Culture
and Heritage
Unique
and significant features such as ceremonial, heritage and archeological
sites, treaty areas, traplines and trapper cabins are valuable
to local communities.
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Definitions:
Land
Entitlement Areas: Areas
that Canada owes to specific First Nations based on the term of
original treaties. Currently, about 50% of Manitoba’s 61
First Nations have outstanding Treaty Land Entitlement Areas.
Source:
Manitoba Government - http://www.gov.mb.ca/ana/pdf/treaty_land_entitlement.pdf
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Background:
The following table
gives examples of cultural and heritage sites located in FML01.
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| Treaty Areas |
Treaty 3 and 5 are the traditional areas of the Anishinabe
Ojibwe. Two proposed land entitlement areas are in the Lac du
Bonnet area, and have been removed from planning.
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Heritage Sites
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Known archeological sites, ceremonial sites, pictographs,
cabins and trails are recorded in a Tembec database and used
for planning.
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Traplines
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Tembec continuously updates an inventory of 56 traplines.
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Rivers
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Rivers such as the Winnipeg River, which was used during the
fur trade, are of national significance.
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Treaty
Entitlement in Manitoba
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