Innu and Inuit Visit Akwesasne
On Tuesday night, Emmy Mitchell brought some visitors from Labrador to Akwesasne. Evelyn Winters and Nympha Maria Byrne are from way, way up north, Goose Bay, and their first stop was at the Homemakers in Snye, where they were treated to a corn soup dinner. Later in the evening, elders sang the ladies Mohawk hymns, and kids sang them traditional songs.
Evelyn, Nympha and Emmy work in the same field. Evelyn is a social worker, more specifically a Resolution Health Support Worker for Residential School Survivors.
Nympha is a Mental Health and Addiction Worker and has worked in Social Services for 10 years. Evelyn and Nympha met Emmy in Montreal last year, and they fell in love with her. They plan to bring her to visit Labrador again, and hope that later on she can do some work for them. "Her work is so important." Caregivers need to take care of themselves, because of the strain of their profession.
Evelyn moved around from Nain, Labrador, to Kamashuk, to New Brunswick and Goose Bay. She is Inuit Nunatsiavut (which means our beautiful land).
Nympha moved around as well having been born in a tent on Davis Inlet. Later her family moved to the main land, to Natuashuish. They travelled by dog team and moved with the Caribou. She is Mushuaw Innu First Nation, People from the Barrens.
Evelyn and Nympha came down south for a Suicide Prevention conference in Montreal on Friday, but were out and about on Wednesday touring Akwesasne.
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