To avoid confusion with the Inuit, who belong to the Eskimoan peoples, today only the singular form "Innu/Ilnu" is used for the Innu, members of the large Cree-language family.

Dec 21, 2025 · Innu, North American Indian peoples who spoke almost identical Algonquian dialects and whose cultures differed chiefly in their adaptation to their respective environments.

The Innu, formerly known as the Naskapi-Montagnais Indians, are an Algonkian-speaking people whose homeland (Nitassinan) is the eastern portion of the Quebec-Labrador peninsula. The word "Innu" …

Sep 1, 2010 · Innu-aimun (the Innu language) is part of the Algonquian language family. It is spoken by people traditionally known as Montagnais, while Iyuw Iyimuun is a dialect spoken by the Naskapi.

6 days ago · The Innu, an Indigenous people of Canada’s eastern boreal forests and tundra, have a history as enduring as the granite ridges and windswept plateaus of Nitassinan, their ancestral …

The Innu, who are also known as "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 …

As a complement to our Montagnais and Naskapi language information, we would like to share our collection of indexed links about the Innu people and various aspects of their society.

The Innu are an Indigenous people of Canada who traditionally inhabited the areas of present-day Labrador and Quebec. They are also known as the Montagnais and Naskapi, and they are part of the …

The Innu are the indigenous people of most of the Labrador-Quebec peninsula, in eastern Canada. They were formerly referred to as the Montagnais-Naskapi Indians, and are unrelated to the Inuit (or …

The Innu language is part of the Algonquian language family and is based on a Latin alphabet system composed of 11 letters: A, H, E, I, K, M, N, P, S, T and U.