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Akia: l'Autre Côté
Norma Dunning; Translated by Hatouma Sako
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Life Among the Qallunaat (Paperback)
Mini Aodla Freeman; Edited by Julie Rak; As told to Norma Dunning
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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.
Eskimo, now that's a word. White word. White word for white people
to wrap around their pink tongues. Esquimaux. Spell it any way you
want and it still comes out the same, skid row and all. - from
"Kabloona Red" In Annie Muktuk and Other Stories, Norma Dunning
portrays the unvarnished realities of northern life through gritty
characters who find themselves in difficult situations. Dunning
grew up in a silenced form of Aboriginality, experiencing racism,
assimilation, and colonialism; as she began exploring her Inukness,
her writing bubbled up to the surface. Her stories challenge
southern perceptions of the north and Inuit life through evocative,
nuanced voices accented with Inuktitut words and symbolism. As with
Alootook Ipellie's work, these short stories bring Inuit life into
the reality of the present.
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