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The Innu / Ilnu ("man", "person") or Innut / Innuat / Ilnuatsh ("people"), formerly called Montagnais from the French colonial period (French for "mountain people", English pronunciation: / ˌ m ɔː n t ə n ˈ j ɛ /), are the Indigenous Canadians who inhabit the territory in the northeastern portion of the present-day province of Labrador and some portions of Quebec.
The Innu were mostly unaware of the Act and the treaties with the First Nations in other provinces until the "white paper controversy" in 1969. Many Innu felt like the federal and provincial governments had ignored them. [8] In 1967, "Old Davis Inlet" was abandoned and the Innu were moved to the modern settlement of Davis Inlet on Iluikoyak Island.
Rita Mestokosho is an indigenous activist who fights for the recognition of the Innu-aimun language and the development of the culture and heritage of the Innu Nation. [5] She is a member of her local Innu Council and a spokesperson for her community. [6] She fought against the project for the construction of a Hydroelectricity dam on the Roman ...
Naskapi Aboriginal people at the Hudson Bay's Post at Mingan, 1862. Historically, the region was the homeland of the Innu people, who came there from their inland hunting grounds to spend the summer on the coast. Mingan was a summer gathering site where the Innu would fish for salmon, hunt for whale, have family meetings, and trade with each other.
Carcajou et le péril blanc (Innu: Kauapishit Miam Kuakuatshen Etentakuess) is a Canadian series of documentary films, directed by Arthur Lamothe and released between 1973 and 1976. [1] Profiling the Innu people of northern Quebec, the films were among the first in the history of cinema to depict indigenous peoples speaking their own languages. [2]
Innu people are frequently divided into two groups, the Neenoilno (called Montagnais by French people) who live along the north shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, in Quebec, and the less numerous Naskapi who live farther north. The Innu themselves recognize several distinctions (e.g. Mushuau Innuat, Maskuanu Innut, Uashau Innuat) based on ...
La Romaine (French pronunciation: [la ʁɔmɛn]), also known as Unamenshipit in Innu-aimun and designated Romaine 2, [4] is an Innu First Nations reserve in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada, at the mouth of the Olomane River on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. It belongs to the Innu band of Unamen Shipu. [1]
Nitassinan: The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland is a non-fiction book, written by Canadian writer Marie Wadden, first published in December 1991 by Douglas & McIntyre. In the book, the author chronicles the plight of the Innu people , indigenous inhabitants of an area they affectionately call " Nitassinan " which means "our land" in the ...