Première Nation des Innus de Nutashkuan (French: ''Montagnais de Natashquan'', Montagnais of Natashquan or Nutashkuan Innu First Nation) 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 ...

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, Canada. The band lives on Nutashkuan, an

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in the

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region. , they have a registered population of 1,217 members. They are part of the Regroupement Mamit Innuat tribal council.

Demographics

Members of the Natashquan First Nation are

, also called Montagnais. , the band has a total registered population of 1,217 members, 117 of whom lived off the reserve.

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found 835 people living on the reserve which was down slightly (0.7%) from the 841 people found on the 2011 Census.

Geography

Montagnais of Natashquan owns one reserve, Nutashkuan located in the

region of Quebec close to the municipality of Natashquan. The reserve is at the mouth of the

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on the northern coast of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It covers an area of . The reserve is east of Sept-Îles and east of Quebec City via

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. The band is also served by

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References

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