Maquatua

The Maquatua River flows west through the Cree country east of James Bay, entering the bay amid a coast of islands and shallow waters. Its course links inland lakes and forest with the shore, where the Cree know the area as Wemindji, or Paint Hills, for the red ochre of the surrounding hills. The river is one of many waterways draining westward into the bay, across a landscape of marsh, woods and long northern winters.