Tanien (Daniel) Ashini, far left, and Penote (Ben) Michel, far right, with family members arriving at Meshikamau-shipu, a traditional Innu travel route, during the author’s first visit in 1995 Colin Samson

The Innu have lived in eastern Canada for thousands of years, yet their rights to this land are increasingly threatened by the question: who is Indigenous?

The emergence of a well-resourced rival claim to Indigenous land rights is of growing concern to the Innu people of Labrador-Quebec.

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