[2] The Nation controls two reserves: the larger reserve, Enoch Cree Nation 135, is 20 square miles (52 km2) (20 sections) or officially 5,306.20 hectares (13,111.9 acres)[3] and west of, and adjacent to, the City of Edmonton and surrounded by Parkland County on the north, west, and south.
The smaller reserve, 135A is 2 hectares (4.9 acres) located 43 km (27 mi) south of the Town of Barrhead.
[4] As of October 2019[update], approximately 1,800 band members live on the larger reserve, while others reside elsewhere within the Edmonton Metropolitan Region.
Once the Hudson's Bay Company created forts, the First Nations largely embraced the fur trade.
135, the Stony Plain Indian Reserve, and finally Enoch Cree Nation, was originally 44 sections of land (44 sq mi or 110 km2) including access to the North Saskatchewan River on the southeast corner.
[7] On January 20, 1902, the northern 12 sections (out of the original 44) were surrendered and sold to private (non-First Nation) buyers.