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]

This article is about the ancestral homeland of the Innu. For the 1991 book by Marie Wadden, see Nitassinan: The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland.

The area was known as Markland in Greenlandic Norse and its inhabitants were known as skrælingjar.

References
  1. 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)


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