Nitassinan

Nitassinan is the ancestral homeland, or country, of the Innu, an Indigenous people of Eastern Quebec and Labrador, Canada. Nitassinan means "our land" in the Innu language. The territory covers the eastern portion of the Labrador peninsula. In the northern reaches of Nitassinan lies St'aschinuw, the Naskapi homeland.
The first interactions with Europeans were with the Vikings who referred to the Innu as the Skræling. Alongside Helluland and Vinland, the Greenlandic Norse called the Labrador region of Innu Country Markland.

Etymology

Nitassinan and, the more restrained term Innu Assi, mean "our land" and "Innu Country," respectively, in Innu-aimun. Both centre the root assi, originating from Proto-Algonquian *axskiy, relating it to the aski in Nitaskinan, Ojibwemowin's aki, and the Istchee in Eeyou Istchee, each meaning "land" as well.
Nitassinan means "our land". It is formed by attaching the prefix ni- and the suffix -nan to the root aski, forming the possessive. This construction is seen in neighbouring Algonquian languages like Nehiromowin, Anishinaabemowin, and Plains Cree,. Indeed, Atikamekw and Abenaki use similar constructions to refer to their homelands: Nitaskinan and Ndakinna, respectively.