More Innu children at risk

NOVEMBER 24, 2000

The Innu community at Davis Inlet in Labrador is seeking help for 100 children addicted to gas sniffing.

Last week, several children at the Innu community in Sheshatshiu were taken from their homes to undergo substance abuse treatment. Some of them had actually been sent from Davis Inlet because families felt there was less a risk of abuse in Sheshatshiu.

The community at Davis Inlet is in the process of moving to Shango Bay. Leaders there say the problem of abuse, known for quite some time, has never been addressed, despite calls for help.

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Second Innu community cries for help (CBC 11/23)

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Canada's Tibet � the killing of the Innu (Survival International 1999)

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