L’nui Menikuk
Indian Island
L’nui Menikuk (also known as Indian Island) First Nation, is located approximately 8 kilometres Northeast of Rexton, along the Richibucto River.
The community has a registered population of 206 people and is comprised of approximately 38 hectares of land.
Fishing, forestry and aquaculture are important industries for the community.
Plants/medicines that can be found include eel, striped bass, lobster, sweetgrass, blueberries, black ash, birch, spruce, maple tree, cedar, muskrat root, fiddleheads, cattails. Beaver, black bear, eagle, mallard duck, moose, porcupine and wood turtle can be found here. Caribou were present until the 1930s but are extirpated.
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Species found in this area
American Eel
Beach Sage
Beaked Hazelnut
Beaver
Black Ash
Black Bear
Black Spruce
Cattails
Chaga
Cranberry
Eagle
Eastern White Pine
Fiddleheads
Gaspereau
Labrador Tea
Lobster
Lowbush Blueberries
Mallard duck
Mayflower
Moose
Muskrat Root
Northern White Cedar
Osprey
Oyster
Paper Birch
Porcupine
Rainbow Smelt
Raspberry
Red Willow
Ruffed Grouse
Striped Bass
Sugar Maple Tree
Sweet Grass
White-tailed Deer
Wild Crab Apple
Wild Rose
Wild Strawberry
Wood Turtle