Nitassinan ( moe, script=Cans, i=no, ᓂᑕᔅᓯᓇᓐ) is the ancestral homeland of the Innu, an

indigenous people Indigenous peoples are culturally distinct ethnic groups whose members are directly descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region and, to some extent, maintain the language and culture of those original people ...

of Eastern

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and Labrador, Canada. Nitassinan means "our land" in the Innu language. The territory covers the eastern portion of the Labrador peninsula.'' Nitassinan: The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland'', Douglas & McIntyre, December 1991, 240pp, by Marie Wadden,
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, (retrieved 11/19/2012) The area was known as '' Markland'' in Greenlandic Norse, and its inhabitants were known as the ''

Skræling ''Skræling'' (Old Norse and Icelandic: ''skrælingi'', plural ''skrælingjar'') is the name the Norse Greenlanders used for the peoples they encountered in North America (Canada and Greenland). In surviving sources, it is first applied to the ...

''.

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Innu Geography of Newfoundland and Labrador Geography of Quebec Cultural regions {{NorthAm-native-stub gv:Nitassinan sv:Nitassinan