Nitassinan: The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland facts for kids
First edition cover of Canadian release
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| Author | Marie Wadden |
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| Country | Canada |
| Subject | The plight of Indigenous peoples |
| Genre | non-fiction, book |
| Publisher | Douglas & McIntyre |
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Publication date
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December 1991 |
| Media type | Print (hardback and paperback) |
| Pages | 218 pp. |
| ISBN | 9781550540017 |
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.
Awards and honours
Nitassinan received the 1992 "Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction". 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
- List of Edna Staebler Award recipients
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