Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg ("Garden River People") [1] is an Algonquin First Nation in Quebec, Canada. It is based in the Outaouais region and owns one Indian reserve named Kitigan Zibi, located on the shores of the Gatineau River near Maniwaki. In 2018, it has a total registered population of 3,286 members. [2]
The Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg are governed by a band council elected according to an election system based on Section 11 of the Indian Act. For 2020-2022 tenure, the chief of this council is Dylan Whiteduck. [3]
According to Statistics Canada's 2011 Census, on a total population of 1,395, 36.2% knew an indigenous language. More precisely, 25.4% had an indigenous language still spoken and understood as first language and 21.1% spoke an indigenous language at home. Regarding Canada's two official languages, 43% knew both English and French, 54.8% knew only English and 2.1% knew only French. [4] Concerned about the disinterest of its youth in their own language, the community has decided to reintroduce the teaching of the Algonquin language in school. [5]
As of the 2016 census of those living on the Kitigan Zibi reserve: [6]
The chiefs have been: [7]
The Kitigan Zibi Pow wow is held annually on the first weekend of June. The Kitigan Zibi Cultural Centre has a number of exhibits, cultural artifacts, paintings, and photographs relating to the Algonquin culture and history. A living museum, Mawandoseg Kitigan Zibi, is dedicated to the Anishinaabeg way of life. [8]
The Algonquin people are an Indigenous people who now live in Eastern Canada. They speak the Algonquin language, which is part of the Algonquian language family. Culturally and linguistically, they are closely related to the Odawa, Potawatomi, Ojibwe, Mississaugas, and Nipissing, with whom they form the larger Anicinàpe (Anishinaabeg). Algonquins call themselves Omàmiwinini or the more generalised name of Anicinàpe.
Algonquin is either a distinct Algonquian language closely related to the Ojibwe language or a particularly divergent Ojibwe dialect. It is spoken, alongside French and to some extent English, by the Algonquin First Nations of Quebec and Ontario. As of 2006, there were 2,680 Algonquin speakers, less than 10% of whom were monolingual. Algonquin is the language for which the entire Algonquian language subgroup is named; the similarity among the names often causes considerable confusion. Like many Native American languages, it is strongly verb-based, with most meaning being incorporated into verbs instead of using separate words for prepositions, tense, etc.
Maniwaki is a town in the province of Quebec, Canada. It is situated 130 kilometres (81 mi) north of Ottawa, Ontario, on the Gatineau River, at the crossroads of Route 105 and Route 107, near Route 117. The town is the administrative centre for La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau Regional County Municipality.
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A tribal council is an association of First Nations bands in Canada, generally along regional, ethnic or linguistic lines.
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Kitigan Zibi is a First Nations reserve of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation, an Algonquin band. It is situated near the confluence of the Désert and Gatineau Rivers, and borders south-west on the Town of Maniwaki in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada. Having a total area of 210.09 km2 (81.12 sq mi), it is the largest Algonquin Nation in Canada in both area and population.
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