Montagnais (meaning ''mountaineers'' in French) may refer to:
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Innu people
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 ...
, a First Nation in Canada (note that the Innu are not
Inuit
Inuit (; iu, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, , dual: Inuuk, ) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories ...
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Montagnais of Natashquan, an Innu First Nation band government in Quebec
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Old Montagnais, the period in the history of the Innu language preceding its current form.
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Innu language
Innu-aimun or Montagnais is an Algonquian language spoken by over 10,000 Innu in Labrador and Quebec in Eastern Canada. It is a member of the Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi dialect continuum and is spoken in various dialects depending on the comm ...
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Chipewyan people
The Chipewyan ( , also called ''Denésoliné'' or ''Dënesųłı̨né'' or ''Dënë Sųłınë́'', meaning "the original/real people") are a Dene Indigenous Canadian people of the Athabaskan language family, whose ancestors are identified ...
, a Dene Indigenous Canadian people
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Montagnais crater, a crater off the coast of Nova Scotia
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Poste Montagnais, Quebec, an electrical substation in Quebec, on the transmission lines connecting to the Churchill Falls Generating Station.
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Poste Montagnais Airport, an airport at the electrical substation in Quebec
See also
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Montagnard (disambiguation), another French term with the same meaning
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