[1] Previous submissions by the NunatuKavummiut (as the Labrador Métis Nation) included a secondary claim as far north as Nain, the northernmost community in Nunatsiavut.

[4] The NunatuKavut Community Council is considered an Indigenous collective[a] which represents the descendants of mixed Inuit-European people from central and southern Labrador.

[26] These Inuit were presented to Henry VII of England by Sebastian Cabot and were described as "clothed in beastes skinnes, who eat raw flesh".

[27] The finding of historic Roman Catholic documents detailing Inuit-Europeans with Iberian names may indicate some unions occurred between these early visitors and the Indigenous people.

[32][10] One well-studied sod house in Sandwich Bay was built in the mid- to late-19th century by an Englishman, Charles Williams, and his Scots-Inuit wife, Mary.

It included coastal area between the St. John's River and Cape Chidley and was meant as extra fishing grounds for Newfoundland fishermen.

[31] On 21 August 1765, Labradorian Inuit reportedly signed a "Peace and Friendship Treaty" with Newfoundland Governor Hugh Palliser, on behalf of the British, in Chateau Bay.

However, some Inuit first names were anglicized such as "Paulo", "Kippenhuck", "Shuglo", "Tuccolk", "Elishoc", "Alliswack", "Penneyhook", "Maggo", and "Mucko" and used as surnames.

"Kippenhuck" and "Toomashie" are some of the only remaining Inuit surnames (excluding names of people that have moved to NunatuKavut from other places) still in use today.

[10][43] Before Canadian Confederation, most Inuit lived in small settlements of a few families in isolated harbours and on islands off the coast of Labrador.

[10] In 1996, the then-Labrador Metis Association vigorously protested the KGY Group's proposed Eagle River fishing camp.

[46] The issue came up as a result of a decision by the provincial government in 1996 to call for proposals for the development of a quality sports fishing camp on the Eagle River in Labrador.

[49] For about nine days in 1996, hundreds of residents from Cartwright and nearby communities in the Sandwich Bay area kept a supply vessel and helicopter from delivering materials to the construction site.

A joint Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Coast Guard operation arrested at least 47 residents involved in the protests and charged most of them with mischief.

In June 1999, the Crown entered a stay of proceedings on all charges laid against members of the Labrador Metis Nation during the Eagle River protests.

[10] In 2006, LMN initiated a project with Memorial University of Newfoundland to study the historic presence of Inuit and Inuit-European communities in southern Labrador through the Community-University Research Association (CURA).

Many residents of anglophone communities in northeastern Quebec (between the Natashquan River and the Strait of Belle Isle, sometimes called the "forgotten Labrador"[54]) have a similar Inuit and European heritage as the people of NunatuKavut.

[10] In 2019, NCC president Todd Russell signed a memorandum of understanding with then Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister, Carolyn Bennett.

[41][70] The legitimacy of the NunatuKavut Community Council's claim-lands has been disputed by the Nunatsiavut, Innu Nation and Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, who maintain that the NCC and its members are not Indigenous.

[71][72][73] The Innu Nation and Nunatsiavut unsuccessfully challenged the federal government's memorandum of understanding with the NCC, which declared it an Indigenous collective.

Further, the 1996 Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples report provided significant credibility for the NunatuKavummiut's claims of Inuit descent.

[9][10][5] The NCC has said it will work with other Inuit groups to resolve any overlaps in claim-lands, and said these organizations must come together "to ensure more positive outcomes for all our peoples".