Innu
The Innu/Ilnu ('man, person'), formerly called Montagnais (French for ' mountain people'; ), are the Indigenous Canadians who inhabit northeastern Labrador in present-day Newfoundland and Labrador and some portions of Quebec. They refer to ...
activist and actor from
Canada
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, most prominent as a
caribou
The reindeer or caribou (''Rangifer tarandus'') is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America. It is the only represe ...
conservationist. A researcher for the
Pessamit Innu Band
The Pessamit Innu Band, which the official name is ''bande des Innus de Pessamit'', is an Band government, Indian band of the Innu First Nations in Canada, First Nations in Quebec, Canada. Its members primarily live on the Indian reserve of Pessami ...
council, he is involved in efforts to track and monitor the population of caribou in the Pipmuacan region near Pessamit and
Baie-Comeau
Baie-Comeau () is a city in the Côte-Nord region of the province of Quebec, Canada. It is located on the shores of the St. Lawrence River, and is the seat of Manicouagan Regional County Municipality. It is near the mouth of the Manicouagan Ri ...
.
In 2021, he received an emerging leadership award from the First Nations Guardians Gathering, an organization of
indigenous
Indigenous may refer to:
*Indigenous peoples
*Indigenous (ecology)
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environmentalists and conservationists.
He had his first acting role in the 2021 film '' Nouveau Québec'', for which he received a
Canadian Screen Award
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11th Canadian Screen Awards
The 11th Canadian Screen Awards, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, honoured achievements in Canadian film, television and digital media production in 2022.François Péloquin's film '' The Thawing of Ice (La fonte des glaces)''.
In fall 2024 he launched ''Sous les barrages (Under the Dams): Tshishe Manikuan'', a seven-episode
podcast
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about Innu history, through
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. He won the award for Best Narrative Audio production at the 2025
imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival
The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival is the world's largest Indigenous film and media arts festival, held annually in Toronto. The festival focuses on the film, video, radio, and new media work of Indigenous, Aboriginal and First Peoples ...