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Settlers enjoyed a seeming free permission: to dispossess natives at will of all the best land, turn them out of traditional fishing locations, disrespect elders, women, children and religion, leave whole communities without political representation and punish men for breaking laws which they could have no means of knowing existed. It was inconceivable that all
"What right is there to name any traditional Beothuk territory using a Mi'kmaq, Inuit, Innu or Métis name? Indigenous nations are not interchangeable," said one email to the government on April 22. "I am L’nu (Mi’kmaw) and very proud of my nation .... Indigenous people, especially local Mi'kmaw people, are finding themselves the target of hateful comments and backlash because of this decision." The sender's name was redacted. The note was among nearly 170 pages of emails obtained from the province following an access to information request by The Canadian Press for all correspondence abo...
With art and maps by Shanawdithit The pencil drawings are intricate: slender dark lines marching carefully across the pages, glimpses into a people long believed extinguished. Shanawdithit, a Beothuk woman in her 20s, drew them nearly two centuries ago in the months before she died. Only a dozen of her drawings are known to exist today. Five are maps of the lake in central Newfoundland, today known as Red Indian Lake, where Shanawdithit’s people made camp. But they are not mainly cartographic. Instead, they are accounts of what Shanawdithit saw: where heavily armed British settlers captured...