Eh-see-peet | Innue Essipit First Nation
Community Profile
- The Innue Essipit are a First Nation of the Innu (Montagnais) people, traditionally inhabiting the North Shore region of Quebec along the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. They are part of the Mamuitun First Nation collective.
- Last Updated 2025-04-21 15:33:49 UTC
- Name: Innue Essipit (ISC Code: 86)
- Former Names: Essipit Band, Montagnais of Essipit
- Band Style: First Nation
- Cultural Area: Côte-Nord, Quebec
- Indigenous Language: Innu-aimun
- Number of Registered Members: 2077
Governance
Band Council
- GOVERNANCE TYPE: Not Applicable
- TERM EXPIRES: 07/12/2028
- CHIEF: MARTIN DUFOUR
- NUMBER OF COUNCIL MEMBERS:5
- MARTIN DUFOUR
- YVES RACINE
- MOREAU KIM
- SUZIE GAGNON
- JEAN-FRANÇOIS BOULIANNE
Contact Information
- BAND WEBSITE: http://www.mamuitun.com/membres-essipit.asp
- PHONE NUMBER: (418) 233-2509
- FAX NUMBER: (418) 233-2888
- ADDRESS: 32, rue de la Réserve, CP 820, Essipit, QC
- EMAILS:
- Chief MARTIN DUFOUR:
- Councillor YVES RACINE:
- Councillor MOREAU KIM:
- Councillor SUZIE GAGNON:
- Councillor JEAN-FRANÇOIS BOULIANNE:
- General Band Office:
- Media Contact:
- Referrals Contact:
- Websites
Band Financial Statements
- 2023 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2022 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2021 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2020 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2019 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2018 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2017 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2016 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2015 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2014 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2013 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2012 - Innue Essipit20122013.pdf
- 2011 - Innue Essipit20112012.pdf
- 2010 - Innue Essipit20102011.pdf
- 2009 - Innue Essipit20092010.pdf
- 2008 - Innue Essipit20082009.pdf
- 2007 - Innue Essipit20072008.pdf
- 2006 - Innue Essipit20062007.pdf
- 2005 - Innue Essipit20052006.pdf
- 2004 - Innue Essipit20042005.pdf
- 2003 - Innue Essipit20032004.pdf
- 2002 - Innue Essipit20022003.pdf
- 2001 - Innue Essipit20012002.pdf
Band Council Remuneration
- 2023 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2022 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2021 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2020 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2019 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2018 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2017 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2016 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2015 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2014 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2013 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
Laws, Bylaws, and Codes
Intergovernmental Agreements
Lands and Traditional Territory
Reserves
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ISC Code: 6111
INNUE ESSIPIT
86.5 Hectares
32 KM NO/NW OF/DE RIVIERE SAGUENAY
[48.32879695102683, -70.6464051531448]
- Coastal regions along the North Shore of Quebec
- Gulf of Saint Lawrence watershed
- Territories spanning maritime and inland forest ecosystems
- Historically utilized regions around Essipit and surrounding river systems
Consultations and Referrals
Band Submissions
Consultation Reports
Band Business Interests
Band Owned Corporations
Court Records
Downloadable Court Decisions
Active Court Cases
Media Reports
Media Reports
- A whale of a holiday in Essipit, Que.
- Essipit First Nation in Quebec wants to double its protected area by 2030 in line with UN targets
- Québec moves forward with the large-scale 200 MW Apuiat wind farm project
- A Quebec memorial to 1603′s French-Indigenous alliance seeks to put nation-to-nation conversations back in the story of Canada
- Quebec failed to consult Innu communities on strategy to protect caribou, judge rules
- Innu within reach of historic land settlement
- Innu chiefs accuse Quebec of bad faith after delay on 'fundamentally important' treaty
- Three Innu First Nations say they are ready to take measures to stop Quebec pipeline
- François Legault says Apuiat wind farm project won't move forward
- Signing of two agreements between three Innu First Nations and BlackRock Metals
- Innu nations in Quebec on verge of historic land settlement that would give them greater autonomy
- Quebec failed to consult First Nations on caribou strategy: court
- Datadog (DDOG) Reports Q4: Everything You Need To Know Ahead Of Earnings
- Miata Metals Begins 10,000 Meter Diamond Drill Program at the Sela Creek Gold Project in Suriname
- No GNL Québec Pipeline on Ancestral Lands, Innu Say
- Kanesatake to help vaccinate urban Innu living in Montreal
- Figure 3: Location of Essipit outfitters 4 (Source: Essipit Band...
Academic Research
Academic Research
- Growing deep roots: learning from the Essipit's culturally adapted model of Aboriginal forestry
- What does “First Nation deep roots in the forests” mean? Identification of principles and objectives for promoting forest-based development
- The Laughing People: A Tribute to My Innu Friends by Serge Bouchard and Marie-Christine Lévesque
- Indigenous leadership in creating a protected area: The Akumunan Biodiversity Reserve (Canada)
- Thou Shalt Forget: Indigenous Sovereignty, Resistance and the Production of Cultural Oblivion in Canada by Pierrot Ross-Tremblay
- The Laughing People: A Tribute to My Innu Friends
- Community-based enterprise as a strategy for development in Aboriginal communities: learning from Essipit's forest enterprises
- " Where You Have to Bypass": History, Memory, and Multiple Temporalities of Innu Cultural Landscapes
- Colonial moves in Canada's (non-) recognition of Indigenous spiritual connection to land: The Innu's Nitassinan
- Where You Have to Bypass
- The Laughing People: A Tribute to My Innu Friends
- Consolidation of the connection to the land of Innu and Atikamekw women through pregnancy and childbirth.
- Growing deep roots: Increasing Aboriginal authority in contemporary forest governance arrangements
- The Laughing People: A Tribute to My Innu Friends
- … et aspirations autochtones dans la mise en place d'aires protégées: le projet de la réserve de biodiversité Akumunan de la Première Nation des Innus Essipit
- Valeurs autochtones et modèles forestiers: Le cas de la Première Nation des Innus d'Essipit
- Qui a peur des Innus? Réflexions sur les débats au sujet du projet d'entente de principe entre les Innus de Mashteuiatsh, Essipit, Betsiamites et Nutashkuan et les …
- Ross-Tremblay Pierrot, 2019, Thou Shalt Forget. Indigenous Sovereignty, Resistance and the Production of Cultural Oblivion in Canada.
- Growing deep roots: learning from the Essipit's culturally adapted model of Aboriginal forestry
- The Laughing People: A Tribute to My Innu Friends
- The Laughing People: A Tribute to My Innu Friends
- The Laughing People: A Tribute to My Innu Friends
- The Laughing People: A Tribute to My Innu Friends
- The Laughing People: A Tribute to My Innu Friends
- The Laughing People: A Tribute to My Innu Friends
- The Laughing People: A Tribute to My Innu Friends
- The Laughing People: A Tribute to My Innu Friends
- The Laughing People: A Tribute to My Innu Friends
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