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S4: Shanawdithit

The Secret Life of Canada

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How Did the Biauthics Get Out of St. John's?

William Cormack had this one indigenous woman in his care and couldn't find anyone else. All of the writing we have about her is from the European gaze. Tails told are like they didn't want anything to do with the white folks anyway, and so they just kept moving out of the way. The colonizers were killing the indigenous folks for all the usual reasons. So no wonder that Biauthic people were trying to get out of the rapidly colonizing Newfoundland.

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