Jean-Luc Kanapé is an

Innu The Innu / Ilnu ("man", "person") or Innut / Innuat / Ilnuatsh ("people"), formerly called Montagnais from the French colonial period ( French for "mountain people", English pronunciation: ), are the Indigenous inhabitants of territory in the ...

activist and actor from

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, most prominent as a

caribou Reindeer (in North American English, known as caribou if wild and ''reindeer'' if domesticated) are deer in the genus ''Rangifer''. For the last few decades, reindeer were assigned to one species, ''Rangifer tarandus'', with about 10 subspe ...

conservationist. A researcher for the Pessamit Innu Band council, he is involved in efforts to track and monitor the population of caribou in the Pipmuacan region near Pessamit and

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. In 2021 he received an emerging leadership award from the First Nations Guardians Gathering, an organization of indigenous environmentalists and conservationists. He had his first acting role in the 2021 film '' Nouveau Québec'', for which he received a

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nomination for Best Supporting Performance in a Film at the

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in 2023. In 2024 he appeared in François Péloquin's film '' The Thawing of Ice (La fonte des glaces)''.Charles-Henri Ramond
"La fonte des glaces en salle le 22 mars"
''Films du Québec'', January 26, 2024.

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