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Topic: Innu


In the News (Tue 21 May 13)

  
  Innu
The Innu live in Nitassinan, which is the area containing eastern Quebec and Labrador.
The Innu have began to turn their lives around by beginning programs to teach the young harvesting skills, knowledge of the land, and oral traditions.
The Innu language and culture have been introduced to the school curriculum, and intensive alcohol treatment programs have allowed families to be united once more.
www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/northamerica/innu.html   (303 words)

  
  DIVERSITY WATCH - Ryerson University School of Journalism
Innu began to show up on the coast in a starving condition, seeking assistance from missionaries, traders, nursing stations, and the government.
By the 1950s the growing dependence of the Innu on government services and social assistance had the effect of restricting them to the vicinity of the villages, with unfortunate results for their society and culture.
A study was released by Innu Chief Simeon Tshakapesh in late 2000 that showed 154 of 169 youths in the Davis Inlet had abused solvents at some point in their lives.
www.diversitywatch.ryerson.ca /backgrounds/innu.htm   (997 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Innu music   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Innu are the indigenous inhabitants of an area they refer to as Nitassinan, which comprises most of the Quebec-Labrador peninsula in Eastern Canada.
The Innu Nikama, held annually in Quebec, is an important festival of Native American music of all kinds.
Innu and Inuit art forms will be explored as well as art as decoration in Innu and Inuit society.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Innu-music   (787 words)

  
 Innu Nation Claim - Indian and Northern Affairs Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Innu Nation is the political association of the Labrador Innu which has been authorized by the Innu to negotiate a treaty on behalf of approximately 500 Innu in Davis Inlet and 1,100 Innu in Sheshatshiu.
The claim was conditionally accepted by the federal government for negotiation in 1978, subject to the completion of a land use and occupancy study and the participation of the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador in the negotiation process.
Tripartite or three-way negotiations among the Innu Nation and the federal and provincial governments resumed in May 1995 and in October 1995 negotiators initialled a framework agreement.
www.ainc-inac.gc.ca /pr/info/info71_e.html   (559 words)

  
 Innu Nation launches court challenge to military plans for supersonic test flights
Innu Nation is seeking full disclosure from the Canadian military and its European Allies on the full scope of proposed changes to the types of training now being conducted over Innu traditional territory.
The Innu Nation is presently engaged in treaty negotiations with the federal and provincial governments to provide for formal recognition of its aboriginal title to lands in Labrador and to allow its members to continue their cultural existence on Nitassinan (Innu Land).
The Innu took this action as a last recourse only after all the available information indicated that the Panel was biased in favour of DND and was not really interested in studying the impacts of the training in a scientific manner.
www.ienearth.org /military_impacts.html   (2977 words)

  
 Aboriginal Peoples: The Innu: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage
The Innu, formerly known as the Naskapi-Montagnais Indians, are an Algonkian-speaking people whose homeland (Nitassinan) is the eastern portion of the Québec-Labrador peninsula.
The word "Innu" means "human being", and the Innu language is called "Innu-aimun." Today there are over 16,000 Innu who live in eleven communities in Québec and two in Labrador.
The Innu are negotiating for recognition of their aboriginal rights to their traditional territory and struggling to heal the ravages of years of village life.
www.heritage.nf.ca /aboriginal/innu.html   (475 words)

  
 innu constructions-builders of innu apartments trivandrum kerala india
Innu constructions designs and builds flats, bungalows and villas using modern state of the art technology at very moderate prices.
Innu is blessed with a team of eminent architects, engineers and experienced professionals in constructions.
Innu Construction's Innu Apartments; located in the heart of Trivandrum city, very near to M C Road Pattom, makes you feel of a village atmosphere.
www.webindia.com /innuconstructions   (254 words)

  
 Innu - Ethnos - Books about the Innu People
The Innu people are sometimes sub-divided into two communities, the Montagnais ["mountain people" in French] who live along the shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, and the less numerous Naskapi ["inland people" in Innu-aimun] who live farther North.
However, the Innu themselves dislike these terms, and according to most sources the distinction is anyway largely an artificial one invented by the French colonisers.
Survival International have alleged that the Canadian government's policy of relocating the Innu away from their ancestral lands and preventing them from practising their ancient way of life is in contravention of international law, and they have drawn parallels with the Chinese government's treatment of Tibetans.
www.almudo.com /ethnos/Innu.htm   (428 words)

