“I remember thinking, I wonder how Shanawdithit and Demasduit would feel knowing how their image is being used and how they’re being portrayed,” said Leahdawn Helena, the writer of a new one-person show called Stolen Sisters. From pjackson_nl
Deantha Edmunds - deanthaedmunds.comAll we really know of the Beothuk culture is what’s sketched onto the pages of European notebooks and journals.“When I started to do a little research on the Beothuk, it became very clear to me just how much was missing from what the general population knew versus what a fuller understating of the story meant, in terms of what happened to these people and what happened to Indigenous people in Newfoundland and North America,” Helena said in a recent interview.
Shanawdithit was the last known Beothuk, who died in 1829. Oubee was a Beothuk girl of about 12 who was abducted in 1790. Both provided their European captors with some of the only known words and customs of their tribe. Edmunds is primarily known for her rich soprano voice, but when she first caught wind of Helena’s script, she was drawn to it like a magnet.Edmunds has a busy schedule, but decided to audition anyway. Between her, Helena and producer Jenn Deon, they found a way to make it work.
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