ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The inquiry into the Innu experience in Newfoundland and Labrador’s child-protection system heard further testimony Wednesday, Feb. 15, ...
Natuashish elder Joachim Nui listens as a translator translates a question for him in Sheshatshiu on Wednesday, Feb. 15. ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The inquiry into the Innu experience in Newfoundland and Labrador’s child-protection system heard further testimony Wednesday, Feb. 15, from elders about how colonization created a rift within communities that led to family breakdown and loss of identity.
The structure was torn down in the 1990s after a high-profile inquiry into physical and sexual abuse inflicted on boys by the Christian Brothers who ran the orphanage. Nui spoke of the community and family breakdown he saw with the imposition of a sedentary existence that was foreign to their nomadic lifestyle.
“When the young people go hunting, they are given advice on how to take care of all the animal parts, like the caribou skin and legs,” Nui said.When did the ritual start to die out? When the priests came in 1927, said Nui.
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