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And they weren't tourists on a trip. They would have wandered over the same territory year after year following food sources. If they had a large traditional territory for very few people, it's probably because the land was not very productive for food sources.
Actually, that would depend on the group. Some were pastoralists, some big-game hunters, some were nomadic, and some had major city-centres. The historical reality is that huge tracts of this landmass had little to no human contact, but Native apologists would have you believe that pre-contact groups were some homogeneous, unified group with a shared economy, culture and a respect for nature. It's just not the case.
I doubt if these Innu were anything but hunter-gatherers. Don't really hear much about pastorialism with Indians, except maybe the Navaho, and I wonder if their sheep were imported by the white man. Certainly no Reindeer herders in Canada that I've heard about. As Brock said, these particular people followed the Cariboo, and the Cariboo weren't taking tourist trips either, but moving back and forth between their summer and winter ranges.
Innu were indeed hunter-gathers (as were donor-groups) and as i said, it depends on which group you are referring and the period as some pre-contact groups in the region were nomadic whereas others lived in semi-sedentary settlements.
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