Country Canada Name Nitassinan: Innu Publisher Douglas & McIntyre Pages 218 pp. | Publication date December 1991 Genre non-fiction, book Role Book by Marie Wadden | |
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Subject The plight of Indigenous peoples Media type Print (hardback and paperback) | ||
Originally published December 1991 | ||
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.
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 3 awards, including the Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing.
References
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