Where did the Innu traditionally live?

The Innu people traditionally occupied distinct regions within the American Subarctic, with their specific territories defined by their environmental adaptations:12

• Southern Innu (Montagnais): They traditionally inhabited a large, forested area that paralleled the northern shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.1
• Northern Innu (Naskapi): They lived on the vast Labrador plateau, a landscape characterized by grasslands and tundra.1

While the southern groups formalized their hunting and trapping territories following European colonization to participate in the fur trade, the northern territories remained larger and more loosely defined.1