Nitassinan () is the ancestral homeland of the Innu, an

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, 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'',

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, 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''.

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