Building a contact database for Indigenous harvesting authority governance

Ahnii! Reaching First Nations band offices is harder than it should be. Phone numbers are scattered across government portals, community websites, and PDFs. Email addresses are buried on leadership pages — when they exist at all. I needed a structured contact database for Indigenous harvesting authority governance across ON, AB, SK, MB, and BC, so I built one. This post covers the two-notebook pipeline I wrote to collect that data, how it connects to the North Cloud source-manager API, and the extraction patterns that make it work at scale. Why ISC Profiles Are the Right Starting Point Indigenous Services Canada maintains a First Nations profiles directory. Each community registered with INAC has a band number, and each band number maps to a predictable URL: https://fnp-ppn.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/fnp/Main/Search/FNMain.aspx?BAND_NUMBER={band_number} The profile pages are public, structured HTML, and contain the data I needed: official name, mailing address, phone, fax, website URL, and trib