Pauingassi First Nation is an Anishinaabe (Saulteaux/Ojibwa) First Nation community located approximately 280 km northeast of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and 24 km north of Little Grand Rapids, Manitoba, on a peninsula jutting southward into Fishing Lake, a tributary of Berens River. The main economic base of the community remains hunting, fishing, trapping and wild rice harvesting. The First Nation has one reserve land: Pauingassi First Nation Indian Reserve, spanning a total 260.50 ha, which serves as their main reserve and contains the eponymous settlement of Pauingassi at 52.15556°N, -95.37389°W.

Governance

Originally part of Little Grand Rapids First Nation, the Pauingassi received reserve status in 1988 and became a separate First Nation from the Little Grand Rapids First Nation on 7 October 1991. Today, Pauingassi First Nation is governed by the Custom Electoral System of government. Pauingassi First Nation is a member of the Southeast Resource Development Council and a signatory to Treaty 5.