''Innu'' is the second album by

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band Kashtin, released in 1991. The album was certified platinum in Canada, and was a shortlisted

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nominee for the Best World Beat Recording and Best Roots and Traditional Album awards at the Juno Awards of 1992. It contains the band's biggest chart hit, "Ishkuess", as well as a cover of

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's "Son of the Sun", the only song the band ever recorded in a language other than their native

Innu The Innu / Ilnu ("man", "person") or Innut / Innuat / Ilnuatsh ("people"), formerly called Montagnais from the French colonial period ( French for "mountain people", English pronunciation: ), are the Indigenous inhabitants of territory in the ...

tongue.''Windsor Star'', 20 July 1992.

Track listing

# Overture # Nikanish (My People) # Nekashtuamani # Nte Tshitshuat (Your Place) # Apu Tshekuan Nikan'kuian # Harricana # Son of the Sun # Tshinuau # Apu Min'tan # Uishama # Ishkuess

References

1991 albums Kashtin albums {{1990s-folk-album-stub