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Peguis First Nation, Canada

About 600 members of the Peguis First Nation (Ojibwe: Oshki-ishkonigan) were displaced during the 2011 floods in Manitoba. A joint lawsuit brought by the Peguis and Ebb and Flow First Nations against the Government of Manitoba claimed that, "The Peguis reserve has flooded virtually every year for the last 30 years...water levels are kept at unnatural levels and aboriginal lands are flooded partly because Lake Winnipeg is being used by Manitoba Hydro as a 'reservoir.'" (Photo the Peguis Nation's flag, created by elder Freda Bear in 1983.)