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Mashteuiatsh First Nation

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Phonetic: Mass-teu-i-atsh

Geographical location of territory

Territory map
Company Name1 : Conseil des Montagnais du Lac St-Jean
Chief: Mr. Clifford Moar
Councillors:

Mr. Florent Bégin
Ms. Johanne Buckell
Ms. Janine Tremblay
Mr. Gilbert Courtois
Mr. Jean-Claude Paul
Mr. Nelson Robertson
Languages: Innu, french
Adress: 1671, rue Ouiatchouan
Mashteuiatsh (Québec)
G0W 2H0
Phone: 418-275-2473
418-275-5386
Fax: 418-275-6212
Web site: www.mashteuiatsh.ca  


DEMOGRAPHY

Population
Number of persons
within the community		 Number of persons
outside the community		 Total

2 024

2 957

4 981

Reference: Indian Registry, AANDC, December 2010


GEOGRAPHY

Territory Name: Mashteuiatsh Reserve
Type of territory: Indian reserve
Surface: 1 522 hectares (3 760.9 acres)
Localisation:  The reserve is located 6 kilometres from Roberval, on the western shore of Lac Saint-Jean.
Remoteness Factor: Year-round road access and located less than 50 kilometres from the nearest service center.


POLITIC

Elections: Customary process
Tribal Council 2:  Conseil tribal Mamuitun
Member of Parliament: Mr. Denis Lebel, Conservative Party (CP)
Roberval-Lac St-Jean
Provincial MNA: Mr. Denis Trottier, Parti québécois (PQ)
Roberval


ECONOMY

The local economy is based chiefly on logging, construction, transport, and arts and handicrafts.

There are approximately 130 businesses on this reserve: food, hotel accommodations, sawmills, electrician, auto mechanics, taxi, arts and handicrafts, post office, excavation, plumbing, translation, camping, hardware, convenience store, restaurants, etc.

The Musée amérindien de Mashteuiatsh (museum), founded in 1977, whose mission is to safeguard Innu cultural heritage – namely, to foster and promote its development and to pass it on to future generations.


EDUCATION

Band School3 on the territory:

School Name: École Amishk
Grades:   Pre-Kindergarden school to Grade 6
Number of students: 247 (2008-2009)

School Name: École Kassinu-Mamu
Grades:   Secondary 1 to Secondary 5
Number of students: 230 (2008-2009)

School Enrolment 2008-2009
  Band School Provincial School Total
Pre-kindergarden

22

 

22
Kindergarden 22   22
Elementary 203   203
Secondary 230 21 251
Total : 477 21 498

Reference : Nominal Roll, AANDC (2008-2009)

Number of students funded by postsecondary program4 : 217
Reference: Post-Secondary list, AANDC (2008-2009)


COMMUNITY SERVICES AND INFRASTRUCTURES

Fire protection: Fire station, fire engine, firefighting equipment
Police services: Provided by the Aboriginal police force recognized under an agreement between the Band council, the Government of Canada and the Government of Quebec.
Medical care: Health centre managed by the Band council under a transfer agreement with Health Canada.
Waste disposal: Landfill site, garbage collection by the Band council
Main community facilities: Arena, library, social and sports centre, youth centre, community hall, home care centre, friendship centre, health centre, social services centre (Centre Petapa), youth coffee house, community radio station, hardware store
Water Supply: Full treatment of surface water, piped water from municipal mains
Sewers: Separate sanitary sewer system and storm sewer system; aerated ponds
Road system: 3.7 kilometres of gravel road and 17.1 kilometres of blacktop
Housing Units: 613 (2008-2009)
Electricity: Provided by Hydro-Québec

Définitions: 
1) Company Name: The corporate name of a company or a civil company (i.e. its name) is often made of credits, which name in a general way the company or the civil company, and of specific, which distinguishes this company from the others.
2)

“Council of the band” means:

(a) in the case of a band to which section 74 applies, the council established pursuant to that section,

(b) in the case of a band to which section 74 does not apply, the council chosen according to the custom of the band, or, where there is no council, the chief of the band chosen according to the custom of the band;

“band” means a body of Indians :

(a) for whose use and benefit in common, lands, the legal title to which is vested in Her Majesty, have been set apart before, on or after September 4, 1951,

(b) for whose use and benefit in common, moneys are held by Her Majesty, or

(c) declared by the Governor in Council to be a band for the purposes of this Act;
3) Tribal Council : Tribal Councils are defined as institutions established as a grouping of bands with common interests who voluntarily join together to provide advisory and/or program services to member bands.
4)

Band School: Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) funds Band councils and First Nation education authorities for the education of children in Kindergarten to Grade 12 who attend schools on reserves or who attend provincially-run schools off reserve.

Approximately 60% of First Nations students are taught on reserve, almost always in schools operated by a Band council, another First Nations organization, or a federal school.
5) Post-Secondary Education Programs: Indian Affairs and Northern Development (INAC) provides financial support to eligible Status Indians and Inuit students under broad authorities of the the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Act to continue their education.
 

Reference: http://lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/I-5/page-1.html  

For further information on this community please call at 1-800-567-9604 or click on this link toward community profiles of Statistics Canada   (2006 Census).

Date Modified:2010-09-15

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