wee-nusk | Weenusk First Nation
Community Profile
- Weenusk First Nation is an Indigenous community situated in the Kenora District of Ontario, located on the western shores of Hudson Bay, primarily inhabited by Oji-Cree peoples
- Last Updated 2025-05-23 01:52:44 UTC
- Name: Weenusk (ISC Code: 146)
- Former Names: Winisk First Nation, Weenusk Indian Reserve
- Band Style: First Nation
- Cultural Area: Subarctic
- Indigenous Language: Oji-Cree
- Number of Registered Members: 616
Governance
Band Council
- GOVERNANCE TYPE: Not Applicable
- TERM EXPIRES: 05/24/2026
- CHIEF: JOSEPH (JOEY) EDMUND CHARLES HUNTER
- NUMBER OF COUNCIL MEMBERS:4
- JOSEPH (JOEY) EDMUND CHARLES HUNTER
- LEAH CAROL HUNTER
- JOSEPH (PAUL) KOOSTACHIN
- JEFFREY FELIX HUNTER
Contact Information
- BAND WEBSITE: http://www.mushkegowuk.ca/communityprofiles.html#ween
- PHONE NUMBER: (705) 473-2554
- FAX NUMBER: (705) 473-2503
- ADDRESS: PO BOX 1, PEAWANUCK, ON
- EMAILS:
- Chief JOSEPH (JOEY) EDMUND CHARLES HUNTER:
- Councillor LEAH CAROL HUNTER:
- Councillor JOSEPH (PAUL) KOOSTACHIN:
- Councillor JEFFREY FELIX HUNTER:
- General Band Office:
- Media Contact:
- Referrals Contact:
- Websites
Band Financial Statements
- 2024 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2023 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2022 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2021 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2020 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2019 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2018 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2017 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2016 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2015 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2014 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2013 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2012 - Weenusk20122013.pdf
- 2011 - Weenusk20112012.pdf
- 2010 - Weenusk20102011.pdf
- 2009 - Weenusk20092010.pdf
- 2008 - Weenusk20082009.pdf
- 2007 - Weenusk20072008.pdf
- 2006 - Weenusk20062007.pdf
- 2005 - Weenusk20052006.pdf
- 2004 - Weenusk20042005.pdf
- 2003 - Weenusk20032004.pdf
- 2002 - Weenusk20022003.pdf
- 2001 - Weenusk20012002.pdf
Band Council Remuneration
- 2024 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2023 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2022 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2021 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2020 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2019 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2018 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2017 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2016 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2015 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2014 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2013 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
Laws, Bylaws, and Codes
Intergovernmental Agreements
Lands and Traditional Territory
Reserves
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ISC Code: 6358
WINISK INDIAN SETTLEMENT
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[55.266667, -85.2] -
ISC Code: 6264
WINISK 90
5310.0 Hectares
ON WEST BANK OF WINISK RIVER AT MOUTH OF ASHEWEIG RIVER
[31.9465703, 35.3027226]
- Located on western shores of Hudson Bay
- Traditional lands extend across boreal forest and tundra regions
- Historically significant hunting and trapping territories
- Includes areas around Peawanuck and surrounding watershed regions
Consultations and Referrals
Band Submissions
Consultation Reports
Band Business Interests
Band Owned Corporations
Court Records
Downloadable Court Decisions
Active Court Cases
Media Reports
Media Reports
- He died trying to save a woman in a home in Peawanuck, Ont., where firefighting resources are limited
- Feds working with AFN on fire protection strategy for First Nation communities
- Girl dies in First Nation fire, NAN says action needed to prevent future tragedies
- “My Fear is Losing Everything”: The Climate Crisis and First Nations’ Right to Food in Canada
- Calls for accountability, better Indigenous fire strategy after fatal house fire in Peawanuck
- Interview: Climate Crisis Hurts Harvest for First Nations
- 'Rink of Dreams' in Ontario's Far North on Weenusk First Nation
- Confusion and concern over land-use planning across northern Ontario
- Indigenous food insecurity driven by climate change: report
- Opinion: Can Hudson Bay and James Bay territory be saved before it’s too late?
- 2 dead, 3 injured after house fire on Weenusk First Nation in northern Ontario
- The Marxist-Leninist Daily
- Northern hunter living hard reality described in new report on climate change
- Ottawa’s climate-change policies fail to protect First Nations against food scarcity: study
- Remote northern Ontario Cree community to get fire truck following girl's death
- 10-year-old girl killed in fire in remote Cree northern Ontario community with no fire services
- Honouring Indigenous veterans with beaded poppies
- Indigenous Services Minister committed to 'closing infrastructure gap' for fire resources in First Nations
- Stephanie Cram on remembering the Winisk flood, 30 years later
- First Nation remembers devastating flood in northern Ontario, 30 years later
- World's largest ice road leads to 'Rink of Dreams' in remote Far North First Nation
- First Nations Are On the Cusp of a Big Marine Conservation Win in Canada—and They Have Even Bigger Plans
- As northern Ont. community mourns death of young girl, calls grow to ensure fire protection
- Winnipeg homicide victim Cyril Weenusk 'one of the hard workers,' grand chief says
- Manitoba chief loses cousin to suicide while in Ottawa to discuss crisis
- Canada’s climate-change inaction violates Indigenous human rights: report
- Peawanuck teen ready to compete in North American Indigenous Games
- Indigenous people in northwestern Ontario add voices to outcry over RCMP use of ribbon skirt
- They aren't Indigenous, but they live in First Nations and have a unique view on reconciliation
- Polar bear paw prints spotted in one First Nation’s school yard
- Memorial honours 8 Bunibonibee Cree Nation students, pilot killed in 1972 Winnipeg plane crash
- COVID-19 vaccination team heads for Weenusk First Nation
- Honouring Indigenous veterans with beaded poppies
- Ten-year-old girl dies in Weenusk First Nation house fire
- 'ISC needs to come to the table', NDP MP says after fatal Weenusk fire
Academic Research
Academic Research
- Wabusk of the Omushkegouk: Cree-Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) Interactions in Northern Ontario
- Climate change, wellbeing and resilience in the Weenusk First Nation at Peawanuck: the Moccasin Telegraph goes global
- The Technology Imperative of the Cree.
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- Voices from the margins: The Muskekowuck Athinuwick/Cree people of northern Ontario and the management of Wabusk/polar bear
- The Technology Imperative of the Cree: Examining Adaptability and Livelihood in Northern Ontario, Canada
- Abandoned Mid-Canada Radar Line Site 500 in the Western Hudson Bay region of sub-Arctic, Canada: A source of organochlorines for the people of Weenusk First …
- Linking two ways of knowing to understand climate change impacts on geese and First Nations in the Hudson Bay Lowland
- 5 Climate Disruption and the Changing Dynamics of Polar Bear–Human Interactions in Northern Ontario
- Qualitative case study investigating PAX-good behaviour game in first nations communities: Insight into school personnel's perspectives in implementing a whole …
- The Technological Imperative of the Cree: Examining Adaptability and Livelihood in Northern Ontario, Canada
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