The Innu of Labrador, Canada are a small group of Indigenous people living in two communities on the coast of Labrador, Canada. They call their homeland, Nitassinan and it spans the Quebec-Labrador peninsula. Sheshatshiu is home the Sheshatshiu Innu First Nations and is location near Goose Bay in central Labrador. Natuashish is on the north coast and home to the Mushuau Innu First Nations.
For thousands of year the Innu have lived and roamed on this land following the great caribou herds and are the last of the nomadic hunters in North America. They only came to settle in fixed communities in the 1950s and 60s due to pressure from European colonizer’s, churches and governments using economic and legal coercion.
Today they are working to regain and rebuild their culture and society through economic and land claims agreements with provincial and federal governments. The caribou still play a major part of their culture as it is the basis of their mythology and origin.
