Cree Nation Partners and the Keeyask Generation Project by CNP Representative

• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Hudson; Hudson Bay; Ilford; War Lake; Churchill; Nelson River; Split Lake
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.690.1491; http://cecmanitoba.ca/resource/hearings/39/KHLP-033+CNP+KHLP+Speaking+Notes+Oct+21,20131.pdf

War Lake First Nation- to approve the Keeyask Project, you need to know something of our history. Tataskweyak Cree Nation, or TCN, is a nation of Cree people who are the descendants of the original inhabitants of north-eastern Manitoba. The population of TCN is nearly 3500 of which about 65 % live on-Reserve. War Lake was recognized as a separate Band in 1980. Before that, most War Lake Members had been Members of TCN. The community at Ilford, where the main Reserve of War Lake is located, is on the Hudson Bay Railway line and used to be an important supply and distribution point for the TCN community at Split Lake and points further north and east. War Lake has a population of 269 Members, with 75 living on-Reserve. Two mighty rivers flow through our lands – the Churchill and the Nelson. Our traditional lands include the Split Lake Resource Management Area and the War Lake Traditional Use Area within the Split Lake Resource Management Area. The Split Lake Resource Management Area is more than 43,000 square kilometres in area, representing just under 7 % of Manitoba, an area approximately the size of the proposed World Heritage Site on the east side of Lake Winnipeg or the country of Denmark. Our traditional territories are even broader than the Split Lake Resource Management Area. The Split Lake Resource Area includes lands bordering the Nelson River all the way to the Hudson Bay coast as recognized in the 1992 NFA Implementation