What is the Innu language called?
Montagnais
Innu-aimun or Montagnais is an Algonquian language spoken by over 10,000 Innu in Labrador and Quebec in Eastern Canada. It is a member of the Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi dialect continuum and is spoken in various dialects depending on the community.
What is Montagnais English?
Definition of ‘Montagnais’ 1. a member of an Innu people living in Labrador and eastern Quebec. 2. the Algonquian language of this people. Collins English Dictionary.
Are Inuit First Nations?
Inuit. Inuit are another Aboriginal group, historically located in the Arctic and legally and culturally distinct from First Nations or legally-defined Indians and Métis.
Are Innu and Inuit difference?
Despite the apparent similarity between ‘Innu’ and ‘Inuit’, the two words are not related. In terms of culture and language, the Innu are the easternmost group of a very widespread people commonly known as the Cree, another term probably of European origin.
What kind of tribe is the Montagnais?
Montagnais Tribe. Montagnais Indians, Montagnais People, Montagnais First Nation (French ‘mountaineers’, from the mountainous character of their country). A group of closely related Algonquian tribes in Canada, extending from about St Maurice river almost to the Atlantic, and from the St Lawrence to the watershed of Hudson bay.
What happened to the Montagnais?
In consequence, the Montagnais began to resort to the mission at Sillery, near Quebec. The whole tribe is now civilized and Catholic, except for forty-eight officially reported (1909) as Anglican. They still depend mainly on fur trade for subsistence, but also work at lumbering, and the making of canoes, snow-shoes, and moccasins.
Where did the Montagnais-Naskapi live?
The Montagnais-Naskapi occupied a vast area of the Labrador Peninsula extending from the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the lower St. Lawrence River north to Ungava Bay and northwest to James and Hudson bays. The Montagnais occupied the southern part of this region, the Naskapi the northern part, and the East Main Cree the western part.
How did the Montagnais-Naskapi migrate to Labrador?
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, White settlement along the St. Lawrence and the establishment by the Hudson’s Bay Company of trading posts in the central and Eastern parts of Labrador Peninsula combined to encourage the movement of Montagnais-Naskapi groups back inland.