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Ethnogenesis of the Davis Inlet Band
| The Scots-Cree Richards family of Moose Factory in the 1800's, included Reverend "Uncle Ned" Richards, and Ned ("the hero of Hannah Bay") Richards. The latter Ned began service for the Hudson's Bay Company as a boy at Hannah Bay Post. After surviving the massacre there in 1832, he was sent to Fort Chimo, Ungava as a middleman. While there he married an Inuit woman from the George River area, and they had several surviving sons. He worked for Henry Connolly in the Fort Nascapie area for many years, became more independent og the Company's employment, and eventually, as his sons married Nascapie or Montagnais women, became the patriarch of the Davis Inlet band of Naskapi Indians. The fluidity of ethnogenesis is embodied in his life story.
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