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Typical residential street in Factory Island 1 Indian Reserve, Moose Factory. The Moose Cree First Nation (formerly known as Moose Factory Band of Indians) (Cree: ᒨᓱᓂᔨ ᐃᓕᓕᐗᒃ, môsoniyi ililiwak) is a Cree First Nation band government in northern Ontario, Canada. Their traditional territory is on the west side of James Bay.
Federally, Moose Factory is part of the Timmins--James Bay electoral district. [21] Provincially, Moose Factory is part of the Mushkegowuk—James Bay electoral district. [22] The Mushkegowuk Tribal Council, a non-profit Regional Chiefs' Council representing eight Cree First Nations in northern Ontario, has its headquarters in Moose Factory.
Mushkegowuk Council (pointed: ᐅᒪᐡᑫᑯ ᐅᑭᒫᐎᐎᐣ (omashkeko okimāwiwin); unpointed: ᐅᒪᐡᑫᑯ ᐅᑭᒪᐎᐎᐣ), or officially as the Mushkegowuk Tribal Council, is a non-profit regional chiefs' council representing Cree First Nations in northern Ontario, Canada.
Cree Duck Lake: Big Head 124: Cree Big River 118: Big River First Nation: Agency Chiefs Tribal Council: Cree Buffalo River Dene Nation 193: Meadow Lake Tribal Council: Dene: Dillon: Canoe Lake 165: Meadow Lake Tribal Council: Cree: Carrot River 29A: Red Earth First Nation: Cree Chicken 224, 225: Dene: Black Lake: Chitek Lake 191: Pelican Lake ...
Moose Cree (Cree: Mōsonī or Ililiw), also known as Moosonee (Monsoni), and together with Eastern Swampy Cree, also known as Central Cree, West James Bay Cree or West Main Cree. They speak the l-dialect of the Cree language. The Moose Cree were first noted in Jesuit Relations for 1671, along the shores of James Bay and along the Moose River.
Pamela Jayne Holopainen was born in Hamilton on 1 August 1981. [1] [2] Her mother, Holly Kowtook, was an Inuk woman who had been sent to a boarding school in Timmins, Ontario.. Holly was born and raised in Moose Factory, Ontario however her family is originally from Sanikiluaq.
Treaty No. 9 (also known as The James Bay Treaty) is a numbered treaty first signed in 1905–1906 between Anishinaabe (Algonquin and Ojibwe) and Omushkegowuk Cree communities and the Canadian Crown, which includes both the government of Canada and the government of the province of Ontario.
In 2005, the Project gained approval after an environmental assessment by the Federal and Provincial government and soon after construction began. In 2007, the Moose Cree First Nations [5] peoples signed in favour of the Victor mine and the first successful productions of diamonds began. June 20, 2008, Victor Mine entered the production phase.