{"id":783717,"date":"2026-07-06T11:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/783717\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T11:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:23:09","slug":"minister-calling-out-hostile-remarks-made-against-her-following-dispute-between-government-and-innu-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/783717\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Calling Out Hostile Remarks Made Against Her Following Dispute Between Government and Innu Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/lela-evans-1.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Minister Calling Out Hostile Remarks Made Against Her Following Dispute Between Government and Innu Nation\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Health Minister and Minister of Indigenous Affairs, Lela Evans (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>A cabinet minister whose district is in Labrador and whose portfolio includes indigenous affairs says she is unfairly being vilified for the cancellation of an Innu exhibit at The Rooms, and is afraid to be in her district. <\/p>\n<p>The exhibit went back much further than provincial officials were comfortable with as they declined to allow such a display going back more than 300 years. <\/p>\n<p>The Innu Nation cancelled the exhibit. <\/p>\n<p>Lela Evans, who has numerous cabinet duties, says she is not the minister responsible for The Rooms, but is working with Premier Tony Wakeham to find a solution. <\/p>\n<p>She told VOCM Open Line with guest host Darrin Bent that she\u2019s afraid to travel home because of hostile sentiment toward her. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis created so much animosity toward me that I was not able to go home to attend my niece\u2019s graduation from high school, which is a big celebration,\u201d said Minister Evans. \u201cThis is unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Health Minister and Minister of Indigenous Affairs, Lela Evans (VOCM News) A cabinet minister whose district is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,269876,44,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-783717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}