Eh-see-peet | Innue Essipit First Nation

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.

POPULATION

2,082

Rank #177 nationally

GEOGRAPHY

0.9 KM²

Rank #564 nationally

BAND COUNCIL TERM

07/12/2028

Term Expiration

Conflict Score

Community Profile

Overview

Last Updated 2025-10-28 20:55:15 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

2082

Band Website

https://www.innu-essipit.com/

Phone Number

(418) 233-2509

Fax Number

(418) 233-2888

Address

32, rue de la Réserve, CP 820, Essipit, QC

General Email

Not Available

Band Council

Governance Type

Not Applicable

Chief

MARTIN DUFOUR

Term Expires

07/12/2028

Number of Council Members

MARTIN DUFOUR

Chief

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📞 Phone not available

YVES RACINE

Councillor

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SUZIE GAGNON

Councillor

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DARIO TREMBLAY

Councillor

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Administrative Contacts

Financial Overview

No expert reports available yet.

Band Financial Statements

2024 - Audited consolidated 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

2024 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses

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

Band Owned Corporations

No Content Available

Laws, Bylaws, and Codes

No content available

Intergovernmental Agreements

No content available

Active Court Cases

No active court cases at this time.

Downloadable Court Records

No court records available for download at this time.

Location Map

Reserves

ISC Code: 6111
INNUE ESSIPIT
86.5 Hectares
32 KM NO/NW OF/DE RIVIERE SAGUENAY
[48.32879695102683, -70.6464051531448]

Media Reports

Petapan Treaty: Innu accuse Quebec of bad faith on agreement talks

Three Innu First Nations say they are ready to take measures to stop Quebec pipeline

Indigenous leadership in creating a protected area: The Akumunan Biodiversity Reserve (Canada)

Wind power: Quebec announces a major partnership with the Essipit Innu First Nation

Innu Nations in northern Quebec want better protection of the woodland caribou

Kanesatake to help vaccinate urban Innu living in Montreal

No GNL Québec Pipeline on Ancestral Lands, Innu Say

Figure 3: Location of Essipit outfitters 4 (Source: Essipit Band...

Miata Metals Begins 10,000 Meter Diamond Drill Program at the Sela Creek Gold Project in Suriname

Datadog (DDOG) Reports Q4: Everything You Need To Know Ahead Of Earnings

Quebec failed to consult First Nations on caribou strategy: court

Innu nations in Quebec on verge of historic land settlement that would give them greater autonomy

Signing of two agreements between three Innu First Nations and BlackRock Metals

François Legault says Apuiat wind farm project won't move forward

Three Innu First Nations say they are ready to take measures to stop Quebec pipeline

Innu chiefs accuse Quebec of bad faith after delay on 'fundamentally important' treaty

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

Innu within reach of historic land settlement

Essipit First Nation in Quebec wants to double its protected area by 2030 in line with UN targets

A whale of a holiday in Essipit, Que.

Quebec failed to consult Innu communities on strategy to protect caribou, judge rules

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

Visions 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

The Laughing People: A Tribute to My Innu Friends

Préoccupations, valeurs et aspirations des Innus d'Essipit relativement à leur territoire ancestral, le Nitassinan

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

Band Publications

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Third Party Reports

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