| Band Name: | Pauingassi First Nation |
| Band Number: | 327 |
| People: | Saulteaux |
| Treaty: | Treaty 5 |
| Province: | Manitoba |
| Main Reserve: | Pauingassi First Nation Indian Reserve |
| Area: | 2.605 |
| Pop Year: | 2019 |
| On Reserve: | 624 |
| Off Reserve: | 66 |
| Total Pop: | 690 |
| Chief: | Roddy Owens |
| Tribal Council: | Southeast Resource Development Council |
| Footnotes: | [1] |
Pauingassi First Nation (Ojibwa: Bawingaasi)[2] is an Anishinaabe (Saulteaux/Ojibwa) First Nation community located approximately 280km (170miles) northeast of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and 24km (15miles) north of Little Grand Rapids, Manitoba, on a peninsula jutting southward into Fishing Lake, a tributary of Berens River.
The main economic base of the community remains hunting, fishing, trapping and wild rice harvesting.[1]
The First Nation has one reserve land: Pauingassi First Nation Indian Reserve, spanning a total 260.5ha, which serves as their main reserve and contains the eponymous settlement of Pauingassi at 52.1556°N -95.3739°W.
Originally part of Little Grand Rapids First Nation, the Pauingassi received reserve status in 1988 and became a separate First Nation from the Little Grand Rapids First Nation on 7 October 1991.
Today, Pauingassi First Nation is governed by the Custom Electoral System of government. Pauingassi First Nation is a member of the Southeast Resource Development Council and a signatory to Treaty 5.