Nitassinan: The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland

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Nitassinan:
The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland
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First edition cover of Canadian release
Author Marie Wadden
Country Canada
Subject The plight of Indigenous peoples
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Publisher Douglas & McIntyre
Publication date
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Media type Print (hardback and paperback)
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ISBN 9781550540017
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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 dialect.[2]

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 3 awards, including the Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing.

See also

References

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External links

  • Douglas & McIntyre, Marie Wadden, Retrieved 19 November 2012


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  1. Goodreads, Nitassinan, Book review, Retrieved 22 November 2012
  2. 2.0 2.1 Faculty of Arts, 1992, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Marie Wadden, Retrieved 19 November 2012