A two-year study commissioned by the Canadian Department of Indian and Northern
Affairs and conducted by Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland, found
education of Innu children in the community of Natuashish, Labrador, abhorrent.
The study analyzed the educational system developed by Canada upon the community’s
relocation in 2002 from Davis Inlet. The major flaws uncovered by the study included
teachers who did not speak the Innu language and who were instructing Innu children
in culturally insensitive methods, according to CBC news, which received a leaked
copy of the report. According to the report, only one in three Innu children
in Natuashish attends school and 35 percent of those who participated in the
study suffer from fetal alcohol syndrome.
