When Olemaun asks her father to send her to the school he refuses. Her beautiful long braid will be cut and she will have to do chores and kneel for forgiveness. When her older half-sister, Ayouniq - called Rosie by the nuns, read part of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Olemaun, she became determined to attend the school and learn to read.īut Ayouniq warns her younger sister that life in the school is not as she imagines it will be. She was fascinated by the French-speaking nuns and priests. Olemaun had made the trip to Aklavik several times with her father when she was quite young. Margaret who was born Olemaun Pokiak, belonged to the Inuvialuit, or Canadian Western Inuit who inhabit the western Arctic. Fatty Legs is the first of two books written by Margaret Pokiak-Fenton based on her personal experience in one of Canada's residential schools in Canada's far north.
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