Opaskwayak

Opaskwayak is the Cree country around the lower Saskatchewan River near The Pas. The river flows through a maze of lakes, channels and wetlands before entering Cedar Lake, linking the northern forest with the plains to the west. Cree communities travelled and traded along these waterways long before European posts appeared. In the 1740s French traders established Fort Paskoya on the lower river, taking a name connected with the local Cree and the narrows of the waterway.