Nitassinan
Nitassinan (ᓂᑕᔅᓯᓇᓐ) is the ancestral homeland of the Innu, an indigenous people of Eastern Quebec and Labrador, Canada. Nitassinan means "our land" in the Innu language. The territory covers the eastern portion of the Labrador peninsula.[1]
The area was known as Markland in Greenlandic Norse and its inhabitants were known as the Skræling.
References[]
- ^ Nitassinan: The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland, Douglas & McIntyre, December 1991, 240pp, by Marie Wadden, ISBN 978-1-55365-731-6, (book link) Archived 2013-01-21 at archive.today, (retrieved 11/19/2012)
Categories:
- Innu
- Geography of Newfoundland and Labrador
- Geography of Quebec
- Cultural regions
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- Labrador geography stubs
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