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How the Labrador Innu are picking up the pieces of the past to build a new future - Publication Date |
- Dec 02, 2022
- Episode Duration |
- 00:43:22
Davis Inlet is on an island on the north coast of Labrador. But no one has lived there for 20 years. In the early 1990s, video of children sniffing gas in a cold shack made headlines, forcing the government to relocate the Innu to Natuashish. Davis Inlet will soon be decommissioned and the people who once called this place home must decide what story they will tell their children. This past summer, Innu Nation Deputy Grand Chief Mary Ann Nui invited CBC reporter John Gaudi to return to Davis Inlet with her. He takes us along with them in his documentary "I Still Live Here."
Jodie Ashini grew up learning from her dad about the land, animals, Innu and how they all fit together. Her father, Daniel Ashini, was president of the Innu Nation and a tireless advocate for Innu land claims and cultural preservation. Today, Jodie is a cultural guardian. Her whole job is to safeguard Innu culture, including repatriating Innu Nation materials and providing input on government policy. Peter Armitage is an anthropologist who worked with the Innu of Labrador since 1981 and a longtime family friend of the Ashini family. Recently, Peter gifted back an extraordinary archive - three decades worth of irreplaceable Innu history.
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