CA-K309Indigenous peoples & reconciliation
L’Anse Amour, a 7,700-year-old burial mound
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L’Anse Amour in southern Labrador, one of the largest and longest-used Indigenous habitation sites in Labrador, has the oldest known First Nations funerary monument in North America, built about 7,700 years ago over a young person’s burial. The grave goods include the earliest known toggling harpoon in the world.
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The site and its burial mound, not the later history of the area.
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