The Grand Council of the Crees or the GCC, is the political body that represents the approximately 18,000 Cree people of the territory called Eeyou Istchee in the James Bay and Nunavik regions of Northern Quebec, in The Grand Council has twenty members: a Grand Chief and Deputy-Grand Chief elected at large by the Cree people, the Chiefs elected by each of the ten communities, and one other representative from each community. Wikipedia