Olemaun wants to know why Alice goes down the rabbit hole if she does not plan to hunt the hare. Olemaun’s desire to learn to read is sparked by half-sister Rosie’s partial recounting of Alice in Wonderland. These outsiders, French-Canadian nuns and male priests from Belgium, pluck Inuvialuit and other Indigenous children from their homes to place them in schools. SynopsisĪs a young girl in the High Arctic, eight-year-old Olemaun (pronounced OO-lee mawn) Pokiak learns from her older half-sister that outsiders hold the key to unlocking a great secret. Illustrator Liz Amini-Holmes is a freelance American artist who lives in a treehouse in the San Francisco Bay area. Before coauthoring the book, she worked as a soldier, pipeline labourer, survival instructor and bareback bronco rider. When Fatty Legs was first published, she was earning an income selling bread, bannock and traditional Inuit crafts at the local farmer’s market.Ĭhristy Jordan-Fenton helped write her mother-in-law’s story. She met her husband, Lyle Fenton, while she was working for the Hudson’s Bay Company in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories.
Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, who was named Olemaun at birth on Holman Island in the Arctic Ocean, was a grandmother by the time she revealed a secret she had held for 60 years about her time in a residential school.
0 kommentar(er)
