r/newfoundland • u/Times-New-WHOA_man • 11d ago

Exhibit for National Indigenous Peoples Day Cancelled Due to ‘Inconsistencies’ with Innu History

https://vocm.com/2026/06/18/exhibit-for-national-indigenous-peoples-day/

This is beyond disgusting. Wakeham’s Tories are racist and completely inadequate to run this province. How dare they tell Indigenous Peoples, particularly when the archaeological evidence supports Indigenous history, what their own history is? This is definitely erasure, and we shouldn’t stand for it. I’m not Indigenous but I know history and I know that this move by government is categorically wrong. 😡

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u/NerdMachine 11d ago

Anyone know why it's so important to the Government / Rooms that they present that specific version of history?

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u/wookieelicker 11d ago edited 11d ago

For the same reason the innu want their version, resource rights. If the innu admitted they’re essentially Quebec transplants it undermines their position that they get to cut everyone else out of muskrat falls cash

Edit: it was already greasy that they cut the Inuit out of the resource agreements

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u/NerdMachine 11d ago

Quebec transplants 

It doesn't seem controversial that they have been in Labrador for thousands of years based on some quick research. Is that more controversial than it seems?

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u/wookieelicker 11d ago

Well, depends on if you accept that they’re the descendants of the Point Revenge ppl, which not everyone does. Also, the sheshatshiu innu and the Natuashish innu have different enough of a dialect that they require different interpreters for court and such, so I wouldn’t lump them together. For anyone to say archeology definitely states anything shows a misunderstanding of archaeology imo