Mishikamau

Mishikamau, or Meshikamau, was a great lake at the heart of Innu country in the Labrador interior. Families travelled here from across the peninsula to gather and to hunt caribou from the Red Wine Mountains and George River herds. A route of lakes, rivers and portages connected Meshikamau with Lake Melville, far to the east. On the lake's western side stood Petshishkapushkau, a mountain associated in Innu tradition with Anikapeu, the animal master of frogs and toads.