Traveling to be reunited with her family in the Arctic, 10-year-old Margaret Pokiak can hardly contain her excitement. The powerful memoir of an Inuvialuit girl searching for her true self when she returns from residential school.
John where she sells her beautifully beaded and adorned crafts and the best bread and bannock in the North Peace. Most Saturdays she can be found at the local farmer’s market in Fort St. Margaret is well known for her traditional handmade Inuit crafts and has showcased them at the Northern Arts Festival many times. While working for the Hudson’s Bay Company there, she met her future husband Lyle, who was employed on the Dew Line project. She later settled in Tuktoyaktuk where her family had relocated. There was nothing she wanted more than to learn how to read. Unlike most children, she begged to go to the school, despite the horrific reputation of residential schools. At the age of eight, she travelled to Aklavik, a fur trading settlement founded by her great-grandfather, to attend the Catholic residential school there. Being Inuvialuit, her young childhood was filled with hunting trips by dogsled, and dangerous treks across the Arctic Ocean for supplies, in a schooner known as the North Star.
She spent her early years on Banks Island.
Margaret Pokiak-Fenton was born on Holman Island in the Arctic Ocean, en route with her nomadic family to their winter hunting grounds on Banks Island.
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