Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Install
Faster access than browser!
 

Innu

Index Innu

The Innu (or Montagnais) are the Indigenous inhabitants of an area in Canada they refer to as Nitassinan (“Our Land”), which comprises most of the northeastern portion of the present-day province of Quebec and some eastern portions of Labrador. [1]

143 relations: Abenaki, Albany, New York, Algonquin people, An Antane-Kapesh, Anglican Communion, Arquebus, Atikamekw, Bannock (food), Beaver Wars, Bernard Cleary, Bloc Québécois, Brant (goose), Buckskin (leather), Cabinet of Canada, Canada, Canada goose, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian federal election, 2004, Canadian federal election, 2011, Canadian Shield, Catfish, Catholic Church, Catostomidae, China, Christianity, Claude McKenzie, Conservative Party of Canada, Cree, Cree language, Crown Point, New York, Cultural assimilation of Native Americans, Danny Williams (politician), Davis Inlet, Deer, Domestic violence, Electric power transmission, English language, Esox, Essipit, Exonym and endonym, First Nations, Florent Vollant, Folk rock, French language, French people, Freshwater whitefish, Geneviève McKenzie-Sioui, Greenlandic Norse, Groundhog, Gulf of Saint Lawrence, ..., Hazelnut, Hearth, House of Commons of Canada, Hudson Bay, Hudson's Bay Company, Hunter-gatherer, Hydro-Québec, Hydroelectricity, Indian potato, Indigenous peoples in Canada, Innu language, Innu Takuaikan Uashat Mak Mani-Utenam, Innue Essipit, International law, Inuit, Inuit languages, Iroquois, James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, Jonathan Genest-Jourdain, Kashtin, Kawawachikamach, Quebec, La Romaine, Quebec, Labrador, Lac-John, Lake trout, Lamprey, Lilium lancifolium, Loon, Lower Churchill Project, Maliotenam, Maliseet, Markland, Marten, Mashteuiatsh, Matimekosh, Megaproject, Metal, Mi'kmaq, Mingan, Quebec, Missionary, Mohawk people, Montagnais of Natashquan, Moose, Moravian Church, Mushuau Innu First Nation, Naskapi, Naskapi language, Natashquan 1, National Lawyers Guild, Natuashish, New Democratic Party, New York (state), New York Power Authority, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nitassinan, Nomad, Norsemen, Pakuashipi, Passenger pigeon, Pemmican, Pessamit, Pessamit Innu Band, Peter Penashue, Quebec, Reindeer, Rock ptarmigan, Sept-Îles, Quebec, Sheshatshiu, Sheshatshiu Innu First Nation, Sierra Club, Skræling, Smelt (fish), Snipe, Snow goose, Snowmobile, Snowshoe, Spruce grouse, Stove, Sturgeon, Substance abuse, Substance use disorder, Suicide, Survival International, Teal, The Hill Times, Tibetan people, Ticonderoga, New York, Uashat, Ungava Bay, Walleye, Whapmagoostui, Wild grape, Woodcock. Expand index (93 more) »

Abenaki

The Abenaki (Abnaki, Abinaki, Alnôbak) are a Native American tribe and First Nation.

New!!: Innu and Abenaki · See more »

Albany, New York

Albany is the capital of the U.S. state of New York and the seat of Albany County.

New!!: Innu and Albany, New York · See more »

Algonquin people

The Algonquins are indigenous inhabitants of North America who speak the Algonquin language, a divergent dialect of the Ojibwe language, which is part of the Algonquian language family.

New!!: Innu and Algonquin people · See more »

An Antane-Kapesh

An Antane Kapesh (1926-2004), who also went by the French name Anne(-Marie) André, was an Innu writer and activist from Schefferville, Quebec.

New!!: Innu and An Antane-Kapesh · See more »

Anglican Communion

The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion with 85 million members, founded in 1867 in London, England.

New!!: Innu and Anglican Communion · See more »

Arquebus

The arquebus, derived from the German Hakenbüchse, was a form of long gun that appeared in Europe during the 15th century.

New!!: Innu and Arquebus · See more »

Atikamekw

The Atikamekw are the First Nations inhabitants of the area they refer to as Nitaskinan ("Our Land"), in the upper Saint-Maurice River valley of Quebec (about north of Montreal), Canada.

