Most Innu people speak one of their two native languages, Montagnais and Naskapi. |
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Colin Samson clearly takes the former view of the of the Innu experience. |
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Scholars believe that the Beothuk are related closely to the Innu of Labrador. |
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The Beothuk may have intermingled and assimilated with Innu in Labrador and Mi'kmaq in Newfoundland. |
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The Innu engaged in tribal warfare along the coast of Labrador with the Inuit groups that had significant populations. |
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This area is predominantly Inuit, with the small Innu community of Natuashish being the exception. |
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The highlands above the Churchill Falls were once an ancient hunting ground for the Innu First Nations and settled trappers of Labrador. |
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The Innu are Naskapi-Montagnais Indians, or, politically correctly, First Nations, who, I'm sure don't appreciate being called Inuit by mistake. |
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Innu people usually speak French and almost all of them speak their own Innu language which they call Innu-aimun. |
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They were gradually displaced by people of the Dorset Culture the L'nu, or Mi'kmaq and finally by the Innu and Inuit in Labrador and the Beothuks on the island. |
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The Innu of Labrador, Saguenay and from Cote-Nord have never ratified a treaty which could have driven them to give up their own territory to Canada. |
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