In 1822, William Epps Cormack sought the expertise of a guide who could lead him across Newfoundland in search of the last remaining Beothuk camps on the island. In his journals, Cormack refers to his guide only as “My Indian.” Now, almost two hundred years later, Mi’sel Joe and Sheila O’Neill reclaim the story of Sylvester Joe, the Mi’kmaw guide engaged by Cormack. source
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- Set atMiawpukek First Nation (Conne River)↗
Two place anchors confirmed: Miawpukek (south-coast home community, opening) and St. John's (the meeting with Cormack, verbatim quoted in CM Reviews).
Myra Junyk, review of My Indian, CM: Canadian Review of Materials; Breakwater Books — source
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