New!!: Innu and Atikamekw · See more »

Bannock (food)

Bannock is a variety of flat quick bread or any large, round article baked or cooked from grain.

New!!: Innu and Bannock (food) · See more »

Beaver Wars

The Beaver Wars, also known as the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars, encompass a series of conflicts fought intermittently during the 17th and 18th centuries in eastern North America.

New!!: Innu and Beaver Wars · See more »

Bernard Cleary

Bernard Cleary (born May 8, 1937 in Mashteuiatsh, Quebec) is a Canadian politician.

New!!: Innu and Bernard Cleary · See more »

Bloc Québécois

The Bloc Québécois (BQ) is a federal political party in Canada devoted to Quebec nationalism and the promotion of Quebec sovereignty.

New!!: Innu and Bloc Québécois · See more »

Brant (goose)

The brant, also known as the brent goose (Branta bernicla) is a species of goose of the genus Branta.

New!!: Innu and Brant (goose) · See more »

Buckskin (leather)

Buckskin is the soft, pliable, porous preserved hide of an animal – usually deer – tanned in the same way as deerskin clothing worn by Native Americans.

New!!: Innu and Buckskin (leather) · See more »

Cabinet of Canada

The Cabinet of Canada (Cabinet du Canada) is a body of ministers of the Crown that, along with the Canadian monarch, and within the tenets of the Westminster system, forms the government of Canada.

New!!: Innu and Cabinet of Canada · See more »

Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

New!!: Innu and Canada · See more »

Canada goose

The Canada goose (Branta canadensis), also called the Canadian goose, is a large wild goose species with a black head and neck, white cheeks, white under its chin, and a brown body.

New!!: Innu and Canada goose · See more »

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian federal Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster for both radio and television.

New!!: Innu and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation · See more »

Canadian federal election, 2004

The Canadian federal election, 2004 (more formally, the 38th General Election), was held on June 28, 2004, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 38th Parliament of Canada.

New!!: Innu and Canadian federal election, 2004 · See more »

Canadian federal election, 2011

The 2011 Canadian federal election (formally the 41st Canadian general election) was held Monday, May 2, 2011, to elect members to the House of Commons of Canada of the 41st Canadian Parliament.

New!!: Innu and Canadian federal election, 2011 · See more »

Canadian Shield

The Canadian Shield, also called the Laurentian Plateau, or Bouclier canadien (French), is a large area of exposed Precambrian igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks (geological shield) that forms the ancient geological core of the North American continent (the North American Craton or Laurentia).

New!!: Innu and Canadian Shield · See more »

Catfish

Catfish (or catfishes; order Siluriformes or Nematognathi) are a diverse group of ray-finned fish.

New!!: Innu and Catfish · See more »

Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

New!!: Innu and Catholic Church · See more »

Catostomidae

The Catostomidae are the suckers of the order Cypriniformes, with about 78 species in this family of freshwater fishes.

New!!: Innu and Catostomidae · See more »

China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

New!!: Innu and China · See more »

Christianity

ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.

New!!: Innu and Christianity · See more »

Claude McKenzie

Claude McKenzie (born 1967 in Schefferville, Quebec) is a Canadian singer-songwriter.

New!!: Innu and Claude McKenzie · See more »

Conservative Party of Canada

The Conservative Party of Canada (Parti conservateur du Canada), colloquially known as the Tories, is a political party in Canada.

New!!: Innu and Conservative Party of Canada · See more »

Cree

The Cree (script; Cri) are one of the largest groups of First Nations in North America, with over 200,000 members living in Canada.

New!!: Innu and Cree · See more »

Cree language

Cree (also known as Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi) is a dialect continuum of Algonquian languages spoken by approximately 117,000 people across Canada, from the Northwest Territories to Alberta to Labrador.

New!!: Innu and Cree language · See more »

Crown Point, New York

Crown Point is a town in Essex County, New York, United States, located on the west shore of Lake Champlain.

New!!: Innu and Crown Point, New York · See more »

Cultural assimilation of Native Americans

The cultural assimilation of Native Americans was an assimilation effort by the United States to transform Native American culture to European–American culture between the years of 1790 and 1920.

