Welcome back to another episode of Sofie's Choice, this week Gabbi presents her first case! Joined again by friend-of-the-pod Nathan, Sofie's Choice this week was a smaller Indigenous mystery as she works on a bigger Indigenous Murder case for a future episode. Proud of her Native American heritage, Gabbi gets to read her first Indigenous mystery all the way from the tundra of Canada! In 1930, a newsman in Manitoba reported a story on a small Inuit village right off of Lake Angikuni. The village had always welcomed the local fur trappers who passed through occasionally. But in 1930 Joe Labelle, a fur trapper well known in the village, found that all the villagers had gone. He found unfinished shirts that still had needles in them and food hanging over fire pits and therefore concluded that the villagers had left suddenly. Eerily enough, he found seven sled dogs dead from starvation and several graves that had been dug up. Labelle knew that an animal could not have been responsible because the stones circling the grave were undisturbed. He reported this to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (or RCMP), who conducted a search for the missing people; however no one was ever found. It's been a topic of much speculation: What happened to the Inuit Village at Angikuni Lake? Some speculate a tribe didn't even ever exist there. Were the lights in the sky truly northern lights or something more sinister? Why were their people's grave disturbed, when most know that that is extremely taboo in Native American culture to unearth the dead? If they were truly nomads, where did they go and why did they never return? What happened to their poor dogs?
You'll have to listen in and found out!
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