fee simple

Absolute title to land

Innu-Aimun

The Innu language

Innu-Aitun

Innu culture – their way of life; their world view; their ideas, beliefs and values, handed down from generation to generation; their skills; their artefacts – everything which gives them their identity

Innu Nation

Until 2011, this name was used to indicate all Innu resident in the two government villages, Sheshatshiu and Natuashish, Labrador. The ‘Nation’ will come into being as a government-sponsored body when the New Dawn Final Agreement is ratified. After the ratification of the Agreement in Principle, however, the Innu resident in Central Quebec also adopted this name, to which they were equally entitled but as a separate negotiation organisation

Nitassinan

The Innu homeland

nutshimit

The open country including all aspects of Innu life lived out on the land

Strategic Alliance

Negotiating body formed in 2009 to represent the villages of Uashat, Maliotenam, Matimekush and Lac John following the breakdown of negotiations for the recovery of their James Bay lands

sui generis

Unique, in a class of its own

terra nullius

Vacant land with no true owner, free for the taking

time immemorial

The common law date from which absolute title to land is measured – in the case of indigenous land from before the time of contact

Tshash Petapen

The New Dawn Agreement

Turtle Island

The indigenous name for North America

usufruct

The right to gather the fruits of land; a right which does not amount to ownership of the land