New!!: Innu and Cultural assimilation of Native Americans · See more »

Danny Williams (politician)

Daniel E. "Danny" Williams, (born August 4, 1949) is a Canadian politician, businessman and lawyer who served as the ninth Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador between November 6, 2003, and December 3, 2010.

New!!: Innu and Danny Williams (politician) · See more »

Davis Inlet

Davis Inlet was a Naskapi community in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, formerly inhabited by the Mushuau Innu First Nation.

New!!: Innu and Davis Inlet · See more »

Deer

Deer (singular and plural) are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae.

New!!: Innu and Deer · See more »

Domestic violence

Domestic violence (also named domestic abuse or family violence) is violence or other abuse by one person against another in a domestic setting, such as in marriage or cohabitation.

New!!: Innu and Domestic violence · See more »

Electric power transmission

Electric power transmission is the bulk movement of electrical energy from a generating site, such as a power plant, to an electrical substation.

New!!: Innu and Electric power transmission · See more »

English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

New!!: Innu and English language · See more »

Esox

Esox is a genus of freshwater fish, the only living genus in the family Esocidae—the esocids which were endemic to North America and Eurasia during the Paleogene through present.

New!!: Innu and Esox · See more »

Essipit

Essipit (known as Les Escoumins until 1996) is an Innu Indian reserve in the Canadian province of Quebec, located on the north shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in the Côte-Nord region.

New!!: Innu and Essipit · See more »

Exonym and endonym

An exonym or xenonym is an external name for a geographical place, or a group of people, an individual person, or a language or dialect.

New!!: Innu and Exonym and endonym · See more »

First Nations

In Canada, the First Nations (Premières Nations) are the predominant indigenous peoples in Canada south of the Arctic Circle.

New!!: Innu and First Nations · See more »

Florent Vollant

Florent Vollant (born August 10, 1959 in Labrador) is a Canadian singer-songwriter.

New!!: Innu and Florent Vollant · See more »

Folk rock

Folk rock is a hybrid music genre combining elements of folk music and rock music, which arose in the United States and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s.

New!!: Innu and Folk rock · See more »

French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

New!!: Innu and French language · See more »

French people

The French (Français) are a Latin European ethnic group and nation who are identified with the country of France.

New!!: Innu and French people · See more »

Freshwater whitefish

The freshwater whitefish are fishes of the subfamily Coregoninae, which contains whitefishes (both freshwater and anadromous) and ciscoes, and is one of three subfamilies in the salmon family Salmonidae.

New!!: Innu and Freshwater whitefish · See more »

Geneviève McKenzie-Sioui

Geneviève McKenzie-Sioui, sometimes performing under the name Shanipiap, is an Innu musician, writer, television creator, and activist in Quebec.

New!!: Innu and Geneviève McKenzie-Sioui · See more »

Greenlandic Norse

Greenlandic Norse is an extinct North Germanic language that was spoken in the Norse settlements of Greenland until their demise in the late 15th century.

New!!: Innu and Greenlandic Norse · See more »

Groundhog

The groundhog (Marmota monax), also known as a woodchuck, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots.

New!!: Innu and Groundhog · See more »

Gulf of Saint Lawrence

The Gulf of Saint Lawrence (French: Golfe du Saint-Laurent) is the outlet of the North American Great Lakes via the Saint Lawrence River into the Atlantic Ocean.

New!!: Innu and Gulf of Saint Lawrence · See more »

Hazelnut

The hazelnut is the nut of the hazel and therefore includes any of the nuts deriving from species of the genus Corylus, especially the nuts of the species Corylus avellana.

New!!: Innu and Hazelnut · See more »

Hearth

In historic and modern usage, a hearth is a brick- or stone-lined fireplace, with or without an oven, used for heating and originally also used for cooking food.

New!!: Innu and Hearth · See more »

House of Commons of Canada

The House of Commons of Canada (Chambre des communes du Canada) is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign (represented by the Governor General) and the Senate.

New!!: Innu and House of Commons of Canada · See more »

Hudson Bay

Hudson Bay (Inuktitut: Kangiqsualuk ilua, baie d'Hudson) (sometimes called Hudson's Bay, usually historically) is a large body of saltwater in northeastern Canada with a surface area of.

