Life Among the Qallunaat

Informationen zum Autor 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, Quebec, 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. Klappentext Presents 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. Her extraordinary story, sometimes humourous and sometimes heartbreaking, illustrates an Inuit woman's movement between worlds and ways of understanding. Zusammenfassung Presents 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. Her extraordinary story! sometimes humourous and sometimes heartbreaking! illustrates an Inuit woman's movement between worlds and ways of understanding.

Product details

• Authors: Mini Aodla Freeman, Mini Aodla/ Martin Freeman, Minnie Aodla Freeman
• Assisted by: Norma Dunning (Editor), Keavy Martin (Editor), Julie Rak (Editor)
• Publisher: Michigan state university pres
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2015
• EAN: 9780887557750
• ISBN: 978-0-88755-775-0
• Series: First Voices, First Texts; First Voices, First Texts
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book