The Stephenville/Stephenville Crossing Band Council was formed in 1981, after the Regional Band Council was disbanded. Prior to this most of our members were part of the Bay St. George Regional Band which consisted of Flat Bay, and Port Au Port Bands and any Mi'kmaq people that lived outside their boundries in the Bay St. George region. In 1989, we became affiliated with the Federation of Newfoundland Indians.

On April 7th, 2002, in keeping with the name of our original settlement, our members decided to change the band's name to Indian Head First Nations. Indian Head has been in existence for hundreds of years and was mentioned in the writings of W.E. Cormack on his historic journey across Newfoundland, in the early 1800's. In 1822, Cormack listed 150 Mi'kmaq living at Indian Head, with the family names of Benoit, Alexander, Lucoos, Young, Marche, LeBlanc, Gallant, Gabriel, and Cormier.

In the early twentieth century, the development of an iron ore mine in the area and the coming of the American Air Force Base at Harmon Field dispersed the people of this settlement to different areas throughout Bay St. George, such as Stephenville, Stephenville Crossing, Mattis Point, Black Duck, Cold Brook, Noel's Pond, and Gallants. Today the descendants of these early Mi'kmaq people and their family names are quite prevalent throughout the region.

In 1981 the band had a membership of 500 people over the age of 19 and today after meeting the criteria set forth by the Federation, our membership is just less than 500 adult members.