New!!: Innu and Hudson Bay · See more »

Hudson's Bay Company

The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group.

New!!: Innu and Hudson's Bay Company · See more »

Hunter-gatherer

A hunter-gatherer is a human living in a society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging (collecting wild plants and pursuing wild animals), in contrast to agricultural societies, which rely mainly on domesticated species.

New!!: Innu and Hunter-gatherer · See more »

Hydro-Québec

Hydro-Québec is a public utility that manages the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity in Quebec.

New!!: Innu and Hydro-Québec · See more »

Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity is electricity produced from hydropower.

New!!: Innu and Hydroelectricity · See more »

Indian potato

Indian potato is a common name for several plants and may refer to.

New!!: Innu and Indian potato · See more »

Indigenous peoples in Canada

Indigenous peoples in Canada, also known as Native Canadians or Aboriginal Canadians, are the indigenous peoples within the boundaries of present-day Canada.

New!!: Innu and Indigenous peoples in Canada · See more »

Innu language

Innu-aimun or Montagnais is an Algonquian language spoken by over 10,000 Innu in Labrador and Quebec in Eastern Canada.

New!!: Innu and Innu language · See more »

Innu Takuaikan Uashat Mak Mani-Utenam

Innu Takuaikan Uashat Mak Mani-Utenam is an Innu First Nation in Quebec, Canada.

New!!: Innu and Innu Takuaikan Uashat Mak Mani-Utenam · See more »

Innue Essipit

Innue Essipit is an Innu First Nation in Quebec, Canada.

New!!: Innu and Innue Essipit · See more »

International law

International law is the set of rules generally regarded and accepted as binding in relations between states and between nations.

New!!: Innu and International law · See more »

Inuit

The Inuit (ᐃᓄᐃᑦ, "the people") are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada and Alaska.

New!!: Innu and Inuit · See more »

Inuit languages

The Inuit languages are a closely related group of indigenous American languages traditionally spoken across the North American Arctic and to some extent in the subarctic in Labrador.

New!!: Innu and Inuit languages · See more »

Iroquois

The Iroquois or Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse) are a historically powerful northeast Native American confederacy.

New!!: Innu and Iroquois · See more »

James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement

The James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement is an Aboriginal land claim settlement, approved in 1975 by the Cree and Inuit of northern Quebec, and later slightly modified in 1978 by the Northeastern Quebec Agreement, through which Quebec's Naskapi First Nations joined the treaty.

New!!: Innu and James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement · See more »

Jonathan Genest-Jourdain

Jonathan Genest-Jourdain, (born July 16, 1979) is a Canadian politician from Quebec.

New!!: Innu and Jonathan Genest-Jourdain · See more »

Kashtin

Kashtin were a Canadian folk rock duo in the 1980s and 1990s, one of the most commercially successful and famous musical groups in First Nations history.

New!!: Innu and Kashtin · See more »

Kawawachikamach, Quebec

Kawawachikamach (Naskapi: ᑲᐛᐛᒋᑲᒪᒡ/Kawâwâchikamach) is a Naskapi/Iyiyiw First Nations reserve and community at the south end of Lake Matemace (where it joins Lake Peter), approximately northeast of Schefferville, Quebec, Canada.

New!!: Innu and Kawawachikamach, Quebec · See more »

La Romaine, Quebec

La Romaine, also known as Unamenshipit in Innu-aimun, is an Innu First Nations reserve in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada, at the mouth of the Olomane River on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

New!!: Innu and La Romaine, Quebec · See more »

Labrador

Labrador is the continental-mainland part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

New!!: Innu and Labrador · See more »

Lac-John

Lac-John is a First Nations reserve on John Lake in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada, about north-east from the centre of Schefferville.

New!!: Innu and Lac-John · See more »

Lake trout

Lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) is a freshwater char living mainly in lakes in northern North America.

New!!: Innu and Lake trout · See more »

Lamprey

Lampreys (sometimes also called, inaccurately, lamprey eels) are an ancient lineage of jawless fish of the order Petromyzontiformes, placed in the superclass Cyclostomata.

