Pessamit Innu Band

Its members primarily live on the Indian reserve of Pessamit in the Côte-Nord, the north shore of Saint Lawrence River, which is also the seat of the band.

The Pessamit Innu Band owns only one Indian reserve, Pessamit, previously known as "Betsiamites", where lives the majority of its members, located in the Côte-Nord, the north shore of Saint Lawrence River, in Quebec at approximately 40 km southeast of Baie-Comeau.

[2] The ancestors of the Innu people are present on the north shore of Saint Lawrence River since at least 5500 B.C.

In 1851 the Catholic father Arnaud sent a request to the Government of Canada to reserve a territory of 70,000 acres west of the Rivière aux Outardes for the Indigenous peoples.

[5] Registered population of band members, as of May 2024:[6] The vast majority of the Innus of Pessamit are Catholic.

Traditionally the Innus of Pessamit departed for their hunting territories on 15 August, the Feast of Our Lady of Assumption.

Among the people of less than 40 years old the knowledge of the language is decreasing at every generation and many French words are used even in conversations in Innu-aimun.