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DECEMBER 21, 2000

The breakdown of culture is seen as contributing to the problems of alcoholism and substance abuse among Innu communities in Canada.

In 1949, the Canadian government began attempting to assimilate the Innu, sending children to boarding schools and causing traditional notions of family and child-rearing to disappear.

The government federally recognized the Innu last month after leaders in Labrador took the unusual step of asking officials to remove and provide treatment for kids addicted to gas.

Get the Story:
High on Gas and Out of Hope (The Washington Post 12/21)

Read A Report on the Innu:
Canada's Tibet -- the killing of the Innu (Survival International 1999)

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