The Atikamek of Canada, numbering approximately 6,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Algonquian people of Quebec's upper Saint-Maurice River valley known as Nitaskinan, described by French colonists since the early 1600s, whose fur-trade economy and population were devastated by a 1670s smallpox epidemic and later by industrial logging. They mostly adhere to Roman Catholicism and Atikamekw is their primary language.