nne Budgell was recently awarded the 2019 Peter Cashin Prize for her book We All Expected to Die. In it she details the horrific impact of the Spanish Influenza on Inuit communities in Labrador in 1919.

We shared an excerpt from her book last fall in which she writes about how filth, sin, backwardness, and immorality among the Inuit were cited as explanations for this tragedy. You can also watch her short documentary, The Last Days of Okak, at the end of the excerpt.

The Peter Cashin Prize is awarded annually by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Memorial University to the best piece of scholarly work on the history and/or political economy of Newfoundland.