Innue Essipit is an Innu

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, Canada. It owns one

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Essipit Essipit (known as Les Escoumins until 1996) is an Innu Indian reserve in the Canadian province of Quebec, located on the north shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in the Côte-Nord region. It belongs to the Innue Essipit First Nation. The reserve ...

where one-third of its population live, located in the

Côte-Nord Côte-Nord (, ; ; land area ) is the second-largest administrative region by land area in Quebec, Canada, after Nord-du-Québec. It covers much of the northern shore of the Saint Lawrence River estuary and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence past Tadous ...

region on the North shore of the

Saint Lawrence River The St. Lawrence River (french: Fleuve Saint-Laurent, ) is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America. Its headwaters begin flowing from Lake Ontario in a (roughly) northeasterly direction, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, connectin ...

. This is one of the nine Innu communities in Quebec. In 2018, it had a total registered population of 756 members. It is part of the Mamuitun Tribal Council..

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External links

Official website

First Nation Detail by Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada
First Nations governments in Quebec Innu