Mistinitwayasu

Mistinatwayasu is a Naskapi name meaning “great lake by the river.” It is applied to more than one lake in the northern Labrador interior, including the lake known as Mistamisk. The name describes a landscape of broad waters and connecting rivers in the homeland of the Innu. Northern Innu communities placed particular importance on caribou hunting, travelling across the peninsula's interior as the animals moved between their seasonal grounds.