Canadian government advertised Innu territory as free of human habitation

Evidence

In 1980, NATO’s military committee had sponsored a feasibility study on the construction of a fighter-plane training center in Goose Bay. Not to be outdone, then-Canadian Minister of Defense John Crosby announced in 1985 that the government would spend $93 million to modernize the existing base and encouraged new countries to join in the war games in the sky. Canadian government brochures and videos described the test area as “wilderness interior free of human habitation.” — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 299

Categorization

• CANDY: The brochure describing inhabited homeland as ‘wilderness free of human habitation’ is a compact, damning detail of settler erasure.
• XREF: connects to: NATO flight training noise would make Innu territory uninhabitable — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 303; Colonial renaming erased Innu place-names like Patshetshunau — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 331

Broader Connections

• Colonial renaming erased Innu place-names like Patshetshunau #complicates (0.75) — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 331