{"id":795131,"date":"2026-07-11T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/795131\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T14:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:00:10","slug":"innu-nation-elder-dies-at-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/795131\/","title":{"rendered":"Innu Nation Elder Dies at 92"},"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\/07\/joachim-nui-sr-2.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Innu Nation Elder Dies at 92\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Innu Nation \/ Greg Locke<\/p>\n<p>The Innu Nation is mourning the loss of an elder.<\/p>\n<p>Joachim Nui Sr. passed away on Thursday at the age of 92 in his home community of Natuashish.<\/p>\n<p>The group says Nui was \u201cone of the last\u201d nomadic Innu Elders, and the last traditional Innu drummer in Labrador.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to being hospitalized in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, what would be his final drumming was held on the land near Natuashish.<\/p>\n<p>The Innu Nation says his passing marks the loss of an \u201cirreplaceable voice and a direct connection to the traditions and teachings that have sustained Innu for countless generations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Innu Nation \/ Greg Locke The Innu Nation is mourning the loss of an elder. Joachim Nui&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-795131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","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\/795131","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=795131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}