People group profile · PG043442
The Montagnais of Canada
The Montagnais of Canada, numbering about 11,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Innu people of Nitassinan in Labrador and Quebec, traditionally nomadic hunters who mastered snowshoe, toboggan, and birch bark canoe travel, meeting Basque fishermen in the 1500s before forced relocation led to founding the Innu Nation in 1990.
They are an indigenous people in the North American Indigenous people cluster of the North American Peoples. Their primary religion is Protestantism, and they primarily speak Innu.
Fast facts
- Country
- Canada
- Population
- 11,000
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- North American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Innu (moe)
- Primary religion
- Protestantism
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 10% or Greater but Less than 15%
- GSEC ?
- 10% or Greater Evangelical
- Lostness priority ?
- Moderately Reached People Group
- Region
- Northern America, Americas
- Location
- Newfoundland and Labrador, and Quebec provinces; Lake Saint John east along Saguenay Valley to north shore Saint Lawrence River, Gulf of Saint Lawrence east to St. Augustin, north to height of land at Schefferville and inland Labrador, Goose Bay and Lake
Where they live
Gospel status
The Montagnais are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 10% evangelical.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Montagnais
- Pray for the churches among this group to grow in faithfulness and maturity
- Equip believers to reach the unreached peoples around them
- Send out laborers from this people to the nations
Primary religion
Protestantism · Christianity
Primary language
Innu · Algic family
84% speak Innu
Gospel resources in Innu
- Bible available, published 2004
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources not available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Innu)
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Montagnais
- Romans 10:14–15. Ask God to send messengers, so that people can hear, believe and call on the name of the Lord.
- Matthew 9:37–38. Ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest field.
- 2 Timothy 2:2. Pray for faithful local leaders who will teach others, so that the church multiplies.
- Ephesians 5:8. Pray that those walking in darkness will turn to the light and live as children of light.
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