Omushkego Cree Territory, Homeland and its vital elements of the cultural and spiritual existence as Omushkego Cree’s occupancy since time immemorial

This relationship between the First Nations people and lands and waters must be the foundation of a strong culture and indigenous language. Its ancestral and spiritual role as stewards for the lands, waters and natural resources and also considering the importance of protected areas for future generations.

This philosophy expresses the intention to maintain the First Nation’s relationship to the lands and waters, and to maintain our First Nation way of life with these lands and waters and their uses and principles.

The CreeGeo Mush Guardians will connect and establish communications with community members to learn about the environment, and identify Indigenous place names and its history.

CreeGeo Mush Guardians will work with various technologies and maps to learn about and capture the oral and pictographic knowledge and history of the traditional values and teachings. They will help to document instances and effects of climate change in their communities by observing and monitoring environmental changes on the land and water, non-Indigenous species and weather.

Elders are very important contributors who has attained a high degree of understanding of history, traditional teachings, culture values, ceremonies, and healing practices.

First Nations Elders are Indigenous historians and knowledge keepers who are focused on the wellbeing of all lands, waters, wildlife, environment and its people. Elders are consulted for their perspective; they have earned the right to pass this knowledge and wisdom.

Elders will teach and connect with the CreeGeo Mush Guardians to passed on oral and pictographic knowledge of the traditional values and teachings.

The land and waters sustains a wealth of wildlife, amphibians and aquatic life, and medicinal herbs and plants. The breeding grounds of migration birds and spawning areas in the great James Bay and Albany River and its abundance of multiple lakes.

The magnificent landscape is a beauty on its own, and one of the largest watershed and peat lands in the world.

Cunsolo Willox et. al argue that "place-based narratives and first-hand observations and experiences of environmental change and climatic variation, shared through oral stories, are not only an important and legitimate source of research but also are methodologically rich and powerful" (Abram, 1996; Briggs, 2005; Burgess, 1999; Chamberlin, 2003; Cruikshank, 2005; Davis, 2004; Dove, 2000; Durie, 2004; Ellen and Harris, 2000; Furgal et al., 2002a, 2002b; Laidler, 2006; Mauro and Hardison, 2000; Raffles, 2002; Robertson et al., 2000; Ross, 2008; Stevenson, 1998, 2005; Watson et al., 2003) (p. 131).