The Beaver First Nation ( bea, Tsa'tinne) is a

First Nation government In Canada, an Indian band or band (french: bande indienne, link=no), sometimes referred to as a First Nation band (french: bande de la Première Nation, link=no) or simply a First Nation, is the basic unit of government for those peoples subjec ...

or band, made up of members of the

Danezaa people The Dane-zaa (ᑕᓀᖚ, also spelled Dunne-za, or Tsattine) are an Athabaskan-speaking group of First Nations people. Their traditional territory is around the Peace River in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. Today, about 1,600 Dane-zaa re ...

, also known as the Beavers. The Beaver First Nation is one of only two Danezaa bands in Alberta (the other being the

Horse Lake First Nation The Horse Lake First Nation is a First Nations band government west of Hythe in northwestern Alberta, Canada. It consists of the Beaver and Cree people. It is a party to Treaty 8, and is a member of the Western Cree Tribal Council. Despite b ...

), but there are several others nearby in British Columbia. The band controls two reserves,

Boyer 164 Boyer River 164 is an Indian reserve of the Beaver First Nation in Alberta, located within Mackenzie County. It is 16 kilometers northwest of Fort Vermilion. In the 2016 Canadian Census The 2016 Canadian census was an enumeration of Canadian r ...

and

Child Lake 164A Child Lake 164A is an Indian reserve of the Beaver First Nation in Alberta, located within Mackenzie County. It is 32 kilometers northwest of Fort Vermilion. The reserve takes its name from a nearby lake where a child once drowned. Geography T ...

both near

Fort Vermilion, Alberta Fort Vermilion is a hamlet on the Peace River in northern Alberta, Canada, within Mackenzie County. Established in 1788, Fort Vermilion shares the title of oldest European settlement in Alberta with Fort Chipewyan. Fort Vermilion contains many ...

in the Peace Country of

Northern Alberta Northern Alberta is a geographic region located in the Canadian province of Alberta. An informally defined cultural region, the boundaries of Northern Alberta are not fixed. Under some schemes, the region encompasses everything north of the ce ...

. The band is a member of the North Peace Tribal Council and is party to

Treaty 8 Treaty 8, which concluded with the June 21, 1899 signing by representatives of the Crown and various First Nations of the Lesser Slave Lake area, is the most comprehensive of the one of eleven Numbered Treaties. The agreement encompassed a ...

. In April 2016, the band had a

registered Registered may refer to: * Registered mail, letters, packets or other postal documents considered valuable and in need of a chain of custody * Registered trademark symbol, symbol ® that provides notice that the preceding is a trademark or service ...

population of 1,065, more than half of which lived off reserve.Registered Population
,

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, retrieved on 14-05-2016

References

External links

First Nation Detail

{{Authority control First Nations governments in Alberta Dane-zaa Mackenzie County