Life Among the Qallunaat (Paperback)

Life Among the Qallunaat is the story of Mini Aodla Freeman's experiences growing up in the Inuit communities of James Bay and her journey in the 1950s from her home to the strange land and stranger customs of the Qallunaat, those living south of the Arctic. Her extraordinary story, sometimes humourous and sometimes heartbreaking, illustrates an Inuit woman's movement between worlds and ways of understanding. It also provides a clear-eyed record of the changes that swept through Inuit communities in the 1940s and 1950s. Mini Aodla Freeman was born in 1936 on Cape Hope Island in James Bay. At the age of sixteen, she began nurse's training at Ste. Therese School in Fort George, Ontario, and in 1957 she moved to Ottawa to work as a translator for the then Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources. Her memoir, Life Among the Qallunaat, was published in 1978 and has been translated into French, German, and Greenlandic. Life Among the Qallunaat is the third book in the First Voices, First Texts series, which publishes lost or under appreciated texts by Indigenous writers. This reissue of Mini Aodla Freeman's path-breaking work includes new material, an interview with the author, and an afterword by Keavy Martin and Julie Rak.

General

Imprint:	University of Manitoba Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Series:	First Voices, First Texts
Release date:	April 2015
Authors:	Mini Aodla Freeman
Editors:	Julie Rak
As told to:	Norma Dunning
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-0-88755-775-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of other lands Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Indigenous peoples Books > History > History of other lands Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN:	0-88755-775-9
Barcode:	9780887557750

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