![]() ![]() ![]() The pair also wrote A Stranger At Home, When I Was Eight and Not My Girl, introducing many young readers to the horrors of residential schools. It was this experience that inspired her bestselling picture book Fatty Legs: A True Story, which was co-written with her daughter-in-law, Christy Jordan-Fenton. She had a strong desire to learn how to read and begged to go to the school, despite its horrific reputation. She spent her early years on Banks Island going on hunting trips by dogsled and taking dangerous treks across the Arctic Ocean.Īt the age of eight, she travelled to Aklavik, a fur trading settlement founded by her great-grandfather, to attend the Catholic residential school there. Pokiak-Fenton was born on Holman Island in the Arctic Ocean in a nomadic family. Pokiak-Fenton's publisher Annick Press shared the news of her death on June 2, 2021. Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton, the Inuvialuit knowledge keeper, residential school survivor and co-author of bestselling book Fatty Legs: A True Story, is dead at 84. ![]()
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