Nitassinan
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Nitassinan ᓂᑕᔅᓯᓇᓐ | |
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| Time immemorial–1763 (as a State) | |
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| Common languages | French, Innu-aimun, English, LSQ, ASL |
| [[Demonym|DemonymTemplate:Pluralize from text]] | Innu |
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| Today part of | Quebec & Labrador, Canada |
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| Innu, Ilnu / assi "person" / "land" | |
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| Person | Innu / Ilnu |
| People | Innut / Innuat / Ilnuatsh |
| Language | Innu-aimun |
| Country | Nitassinan |
Template:Contains special characters Nitassinan (Template:Langx) is the ancestral homeland, or country, 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.[1] In the northern reaches of Nitassinan lies St'aschinuw (Template:Langx), the Naskapi homeland.
The first interactions with Europeans were with the Vikings who referred to the Innu as the Skræling. Alongside Helluland (probably eastern Inuit Nunangat) and Vinland (probably Newfoundland), the Greenlandic Norse called the Labrador region of Innu Country Markland.
Etymology
Nitassinan and, the more restrained term Innu Assi, mean "our land" and "Innu Country," respectively, in Innu-aimun. Both centre the root assi ("land"), originating from Proto-Algonquian *axskiy,[2] relating it to the aski in Nitaskinan, Ojibwemowin's aki, and the Istchee in Eeyou Istchee,Template:NoteTag each meaning "land" as well.
Nitassinan means "our (excl.) land". It is formed by attaching the prefix ni- ("I; we") and the suffix -(i)nan ("us, but not yours") to the root aski, forming the possessive.[3] This construction is seen in neighbouring Algonquian languages like Nehiromowin, Anishinaabemowin,[4] and Plains Cree,.[5] Indeed, Atikamekw and Abenaki use similar constructions to refer to their homelands: Nitaskinan and Ndakinna, respectively.
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References
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- ^ Nitassinan: The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland, Douglas & McIntyre, December 1991, 240pp, by Marie Wadden, Template:ISBN, (book link) Script error: No such module "webarchive"., (retrieved 11/19/2012)
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."axkyi". Proto-Algonquian Online Dictionary. Algonquian Dictionaries Project. Retrieved 26 May 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Possessive". Innu Aimun Language Resources. Algonquian Dictionaries Project. Retrieved 23 October 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Notes on Possessed Nouns" (PDF). Ojibwe Grammar. Retrieved 26 May 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Okimāsis, Jean L. Cree Language of the Plains - nehiyawewin paskwāwi-pīkiskwēwin (PDF). University of Regina Press. p. 250. ISBN 978-0- 88977-550-3. Retrieved 26 May 2025.
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