L'Anse Amour

L'Anse Amour is a National Historic Site of Canada in L'Anse-Amour, Newfoundland and Labrador.

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L’ANSE AMOUR This is the site of the oldest known First Nations funerary monument in North America. Dating to the Maritime Archaic period about 7,700 years ago, the carefully built mound of rocks over a stone burial box marked the grave of a young person. Interred with reverence, the body was covered with red ochre and fires were lit on either side. Placed with it were stone and bone spearheads, a walrus tusk, a bone whistle, and the earliest known toggling harpoon in the world. Ancient camps of different ages and cultures found on these beaches make this one of the longest used Indigenous habitation sites in Labrador.

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L’ANSE AMOUR Ce site renferme le plus vieux monument funéraire des Premières Nations connu en Amérique du Nord. Datant d’environ 7 700 ans, le tumulus soigneusement construit sur un caveau de pierre marque l’emplacement de la sépulture d’une jeune personne. Inhumé avec respect, le corps a été enduit d’ocre rouge et des feux ont été allumés à ses côtés. Des pointes de lances en pierre et en os, une défense de morse, un sifflet en os et le plus ancien harpon à tête basculante connu au monde y ont été déposés. Les campements d’âges et de cultures différents mis au jour ici en font l’un des plus anciens lieux d’habitation autochtone du Labrador.

Innu-Aimun / Inuktitut

L’ANSE AMOUR Eukuan umue nikan eka mishta tshisheniumakak etshishinuashtakant nikuashkan ute North America. Kie ispish miam nete mate nishuass tatum tshishe mitashentunu ispish tshisheniumak nete utat. Kie mishta minutakanishepin neme nikuashkan kai iuassiut auen, kie mishtuk iat nikuashkan ishe nakunishepin. Mishta ishpitenitakanishepin, kamikuashit pesheikan nete iapitshianishepin nete kassinu u-iat kie aitu nete ishkuateu shashkeikanishepin kapimishint naui auass. Kie ashini mak ushskan ashimakan nete iat iananishepin pemeshint, mishta atshuk uipat, ushskan kueshskustatshikan kie neme ueshkat katutakint atshikuakuatshikan iat tekuanishepin. Kie mitshet nete mishskakenipin shashish matekuapa mishkut tatepan pupuna mak auentshe katat shashish mishskanipin nete kanekauat. Eukuan umue nikan shashish kamishskakint katanukue umue assi ute Nitassinan. L’ANSE AMOUR Tânna inik nutangutonippâk Kaujimajautluni First Nations iluvipvinut nalunaikkutak Taggami Amerikami. Ullunganit taikkuningaulautsimajunut Maritime Archaic ullunginni Kanitangani 7,700 jâriulautsimajunut, tânna kamagijautsiatluni sanajaulautsimajuk ujaganut Kânganettuk ujaganut iluvipviusimajumut itlivimmut nalunaikkutagijauvuk iluvinga inosuttumut inummut. Nittutausimatsiatuk sulijugijautsiatluni, timinga saujausimajuk aupaluttamut ulimmut ammalu ikualatluni saninginnut. IlijauKatausimammijut ujagait ammalu saunimut sanajausimajuk naulait, aiviup kigutialunganut, saunimut sanajausimajuk kokkugiak, ammalu pigianniminit Kaujimajaujuk naulaup pinga silatsuamit. Nutaungitutsajak aullâsimapvet atjigengituni jârikajunut ammalu ilukkuset napvâtausimajut tamakkunani sitjani akuniunippâmik atuttausimajuk NunaKakKâsimajunut inigijaulautsimajuk iluani Labradorimi.

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L'Anse Amour

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