Kawachikamasu

Kawachikamasu is a lake in the northern Labrador Peninsula, known in Naskapi as Kawawachikamasu. The name evokes a winding waterway, a fitting description in a country of lakes and rivers threading through rocky northern terrain. The lake lies near the headwaters of the Caniapiscau system, in territory long travelled by Naskapi families. Rivers, portages and lakes linked places across this great interior, where the seasonal movements of caribou shaped journeys and subsistence.