New!!: Innu and Lamprey · See more »

Lilium lancifolium

Lilium lancifolium (syn. L. tigrinum) is an Asian species of lily, native to China, Japan, Korea, and the Russian Far East.

New!!: Innu and Lilium lancifolium · See more »

Loon

The loons (North America) or divers (Great Britain/Ireland) are a group of aquatic birds found in many parts of North America and northern Eurasia.

New!!: Innu and Loon · See more »

Lower Churchill Project

The Lower Churchill Project is a planned hydroelectric project in Labrador, Canada, to develop the remaining 35 per cent of the Churchill River that has not already been developed by the Churchill Falls Generating Station.

New!!: Innu and Lower Churchill Project · See more »

Maliotenam

Maliotenam (Mani-Utenam in Innu-aimun) is a First Nations reserve in Quebec, located adjacent to the city of Sept-Îles.

New!!: Innu and Maliotenam · See more »

Maliseet

The Wolastoqiyik, or Maliseet (also spelled Malecite), are an Algonquian-speaking First Nation of the Wabanaki Confederacy.

New!!: Innu and Maliseet · See more »

Markland

Markland is the name given to one of three lands on North America's Atlantic shore discovered by Leif Eriksson around 1000 AD.

New!!: Innu and Markland · See more »

Marten

The martens constitute the genus Martes within the subfamily Mustelinae, in the family Mustelidae.

New!!: Innu and Marten · See more »

Mashteuiatsh

Mashteuiatsh is a First Nations reserve in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada, about north from the centre of Roberval.

New!!: Innu and Mashteuiatsh · See more »

Matimekosh

Matimekosh (or Matimekush, officially Matimekosh 3) is a First Nations reserve on Lake Pearce in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada.

New!!: Innu and Matimekosh · See more »

Megaproject

A megaproject is an extremely large-scale investment project.

New!!: Innu and Megaproject · See more »

Metal

A metal (from Greek μέταλλον métallon, "mine, quarry, metal") is a material (an element, compound, or alloy) that is typically hard when in solid state, opaque, shiny, and has good electrical and thermal conductivity.

New!!: Innu and Metal · See more »

Mi'kmaq

The Mi'kmaq or Mi'gmaq (also Micmac, L'nu, Mi'kmaw or Mi'gmaw) are a First Nations people indigenous to Canada's Atlantic Provinces and the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec as well as the northeastern region of Maine.

New!!: Innu and Mi'kmaq · See more »

Mingan, Quebec

Mingan, also known as Ekuantshit in Innu-aimun, is an Innu First Nations reserve in the Canadian province of Quebec, at the mouth of the Mingan River on Mingan Bay of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

New!!: Innu and Mingan, Quebec · See more »

Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to proselytize and/or perform ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.

New!!: Innu and Missionary · See more »

Mohawk people

The Mohawk people (who identify as Kanien'kehá:ka) are the most easterly tribe of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy.

New!!: Innu and Mohawk people · See more »

Montagnais of Natashquan

Montagnais of Natashquan (French: Montagnais de Natashquan) are an Innu First Nation in Quebec, Canada.

New!!: Innu and Montagnais of Natashquan · See more »

Moose

The moose (North America) or elk (Eurasia), Alces alces, is the largest extant species in the deer family.

New!!: Innu and Moose · See more »

Moravian Church

The Moravian Church, formally named the Unitas Fratrum (Latin for "Unity of the Brethren"), in German known as Brüdergemeine (meaning "Brethren's Congregation from Herrnhut", the place of the Church's renewal in the 18th century), is one of the oldest Protestant denominations in the world with its heritage dating back to the Bohemian Reformation in the fifteenth century and the Unity of the Brethren (Czech: Jednota bratrská) established in the Kingdom of Bohemia.

New!!: Innu and Moravian Church · See more »

Mushuau Innu First Nation

The Mushuau Innu First Nation is located in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

New!!: Innu and Mushuau Innu First Nation · See more »

Naskapi

The Naskapi (Nascapi, Naskapee, Nascapee) or Naskapi Innu are the Innu First Nation inhabitants of an area referred to by many Innu to as Nitassinan, which comprises most of eastern Quebec and Labrador, Canada.