  
 Innu Nikamu
Many recording artists, the most famous of whom has been Kashtin, got their start at this festival.
The host community of Maliotenam is the home of Philip Mackenzie, who initiated the contemporary song movement, creating folk-style pieces to texts in his language - Innu aimun.
His earliest songs were accompanied by guitar and the traditional Montagnais teueikan (frame drum with snares) and were given the generic label of 'folk Innu'.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0001699   (234 words)

  
 Innu fight for survival and Nitassinan : ICT [2005/12/30]
Innu elders, chiefs and their legal counsel and MacKenzie took their complaint to the United Nations in the early 1990s, citing numerous human rights violations and arguing for the right of indigenous peoples to self-determination.
Innu communities that once thrived by trapping, fishing and hunting caribou are now suffering social ills common on Indian reservations in the United States - extreme poverty, pervasive unemployment, increased violence, alcoholism, drug abuse, and the loss of language and cultural skills.
When Innu burial grounds were going to be flooded, they exhumed the remains of her relatives and sent them to Montreal to study the bones.
www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1096412172   (1932 words)

  
 innu montagnais social studies
The Innu, however, came from another land situated to the southeast called Tshishtashkamuku which is connected to the world by a narrow bridge." Learn what really happened.
The Montagnais and Naskapi are actually part of the same Indian nation, calling themselves Innu; their languages, however, have diverged enough that most linguists consider them separate languages (though some do class Naskapi as a dialect of Montagnais, or both as dialects of the Cree language).
The Innu refer to this territory as "Nitassinan." An overview of Innu history and culture.
www.archaeolink.com /indigenous_americans_innu.htm   (726 words)

  
 'A well-intentioned bumbling' - Davis Inlet: Innu community in crisis - CBC Archives
They can be traced back to 1967 when the Innu gave up the remnants of their nomadic culture to settle in half-built houses on the northeast coast of Labrador.
But the Innu had difficulties adjusting from their traditional nomadic way of life in the mainland to a settled existence on the island.
In the late 1960s, the Innu completed their settlement on the northeast coast of Labrador in the communities of Davis Inlet and nearby Sheshatshiu.
archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-70-1671-11508/disasters_tragedies/davis_inlet/clip1   (458 words)

  
 Innu
The Innu nation, which has close to 15,170 members, is one of the most populous aboriginal nations in Québec, ranking second in number.
Prior to the 20th century, the Innu were almost the sole inhabitants of an immense territory which extends up to 600 kilometres inland along the Côte-Nord.
The Innu communities are very different from one another, whether in terms of their geographical location and their size or their socioeconomic development: stores and businesses, outfitting establishments, hunting, traditional fishing and commercial fishing (salmon rivers).
www.autochtones.gouv.qc.ca /relations_autochtones/profils_nations/innus_en.htm   (402 words)

  
 Innu | Survival International
During the 1950s and 1960s, the nomadic Innu were pressured into settling in fixed communities by the Canadian government and Catholic church.
Many of the Innu are still fighting to retain much of their traditional lifestyle, increasingly difficult as the government hands out their land in mining concessions, floods the heart of their territory for hydro power schemes, and builds roads which cut up the remainder.
Survival is calling on the Canadian government to rethink its approach to negotiations with the Innu and other similar groups - currently they will only recognise Innu land rights if the Innu agree to surrender most of their land.
www.survival-international.org /tribes.php?tribe_id=52   (468 words)

  
 Canadian Human Rights Commission :: Resources :: Publications :: Reports
There is no doubt that the commitment to the relocation of the Mushuau Innu and the building of the new community of Natuashish is one of the most significant actions taken by the Government for the Innu.
The Innu respond that "capacity development" of this sort is not the type of expertise that gets to the heart of the major social, health and spiritual problems that beset their communities, and that participating in these activities displaces time and energy sorely needed to address more fundamental matters.
The relocation of the Mushuau Innu, the economic development currently occurring, the potential of projects such as Voisey’s Bay and the commitment of the current Innu leadership all provide an opportunity that must not be lost.
www.chrc-ccdp.ca /publications/rapport_innu_report/page11-en.asp   (1323 words)

  
 "the People's Paths!" NAIIP News Path! - Innu Designates Salmon Conservation Areas   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Effective today, Innu Nation will be removing nets from the Kenamu River, Kenamish-Carter Basin area, the North West River estuary and the Rapids between Little Lake and Grand Lake that are not identified as belonging to LIA or Innu Nation members, or set in accordance with Innu and Inuit communal salmon fishing regulations.
Innu Nation has also been in discussions with DFO to pilot alternative harvesting techniques, including salmon traps in the place of gill nets.
Innu Nation continues to call on the Minister of Fisheries and Ocean to reverse the decision to increase the harvesting pressure on salmon stocks, and to work with the Innu Nation and the LIA to ensure that the subsistence salmon fishery is managed in accordance with the principle of conservation.
www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net /News2000/0600/INNU000627conservation.htm   (383 words)

