PEPAMUTEIATI NITASSINAT
Explore this website to learn more about Innu place names across their vast territory of Nitassinan.
People everywhere give names to lakes, rivers, mountains, and other features on their lands. Those names record a culture’s history on the land.
For Indigenous peoples, place names often say where to hunt or fish, or describe the country in ways that help travellers. They also carry stories—memories of life on the land that help record Innu history in Nitassinan.
Mushuau-aimun
Tshe atussenitamin katshitapatakanit tshetshi etatu tshissenitamin enua eshinikatetshi nipina, shipua mak pishkutinaua mak kutaka assitsh e takuatshi, enua eshi-uauitakanitshi mak anite etatsh uipatsh innuatsh.
Innuatsh eshinikatatsh naite e natuiutsh mak kussetsh tshetshi tshissenitaminitshi kutaka auenua napatshitanitshi assinu. Ekuan enu tshessitatsh anite nutshimitsh mak tshetshi takuatsh mashinanikanitsh anite pekassiutsh innuatsh uipatsh.
Sheshatshiu-aimun
Nanatuapatamikᵘ neta kamashinaitshanut (website) tshetshi tshissenitameku etatu nenua innu etanut uashka e mishanit uinuau e tipenitakau utassiuau Nitassinan. Innuat uinuau nutim nete uitamupanat eshinikatahk nenua nipissa, shipua, utshua, mak kutaka eshinakuaniti utassiuau. Nenua eshinikateniti mashinataikanu eshi-inniuit shashish nete kaiata nenua assia.
Nenu aishinnuat auenitshenat, etanut eshinikatenit nanikutini issishuemakan nete e natuit kie mak e kusset, kie mak e uitakau nutshimit nete eitit enimetat e uitshiat kutaka ka pepamuteniti. Tipatshimuna iapit kanuenitamupan—e tshissitakanit eshi-inniuipan nete assit etat e uitshikuiakᵘ e mashinatet innu utapatshimunua ne Nitassinan.
