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The Chisesaakahiikan Protected Area Proposal An The Chisesaakahiikan Protected Area Proposal An Chisesaakahiikan e wikanaawehitakanuuch anita waaskaa ehchii Table of contents INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………………………………. 2 MAP OF PROPOSAL…………………………………………………………………………………… 3 OLD NEMASKA………………………………………………………………………………………… 4 PICTOGRAPHS…………………………………………………………………………………………. 5 LAKE EVANS……………………………………………………………………………………………. 6 BROADBACK RIVER…………………………………………………………………………………… 7 INTACT FORESTS AND THE CREE WAY OF LIFE………………………………………………. 8 CREE TOURISM………………………………………………………………………………………… 9 FOREST-DWELLING WOODLAND CARIBOU – A SPECIES AT RISK……………………… 10 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS………………………………………………………………… 11 Unless otherwise noted, all pictures are courtesy of S. Paradis and M. Tanoush Introduction The Chisesaakahiikan protected area proposal was developed directly with the Nemaska tallymen and land users, with the support of the Chief and Council of the Cree Nation of Nemaska (CNN). The Nemaska Cree believe that the land and the people are one, and this protected area Quick facts proposal reflects this worldview. 2 The proposal is grounded in the Total proposal area: 2 906 km cultural, ecological and economic Current protected areas within Chisesaakahiikan values that are important to the proposal: 517 km2 (17.8 %) people of Nemaska. A central aspect of this proposal is the protection of Lake Evans or Chisesaakahiikan (which means big lake in Cree) and its periphery. The Chisesaakahiikan proposal was also designed to consider notions of size and connectivity. The large size (2,906 km) ensures that natural disturbances do not completely affect the territory at any given time, and also helps to protect species with large ranges such as woodland caribou. The proposal also plays a critical role in the “connectivity matrix” formed by current and proposed protected areas in the region, including those developed by the neighbouring Cree First Nations of Waskaganish, Waswanipi, Oujé-Bougoumou, and Mistissini. The Chisesaakahiikan protected area proposal includes three focal areas or sectors: Old Nemaska, Lake Evans (Chisesaakahiikan) and the Broadback River (or Pachipiskuneusiipiih in Cree). “ No forest, no traditional way of life” Tallyman, Cree Nation of Nemaska 2 Map of proposal3 Old Nemaska The people of Nemaska call themselves the Nemaska Enouch, meaning, “people The 1970s was a time of great turmoil for from the place of plentiful fish”. Long the Nemaska Enouch. They reluctantly before contact with non-Aboriginals, Lake moved from the settlement on the shores Nemiscau (nemaskau sakhegun) was a of Lake Nemiscau, due mainly to trading place where northern Cree met proposed flooding related to an with southern Cree, and with other impending hydro-electric project on the Aboriginal peoples from the south. The Nottaway, Broadback and Rupert (NBR) rivers were used then as highways are rivers, and due to the closing of the today. People from different areas Hudson's Bay Company store in 1970. The convened at Lake Nemiscau to socialize residents were dispersed until the new and trade for goods that were not readily village of Nemaska was established in available in their areas. 1977 on Champion Lake (Doethawagan), over 60 km to the northeast of Old Beginning in the mid- 1600s, various Nemaska. Old Nemaska continues to be a companies (including the Compagnie du very important place for the people of Nord, North West Company, Revillon Nemaska. Many families have camps Frères, and the Hudson's Bay Company) there. It is also the location of an annual operated trading posts on Lake Nemiscau. summer gathering, when the number of The Nemaska Enouch gathered every people living on the shores of the lake summer at Old Nemaska to trade goods, increases greatly . socialize, and smoke and preserve many species of fish for winter. The abundance of many species of fish – especially whitefish and sturgeon – continues to sustain the Nemaska Enouch, as it has in the past. 4 Pictographs Lake Nemiscau also has an important northernmost of all pictographs reported pictograph (rock painting) site along the in Québec, and is the only known site travel route which connects it to the officially reported in the Cree territory. Rupert River. Archaeologists have The Nemaska Enouch say that the referred to it as one of the most important paintings could have been created a long rock art sites in Quebec, due to its size time ago by mamegwashio, the small, (over 35 metres) and to the complexity hairy ones that dwell in rock outcrops and and richness of the motifs. It is also the cliffs. Photo: Emily Michelle 5 Lake Evans Spanning more than 450 km2, Lake Evans both the Cree Nation of Nemaska and the (Chisesaakahiikan) is one of the largest Cree First Nation of Waswanipi. lakes in Québec and the largest natural lake south of the 55th parallel which Water quality is a critical feature that the remains inaccessible by road. Nemaska Enouch wish to protect in the Safeguarding the hydrological, ecological