The two major groups: Nehiyaw and Innu, speak a mutually intelligible, Cree dialect continuum, which can be divided by many criteria.

Since 1990, the Montagnais people have generally chosen to be officially referred to as the Innu, which means human being in Innu-aimun, while the Naskapi have continued to use the word Naskapi.

The Innu community, the Sierra Club, and the National Lawyers Guild are fighting to prevent this proposed contract, which would have to be approved by New York's Governor Paterson under his regulatory authority.

Its name is of Innu origin, but also appears to be part of the Cree and Algonquin languages.

Among the Ojibwe, Eastern Cree, Westmain Swampy Cree, Naskapi, and Innu, Wendigos were said to be giants, many times larger than human beings ( a characteristic absent from the Wendigo myth in the other Algonquian cultures ).

He was the first person of Aboriginal descent to be elected in Quebec, as well as the first Innu person elected from any province, to the House of Commons.

The Innu were allied with neighbouring Atikamekw, Maliseet ( also known as Malecite ) and Algonquin against their traditional enemies, the Mi ' kmaq ( formerly known as Micmac ) and Iroquois ( also known as the Haudenosaunee ).

Since these raids were made by the Iroquois with unprecedented brutality, the Innu themselves now took over the torment and torture and the cruelty of their Indian enemies.

The Canadian and provincial governments, the Catholic, Moravian, and Anglican churches, all encouraged the Innu to settle in more permanent communities, in the belief that their lives would improve with this adaptation.

But, with the social disruption and decline of the Innu people's traditional activities ( hunting, trapping, fishing ), community life in the permanent settlements often became associated with high levels of alcoholism, substance abuse by children, domestic violence and suicide.

By 2000, the Innu island community of Davis Inlet asked the Canadian government to assist with a local addiction crisis.

Although Innu have been only in Sheshatshiu since fur trading posts were established by the Hudson's Bay Company in Northwest River in the mid-1700s and only in Davis Inlet / Natuashish since the Moravians set up along the Inuit Coast in 1771, Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams struck a deal on September 26, 2008, with Labrador's Innu to permit construction of a hydroelectric megaproject to proceed on the proposed Lower Churchill site.

Contemporary Innu women have often replaced these with manufactured pants and jackets.

The chiefs of both councils sit on the Innu Nation's board of directors and the three groups work in cooperation with one another.

The tea dolls of the Innu people were filled with tea for young girls to carry on long journeys.

They called their tribal territory Nitawahsin-nanni-" Our Land ", an obvious similarity with Nitassinan-" Our Land ", the name for the homeland of the Innu and Naskapi to the east.

It is also known as Sagamie in French, from the first part of " Saguenay " and the last part of " Piekouagami ", the Innu name ( meaning " flat lake ") for Lac Saint-Jean, with the final " e " added to follow the model of other existing region names such as Mauricie, Témiscamie, Jamésie, and Matawinie.

After ethnographic fieldwork with the Innu ( Montagnais-Naskapi ) of Labrador, Eleanor Leacock ( 1922-1987 ) earned her doctorate in anthropology at Columbia University ( 1952 ).

It is a partner, with the Innu Development Limited partnership, in Innu Mikun Airlines, which serves the Labrador coast.

Together with Maliotenam some distance away, it forms the Innu community of Uashat-Maliotenam.

Together with Uashat some distance away, it forms the Innu community of Uashat-Maliotenam.

Though he originally used only guitar and teueikan ( a Montagnais frame drum with snares ), subsequent performers in his folk Innu style have added electronic and acoustic instruments.

Schefferville is in the heart of the Naskapi and Innu territory in northern Quebec, less than 2 km from the border with Labrador on the north shore of Knob Lake.

At the time of the town's founding, Innu from Maliotenam and Naskapi from Fort Chimo were resettled to Schefferville to assist with geological exploration work and the railway construction.

Innu protesters are currently ( July 2010 ) blocking access to Schefferville and delaying mining preparation with demands for increased compensation for the commercial exploitation of their traditional homelands.

All other songs are written in Innu, a native language found in Québec, as it was the case with all songs from the three albums issued by Kashtin in the late 80's and early 90's.

In the myth, an Innu man goes to live with the Caribou.

The word " Naskapi " ( meaning " people beyond the horizon ") first made an appearance in the 17th century and was subsequently applied to Innu groups beyond the reach of missionary influence, most notably those living in the lands which bordered Ungava Bay and the northern Labrador coast, near the Inuit communities of northern Quebec and northern Labrador.

Before European settlers came to what is now Canada, the region was occupied by a large number of Aboriginal peoples, including the West Coast Salish and Haida, the centrally located Iroquois, Blackfoot and Huron, the Inuit and Dene people to the North, and the Innu and Mi ' kmaq in the East.

In the far north, some aboriginal languages, such as Inuit and Innu, are also used in local school systems.

The Innu people are frequently categorized into two groups, the Montagnais ( French: “ mountain people ”, ) or Innu proper ( Nehilaw and Ilniw-“ people ”), who live along the north shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, in Quebec ; and the less numerous Naskapi ( Innu and Iyiyiw ), who live farther north.

In traditional Innu communities, people walked or used snow shoes.

Although Sheshatshiu and Natuashish are home to most of the province's Innu people, some also live at Labrador City, Wabush, Happy Valley-Goose Bay, St. John's, and elsewhere.

The Innu people of Labrador formally organized the Naskapi Montagnais Innu Association in 1976 to protect their rights, lands, and way of life against industrialization and other outside forces.

Nitassinan is the ancestral homeland of the Innu, an Aboriginal people of Eastern Quebec and Labrador, Canada.

# A subdivision of the Innu people of Canada

Innu people are frequently divided into two groups, the Montagnais who live along the north shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, in Quebec, and the less numerous Naskapi who live farther north.

Before European settlers came to what is now Canada, the region was occupied by a large number of aboriginal peoples, including the West Coast Salish and Haida, the centrally located Iroquois, Blackfoot and Huron, the Dene people to the North, and the Innu and Mi ' kmaq in the East.

The Wendigo is part of the traditional belief systems of various Algonquian-speaking tribes in the northern United States and Canada, most notably the Ojibwe and Saulteaux, the Cree, the Naskapi and the Innu people.

* Profile of the Innu people of Labrador

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