Couchiching First Nation

The Couchiching First Nation (Ojibwe: Gojijiing Anishinaabeg) is a Saulteaux First Nation band government in the Canadian province of Ontario, who live on the Couchiching 16A and Agency 1 reserves in the Rainy River District near Fort Frances.

Originally, members of the Couchiching First Nation resided further west and others were voyageurs from the east until they moved to the Fort Frances area in the late 19th century to avoid the Louis Riel Rebellion.

The Department of Indian Affairs then allocated them a tract of land north of the town, but the band members considered it too far from the trading post.

Couchiching First Nation had early residences in the Wasaw area north of Frog Creek/Frog Lake.

This area was highly regarded in the busy 19th-century forestry and wild rice harvests.