ah-nish-nah-bay | Nation Anishnabe du Lac Simon
Community Profile
- The Lac Simon First Nation is an Anishnabe (Algonquin) community located in northwestern Québec, known for maintaining strong cultural traditions and connection to traditional lands.
- Last Updated 2025-05-01 07:43:38 UTC
- Name: Nation Anishnabe du Lac Simon (ISC Code: 63)
- Former Names: Lac Simon Band, Anishnabe First Nation of Lac Simon
- Band Style: First Nation
- Cultural Area: Boreal Forest/Subarctic
- Indigenous Language: Algonquin
- Number of Registered Members: 2370
Governance
Band Council
- GOVERNANCE TYPE: Not Applicable
- TERM EXPIRES: 02/17/2027
- CHIEF: LUCIEN WABANONIK
- NUMBER OF COUNCIL MEMBERS:5
- LUCIEN WABANONIK
- ANNA CHEEZO
- GHISLAIN NÉQUADO
- JEAN-MARIE PAPATIE
- DANNY PIEN
Contact Information
- BAND WEBSITE: http://www.anishinabenation.ca/eng/comm_lacsimon_en.htm
- PHONE NUMBER: (819) 736-4501
- FAX NUMBER: (819) 736-7311
- ADDRESS: 1026, Boulevard Cicip, CP 139, Lac Simon, QC
- EMAILS:
- Chief LUCIEN WABANONIK:
- Councillor ANNA CHEEZO:
- Councillor GHISLAIN NÉQUADO:
- Councillor JEAN-MARIE PAPATIE:
- Vice Chief DANNY PIEN:
- 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 - Nation Anishnabe du Lac Simon20122013.pdf
- 2011 - Nation Anishnabe du Lac Simon20112012.pdf
- 2010 - Nation Anishnabe du Lac Simon20102011.pdf
- 2009 - Nation Anishnabe du Lac Simon20092010.pdf
- 2008 - Nation Anishnabe du Lac Simon20082009.pdf
- 2007 - Nation Anishnabe du Lac Simon20072008.pdf
- 2006 - Nation Anishnabe du Lac Simon20062007.pdf
- 2005 - Nation Anishnabe du Lac Simon20052006.pdf
- 2004 - Nation Anishnabe du Lac Simon20042005.pdf
- 2003 - Nation Anishnabe du Lac Simon20032004.pdf
- 2002 - Nation Anishnabe du Lac Simon20022003.pdf
- 2001 - Nation Anishnabe du Lac Simon20012002.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: 6134
LAC SIMON
678.4 Hectares
32 KM SE/SE OF/DE VAL D'OR
[48.0534806, -77.33638239999999]
- Traditional lands centered in northwestern Quebec
- Encompasses boreal forest regions surrounding Lac Simon
- Historically used for hunting, fishing, and gathering
- Includes watersheds and forest ecosystems of the Abitibi region
- Traditional territory spans approximately 10,000 square kilometers
Consultations and Referrals
Band Submissions
Consultation Reports
Band Business Interests
Band Owned Corporations
Court Records
Media Reports
Media Reports
- Meet 4 inspiring Indigenous Leaders at COP15
- ‘I believe that there is racial profiling’: Provinces are slowly banning birth alerts – but not in Quebec
- Indigenous knowledges and climate change content launched on the Climate Atlas
- Father of fallen Quebec police officer says son's killer should have never had access to guns
- The new Anishinabe Algonquin Nation Protocol with the City of Ottawa
- Tensions high in Lac-Simon after fatal police shooting
- Saint-Marc-de-Figuery residential school: “We must dig here”
- Father of slain Lac-Simon police officer 'disgusted' by coroner's report
- ‘We must purify this place’: Algonquin Nation returns to residential school site after Elder’s vision
- Municipalities across Quebec on alert as wildfires rage across province
- NYC Plans to Import Canadian Hydropower. Who Benefits?
- Algonquin (Anishinaabe)
- Municipalities across Quebec on alert, as wildfires rage across province
- $3B class action lawsuit filed against Ottawa over First Nations child welfare discrimination
- Silence: Colonialism at work
- First Nation call for a logging moratorium in caribou habitat
- Val d’Or caribou: symbol of a biodiversity crisis and disregard for Indigenous rights
- Ottawa agrees to certify 2 class action lawsuits over the treatment of First Nation children
Academic Research
Academic Research
- Sensibiliser des étudiantes en travail social à la culture et aux réalités des Anicinabek par un cours de travail de groupe en immersion
- Waging Care in Anishnabe Aki: The Algonquins of Barriere Lake and Sixties Scoop Diasporas Against Canada's Economy of Indigenous Child Removal
- Encounters on Contested Lands: Indigenous Performances of Sovereignty and Nationhood in Quebec
- Anishinabek Traditional Law and Governance An Anishinabek Nations Treaty Authority (ANTA) Report May 2021 In Conjunction with
- Anicinabe Aki—Invisible No More: Indigenous Urban History in the Abitibi Region
- Is the Water leaving? World-Making in the Settler-Colonial Context at Lake Abitibi, Québec, Unceded Abitibiwinni Aki (Anicinape Territory)
- Indigenous lands management, cultural landscapes and Anishinaabe people of Shoal Lake, Northwestern Ontario, Canada
- Non-Indigenous and Indigenous food-related interactions: How does the transmission of a normativity perpetuate colonialism?
- SECTION 4 LAW & GOVERNANCE RESEARCHED
- Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais: Early Accounts of the Anishinaabeg and the North Shore Fur Trade
- Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais: Early Accounts of the Anishinaabeg and the North Shore Fur Trade
- Encounters on Contested Lands: Indigenous Performances of Sovereignty and Nationhood in Quebec
- Encounters on Contested Lands: Indigenous Performances of Sovereignty and Nationhood in Quebec
- Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais: Early Accounts of the Anishinaabeg and the North Shore Fur Trade
- Encounters on Contested Lands: Indigenous Performances of Sovereignty and Nationhood in Quebec
- Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais: Early Accounts of the Anishinaabeg and the North Shore Fur Trade
- Décolonisation de l'alimentation des peuples autochtones: étude du cas de la communauté Anishnabe de Lac Simon
- Gestion du mos (orignal) chez les Simo Sagainiwininik (gens du Lac Simon) et le gouvernement du Québec: Les défis de la coexistence
- Vers la fierté Anishnabe
- Mos wiyas sasigwan acitc sasipatakan: la contemporanéité alimentaire des Anicinabek de Lac Simon et leurs stratégies d'adaptation face au colonialisme alimentaire
- La légende du windigo dans la création autochtone contemporaine au Québec
- Encounters on Contested Lands: Indigenous Performances of Sovereignty and Nationhood in Quebec
- Fire in the contemporary cuisines of Indigenous peoples in Canada
- Encounters on Contested Lands: Indigenous Performances of Sovereignty and Nationhood in Quebec
- Décolonisation de l'alimentation des peuples autochtones: étude du cas de la communauté Anishnabe de Lac Simon
- Anicinabe Aki—Invisible No More: Indigenous Urban History in the Abitibi Region
- RÉSURGENCE ANICINABE ET DÉCOLONISATION DES SAVOIRS: COCRÉATION/CORECHERCHE AVEC MINW ASHIN POUR RÉFLÉCHIR À LA …
- Anishinabek Traditional Law and Governance An Anishinabek Nations Treaty Authority (ANTA) Report May 2021 In Conjunction with
- Are Indigenous youth in a tug-of-war between community and city? Reflections from a visioning workshop in the Lac Simon Anishnaabeg community (Quebec …
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