Editing Nitassinan

{{Short description|Ancestral homeland of the Innu, Canada}}
{{About|the ancestral homeland of the Innu|the 1991 book by Marie Wadden|Nitassinan: The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland}}
[[File:Innu map.jpg|thumb|left|Map of Nitassinan, the Innu country and St'aschinuw, [[Naskapi]] Country]]
{{Infobox ethnonym|root=[[Innu]], Ilnu / assi<br/>"person" / "land"|person= [[Innu|Innu / Ilnu]]|people= [[Innu|Innut / Innuat / Ilnuatsh]]|language= [[Innu-aimun]]|country= [[Nitassinan]]}}
{{Contains special characters|Canadian}}
'''Nitassinan''' ({{langx|moe-Cans|ᓂᑕᔅᓯᓇᓐ}}) is the ancestral homeland of the [[Innu]], an [[indigenous people]] of Eastern [[Quebec]] and [[Newfoundland and Labrador|Labrador]], Canada. Nitassinan means "our land" in the [[Innu language]]. The territory covers the eastern portion of the [[Labrador peninsula]].<ref>''[[Nitassinan: The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland]]'', [[Douglas & McIntyre]], December 1991, 240pp, by [[Marie Wadden]], {{ISBN|978-1-55365-731-6}}, [http://www.dmpibooks.com/book/nitassinan (book link)] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130121161501/http://www.dmpibooks.com/book/nitassinan |date=2013-01-21 }}, (retrieved 11/19/2012)</ref>

The area was known as ''[[Markland]]'' in [[Greenlandic Norse]], and its inhabitants were known as the ''[[Skræling]]''.

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{{Coord missing|Newfoundland and Labrador}}

[[Category:Innu]]
[[Category:Geography of Newfoundland and Labrador]]
[[Category:Geography of Quebec]]
[[Category:Cultural regions of Canada]]


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