1992 Implementation Agreement Benefits


The following list highlights the benefits which the First Nation has received as a result of signing the 1992 Agreement:

• 35,000+ acres of additional Reserve Lands
• 38 Parcels, made up of 2,800+ acres, of Fee Simple Lands
• Continuing Joint Management of lands and resources in defined Split Lake Resource Area
• Continuing Tataskweyak Trust with $30.0 million capital
• More than $30.9 million of community investments:


• economic and social development $11.0 million
• resource compensation 7.3 million
• remedial works 10.0 million
• agreement implementation 2.6 million
  
  
• Investments have provided many benefits, including:
  
• $1.4 million in monthly Elders' compensation


• $4.4 million in per capita payments


• 12 person peacekeeper force (lowest crime rate in Northern Manitoba)


• average of 1,490 person weeks of employment per year


• homemaker support for 20 Elders at home and in care


• construction and operation:
  
• 400 seat arena
• First Nation Administration Building
• Public Security building
• 87 houses
• youth centre
• Elders' residence
  
  
• $800,000+ in additional flooding compensation after 1992 because of water regime variations
• Ongoing environmental, monitoring and remediation programs
• Facilitation of trapping and fishing programs

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