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Sandy Lake First Nation (or Negaw-zaaga'igani Nitam-Anishinaabe, Oji-Cree: ᓀᑲᐤ ᕊᑲᐃᑲᓂᐣ᙮) is an independent Oji-Cree First Nations band government. The First Nations community, in the west part of Northern Ontario, is located in the Kenora District, northeast of Red Lake, Ontario. Its registered population in June 2007 was 2,474. Sandy Lake First Nation maintains an affiliation with Nishnawbe Aski Nation, as a signatory to the Treaty 5. Sandy Lake is policed by the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service, an Aboriginal based service. ==Reserve== The First Nation's land base is the 4,266 hectare (10541.47 acre) Sandy Lake 88 Reserve. Within this reserve is the community of Sandy Lake, which during the mid-1900s was known as ''Wabitigweyaang''. Associated with the community, the Sandy Lake First Nation maintains seven neighbourhoods grouped into five districts: * Airport / Center * Big Rock / Ghost Point * Old Sawmill * River * Roman Catholic Sandy Lake is serviced by a Northern Store owned by the North West Company Inc. The community is a fly-in community, serviced by Wasaya, Superior and Perimeter Airlines, and is linked to the rest of the province by winter ice roads that travel south towards Deer Lake and Pikangikum, open for approximately six weeks during the winter months. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sandy Lake First Nation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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