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Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation is 3,685 members, of whom 1,624 live on the Kitigan Zibi reserve and 2,061 live off reserve.
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meaning "Mary's Land") and also "River Desert". The name "Kitigan Zibi" came to replace the other two on
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