By Heidi Atter, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Independent Boxes of archival photographs depicting Innu life in the early-to-mid 20th century have been returned to Labrador. For almost a decade, Innu Nation Cultural Guardian Jodie Ashini has been working to repatriate cultural artifacts to the Innu communities of Sheshatshiu and Natuashish, continuing cultural preservation work led by her late father and former Innu leader, Daniel Ashini. Jodie says the Innu have now received more than 300 photographs that were housed in museums and private collections. The latest came from the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, which received more than 100 photos from the family of late anthropologist Ray Webber, who studied the Innu from 1902 until the 1960s. “To have these pictures, it is pretty valuable for telling our Innu…
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