page_title: Asubpeeschoseewagong First Nation
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Asubpeeschoseewagong First Nation / History
caption_attribution_description: Hudson's Bay Store, Grassy Narrows, Ontario - c. early 1960s.
context_page_description: Asubpeeschoseewagong First Nation is an Ojibwe First Nations band government who inhabit northern Kenora in Ontario, Canada. Their landbase is the 4,145 ha English River 21 Indian Reserve. It has a registered population of 1,595 as of October 2019, of which the on-reserve population was 971 They are a signatory to Treaty 3.
context_section_description: Although the Asubpeeschoseewagong people themselves say that they have always lived along the Wabigoon-English River northeast of Lake of the Woods, most historians believe that the ancestors of the Northern Ojibway were first encountered by Europeans near what is now Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and thus were given the name Saulteaux. Their territory was on the northern shore of the Great Lakes from the Michipicoten Bay of Lake Superior to the Georgian Bay of Lake Huron. Participation in the North American fur trade was initially through trading of furs trapped by other tribes, but soon the Saulteaux acquired trapping skills and emigrated to their present location as they sought productive trapping grounds.
caption: Hudson's Bay Store in Grassy Narrows, early 1960s
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