHITFORD
- DOUGLAS BEAVERBONES
- MARTIN IRONBOW
- MALCOLM WHITFORD
- BERNADINE COLEMAN
- HERMAN POORMAN
- PHYLLIS WHITFORD
- RYAN LITTLEJOHN
- BARRY SAULTEAUX
- ROBERT STRAWBERRY
- CEDRIC WHITFORD
- DWAYNE BEAVERBONE
Contact Information
- BAND WEBSITE: http://www.ochiese.ca/
- PHONE NUMBER: (403) 989-3943
- FAX NUMBER: (403) 989-3795
- ADDRESS: PO BOX 1570, ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOUSE, AB
- EMAILS:
- Chief PHYLLIS WHITFORD:
- Chief DOUGLAS BEAVERBONES:
- Councillor MARTIN IRONBOW:
- Councillor MALCOLM WHITFORD:
- Councillor BERNADINE COLEMAN:
- Councillor HERMAN POORMAN:
- Councillor PHYLLIS WHITFORD:
- Councillor RYAN LITTLEJOHN:
- Councillor BARRY SAULTEAUX:
- Councillor ROBERT STRAWBERRY:
- Councillor CEDRIC WHITFORD:
- Councillor DWAYNE BEAVERBONE:
- 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 - O'Chiese20122013.pdf
- 2010 - O'Chiese20102011.pdf
- 2009 - O'Chiese20092010.pdf
- 2008 - O'Chiese20082009.pdf
- 2007 - O'Chiese20072008.pdf
- 2006 - O'Chiese20062007.pdf
- 2005 - O'Chiese20052006.pdf
- 2004 - O'Chiese20042005.pdf
- 2003 - O'Chiese20032004.pdf
- 2002 - O'Chiese20022003.pdf
- 2001 - O'Chiese20012002.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: 6637
O'CHIESE NO. 203
14131.9 Hectares
48 KM NW/NO OF/DE ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOUSE
[52.3776203, -114.9137542] -
ISC Code: 6638
O'CHIESE CEMETERY NO. 203A
0.1 Hectares
13 MILES SOUTHWESTERLY OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOUSE IN SE 1/4 SEC 26 TWP 37 RANGE 8 W5M
[52.3776203, -114.9137542]
O’Chiese Traditional Territory
- Encompasses regions of central Alberta
- Includes forested areas near Rocky Mountain House
- Traditional lands span multiple ecological zones
- Key river systems: Red Deer River watershed
Consultations and Referrals
Band Submissions
Consultation Reports
Band Business Interests
Band Owned Corporations
Court Records
Downloadable Court Decisions
- O’Chiese First Nation v DLA Piper (Canada) LLP
- O'Chiese First Nation v Alberta Energy Regulator
- O'Chiese Energy Limited Partnership v Bellatrix Exploration Ltd
- Strawberry v. O’Chiese First Nation
- Tuharsky v. O'Chiese First Nation
- O'Chiese Energy Limited Partnership v Bellatrix Exploration Ltd
- Tuharsky v O’Chiese First Nation
- Tuharksy v O’chiese First Nation
- O'Chiese First Nation v. Alberta Energy Regulator, et al.
- O’Chiese First Nation v. Shell Canada Limited
Active Court Cases
Media Reports
Media Reports
- Comment period open for remediation of O’Chiese First Nation landfills
- O'Chiese First Nation to get new bridge, community building upgrades
- 'We Need to Work Together. That's How it was Meant to Be.'
