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=== Natuashish and Sheshatshiu, Newfoundland and Labrador === {{More citations needed section|date=June 2024}} Innu have only been in Sheshatshiu since fur [[trading post]]s were established by the [[Hudson's Bay Company]] in [[North West River]] in the mid-1700s and only in Davis Inlet / Natuashish since 1771, when the Moravian Church set up the first mission at Nuneingoak on the Labrador coast.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/moravian-missions-in-labrador-emc |title=Moravian Missions in Labrador|first1=France|last1=Rivet|publisher=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia ]]|website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca|date=February 7, 2006|access-date=June 17, 2024}}</ref> [[Danny Williams (Canadian politician)|Danny Williams]], the then [[Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador]] struck a deal on September 26, 2008, with Labrador's Innu to permit construction of [[Muskrat Falls Generating Station]], a hydroelectric [[megaproject]] to proceed on the proposed [[Churchill River (Atlantic)|Lower Churchill]] site. They also negotiated compensation for another project on the Upper Churchill, where large tracts of traditional Innu hunting lands were flooded.
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