New!!: Innu and Naskapi · See more »

Naskapi language

Naskapi (also known as Iyuw Iyimuun in the Naskapi language) is an Algonquian language spoken by the Naskapi in Quebec and Labrador, Canada.

New!!: Innu and Naskapi language · See more »

Natashquan 1

Natashquan (officially Natashquan 1 and known in Innu as Nutashkuan) is a First Nations reserve in the Canadian province of Quebec, belonging to the Natashquan Innu band.

New!!: Innu and Natashquan 1 · See more »

National Lawyers Guild

The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) is a progressive public interest association of lawyers, law students, paralegals, jailhouse lawyers, law collective members, and other activist legal workers, in the United States.

New!!: Innu and National Lawyers Guild · See more »

Natuashish

Natuashish is an Innu community in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

New!!: Innu and Natuashish · See more »

New Democratic Party

The New Democratic Party (NDP; Nouveau Parti démocratique, NPD) is a social democraticThe party is widely described as social democratic.

New!!: Innu and New Democratic Party · See more »

New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

New!!: Innu and New York (state) · See more »

New York Power Authority

The New York Power Authority (NYPA), officially the Power Authority of the State of New York, is the largest state public power organization in the United States.

New!!: Innu and New York Power Authority · See more »

Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; Akamassiss; Newfoundland Irish: Talamh an Éisc agus Labradar) is the most easterly province of Canada.

New!!: Innu and Newfoundland and Labrador · See more »

Nitassinan

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

New!!: Innu and Nitassinan · See more »

Nomad

A nomad (νομάς, nomas, plural tribe) is a member of a community of people who live in different locations, moving from one place to another in search of grasslands for their animals.

New!!: Innu and Nomad · See more »

Norsemen

Norsemen are a group of Germanic people who inhabited Scandinavia and spoke what is now called the Old Norse language between 800 AD and c. 1300 AD.

New!!: Innu and Norsemen · See more »

Pakuashipi

Pakuashipi (or Pakua Shipi, or Pakua Shipu in Innu) is an Innu community in the Canadian province of Quebec, located on the north shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in the Côte-Nord region.

New!!: Innu and Pakuashipi · See more »

Passenger pigeon

The passenger pigeon or wild pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) is an extinct species of pigeon that was endemic to North America.

New!!: Innu and Passenger pigeon · See more »

Pemmican

Pemmican is a concentrated mixture of fat and protein used as a nutritious food.

New!!: Innu and Pemmican · See more »

Pessamit

Pessamit (formerly Betsiamites, or Bersimis), is a First Nations reserve and Innu community in the Canadian province of Quebec, located about southwest from Baie-Comeau along the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River at the mouth of the Betsiamites River.

New!!: Innu and Pessamit · See more »

Pessamit Innu Band

The Pessamit Innu Band, which the official name is bande des Innus de Pessamit, is an Indian band of the Innu First Nations in Quebec, Canada.

New!!: Innu and Pessamit Innu Band · See more »

Peter Penashue

Peter Penashue, (born April 9, 1964) is a Canadian politician from Newfoundland and Labrador.

New!!: Innu and Peter Penashue · See more »

Quebec

Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.

New!!: Innu and Quebec · See more »

Reindeer

The reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), also known as the caribou in North America, is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, sub-Arctic, tundra, boreal and mountainous regions of northern Europe, Siberia and North America.

New!!: Innu and Reindeer · See more »

Rock ptarmigan

The rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) is a medium-sized gamebird in the grouse family.

New!!: Innu and Rock ptarmigan · See more »

Sept-Îles, Quebec

Sept-Îles (Quebec French pronunciation:, French for "Seven Islands") is a city in the Côte-Nord region of eastern Quebec, Canada.

New!!: Innu and Sept-Îles, Quebec · See more »

Sheshatshiu

Sheshatshiu is an Innu Federal Reserve in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, located approximately 30 kilometres north of Goose Bay.

New!!: Innu and Sheshatshiu · See more »

Sheshatshiu Innu First Nation

The Sheshatshiu Innu First Nation is located in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

New!!: Innu and Sheshatshiu Innu First Nation · See more »

Sierra Club

The Sierra Club is an environmental organization in the United States.

