"Pimicikamak" is the Cree name of an indigenous people whose traditional territory was the drainage basin of the upper Nelson River in what came to be known as Rupert's Land.
[1] "Cree" is 18th-Century French slang derived from "the Old Algonkin dialect form "kiristino", which was "the name of an obscure band of Indians who roamed the region south of James Bay in the first half of the seventeenth century".
Band councillor Donnie McKay blamed the epidemic on the isolated community's lack of jobs, guidance counselors and suicide prevention specialists.
[7][8][9][10][11][12][13] One noted program to counter the suicide epidemic is the Pimicikamak Thunder, a youth softball team.
[14] The team was profiled in The Sound of Thunder, a 2017 documentary feature produced by and aired on TSN as part of Bell Let's Talk.