The books have garnered more than 20 awards and distinctions, including being placed on the Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s Best Books for Kids & Teens list. More than a quarter of a million copies of Fatty Legs, its sequel A Stranger At Home, and the young reader editions When I Was Eight and Not My Girl have sold to date. When I got back, it was hard because my mother couldn’t speak English.” “When I got to school, I didn’t see for two years, and I completely forgot my language, the food, and everything. “I would tell stories because I wanted my grandkids to know about life up North,” Pokiak-Fenton told Shelagh Rogers on CBC’s The Next Chapter in 2020. She was 84 years old.īorn on Baillie Island in the Arctic Ocean, the author of Fatty Legs: A True Story, published by Annick Press in 2010, introduced young readers to the devastating reality of residential schools and gave Pokiak-Fenton the opportunity to share her experiences with countless school children. Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton, author, Inuvialiut knowledge keeper, and residential school survivor, died on April 21.
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