Word: inlets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...possible," said Cecilda, fingering a scar on his left leg where he cut himself on the barbed wire. "Now we're stuck here, and all we can do is think about our families that we left behind." Two men have drowned during the one-mile swim. The picturesque inlet where their bodies were found is known as Dead Man's Cove. Another man trying to walk across the border was killed when he stepped on a land mine. Cecilda was returned to a small camp called November, which the Americans have actually moved closer to the Cuban border...
...down at a dead fish prone on the shore, its glassy eyes staring out, but at nothing. Marcello looks over and sees an innocent and angelic girl whom he met while taking his interim from journalism, and she tries to communicate with him from the far side of an inlet stream but they cannot hear each other over the waves. The party slowly stumbles away, and we see her innocent face smiling in their direction...
...nine children who have been evacuated get treatment for solvents abuse. Five others, accompanied by family members and interpreters, will follow them to a native-run facility in Alberta. The Innu band council will also seek a treatment center within the village itself. Beyond that, the people of Davis Inlet will take up a new government offer for eventual relocation on the Labrador mainland, probably at Sango, about 11 miles to the west, where there is an ample water supply and the possibility of jobs at a $23 million hydroelectric project. "There's really nothing worth saving here," says Chief...
Expectations have grown thin in a village that has suffered the starvation of hope. Both the federal and provincial governments are sending fact-finding missions to the settlement, now that the most recent tragedy has put a national spotlight on Davis Inlet. But official concern cannot easily lift the air of sadness and fatalism in the bedraggled village. Because of a budget crunch, Constable Tsnakapesh was laid off for a week along with the village's other cop. Tsnakapesh, 24, continued to take police calls, though. "I have no authority," he says, "but I've been where these kids...
Poverty, gasoline sniffing and suicide at Davis Inlet...