Word: labrador
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...almost a routine night for native constable Simeon Tsnakapesh as he patrolled the streets of Davis Inlet, a ramshackle village of about 500 Innu Indians on Labrador's north-east coast. Alerted by a neighbor's complaint, he tracked a group of noisy youths to an abandoned wooden shack near the ice- locked government wharf. Prying open the door, the cop found a horrifying scene: six youths, ages 12 to 14, sniffing deadly gasoline fumes from green garbage bags on the floor of the unheated building. "You couldn't hear nothing but the wheeze from the bags," relates Tsnakapesh...
...calamity is rooted in poverty, but it is compounded by years of government neglect. Now numbering 1,500 in all, the Labrador Innu are subsidized by Ottawa but fall under the jurisdiction of Newfoundland's provincial government. Once proud hunters, trappers and fishers of Labrador's interior Barren Lands, the natives were relocated to their present home in 1967 with the promise of acceptable housing, running water and fishing boats, which have yet to appear. "The program made the people dependent on government," says Peter Penashue, president of the Innu Nation. "For kids growing up, there is no self-esteem...
...hardy Newfoundlanders who settled "the Rock" competed vigorously with Europeans in the rich fishery that developed. Too vigorously: the cod supply has been so depleted that Canadian fishermen were forced last week to haul in their nets, traps and boats along the entire northeastern coast of Newfoundland and Labrador to begin a two-year total ban on fishing for northern cod, a $700 million business...
...veterinarian first, and a candidate, a politician second," he says to the phone interviewer. As he talks, DeJong's dog, a black half golden retriever, half labrador, cautiously approaches wearing a "Beat Bulger" collar around his neck...
Shin takes his class notes on his laptop computer with a module that transforms the lines of print on the screen into Braille. He makes his way back from the Yard to Currier with his yellow labrador, Ziggy, on the careful path a friend showed him. He likes his life in Currier, and calls the atmosphere "comfortable" and "homey...