Angela Gregoire can’t remember the exact date but she remembers the rest of the details of one of the strangest days in her life as though it were, well, yesterday.
She was working at the radio station in Sheshatshiu, an Innu village in Labrador, population 1,054, not far from Goose Bay.
Ms. Gregoire is Innu, a Sheshatshiu band member and, back in mid-September, she was the DJ, programmer and producer of a one-woman radio show run out of a portable.
She had a segment for kids, another that focused on religion and a third where she encouraged listeners to call in to discuss community affairs.
On that day the phone at the station kept ringing, hopping right off the hook.
People in Sheshatshiu were upset, confused, angry, after a document surfaced on Sheshatshiu Innu First Nation letterhead signed by Chief Sebastian Benuen himself.
The letter, a copy of which was obtained by the National Post, was a request for funds addressed to the band’s corporate trust administrators at the Bank of Montreal branch in St. John’s.
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