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In the Cree language, spring is called “Miiuuskumin”. Very close to Ouje-Bougoumou, west of Chibougamau, are the falls of the Beaustikoo (“powerful river”) river, between Opemiska and Chevrillon lakes, a gathering place for the Eeyou Istchee nation. This photo was taken before the unfortunate forest fires that forced the evacuation of the Cree community of 900 people on June 6th.
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With the return of good weather, there are many visitors to the Kondiaronk belvedere and the Mont-Royal chalet. The popular belvedere on Mount Royal was named in honor of Kondiaronk, Huron-Wendat chief, who played an instrumental role in the 1701 negotiations of the peace treaty between the French, the Nations of the Great Lakes and the five Iroquois nations. .
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The winding road along the Gaspé coast, in Gespe’gewa’gi territory, leads to the municipality of Les Méchins. The latter is located in the MRC of La Matanie, considered the gateway to Gaspésie.
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At the beginning of June, from the air, from Sainte-Anne-des-Monts in ancestral Gespeg territory, it is possible to admire the still snow-capped mountains of the Gaspésie National Park, including Mont Albert.
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The eastern entrance to the picturesque village of Percé, with its rock walls of red sandstone. The place is located on the territory of the Mi’gmaq nation of Gespeg’ewa’gi.
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The museum La Maison des peoples aboriginals, located in Mont-Saint-Hilaire, is a place of exchange, sharing and rapprochement whose mission is to make the First Nations better known.
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At the border of the Eeyou Istchee Cree territory in James Bay and that of the Inuit in Nunavik, off the village of Kuujjuaraapik/Whapmagoostui, there is snow and ice until the end of June. At the southern end of the Merry Islands archipelago is Manitunukw Island, ‘the island you can’t point your finger at’ without, according to legend, catching a curse!
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Mount Royal Cemetery with its fruit trees and downtown Tiohtià:ke (Montreal) in the background.
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On the edge of Lac Saint-Jean (named “Piekuakami”, which means “flat lake” in the Innu language) is the community of Mashteuiatsh. It is in this village that the inspiration for the origin of the book is found kukum by Indigenous author Michel Jean.
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Spring is the thaw period in the Far North. A time of year conducive to landslides, like here near Kuujjuaraapik/Whapmagoostui, near the Great Whale River, in Eeyou Istchee territory. The subsidence of several hectares is due, according to many, to the melting of the permafrost.
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W8linak means “who goes to the bay” in Abenaki. We are in Centre-du-Québec, south of Bécancour, in the territory occupied by members of the Abenaki First Nation.
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View of the Mohawk community of Kahnawake in Montérégie, with the Mercier Bridge, the Lachine Rapids and L’Île-des-Sœurs in the background
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Before 1981, the village of Chisasibi (“big river”) was on the island of Fort Georges, but the Cree decided to move because it was feared at the time that the island would disappear following the increase of the course of the La Grande River, generated by Hydro-Québec dams, which has never happened…