New!!: Innu and Sierra Club · See more »

Skræling

Skræling (Old Norse and Icelandic: skrælingi, plural skrælingjar) is the name the Norse Greenlanders used for the peoples they encountered in North America and Greenland.

New!!: Innu and Skræling · See more »

Smelt (fish)

Smelts are a family of small fish, the Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

New!!: Innu and Smelt (fish) · See more »

Snipe

A snipe is any of about 26 wading bird species in three genera in the family Scolopacidae.

New!!: Innu and Snipe · See more »

Snow goose

The snow goose (Anser caerulescens), consisting of both a white phase and blue phase (blue goose), is a North American species of goose commonly collectively referred to as "light geese".

New!!: Innu and Snow goose · See more »

Snowmobile

A snowmobile, also known as a motor sled, motor sledge, or snowmachine, is a motorized vehicle designed for winter travel and recreation on snow.

New!!: Innu and Snowmobile · See more »

Snowshoe

A snowshoe is footwear for walking over snow.

New!!: Innu and Snowshoe · See more »

Spruce grouse

The spruce grouse or Canada grouse (Falcipennis canadensis) is a medium-sized grouse closely associated with the coniferous boreal forests or taiga of North America.

New!!: Innu and Spruce grouse · See more »

Stove

A stove is an enclosed space in which fuel is burned to heat either the space in which the stove is situated, or items placed on the heated stove itself.

New!!: Innu and Stove · See more »

Sturgeon

Sturgeon is the common name for the 27 species of fish belonging to the family Acipenseridae.

New!!: Innu and Sturgeon · See more »

Substance abuse

Substance abuse, also known as drug abuse, is a patterned use of a drug in which the user consumes the substance in amounts or with methods which are harmful to themselves or others, and is a form of substance-related disorder.

New!!: Innu and Substance abuse · See more »

Substance use disorder

A substance use disorder (SUD), also known as a drug use disorder, is a condition in which the use of one or more substances leads to a clinically significant impairment or distress.

New!!: Innu and Substance use disorder · See more »

Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

New!!: Innu and Suicide · See more »

Survival International

Survival International is a human rights organisation formed in 1969 that campaigns for the rights of indigenous tribal peoples and uncontacted peoples.

New!!: Innu and Survival International · See more »

Teal

Teal is a medium blue-green (primarily blue) color, similar to cyan.

New!!: Innu and Teal · See more »

The Hill Times

The Hill Times is a Canadian twice-weekly newspaper that covers Parliament, the federal government and federal politics.

New!!: Innu and The Hill Times · See more »

Tibetan people

The Tibetan people are an ethnic group native to Tibet.

New!!: Innu and Tibetan people · See more »

Ticonderoga, New York

Ticonderoga is a town in Essex County, New York, United States.

New!!: Innu and Ticonderoga, New York · See more »

Uashat

Uashat is an Indian reserve in Quebec, located adjacent to the city of Sept-Îles.

New!!: Innu and Uashat · See more »

Ungava Bay

Ungava Bay (French: baie d'Ungava, Inuktitut (syllabics/Roman) ᐅᖓᕙ ᑲᖏᖅᓗᒃ/ungava kangiqluk) is a large bay in northeastern Canada separating Nunavik (far northern Quebec) from Baffin Island.

New!!: Innu and Ungava Bay · See more »

Walleye

Walleye (Sander vitreus, synonym Stizostedion vitreum) is a freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the Northern United States.

New!!: Innu and Walleye · See more »

Whapmagoostui

Whapmagoostui (ᐙᐱᒫᑯᔥᑐᐃ/Wâpimâkuštui, "place of the beluga") is the northernmost Cree village in Quebec, Canada, located at the mouth of the Great Whale River (Grande Rivière de la Baleine) on the coast of Hudson Bay in Nunavik.

New!!: Innu and Whapmagoostui · See more »

Wild grape

Wild grape may refer to.

New!!: Innu and Wild grape · See more »

Woodcock

The woodcocks are a group of seven or eight very similar living species of wading birds in the genus Scolopax.

New!!: Innu and Woodcock · See more »

Redirects here:

Innu people, Innu tea doll, Innus, Iynu, Montagnais Indians, Montagnais Indians (Chippewayans), Montagnais Indians (Quebec), Montagnais and Naskapi.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innu

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »