Kauipushkakamat

Kauipushkakamat is an Innu name for a lake in the forested interior of Labrador. Meaning 'Burnt Area Lake', it preserves the memory of a fire in a landscape where the visible traces have long since disappeared. The lake belongs to Nitassinan, the Innu homeland of lakes, rivers and hunting country. Innu place names often describe the features of a waterway or its relationship to neighbouring lakes, carrying knowledge of the land through generations of travel.