Nitassinan

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Map of Nitassinan, the Innu country and St'aschinuw, Naskapi Country

Template:Infobox ethnonym Template:Contains special characters Nitassinan (Template:Langx) 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.<ref>Nitassinan: The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland, Douglas & McIntyre, December 1991, 240pp, by Marie Wadden, Template:ISBN, (book link) Template:Webarchive, (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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