Davis Inlet, Newfoundland and Labrador
- Davis Inlet, Newfoundland and Labrador
Davis Inlet was a Naskapi community in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, formerly inhabited by the Mushuau Innu First Nation.
Established in 1967, the isolated community quickly became plagued by social problems. In 1993, a police officer in the community released a videotape to the media of six children from the community huffing gasoline and shouting that they wanted to die. Studies also found that the community had a suicide rate fully twelve times the national average for Canada as a whole.
Within two years, the federal and provincial governments had agreed to establish a new, safer community. The residents of Davis Inlet moved to the new community of Natuashish, 15 kilometres away, in 2002.
In 2000, similar problems were also publicized in Sheshatshiu.
External links
* [http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/aboriginals/natuashish.html "From Davis Inlet to Natuashish"] , CBC.ca, February 14, 2005
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