Around 40 Inuit elders, plus dozens more support crew from the Nunatsiavut Government and the Royal Canadian Navy were on board the reunion trips to Nutak and Hebron in July, 2024.
Around 40 Inuit elders, plus dozens more support crew from the Nunatsiavut government and the Royal Canadian Navy were on board the reunion trips to Nutak and Hebron in July 2024. Inside a church in Hebron with a rock in hand, Silpa Obed sat in a circle among other evictees from the community.
She's among roughly 40 Inuit elders part of a trip to Hebron and Nutak in northern Labrador last month, organized by the Nunatsiavut government and the Royal Canadian Navy, with funding from theFor some, this was the first time they've been back since they were evicted as children. Around 7,500 Inuit were forced out of their homes from Nutak and Hebron in the late 1950s. In Hebron, officials made the announcement inside a church, where people couldn't protest.
"They were missing all kinds of food, like wild food, because we never had a hunting area in Makkovik." One such story passed onto her was how her grandmother was sent to Saint Anthony, N.L., to get treatment for her broken hip, where she contracted tuberculosis.Hebron and Nutak today
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