  
 Canadian Human Rights Commission :: Resources :: Publications :: Reports
In this regard, some Innu are concerned that the completion of the side agreement on Voisey’s Bay, and the prospect of completing one in the future on the Lower Churchill project, will cause the Government to lose interest in completing the full land claims negotiations.
In the context of this report, the question, in our view, is whether Canada’s treatment of the Innu might be viewed as failing to allow them to "freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development" as contemplated in article 1 of the covenants and article 3 of the Draft Declaration.
The point made by the Innu is that the "best interests" of the Innu children and their "well-being" had simply faded into the background.
www.chrc-ccdp.ca /publications/rapport_innu_report/page8-en.asp   (1805 words)

  
 Native Americans: Innu
Innu history is interesting and important, but the Innu are still here today, too, and we try to feature modern writers as well as traditional folklore, contemporary art as well as museum pieces, and the issues and struggles of today as well as the tragedies of yesterday.
Homepage of the Mushuau (Naskapi) Innu of Labrador.
Innu scapulamancy (divination by burning a shoulder blade of an animal).
www.native-languages.org /innu.htm   (403 words)

  
 The History of the Innu Nation
In 1918, 40 Innu died of smallpox and are buried in the Voisey's Bay area.
While the federal and provincial governments were eager to settle the Innu in coastal communities so as to assimilate them into the mainstream of Canadian society, the the Innu "were ready for settlement" due to disease, starvation, and loss of land to European settlement and resource extraction.
The Innu language and culture were introduced to the school curriculum to counter the negative messages conveyed to them in the regular curriculum that relegated their culture to the dustbins of history.
www.cqsb.qc.ca /svs/434/fninnu.htm   (1191 words)

  
 Ashkui
The guidance and knowledge of the Innu people, particularly the elders, is valued and respected by producing products that respond to their questions or concerns.
The actual project design was developed by the Innu and is based on landscape elements valued by their own culture.
The Innu Nation have taken ownership of the Ashkui Project and thus all aspects of the work are well supported by the community.
www.nist.gov /public_affairs/Posters/ashkui.htm   (1044 words)

  
 Canada's killing fields: the extermination of the Innu
In 1967, the Newfoundland government convinced the Mushuau Innu (the people of the barrens) to abandon their traditional location on the mainland of Labrador where they had been nomadic hunters of caribou for about six millennia.
The sexual and physical abuse of Innu children at the hands of a small minority of Roman Catholic priests over a period of generations.
Mittelstaedt and K. Haggart, "U.K. group calls treatment of Innu 'Canada's Tibet': suicide of native spokesman's son on the eve of launch in London of damning report highlights despair in aboriginal communities.
www.religioustolerance.org /sui_innu.htm   (695 words)

  
 Statement by INNU
Three Innu – Napes Ashini and Shapatish and Katneen Malak – were invited to Europe to speak at the launch of the report.
Whilst it was clear that the report had succeeded in pushing the Innu’s treatment to the top of political agenda, no government spokesperson would address the report’s main conclusion – that the policy under which Canada negotiates indigenous land ‘claims’ is fundamentally biased against the Indigenous Peoples.
But officials’ true attitude towards the Innu was revealed in the reply sent out by the Newfoundland authorities to the thousands of Survival members who wrote letter of protest.
www.puebloindio.org /ONU_info/info2000/GTPI2000_INNU.htm   (801 words)

  
 Samson - A Way of Life that Does Not Exist
The Innu (also known as Montagnais-Naskapi Indians; not to be confused with their neighbors, the Inuit) live, hunt, and travel in a vast territory that they know as Nitassinan (lit., "our land") stretching from the St. Lawrence River north to Ungava Bay and east to the coast of Labrador.
Although there is no doubt that many Innu clearly value their hunting way of life and continue to resist the many colonial impositions in their lives, there are a range of differing strategies, dissonant opinions, and inconvenient facts that are simply omitted from Samson's account.
Apparently, the only outsider who understands Innu on their own terms is Samson himself, whereas a number of characters, including "the anthropologist" who has been an advocate for Innu for nearly twenty years, are subjected to ad hominem attacks.
www.aaanet.org /cae/aeq/br/samson.htm   (768 words)

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