Atikamekw

Meaning

1. Their language, part of the Cree subgroup of Algonquian.
2. Any of the indigenous inhabitants of the area they refer to as Nitaskinan ("Our Land") in Saint-Maurice, Quebec.

Etymology / origin

Borrowed from Atikamekw atikamekw (“whitefish”); recorded as Atikamegouékhi in early documents.

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