- Alberta emergency alert issued about 4 armed, dangerous suspects in area of Sunchild, O'Chiese First Nations
- First Nations and town council seek accountability for local family
- Re-imagining the way we work with Indigenous groups
- O’Chiese Nation opens resort and casino in Red Deer: A conversation with Adrian Strawberry
- O’Chiese First Nation disappointed federal budget didn’t come with cash for roads
- Chiefs of Canada’s First Nations call on feds on National Indigenous Peoples Day
- 2 First Nations in central Alberta enact bylaw to evict drug dealers
- O’Chiese First Nation members call for more support following shootings
- Rocky takes huge step towards reconciliation
- Indigenous elders worried for future generations if no action taken on climate change
- 2 central Alberta First Nations enact bylaws to evict drug dealers
- Central Alberta chiefs stand up to drug dealers
- Rocky Mountain House commits to reconciliation work, partnerships with nearby First Nations
- Lone challenger of 7-term Alberta chief plans legal action after being stripped from ballot
- Cascade Power Project with First Nations’ multi-million-dollar equity stake wins Deal of the Year award
- Paying Homage to the Spirit of the Land with the Foothills Ojibway First Nation
- Central Alberta First Nations included in historic agreement with Alberta government
- O'Chiese students and teachers participate in trapper education course
- Alberta chief wins 7th term after only challenger disqualified by rare linguistic rule
- The Sweetgrass Bear
- Sweetgrass Bear is UAlberta effort to work toward reconciliation
- Wildfires in Alberta and Saskatchewan affecting a dozen First Nations
- Alberta Indigenous communities receive $11.8 million in COVID-19 funding
- Sweetgrass Bear is UAlberta effort to work toward reconciliation
- O’Chiese, Town of Rocky, RCMP respond to viral videos of Indigenous man’s arrest
- Paula Simons: First Nation chiefs' salaries so high, they shocked another aboriginal leader
- Missing: Kyle Chipaway, 30, of the O’Chiese First Nation
- Jasper welcomes home Indigenous partners
- Rocky Mountain House holds flag-raising ceremony to celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day
- Racism incident: Joint task force established to tackle racism in Rocky Mountain House
- An attempted murder charge against an O’Chiese man was dropped by a Red Deer court
- Rocky RCMP are seeking missing O’Chiese man
- Beyond Local: Wildfires are threatening First Nations and Metis communities in Alberta
- O’Chiese First Nation celebrates taking ownership of Cambridge Hotel
- Alberta chiefs call for minister to meet them to discuss racism in health care
- Canada's chiefs call out federal government
- Seven Grandfathers
- Homicide suspect sought after shelter-in-place alert for 2 central Alberta First Nations
- Alberta government backstops 6 First Nations on investment in $1.5B power plant near Edson
- Early Anishinaabe had their own ‘powerpoint’
- Red Deer man among seven others charged during "high-risk" arrest
- Confederacy of Treaty No. 6 Nations declares State of Emergency due to opioid crisis
- Wildfires, disasters underscore need for mutual aid agreements between Indigenous Nations in Alberta
- Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corp. gives six First Nations a loan guarantee for a major power project
- First Nations representatives address hearing on proposed pipeline expansion in west central Alberta
- Money talks
- Treaty 8 Grand Chief pushing for First Nations police service
- Alberta government invests in Indigenous-led mental health supports
- Treaty Nations go international to halt recognition framework
- Six First Nations in Alberta acquire equity stake in $1.5-billion power plant project
- First Nations and Rocky Mountain House leaders investigate accusations of racism
- Wild week for Rocky Mountain House RCMP on the Sunchild and O’Chiese First Nations
- Indigenous Communities get Provincial Funding
- Man charged with second-degree murder in Alberta First Nations death
- Don Cardinal dedicated his life to helping people in need of healing
- New housing units to be built for Indigenous people in Medicine Hat
- Chiefs Recognize Continued Termination of First Nations Rights Agenda by Canada
- O'Chiese First Nation resident charged with second-degree murder
- Treaty Nations go international to halt recognition framework
Academic Research
Academic Research
- Peter O'Chiese
- Workshop X: William Joseph, Peter O'Chiese, Harold Cardinal
- Medicine Hat Red Brick: A Tale of Extractivist Colonialism and Environmental Racism
- Community mobile treatment what it is and how it works
- Lessons Learned from the Yellowhead Tribal Services Agency Open Custom Adoption Program 1
- The use of GIS technology for local resource management in the first nations community context: the O'Chiese example
- Aboriginal justice and programs initiative
- The use of GIS technology for local resource management in the First Nations community context: The O'Chiese example (Alberta)
- Indigenous education program launched.
- Making movies, changing lives: Aboriginal film and identity
- A Native model of community based sobriety
- Peter O'Chiese
- Workshop X: William Joseph, Peter O'Chiese, Harold Cardinal
- The Other Energy Security: Addressing Energy Poverty in
- The use of GIS technology for local resource management in the first nations community context: the O'Chiese example
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