Nitassinan: The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland

Nitassinan: The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland is a non-fiction book, written by Canadian writer Marie Wadden, first published in December 1991 by Douglas & McIntyre. In the book, the author chronicles the plight of the Innu people, indigenous inhabitants of an area they affectionately call "Nitassinan" which means "our land" in the Innu language.[2]

Nitassinan:
The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland
First edition cover of Canadian release
AuthorMarie Wadden
CountryCanada
SubjectThe plight of Indigenous peoples
Genrenon-fiction, book[1]
PublisherDouglas & McIntyre
Publication date
December 1991
Media typePrint (hardback and paperback)
Pages218 pp.
ISBN9781550540017

Awards and honours

Nitassinan received the 1992 "Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction".[2] The author has written a second book entitled "Where the Pavement Ends, the Aboriginal Recovery Movement and the Urgent Need for Reconciliation", published in 2008 by Douglas & McIntyre and nominated for three awards, including the Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing.

See also

References

  1. Goodreads, Nitassinan, Book review, Retrieved 22 November 2012
  2. Faculty of Arts, 1992, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Marie Wadden, Retrieved 19 November 2012
  • Douglas & McIntyre, Marie Wadden, Retrieved 19 November 2012
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