10. Annie Harrison with Innu children Previous slide | Index | Next slide

In April 1995, after consultation with Innu in both communities, a NAP team returned and spent three months listening to and recording issues faced by the Innu with regard to the legal system. The team's mandate was to witness any violence that the imposition of the Canadian legal system incurred on a community with its own traditional forms of justice.

This is one member of the team, Anne Harrison, a NAP volunteer from England. She and Muriel Meric, from France, witnessed and documented the creative responses of the two communities in seeking effective alternatives to the Canadian legal system. These alternatives included Innu beliefs and took into account the need for healing among themselves. The results of that work were published in a small booklet that was distributed widely in the community, the government and to other interested people.