Innu

The Innut ('People') -- singular: Innu/Ilnu ('man, person') -- formerly called Montagnais (; French for 'mountain people'), are the Indigenous Canadians who inhabit northeastern Labrador in present-day Newfoundland and Labrador and some portions of Quebec. They refer to their traditional homeland as Nitassinan ('Our Land', ᓂᑕᔅᓯᓇᓐ) or Innu-assi ('Innu Land').

1609–1701 wars between Hurons and Iroquois

Nitassinan () 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. In the northern reaches of Nitassinan lies St'aschinuw (), the Naskapi homeland.