| Italic Title: | force |
| Nitassinan: The Innu Struggle to Reclaim Their Homeland | |
| Author: | Marie Wadden |
| Country: | Canada |
| Subject: | The plight of Indigenous peoples |
| Genre: | non-fiction, book[1] |
| Publisher: | Douglas & McIntyre |
| Pub Date: | 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.[2]
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.