proposal area. The clean water of Lake and cultural integrity of the lake is a top Evans is highly valued for drinking, and for priority for the Nemaska Enouch. maintaining the health and quality of the fish - such as sturgeon, cisco, pike and There are currently two biodiversity walleye. In recent years the quality of the reserves in the Lake Evans area that have water in Lake Dana, to the west of Lake interim protection status, but in order to Evans, has deteriorated to the point maintain the ecological, cultural and where the land users can no longer drink hydrological integrity of Lake Evans, the the water from the lake. This is attributed Nemaska tallymen agreed that the at least in part to forestry operations in protection of the whole lake and its the area. The Nemaska Enouch feel that periphery is required. Lake Evans is the protection being proposed will help to located on the divide between traplines ensure that the quality of the water does held by Nemaska tallymen (to the west) not diminish in Lake Evans and its and Waswanipi tallymen (to the east). periphery. There exists overlapping interests for protecting the whole of Lake Evans, from Lake Evans is rich with Cree stories and legends. One of them tells about a giant walleye living deep in the lake (which is said to be around 16 feet long). There is also a place where there is a big pile of rocks shaped like a beaver lodge, where a giant beaver is said to live. The beaver has tunnels that lead to a waterfall, where the rocks take the form of his dam. 6 Broadback River The Broadback River (Pachipiskuneusiipiih) There are also important sturgeon is another key feature of this protected spawning sites on the Broadback. area proposal. The Broadback River flows Sturgeon is highly valued by the Cree – it in and out of Lake Evans, and it has been a can be prepared in many ways, and can be key travel route for the Cree since time smoked and stored for the winter. Its immemorial. On one of the long portages large size also makes it a favourite food on the Broadback within the proposal for feasts and social gatherings. area, there is a site where a battle took place between Cree and Iroquois long The Broadback River is the natural ago. The bones and remains can no connector with other protected area longer be seen, but the oral tradition of proposals being developed in the area, the Cree has ensured that this knowledge such as the proposed Assinica park and is passed on from generation to Waswanipi’s Broadback River/Mesikamis generation. Virgin Forest Protected Area Project. 7 Intact forests and the Cree way of life The terrestrial ecosystems around Lake cedar stands in the proposal area, which Evans are relatively intact. There is a very occur only very sporadically at this low density of human infrastructure and latitude. access roads that would otherwise degrade ecological integrity, and the vast The Nemaska Enouch value intact forests majority of the area has never been for maintaining what they refer to as the logged. The Cree Nation of Nemaska Cree way of life (hunting, fishing, recognizes the rarity and importance of trapping). Tallymen explained that the intact ecosystems, and believes that a trees provide shelter for both animals and protected area is the best tool available to humans. The wildlife which the Cree hunt maintain this feature. and trap (such as beaver, marten, moose, caribou, bear, skunk, rabbit, partridge, The Chisesaakahiikan proposal squirrel, weasel, porcupine, lynx, otter, encompasses many stands of old-growth and muskrat) need the shelter provide by forests, which have become increasingly the forest, and logging activities and rare in Québec yet are necessary for many infrastructure displace and scare the species, including forest-dwelling animals away. The tallymen explained woodland caribou. The Cree Nation of that intact forests are important for Nemaska recognizes that existing moose mating. Caribou feed on the lichen protected areas in the sector include some and moss from mature stands of black old-growth forests, but they wish to spruce, tamarack and jack pine. The protect a larger area to maintain other forest also protects the creeks and habitat stands as well, such as the ones occurring that are important for beaver. One around South-West Bay. Nemaska tallyman summed all of this up by saying tallymen have also noted the presence of “No forest, no traditional way of life”. 8 Cree tourism The Chisesaakahiikan protected areas Currently there is one outfitting business proposal is also aimed at securing future (AmeriCree) in operation on Lake Evans, economic opportunities for the Cree that which offers fly-in fishing packages to a are not possible in an industrial mostly American client base. Within the development context. Maintaining the outfitting industry, the remote tourism remoteness values and the ecological sector appeals to up-market clients who integrity of Lake Evans provides a context are willing to pay much more than clients where high quality Cree tourism of road-accessible tourism.
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