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| "The Creator has given us the responsibility to protect the lands on which we were placed. We are to take care of and nurture everything that the Creator has given as a trust and duty to future generations of Pikangikum people.” - From Pikangikum People Sustaining Our Livelihood on the Land |
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An Indigenous Cultural Landscape
 The Whitefeather Forest is an Indigenous Cultural Landscape of Pikangikum people. Since time immemorial, we have protected and enhanced the biodiversity of the landscape and nurtured the abundance of its diverse resources. Our people have achieved this through customary indigenous resource stewardship practices and management tools supported by a rich Indigenous Knowledge tradition.
Under the care of our people, the Whitefeather Forest cultural landscape has been protected and enhanced as a rich, boreal ecosystem inhabited by black bear (Mahkwa), caribou (Atik), moose (Moos), timber wolves (Maaingan), wolverine (Kwiingwaagway), fox (Waagoosh), ducks (Shiishiib), bald eagles (Migisi), sandhill cranes (Oochiichaag) and many others.
 From its vast tracts of jack pine to wild rice (Manomin) fields planted by Pikangikum people (picture on right), to rich muskrat marshes that were historically burned to increase food for these fur-bearing animals as well as the ducks and other animals that live there, the Whitefeather Forest cultural landscape is of international ecological significance.
The ecological richness of the Whitefeather Forest landscape is complemented by a cultural heritage legacy that includes features such as pictographs, campgrounds, portages, and canoe channels. These enhance the numerous pristine waterways that flow through the forest.
It is the intention of Pikangikum First Nation in the Whitefeather Forest Initiative to provide economic opportunities for our members while protecting the rich ecological and cultural heritage of our ancestral forests.
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