S4: Shanawdithit
The Secret Life of Canada
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Shauna Dithit and the Biauthic
The Biauthic were the people of Newfoundland who were exterminated by colonization first to go. Shauna Dithit's mother and two of her siblings were killed in 1818, she watched her uncle get killed and her aunt kidnapped. She was forced to work as a servant for the next several years until 1828,. When she was sent to St. John's by an organization set up by William Cormack. This goes back to the idea of salvage ethnography you were talking about; he moved her into his house so he could document what she remembered.
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