Innu (album)
Encyclopedia
Innu is the second album by Canadian
folk rock
band Kashtin
, released in 1991. The album was certified platinum in Canada.
It contains the band's biggest chart hit, "Ishkuess", as well as a cover of Willie Dunn
's "Son of the Sun", the only song the band ever recorded in a language other than their native Innu
tongue.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
folk rock
Folk rock
Folk rock is a musical genre combining elements of folk music and rock music. In its earliest and narrowest sense, the term referred to a genre that arose in the United States and the UK around the mid-1960s...
band Kashtin
Kashtin
Kashtin were a Canadian folk rock duo in the 1980s and 1990s, one of the most commercially successful and famous musical groups in First Nations history....
, released in 1991. The album was certified platinum in Canada.
It contains the band's biggest chart hit, "Ishkuess", as well as a cover of Willie Dunn
Willie Dunn
Willie Dunn is a Canadian filmmaker, folk musician, playwright and politician. Born in Quebec, he is of mixed Mi'kmaq and Cornish/Irish background. Dunn often highlights aboriginal issues in his work....
's "Son of the Sun", the only song the band ever recorded in a language other than their native Innu
Innu-aimun
Innu-aimun or Montagnais is an Algonquian language spoken by over 11,000 people, called the Innu, in Labrador and Quebec in Eastern Canada...
tongue.
Track listing
- Overture
- Nikanish (My People)
- Nekashtuamani
- Nte Tshitshuat (Your Place)
- Apu Tshekuan Nikan'kuian
- Harricana
- Son of the Sun
- Tshinuau
- Apu Min'tan
- Uishama
- Ishkuess