N.L. child protection system part of ongoing colonization, Innu tell inquiry
16-year-old Thunderheart Tshakapesh died by suicide after returning home to Natuashish from Regina
Simeon Tshakapesh
Distraught Innu leader issues poignant plea for troubled youth after son’s death
One of Labrador’s most outspoken Indigenous leaders buried his 16-year-old son last week. Simeon Tshakapesh, deputy grand chief of the Innu Nation, says his boy, Thunderheart, took his own life May 24 after two years of treatment for solvent abuse – much of which took place far from his home in Natuashish.
