| Band Name: | Innus of Ekuanitshit |
| Band Number: | 82 |
| People: | Innu |
| Headquarters: | Ekuanitshit |
| Province: | Quebec |
| Main Reserve: | Mingan |
| Area: | 38.38 |
| Pop Year: | October 2019 |
| On Reserve: | 623 |
| On Other Land: | 13 |
| Off Reserve: | 41 |
| Chief: | Jean-Charles Piétacho |
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| Tribal Council: | Regroupement Mamit Innuat |
| Website: | Ekuanitshit.com |
| Footnotes: | [1] |
Innus of Ekuanitshit (French: Les Innus d'Ekuanitshit) are a First Nation band in Quebec, Canada. They live primarily in the Indian reserve of Mingan on the north coast of the St Lawrence River., the band had a registered population of 677 members.
Members of the band of Ekuanitshit are Innus., the Nation had a total registered population of 677 members, of which 54 lived off reserve.[2] According to the 2016 Canadian Census, the median age of the population is 24.9 years old.[3]
Innus of Ekuanitshit has only one reserve, Mingan, also called Ekuanitshit, where the band is headquartered and where lived the majority of its members.[1] [4] The reserve is located on Quebec Route 138, west of Havre-Saint-Pierre in the Côte-Nord region in Quebec at the mouth of the Mingan River on the St Lawrence River.[5] It covers an area of 3838ha.[4] The closest important city is Sept-Îles.[6]
Innus of Ekuanitshit are governed by a band council elected according to a custom electoral system based on Section 11 of the Indian Act. For the 2018 to 2021 tenure, this council is composed of the chief Jean-Charles Piétacho and four councillors.[7]
The language spoken by the Innus is Innu-aimun, a language of the Cree-Innu-Naskapi dialect continuum of the Algonquian languages family. According to the 2016 Canadian Census, 95.4% of the Innus of Ekuanitshit have an Aboriginal language has the first language learned and 100% know an Aboriginal language and speak it at home. With respect to official languages, 6.4% know both, 88.1% know only French and 0% know only English.[8]
